The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore the allegation made by the visiting Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan had told President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja that Turkish terrorist organisations that tried to remove him from office are in Nigeria.

However, the founder of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, in a statement released on Friday described Erdogan’s comment as false.

The statement signed by Akintola reads:

“We heartily welcome the bilateral agreements signed by Nigeria and Turkey as they have the potential to boost economic and military advancement in both countries. However, we take the Turkish president’s allegation that there are Turkish terrorists in Nigeria with a pinch of salt. It is false, baseless and of no consequence whatsoever.

“We are aware of the existence of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists in the country but we reject the attempt to label innocent Turkish citizens as terrorists just because there is a political difference between them and their president.

Nigerian opposition groups are spread all over Europe and America but President Buhari does not label them as terrorists. Neither does he tell his hosts to haunt them. Instead, he treats all Nigerian citizens at home and in diaspora as his own children. This is one area President Erdogan of Turkey needs to look into. He derailed by veering into the issue of opposition members from his country who reside in Nigeria. He should have ignored them.

“We acknowledge Erdogan’s role as a leading mouthpiece of the Muslim world and a stout defender of Islam particularly against Western stigmatization. But that does not confer on him the right to label the opposition in his country as terrorists and to haunt them all over the place. Erdogan should stick to what we know him for as the unrelenting defender of world Muslims.

“Neither should Erdogan’s humongous Muslim hero image becloud or diminish MURIC’s commitment to protecting Allah-given fundamental human rights of Muslims in Nigeria, be it individual or group. This is where the issue of protecting the rights of members of HIzmet in Nigeria comes in.

“These people are our fellow Muslims. It does not matter whether they are foreigners or Nigerians. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said. ‘A Muslim is a brother to a fellow Muslim’ (al-Muslim akhul-Muslim). Interestingly enough, we have not heard of their involvement in any violent activity since their sojourn in this country.
“Or is it terrorism to build hospitals and establish schools? The terrorists that we know (Boko Haram) blow up schools and hospitals. Is it terrorism to build boreholes for public schools? Is it terrorism to assist Nigerians on hajj and sacrificial animals? Erdogan is our hero as a defender of Islam but his allegation of terrorism against these people does not hold any water at all.
“What we know of them is that they build primary and secondary schools, universities and hospitals. They also engage in humanitarian services, assisting poor Muslims to meet religious obligations like hajj and sacrificial animals. They have been in this country for more than 20 years (even before Erdogan became Prime Minister) and some of the institutions established by them in Nigeria are two decades old already. A coup which allegedly occurred in Turkey five years ago while these people were still in Nigeria should not be hanged on their necks.

Lol,. MURIC

This Muric man is a mad man

Religion of Peace on the other side of the coin

Terrorist calling terrorist terrorist

Tale of international terrorist and local terrorist

This MURIC is a meddlesome interloper

Maybe MURIC is part of terrorists the man is referring to. Only God knows how many terrorists group that make up that religion.

His funders the Abuja based Turkish Mafia have been exposed

Muric is thinking that Edogan is playing? When he finished saying his crap, let his feet not step on Turkey soil oo.

Terrorists.

Muric dey fear Erdogan O! Or maybe Turkey don put Muric and Akintola on their terrorist watch list

Mumuric has spoken again.

muykem:
Maybe MURIC is part of terrorists the man is referring to. Only God knows how many terrorists group that make up that religion.

Haha hah

MURIC is a terrorist organisation

Bomb your self by your self and for your self

I've been saying it for long that MURIC IS A TERRORIST ORGANISATION and this rebuttal by the jihadist organisation has validated my assertion. What access to security information can a rag-tag Ishaq Akintola have that will dwarf that of the Turkish president ? MURIC should be put under a terrorism watchlist