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Detention of El-zakyzaky illegal, unfair – Iran

January 26, 2016

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja

The Islamic Republic of Iran has called for the release of the leader, Shi’ite Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-zakyzaky, saying his continued detention is illegal and unfair.

Iran expressed the belief that El-zakyzaky’s detention was not in consonance with the Nigerian constitution, stating that his release would heal the hurt of his followers.

The Iranian ambassador to Nigeria, Saeed Koozechi, who said this during an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, also advised the Federal Government to compensate those who suffered various losses during the bloody clash between the Shi’ite movement and the Army in Zaria, Kaduna State.

He described the Shi’ite Islamic sect as a peaceful religious movement which he said had no connection to extremism.

He  called for a transparent probe into the clash as well as fair prosecution of those involved.

Koozechi said, “The Shi’ite is a small minority group  in Nigeria, they engage in peaceful religious activities, they are not harmful to anyone. We have never heard of unrest and extremism from the  Shi’ite followers in Nigeria.

“The  Zaria incident is unfortunate and regrettable. We hope the investigation and prosecution will be fair  and transparent. We hope the government will assist those who suffered financial losses during the clash.

“We don’t believe the continued detention of El-zakyzaky is legal or fair, he shouldn’t be kept for a long time. We look forward to seeing his release and his wife soon. The Shi’ite are Nigerians too and they have rights like other citizens. The government must be clever to not pour fuel on fire. Recognizing  the rights of minorities is a real value to social development.”

http://www.punchng.com/detention-of-el-zakyzaky-illegal-unfair-iran/

PRESS RELEASE

WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE ATROCITIES IN ZARIA
In The Name Of Allah The Most High

Peace be upon those who value truth, peace and humanity.

Unlike other narrow-minded Muslim organizations, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria is a broad based mass organization with membership that cuts across social barriers and sectarian divides. Its success hinges on good leadership with the know-how of right methodology of how to achieve results using the model of Prophet Muhammad(S). This model and the methodology is what other groups loath because it is a way that is full of trials and tribulations. We are earlier told in the Qur'an that we would be tried once we affirmed our belief.
This Movement started in the late 70’s in Nigeria, at a time when youths were lured by many false ideologies, and holding many ideologues as their role models being completely ignorant of Islam. They viewed Islam as an ancient religion incapable of solving modern issues and challenges. Some of these ideologies were in direct conflict with Islam and its teachings. Thus, as a student then, with a sound Islamic background, Allamah Shaikh Zakzaky (H) found that many Muslim youths were lured by these false but fanciful anti-Islamic ideologies. He was able to show them that Islam is indeed a better ideology and has far better and superior answers to all modern challenges. He brought Islam to life and taught it like never before thought possible. That marked the beginning of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.
The Islamic revolution in Iran practically showed that Islam is indeed capable of solving all life's modern problems including social justice and modern societal ills. It was no longer going to be viewed as an ancient ideology like people used to say when they were told of the revolution of Shaikh ibn Fodio about two centuries ago.

ever since, Allamah Shaikh Zakzaky(H) has remained an activist totally engaged in learning , research and teaching of Islamic studies.He has always encouraged unity, living in peace with one another and humanity not only among the Muslim ummah, but among all human beings. He has always challenged tyranny and inhumanity. For this, he was severally jailed by successive Nigerian regimes. During the immediate past regime, the focus of the authorities shifted from mere jail terms to assassination attempts. In late July, 2014 a detachment of the Nigerian army headed by Lt. Col S.O Oku having failed to reach and kill Shaikh Zakzaky, vent their frustration on his children and supporters when they attacked and killed 34 members of the Movement, including his 3-biological sons. Shiakh Zakzaky was patient enough and persevered in the face of this extreme provocation. The nonviolent nature of the Islamic Movement and Shaikh Zakzaky was so glaring after that. People from all looks and crannies within and outside the country who came to condole him acknowledged and praised his patience and sacrifice. Even the present Governor of Kaduna state, Malam Nasir El-Rufai was not left out of the praises for Shaikh Zakzaky's exemplary qualities.
These qualities manifest through members of the Islamic Movement. No single group donates blood to save the lives of fellow citizens in Nigeria like members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria because of the voluntary blood donation campaign embarked by the movement during all their programs and activities. The National Blood Transfusion Service has severally acknowledged that and showed its appreciation to Shaikh Zakzaky on more than one occasion. Members of the Islamic Movement have also been engaged in provision of numerous social services such as environmental sanitation, sinking bore holes in communities, mass immunization campaigns, emergency services during disaster situations like bomb blasts etc During crises situations, Shaikh Zakzaky's house is a place of refuge and safety for those disadvantaged groups irrespective of their tribes and religion.

