Immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has stated that activities of the Boko Haram sect and other insurgents in the country are not part of Islamic religion.
Fashola made this observation on Tuesday at the public presentation of a book written by Dr. Yinka Olomojobi entitled, ‘Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Africa’.
The former governor said that a religion whose foundation was peace, such as Islam, could not be associated with acts of murder, rape, savagery, pillaging and terror.
His words, “It is sheer propaganda to fool the general public and to deceive gullible people in the name of a faith whose tenets they themselves breach and violate.
“The simple truth is that we have allowed the voices of a few criminals to rise above that of billions of law-abiding global citizens. What we are dealing with is a new wave of crime by criminals who seem to have an edge because of the need for a new global order and the gaps created by globalisation.”
Fashola, while lauding the author for putting the book together, called on Muslims and other Nigerians not to accept any reason given by the criminals to explain their actions.
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