I support terrorist groups like Taliban, Al-Qaeda, not Boko Haram: Minister Pantami




Mr Pantami’s call to Jihad and unalloyed support for murderous groups portray him as a dyed-in-the-wool Islamic fundamentalist.

ADEBOLA AJAYI



Though Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami denounces any allegiance to Boko Haram, he expressed support for the global extremist groups — the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria,’’ Mr Pantami said in one of his vicious preachings in the 2000s. “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm al Qā‘ida).”

Mr Pantami’s call to Jihad and unalloyed support for murderous groups portray him as a dyed-in-the-wool Islamic fundamentalist. Yet, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Mr Pantami as communications minister to control the country’s massive data and telephone infrastructure and other sensitive details of national intelligence.

When contacted on Wednesday by Peoples Gazette regarding his support for the terrorist groups, the minister did not comment.

On Monday, Mr Pantami threatened to sue some media platforms for reporting that he is on the U.S. terror watchlist for supporting Boko Haram.

The minister had claimed on Twitter that his lectures “against the doctrines and all other evil people (terrorists) have been available for over 15 years, including debates that endangered my life against many criminals in Nigeria.”

But he failed to acknowledge that he is an avowed supporter of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, as revealed in a 2019 academic document ‘Debating Boko Haram’ seen by The Gazette.

Mr Pantami invited Muslims, especially “Ahlus Sunna” (Salafis), to be sceptical of politicians and religious leaders calling for peace and understanding but retaliate with jihad.


“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria (hādhā jihād farḍ ‘ayn ‘ala kull muslim wa-khuṣūṣan fī Nījīriyā),” he added. Mr Pantami’s comments were translated by Professor Andrea Brigaglia, an African expert at Naples University in Italy. Nigerian scholar Musa Ibrahim of the University of Florida in the United States contributed to the paper that explored the onset of Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Top journal publisher academia.edu published the research in March 2019, several months before Mr Buhari tapped Mr Pantami as a minister. Mr Pantami’s violent preachings, which he rendered in Hausa and Arabic throughout the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s, had gone largely unreported in the Nigerian mainstream media.


The document detailed how Mr Pantami offered himself as a volunteer to mobilise the Hisba police of the North, requesting to be appointed as the “commander” (kwamanda) of a militia (ready to travel to Yelwa Shendam) to fight in defence of the Muslims.

The speech, which is about 20 minutes long, concluded with the prayer, “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm alQā‘ida).”

“During his speech, Pantami is in tears, and his voice is often broken by sighs. The genuineness of his emotional response to what was, without doubt, a dramatic episode in the history of violent conflict in Plateau state is obvious,” said the report.

In a second speech, delivered in 2006, Mr Pantami offered his public condolences for the death of the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Zarqawi.

“May God have mercy on Aḥmad alFāḍil al-Khalayleh, raḥmatullāh’ alayhi. May God forgive his mistakes. He is a human being. He has certainly some mistakes in front of God, so may God forgive his mistakes. Who am I talking about? He is Abū Muṣ‘ab al-Zarqāwī.


“He was born in 1966 of the Christian era, that is forty years ago. […] After some time, he was given responsibility for a camp in Herat. It was the Commander of the Faithful (Amīr almu’minīn) Mollah Omar ‒ may God preserve him ‒ who personally gave him the authority to run this camp.”

The document noted Mr Pantami as further saying, “To this date, in the community of the Prophet we have some awesome people, people of awesome faith, who follow the creed of the Sunna and thanks to whom the enemies of God are unable to find rest in this world.

“They have killed the Shaykh, the martyr Abdallah Yusuf Azzam ‒ may God have mercy on him ‒ but did the struggle end? They went on to strike Chechnya, and they killed many of them: did it end? […] Whenever one goes, another one comes, and he is even more awesome than the first,” Mr Pantami added.

In 2012, former President Goodluck Jonathan made a veiled reference to the fact that terrorists and their sympathisers had infiltrated his government. Boko Haram and other terror groups in the country have continued to terrorise Nigerians by the wanton destruction of lives and property.

https://gazettengr.com/i-support-terrorist-groups-like-taliban-al-qaeda-not-boko-haram-minister-pantami/


Lalasticlala

He should be Crucified



If you check well, he might be related to SHEKAU

I said it there is no way any sane humanity will associate with terrorists or terror organisation and not became a terrorist.The US will never tell anyone he or she is being observed for terrorism or terrorism but your profiling continues.Isa Pantami confession continues.

Though Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami denounces any allegiance to Boko Haram, he expressed support for the global extremist groups — the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria,’’ Mr Pantami said in one of his vicious preachings in the 2000s. “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm al Qā‘ida).”

Mr Pantami’s call to Jihad and unalloyed support for murderous groups portray him as a dyed-in-the-wool Islamic fundamentalist. Yet, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Mr Pantami as communications minister to control the country’s massive data and telephone infrastructure and other sensitive details of national intelligence.

Nigerians behold it.You are being ruled by terrorists.This means, the minister should simply resign while the president & DSS apologise to the nation for foisting a terrorist as a minster especially in a very sensitive post of communication ministry.They will continue to self expose and explode but we will never be victims.

na wah o.