So the Government cannot just overnight overturn these good work by vilifying Allamah Zakzaky. If they believe he committed any offence, he should have been charged to court. But the manner this attack was hurriedly executed leaves much to be desired. Why did the soldiers quickly went to his house and shoot him several times? Why did the soldiers quickly shoot the spokesperson of the Movement? Why did the soldiers shoot his remaining 3 sons dead before his eyes?
Undoubtedly, this was a premeditated attack, a continuation of what was started in 2014. It was well planned and meticulously executed. The pattern of killing and actions afterwards by the soldiers were to cover their tracks and destroy all evidence. Why is there no official casualty figures? Why has no corpse been released to relatives for burial? Why the hurried mass burials and graves in secrecy?
Why did Kaduna state Government demolish buildings of the Movement at this time including cemeteries and digging the graves of people including the the grave of the Shaikh's mother and children killed in 2014?

We will not relent in our quest that justice must be done. The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Allamah Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky(H) ,his wife and the rest of his followers should be unconditionally released immediately. All those involved in this barbaric act of killing innocent Nigerian civilians, women and children must be brought to book.
And finally, MASTER OF ALL, OUR CREATOR ALLAH IS THE GREATEST AND MOST POWERFUL, HE WILL NEVER LET THE OPPRESSORS GO UN-PUNISHED HERE IN THIS WORLD VERY SOON INSHAA ALLAH AND IN THE NEXT LIFE.

ACADEMIC FORUM OF THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA (AFIMN)

S.I Ahmad
www.islamicmovement.org
www.imnig.org
www.harkarmusulunci.org
afimn14@gmail.com[i][/i]

Assalamu Alaikum

As usual, since the Zaria massacre, I used to send messages to our brothers and sisters, so today, I would like to use this opportunity to once again condole with all the people who have fallen victim to this barbaric crime committed by the Nigerian army, that has affected hundreds of families, and continues to do so to this day.

May God accept the dead as martyrs, give them strength and perseverance, and a speedy recovery to the injured.

I would also like to thank the large number of people in their millions around the world who have not only shown sympathy and kindness but also acted in numerous ways in support of our plight.

I would however like to draw the attention of the members of the Islamic movement to certain important issues regarding the current adversity we are going through, there is need for all of us to excercise caution when it comes to our utterances and actions, when it comes to spreading our messages on social media. There are certain salient issues that require a great deal of introspection. We should not under any circumstance spread messages that are capable of flaming the embers of violence in the society. It is imperative to weigh in the impacts of what one is about to write even if the message is relevant to our activism, as every member movement must realize that he is a defacto ambassador of the movement to the world.

This means that every thing we choose to write can and would most likely be taken as the opinion of the millions of our brothers and sisters, rather than the emotional out burst of a single person. And could be twisted by the enemies who are more than happy to perpetuate the negative light in which they our enemies are trying to paint us.

I would like to therefore reiterate that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria is a nonviolent movement, whose message is one of change for the better. We should under no circumstances be found resorting to spreading messages of hatred or intolerance.

The use of abusive language should better be left to the ignorant and the violent who have violated our rights. It is unfortunate that some people have deviated from the cause of our movement, stooping to the same level as that of those responsible for this unspeakable crime and their supporters.

People should think hard before they use the kind of language we intentionally avoid, in our name. At this time of hardship we must express the truth however we can and in whatever way we can, with patience, wisdom and foresight.

The Nigerian government has a responsibility to protect all the citizens of this country. And the Nigerian army is the arm responsible for this unspeakable crime. However unbridled personal attacks against anyone who happens to be a member of the government is precisely what our enemies wish to see us do.

The truth will always be more than enough, our brothers and sisters have been massacred, their bodies withheld, our homes, our holy sites and the graves of our people desecrated and destroyed, and many of our people are still in captivity. Those responsible still roam free.

Once again I pray to Him, the Almighty, to accept the martyrdom of our brothers and sisters who were unjustifiably murdered. I also wish all the injured a speedy recovery. Ameen.

