Author:Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, says Ibrahim Maqari, Imam of the national mosque, should be sacked from his position over his comments on “redlines” of Islam.by a mob over alleged blasphemy.insinuated that Deborah deserved her death.
“To anyone who cares to listen, Maqari has implicitly directed his followers to take the law into their own hands in the name of religion, and in a nation beset on all sides by wars of ultra-nationalism and religious fanaticism,” Soyinka said.“That is the message of a supposedly holy man to youths, to us, his message to a nation embroiled in a madness of multiple insurgencies.
“It is time for all group interests to draw their lines, to decide where they intersect with others, where they run parallel, and where they diverge and/or snarl into a chaotic maze. If Professor Grand Imam Maqari can draw a line in blood, the rest of the community of equal rights must proceed to draw their own, but they will do so in less primitive, bloodthirsty mode, in full respect of human dignity.
In response, Aisha el-Rufai, the wife of Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna governor, said the people behind the death of Deborah do not have the backing of Islam.
Just discovering an old man suffering from unhealthy mental state.
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Werey come and sack him, sakarai kawai.
When did this man became religious? He is neither a christian nor a muslim. What is his business with the imam?
That's our stand.
Ok
He won't be sacked so long he doesn't criticise buhari and his govt
Idiot
This is coming from someone who is an advocate and a supporter of Sunday Igboho, wonder they say shall never end. Those who wants equity should come with clean hands..
Religion is not about writing drama I know for sure he cannot stand in church and preach he who knowns nothing about his own religion cannot say anything about others religion
Let this old greyed hair cargo come to the national mosque and reach out to the management of the national mosque about his call.
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