As a minister of communication and digital something..., he better resign from that position. I'm no longer comfortable with him there. make him no come use our NIN for their terrorist agenda

“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria,’’ Mr Pantami said in one of his vicious preachings in the 2000s. “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm al Qā‘ida).”

Taliban and Al-Qaeda who are threats to the peace of US.

Some Nigerians just wanna be more islamic than Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is one of the best allies to US

It is a sheer hypocrisy and stupidity for a Nigerian Muslim, showing hatred And loathsomeness to the United States of America while Saudi Arabia, their religious home fraternizes with the same US

If you don't support terrorism, you can't have a place in the cabinet of you-know-who

Govt of propaganda

Any Nigerian Christian that does not support Biafra or Igbo presidency is the most Idiotic and imbecilic person on Earth.... Because you can't tell me with what is going on in Nigeria ,Islamic fundamentalists everywhere you are still cheering on Muslim appointees with their Islamization schemes but can't support Igbos who are their natural kryptonites and sworn enemies, your only saviour...Shame on all of you

The question we should be asking is; Why is Isa Pantami not on a terrorist watch list?

Lol

Easternblood:
......You can't tell me with what is going on in Nigeria ,Islamic fundamentalists everywhere you are still cheering on Muslim appointees with their Islamization schemes.......

A few days ago in an essay titled ‘Islamisation and Fulanisation, Too Late To Cry’ he wrote the following:
The warning from people like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Chief of Army staff, rtd General T.Y. Danjuma and a host of others about Buhari’s Islamisation and Fulanisation agenda is a little too late, I’m afraid. Those warnings are as useless as a man warning his household about a supposed impending fire outbreak after the fire has already gutted their house.

Fact is, Buhari is currently not implementing any ethno-religious agenda. HE HAS SINCE FINISHED THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IS NOW CONSOLIDATING ON IT. And in fairness to him, he has never hidden the fact that he is an incurable ethno-religious hegemonist.

The only piece of information that will save Nigerians especially southerners and non-Fulani northerners now is HOW TO NEUTRALIZE THE ISLAMISATION AND THE FULANISATION OR AT LEAST SURVIVE THEM because they are here already.

When a President of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural country like Nigeria is busy filling all his appointments with only people from his own region and religion, handing over the entire security agencies including the paramilitary to only people from his own region and religion, protecting Islamist terrorists from his own region and religion while sending python dance, armoured tanks and soldiers after unarmed peaceful agitators from other region and religion.DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TELL YOU THAT SUCH A PRESIDENT IS IMPLEMENTING AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS AGENDA??

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2019/05/27/femi-fani-kayode-enemy-within-final-warning-nigerians/%3famp

Terrorist is a terrorist all over the word. See ya mouth.

and today he is a minister in Nigeria

We told them that Buhari will never allow Boko Haram to be defeated, He will rather aid them secretly.

Argue with Usman dan fodio

No wonder Terrorism is the only sector that has seen triple digit growth under this govt

When Lt Gen Buratai said it will take 20 years for terrorism to end in Nigeria, these are some of the hidden intels he must have known.

God will surely punish all have a hand in enthroning this wicked and satanic people over this country.Well, God is already punishing them.The NE and NW are feeling the heat already.

This country sha

No wonder the terrorist are having a field day killing Nigerians and at the same time having the government reward them with money.

I don't blame you sir. I blame the man that appointed you as a minister for terrorist group information & digital communication.

this man is a terrorist
if you support jihad of any form then you are a terrorist
all i know is DAT jihad is the father of terrorism,
so if you love the father you most love the son.
pls fellows are bokoharam not jihadist.
why is he lying?

Oh lawd.

Racoon:
This means, the minister should simply resign while the president & DSS apologise to the nation for foisting a terrorist as a minster especially in a very sensitive post of communication ministry.

Never happening bruh.
Only God can save us. If we the youths take to arms to rescue our country from these dare devils, these terrorism sympathizers these boko haram lovers, we would be witnessing another syria or somalia in the largest black nation in the universe.

Only a jack bauer situation can save us.

Terrorist

Terrorists have sympathisers everywhere. Dont be surprised. There's no way bokoharam, alqaeda, isis and the likes would grow without the support and backing of some people who endorsed them from the beginning.

There is no smoke without fire. Mr pantanmi knows who he is. He knows he is being exposed. All those hugowash with the media apologizing was a scam. Don't be Suprised to have more of them in this Pmb government.
Terrorism in Nigeria has the backing of major people in government.

all I see here is that the telecommunications company is trying to deal with this man for introducing nin, don't joke with capitalist ask Donald Trump

He should continue to defend himself, we all know he is a terrorist.

No wonder he was shouting 14years imprisonment for failing to register for NIN.

Everyday, FAKENEWS upon FAKENEWS.

Where is the Video? Where is the research? where is the link?....these are the questions we need to ask.

People gazzetta is another Sahara reporters.

Since, he brought NIN, he has been a target of FAKENEWS

Efulefu

it is finished

I don't even know what to say... I'm totally SPEECHLESS