-Muhammad Ibraheem Zakzaky

“Responding to allegations about the video clip aired by military, he said the video was edited to justify their inhumane acts. “[i]American President Barack Obama was stoned somewhere and nobody was killed”

On Tuesday 19th January, 2016 Nigerian students under the aegis of the Academic forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria staged a peaceful protest at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) headquarters, Abuja pressing for the unconditional release of Sheikh Zakzaky.

The well attended protest which lasted for over an hour has attracted protesters from different tertiary institutions around Nigeria comprising students, lecturers and other movers and shakers of the academia. The protesters holding placards inscribed ‘Free Zakzaky Now’, ‘We demand the unconditional release of our leader’ and banners carrying the pictures, names, institutions and course of study of students killed by the Nigerian military in Zaria.

Addressing journalists shortly after the protest, Mr Muhammad Bello Anyingba a lecturer at Kogi state University said the purpose of the protest is to demand the absolute release of Sheikh Zakzaky. He further called on the Nigerian government to get the corpses of those killed for proper Islamic burial and free those in various military detention facilities.

Responding to allegations about the video clip aired by military, he said the video was edited to justify their inhumane acts.

“American President Barack Obama was stoned somewhere and nobody was killed. Former Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was pelted in Bauchi while canvassing for votes but nobody was killed”.

The head of the commission, Prof Ben Agwe has promised to probe the Zaria massacre, inviting some members of movement on Wednesday 20th for an official address of the memorandum filed in last week.

However, in a statement signed by the Chairman of the Academic forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria (AFIMN), Shu’aibu Isah Ahmad call on the Nigerian authorities to accept the atrocities in Zaria and compensate the families of those affected.

“We call on the government to summon courage and live up to its morality and accept its crime by paying compensation to all affected families and relations” the statement said.

BEST AND PRECISE ANSWERS ABOUT ZARIA CARNAGE
Your sad story was carried in some newspapers, can you share with us your background?
I am a journalist and a Mass
Communication lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. I hold the title of the Waziri of Gwantu III. I am an activist and an advocate of positive change. I was the secretary of Scholars for Good Governance - Buhari/El-Rufai 2015 project at the university, through which we carried out office-to-office campaign for the president and the Kaduna State governor last year.
It was reported that you lost four of your children during the recent clash between your sect (Shi’ite) and the army? Can you tell us how they were killed?
To the best of my knowledge, there was no clash; what happened was a genocide by the Nigerian Army against the followers of one of the most peace-loving and patriotic religious leaders in the country, Sayyid Ibrahim Zakzaky. Christians who used to run to his house for refuge whenever there was ethno-religious crisis in Zaria can testify to this claim. My four undergraduate children - Muhammad (21), Fatima (20) and twins, Hassan and Husseini (18) were murdered by the soldiers in the house of my spiritual leader on the 13th of December, 2015, when they invaded his house with the motive of killing him after they had killed hundreds of his followers.
They later burnt and buried many of our members in mass graves in various locations outside Zaria.
How are you coping with their deaths?
Do you want diyah [blood money]?
Thank God, I have overcome it [the incident]. Great men of faith have been tested like this. I have no option but to leave everything to the Lord of Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad(peace of Allah be upon them). Allah will avenge us since He has forbidden the shedding of the blood of even animals without any justifiable reason.
Compensation?! Nothing in this world can replace my innocent and beloved children.
Can you share with us how you raised your children, the schools they attended and what their aspirations were?
I denied myself befitting shelter and car to make sure that these children got to the university, especially considering the fact that I am the last child in my family of 12 and the only one privileged to attain my academic height. My children passed through various schools, right from inception, to where they were, ABU, Zaria, before soldiers that were employed and paid with our hard-earned money to protect us eventually killed them in cold blood, burnt them and denied me the opportunity to see their corpses and bury them according to Islamic rites.
How many children do you have left?
Glory be to Almighty Allah Who gives and takes. I have 10 left for now.
How did their mother(s) react to the news of their deaths?
They belonged to two mothers. The eldest two were from my Yoruba wife, from Ilorin, and the twins were from my Fulani wife. In fact, I think, they were not as devastated as I was. They both exhibited a strong faith in Allah and asked Him to punish all those that gave the order for the killing of our children and all those that had a hand in any way in the termination of sacred lives.
Did you have any premonition of your children’s deaths?
No.
Why do you think your sect is having problems with the security operatives?
I think it is not unconnected to the war declared on Muslims all over the word by ‘globalists’. It is not a secret that the Nigerian security agencies are proxies of the forces behind the ordeals of Muslims in different parts of the world like Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Somalia and Myanmar.
Is it true your sect does not recognise any authority — even the nation’s authorities — other than your spiritual leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky?
I told you the role some of us played in the victory of the people that have turned out to be our killers today.
What about the allegation that the military wing of your sect is training youths to fight the state?
That is the most irritating, absurd, laughable and unintelligible of all the allegations against us. How could we have that and yet be unable to defend ourselves and our leader against the army who took 48 hours killing us like flies? This is a false flag and a black propaganda no discerning mind will believe. The video they are showing on television are videos of Boys Scout members of the movement, which all
religious groups have in the country. The Izala, Tariqa and even our Christian brethren have such Boys Scouts. It is nothing aberrational but, you know, as Ida B. Wells, the celebrated black American investigative journalist, said, “Those that commit the murders, write the report.”
I want to emphasise that unlike other Muslims who are busy funding terrorism in Syria, Iraq and other parts of the world, Shia Muslims do not believe in weapons or killing even animals. What we believe in and do is intellectual debate and discourse. People that take up arms lack intellectual ability to debate. We are not Boko Haram, neither are we ISIS who kill and behead people.

BEST AND PRECISE ANSWERS ABOUT ZARIA CARNAGE
Your sad story was carried in some newspapers, can you share with us your background?
I am a journalist and a Mass
Communication lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. I hold the title of the Waziri of Gwantu III. I am an activist and an advocate of positive change. I was the secretary of Scholars for Good Governance - Buhari/El-Rufai 2015 project at the university, through which we carried out office-to-office campaign for the president and the Kaduna State governor last year.
It was reported that you lost four of your children during the recent clash between your sect (Shi’ite) and the army? Can you tell us how they were killed?
To the best of my knowledge, there was no clash; what happened was a genocide by the Nigerian Army against the followers of one of the most peace-loving and patriotic religious leaders in the country, Sayyid Ibrahim Zakzaky. Christians who used to run to his house for refuge whenever there was ethno-religious crisis in Zaria can testify to this claim. My four undergraduate children - Muhammad (21), Fatima (20) and twins, Hassan and Husseini (18) were murdered by the soldiers in the house of my spiritual leader on the 13th of December, 2015, when they invaded his house with the motive of killing him after they had killed hundreds of his followers.
They later burnt and buried many of our members in mass graves in various locations outside Zaria.
How are you coping with their deaths?
Do you want diyah [blood money]?
Thank God, I have overcome it [the incident]. Great men of faith have been tested like this. I have no option but to leave everything to the Lord of Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad(peace of Allah be upon them). Allah will avenge us since He has forbidden the shedding of the blood of even animals without any justifiable reason.
Compensation?! Nothing in this world can replace my innocent and beloved children.
Can you share with us how you raised your children, the schools they attended and what their aspirations were?
I denied myself befitting shelter and car to make sure that these children got to the university, especially considering the fact that I am the last child in my family of 12 and the only one privileged to attain my academic height. My children passed through various schools, right from inception, to where they were, ABU, Zaria, before soldiers that were employed and paid with our hard-earned money to protect us eventually killed them in cold blood, burnt them and denied me the opportunity to see their corpses and bury them according to Islamic rites.
How many children do you have left?
Glory be to Almighty Allah Who gives and takes. I have 10 left for now.
How did their mother(s) react to the news of their deaths?
They belonged to two mothers. The eldest two were from my Yoruba wife, from Ilorin, and the twins were from my Fulani wife. In fact, I think, they were not as devastated as I was. They both exhibited a strong faith in Allah and asked Him to punish all those that gave the order for the killing of our children and all those that had a hand in any way in the termination of sacred lives.
Did you have any premonition of your children’s deaths?
No.
Why do you think your sect is having problems with the security operatives?
I think it is not unconnected to the war declared on Muslims all over the word by ‘globalists’. It is not a secret that the Nigerian security agencies are proxies of the forces behind the ordeals of Muslims in different parts of the world like Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Somalia and Myanmar.
Is it true your sect does not recognise any authority — even the nation’s authorities — other than your spiritual leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky?
I told you the role some of us played in the victory of the people that have turned out to be our killers today.
What about the allegation that the military wing of your sect is training youths to fight the state?
That is the most irritating, absurd, laughable and unintelligible of all the allegations against us. How could we have that and yet be unable to defend ourselves and our leader against the army who took 48 hours killing us like flies? This is a false flag and a black propaganda no discerning mind will believe. The video they are showing on television are videos of Boys Scout members of the movement, which all
religious groups have in the country. The Izala, Tariqa and even our Christian brethren have such Boys Scouts. It is nothing aberrational but, you know, as Ida B. Wells, the celebrated black American investigative journalist, said, “Those that commit the murders, write the report.”
I want to emphasise that unlike other Muslims who are busy funding terrorism in Syria, Iraq and other parts of the world, Shia Muslims do not believe in weapons or killing even animals. What we believe in and do is intellectual debate and discourse. People that take up arms lack intellectual ability to debate. We are not Boko Haram, neither are we ISIS who kill and behead people.

The Nigerian Army shot sisters of IMN in their most private parts & stabbed them in their breasts with bayonets in the Zaria massacre:

I went to Zaria to be interviewed by a Journalist from a major daily Nigerian Newspaper about the Zaria massacre. Before I arrived the Journalist was taken to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, where some injured victims of the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army are recuperating.

What shocked the Journalist was when he met some sisters of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) who were shot by the Nigerian Army in their most private parts and again stabbed in their breasts with rifle bayonets. The Journalist who is a Christian from Southern #Nigeria broke down and wept.

One important thing to note here is that the Nigerian Army deliberately targeted the reproductive organs of the sisters of IMN that they shot. The sisters reported that the soldiers were screaming that "there will never be Shia in Nigeria" while shooting their most private parts and stabbing their breasts with rifle bayonets. This is clear genocide, they targeted their reproductive organs so that they will not bring Shias to the world.

Such brutal war crimes are what the war criminal Nigerian Army Chief Buratai claimed that "they stick to the rules of engagement". To the mindset of this most evil man, shooting defenseless Nigerian women in their most private parts and stabbing them with rifle bayonets are "the rules of engagement".

The crimes committed by Nigerian Army in the Zaria massacre are endless, we are documenting all the stories of the survivors to be translated to all the major languages of the world. The world must hear the Truth and what actually happened in the Zaria massacre.

Imagine the Nigerian Army shouting anti - Shia slogan while killing defenseless Nigerian in the most inhuman manner. To the brainless idiots who executed the brutal Zaria massacre, killing 1000+ Shia Muslims in Nigeria will end Shia Islam in Nigeria.

Among the question the Journalist asked me was that he interviewed some people and they claimed we are "brainwashing" people to become Shia Muslims. I answered him that nobody us forced to become Shia, it is a choice made willingly and IMN does not discreminate among the Islamic schools of thoughts. And if it is about brainwashing, more than 70% of all the Mosques & Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria are controlled by Wahhabis. And Nigerian Wahhabis have satellite TV station that does nothing but broadcast anti - Shia programs. In their mosques the only thing they do is promoting Shia hate & hate of Christians. Why can't the Wahhabis brainwash people with all these resources in their disposal?

Finally to the Nigerian authorities who burnt the dead bodies of the victims of the brutal Zaria massacre, there are tonnes of other evidences that you can not destroy. There are hundreds of survivors who witness the heinous crimes and atrocities committed by the Nigerian Army, there are medical doctors and hospital personnels who received some of the deaths and treated the injured. Those who executed that monstrous inhumanity will be brought to justice one day.

#FreeZakzaky
#GodProtectZakzaky
Harun Elbinawi
elbinawi@yahoo.com

Rally in Kano



WE SHALL CONTINUE TO DEMAND THE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE OF SHAIKH
IBRAHEEM YAQOUB EL ZAKZAKY (H)
The followers of Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) in Kano zone just like in
other cities continued to demand the unconditional release of its
leader Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H).
The demand was part of Mal Sunusi Abdul Kadir’s speech in today’s post
khuduba at Fagge Jumma’at mosque in Kano city. Mal Sunusi reiterated
followers of Shaikh Zakzaky (H) shall not relent and will continue to
conduct its peaceful activities that is known to be conducting and
continue to uphold its demand on the December 12-14th, 2016 Zaria
massacre by the Nigerian Army under the leadership of Major General
Tukur Burutai.
Mal Sunusi also exposed the plot by mischief makers trying to see the
create an avenue in distorting the peace and tranquility of the state
through sectarian conflict were a letter written and signed by Alh
Lawan Hasan on behalf of some resident of Kofar-Waika, Gwale local
government, Kano state which they knew nothing, urging the state
government to demolish or take control the Islamic movement center i.e
kano markaz on flimsy and untrue claim of there is no follower of
Shaikh Zakzaky (H) in Kofar Waika.
Latter in the evening the usual Friday prayers was held in additional
to the second day forty day’s prayers.

40th Day Prayers for the Martyrs of the Zaria massacre:

40th Day Prayers for the Martyrs of the Zaria massacre commence today in various cities within & outside #Nigeria. Sadly due to the wickedness & evil of our Nigerian oppressors, the dead bodies of the Martyrs were not seen by their families.

The Nigerian Army after killing 1000+ Nigerian on the 12th & 13th December, 2015, collected all the dead bodies on the 14th & burnt them. The Nigerian Army burnt the dead bodies to destroy the evidences of this massacre. These war criminals think they can commit genocide & be free. A woman named Maimuna Abbas lost her 6 children & her husband, all butally killed by the Nigerian Army. An entire family wiped out in a killing spree that will shock Boko Haram.

Our condolences once again to all the families of the Martyrs, your murderers will pay for the crimes of killing you mercilessly InshaAllah! Those who kill the innocent in the Zaria massacre are not different from the #BokoHaram thugs and #ISIS. It is the same ideology & mindset. Genocide against Shia Muslims is a universal agenda of these bloodthirsty savages parading as "Muslims". They are wicked, heartless & evil.

#FreeZakzaky
#GodProtectZakzaky
@Elbinawi

SEVEN KILLED?
The Chief of Army Staff, COAS was reported to have told the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC that only seven persons were killed by the Nigerian Army in the Zaria massacre and people are wondering how. Probably, what the COAS was trying to explain to the NHRC was that, one of the victims of the Army attack on the Islamic Movement, Sister Maimuna Abdullahi Abbas lost six of her children and also her husband making the seven as he is saying. But she was not the only victim of the brutal and senseless attack as there are tens of families that the Army have either wiped out or killed one or two or three or four or five or more members of such families or individuals that they have killed all including women and children. The hospital officials of ABU Teaching Hospital, where the corpses were deposited by the Army, declared an official figure of 61 while the Human Rights Watch declared over three hundred killed. Who could be the liar?

Re:Leave Gen Buratai and our military alone

My attention was drawn to a sponsored piece in Daily Trust Newspaper of 19th January, 2016 by one imaginary figure tagged Mohammed Laden (definitely not a real name). It is important to note that the one that paid huge amount of money to sponsor this piece is the same one that sponsored all the Advertorials by the Nigerian Army. The goal and objective is one and the same and that is to cover and bury a brutal war crime that killed 1000+ defenseless Nigerians in Zaria. I will, InshaAllah, address some of the points raised for the sake of setting records straight.

After going on a praise rampage of the Nigerian Army Chief Buratai, the writer said: "It is therefore, absurd for any civil society and the so called human rights organization to castigate our national hero, even without properly carrying out investigation. The so called human rights groups that are castigating our hero fail to do the right thing by condemning the perpetual imprisonment of the people of Zaria by Zakzaki and his people over the years."

It is important to note his use of abusive words while referring to our civil society organizations and human rights groups who rightly condemned the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army as unprovoked, inhuman and barbaric. And also his claim that Sheikh Zakzaky "imprisoned" the people of Zaria is laughable. It is obvious this writer does not know the meaning of "prison". Prison is confined with defined boundaries and prison guards to guard the prisoners. It is obvious what is angering this writer is the massive population that attend National programs of IMN and these programs are not more than two per year. All other programs are organized in various branches of IMN nation wide.

The writer's next claim further cement our assertion that the Nigerian Govt is promoting anti-Shia propaganda when he said: "The so called paid human rights groups calling for the removal of our national hero fail to condemn the Shiites who turn women into prostitutes. They allow what they call temporary marriage which is inhuman...". It was not Shia Islam that legalized temporary marriage, it was God and His Prophet (sa) who legalized temporary marriage. So if this writer claimed that temporary marriage is "inhuman" then that accusation should be directed to God and His Prophet. It is important to note that a lots of companions of the Prophet (sa) were products of temporary marriage because it was legal throughout the lifetime of the Prophet (sa). So from the mindset of this writer, the mothers of those companions born from temporary marriages were "prostitutes" (God forbid). And in Shia Islam, temporary marriage is legal but not compulsory. There are millions of shia Muslims who have never contracted temporary marriage for the duration of their lives. It is an alternative in times of extreme situations.

The writer went on a drunken spree of promoting Shia-hatred that even the most foolish of the fool will not believe. He said:"It is allowed by the Shiites to even lend your wife to another man for some time. The annual trekking that they normally do from Kano to Zaria attracts youths because they use the females among them as sex slaves." The claim of the writer that Shia Muslims lend their wives to others is the most absurd anti-Shia propaganda I have ever heard. This is part of the Saudi-funded campaign to demonize Shia Islam and make it unattractive to Muslims. Unfortunately for them, when people discover all these allegations are lies, they turn to Shia Islam. Truth can never be propagated by lies and falsehood, Truth can only be propagated by Truth.

Our women are honorable and are equal to our men, they participate actively in all programs just like men. And whoever attend our programs knows that the two sexes are separated in accordance to Islamic injuctions and all our women observed the Hijab. It is the Wahhabi cult that obviously this writer subscribed to that oppressed women and considered them inferior to men. In true Islam, men and women are equal but not similar. Their de-similarity complement each other.

As for his accusation of "sex slaves", it is the Wahhabi-inspired murderous terrorist groups that turned thousands of girls and women to sex slaves. I have never heard of sex slaves in Shia Islam. It is Wahhabism that encourage it's adherents to kill all those who do not subscribe to that deviant cult, steal their properties and turn their women in to sex slaves. Boko Haram and ISIS who are product of the Wahhabi contamination of Sunni Islam are world-renowned when it come to sex slaves.

After insulting the Nigerian human rights community, the writer now pleaded with them: "These so called human rights groups should please leave our Chief of Army Staff alone and face the Shiites who are known for their human rights abuses." The IMN under the leadership of His Eminence Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have never abused the human rights of any Nigerian in its 38 years history. They have never killed any soldier, police, other security forces or any Nigerian for that matter. The Nigerian human rights community will not leave the Nigerian Army Chief alone because he committed a heinous war crimes in Zaria and valuable lives were lost. He must be punished for his role in the Zaria massacre, that is Justice and fairness. His position as the Army Chief does not make him above the Laws of the country.

And writer's claim that we are only loyal to Iran and not Nigeria is frivolous. In all the programs of IMN, the colours of decorations are green and white which are the main colours of the Nigerian flag. And many of the traditional cloths worn by Sheikh Zakzaky and other leaders of IMN reflect the green and white colours of Nigeria. I am sure this writer is pro-Saudi, there are Nigerians who are pro-Israel while some Nigerians are even pro-Jamaica. Global politics is a matter of personal choice that can not be imposed.

Finally, the writer accused the IMN of boycotting the Judicial Commission of Inquiry constituted by Kaduna state Governor Elrufai. The IMN have it's reasons for not attending that compromised Commission. From the Zio-Wahhabi membership of the commission, it is not credible, nor is it independent nor is it impartial. The goal and objective of the commission is already defined by the composition of its membership.

#FreeZakzaky
#GodProtectZakzaky
Harun Elbinawi
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Re:Leave Gen Buratai and our military alone

My attention was drawn to a sponsored piece in Daily Trust Newspaper of 19th January, 2016 by one imaginary figure tagged Mohammed Laden (definitely not a real name). It is important to note that the one that paid huge amount of money to sponsor this piece is the same one that sponsored all the Advertorials by the Nigerian Army. The goal and objective is one and the same and that is to cover and bury a brutal war crime that killed 1000+ defenseless Nigerians in Zaria. I will, InshaAllah, address some of the points raised for the sake of setting records straight.

After going on a praise rampage of the Nigerian Army Chief Buratai, the writer said: "It is therefore, absurd for any civil society and the so called human rights organization to castigate our national hero, even without properly carrying out investigation. The so called human rights groups that are castigating our hero fail to do the right thing by condemning the perpetual imprisonment of the people of Zaria by Zakzaki and his people over the years."

It is important to note his use of abusive words while referring to our civil society organizations and human rights groups who rightly condemned the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army as unprovoked, inhuman and barbaric. And also his claim that Sheikh Zakzaky "imprisoned" the people of Zaria is laughable. It is obvious this writer does not know the meaning of "prison". Prison is confined with defined boundaries and prison guards to guard the prisoners. It is obvious what is angering this writer is the massive population that attend National programs of IMN and these programs are not more than two per year. All other programs are organized in various branches of IMN nation wide.

The writer's next claim further cement our assertion that the Nigerian Govt is promoting anti-Shia propaganda when he said: "The so called paid human rights groups calling for the removal of our national hero fail to condemn the Shiites who turn women into prostitutes. They allow what they call temporary marriage which is inhuman...". It was not Shia Islam that legalized temporary marriage, it was God and His Prophet (sa) who legalized temporary marriage. So if this writer claimed that temporary marriage is "inhuman" then that accusation should be directed to God and His Prophet. It is important to note that a lots of companions of the Prophet (sa) were products of temporary marriage because it was legal throughout the lifetime of the Prophet (sa). So from the mindset of this writer, the mothers of those companions born from temporary marriages were "prostitutes" (God forbid). And in Shia Islam, temporary marriage is legal but not compulsory. There are millions of shia Muslims who have never contracted temporary marriage for the duration of their lives. It is an alternative in times of extreme situations.

The writer went on a drunken spree of promoting Shia-hatred that even the most foolish of the fool will not believe. He said:"It is allowed by the Shiites to even lend your wife to another man for some time. The annual trekking that they normally do from Kano to Zaria attracts youths because they use the females among them as sex slaves." The claim of the writer that Shia Muslims lend their wives to others is the most absurd anti-Shia propaganda I have ever heard. This is part of the Saudi-funded campaign to demonize Shia Islam and make it unattractive to Muslims. Unfortunately for them, when people discover all these allegations are lies, they turn to Shia Islam. Truth can never be propagated by lies and falsehood, Truth can only be propagated by Truth.

Our women are honorable and are equal to our men, they participate actively in all programs just like men. And whoever attend our programs knows that the two sexes are separated in accordance to Islamic injuctions and all our women observed the Hijab. It is the Wahhabi cult that obviously this writer subscribed to that oppressed women and considered them inferior to men. In true Islam, men and women are equal but not similar. Their de-similarity complement each other.

As for his accusation of "sex slaves", it is the Wahhabi-inspired murderous terrorist groups that turned thousands of girls and women to sex slaves. I have never heard of sex slaves in Shia Islam. It is Wahhabism that encourage it's adherents to kill all those who do not subscribe to that deviant cult, steal their properties and turn their women in to sex slaves. Boko Haram and ISIS who are product of the Wahhabi contamination of Sunni Islam are world-renowned when it come to sex slaves.

After insulting the Nigerian human rights community, the writer now pleaded with them: "These so called human rights groups should please leave our Chief of Army Staff alone and face the Shiites who are known for their human rights abuses." The IMN under the leadership of His Eminence Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have never abused the human rights of any Nigerian in its 38 years history. They have never killed any soldier, police, other security forces or any Nigerian for that matter. The Nigerian human rights community will not leave the Nigerian Army Chief alone because he committed a heinous war crimes in Zaria and valuable lives were lost. He must be punished for his role in the Zaria massacre, that is Justice and fairness. His position as the Army Chief does not make him above the Laws of the country.

And writer's claim that we are only loyal to Iran and not Nigeria is frivolous. In all the programs of IMN, the colours of decorations are green and white which are the main colours of the Nigerian flag. And many of the traditional cloths worn by Sheikh Zakzaky and other leaders of IMN reflect the green and white colours of Nigeria. I am sure this writer is pro-Saudi, there are Nigerians who are pro-Israel while some Nigerians are even pro-Jamaica. Global politics is a matter of personal choice that can not be imposed.

Finally, the writer accused the IMN of boycotting the Judicial Commission of Inquiry constituted by Kaduna state Governor Elrufai. The IMN have it's reasons for not attending that compromised Commission. From the Zio-Wahhabi membership of the commission, it is not credible, nor is it independent nor is it impartial. The goal and objective of the commission is already defined by the composition of its membership.

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Harun Elbinawi
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elbinawi@yahoo.com

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