The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the killing
of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education,
Sokoto state.
Deborah was attacked by a mob and set ablaze over comments
purportedly considered to be an insult to Prophet Mohammed.
A video of the student being stoned and beaten with sticks
was shared on social media on Thursday.
The incident has sparked outrage with many Nigerians calling
for justice.
Reacting to the development, MURIC, in a statement signed by
Ishaq Akintola, its director, said the Quran and Prophet Mohammed condemned
violence, adding that the “aggrieved students” should have reported to the
police and Hisbah.
“MURIC strongly condemns this killing and all others that
have been happening in Nigeria in recent times. Those aggrieved by the
student’s post should have reported her to the security agencies or to the
Shariah police, the hisbah. Mob killing is archaic and bohemian. It belongs to
the Stone Age. Nobody has the right to take the law into his hands,” the
statement reads.
“The Glorious Qur’an compares the killing of a single person
to the killing of the whole of humanity just as it compares the saving of a
life to the rescue of all homo sapiens (Qur’an 5:32) In like manner, Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) himself condemned all acts of violence and advocated peaceful
conduct at all times.
“But this incident
should not be condemned in isolation. The recent trend whereby Nigerians now
freely shed their brothers blood should be condemned by all patriots. In this
regard, we also strongly denounce the killing of several northern Muslims in
the south-east in the past few months.
“We frown at the recent burning last week of a truck fully
loaded with cows in the south-east as well as the killing of many Muslims of
south-east origin by their Igbo brothers in the same south-east. We note with
keen interest that Muslims in the morth did not retaliate when these killings
were taking place.
“MURIC calls on the Sokoto police command to do everything
within its power to get to the bottom of yesterday’s killing of the female
student over alleged blasphemy.
“We appeal to members of the public to remain calm and law
abiding. Nigerians should allow the police to carry out its investigations on
the case. The Sokoto police command has started well as it already has two
suspects in detention for the killing.”
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Good talk
ReplyDeleteExcept for the attempt to make it look like the east is killing muslims which is clearly untrue. Have cows been killed? Yes. Have non eastern and eastern Muslims been killed in recent months? No. So why the spin the story and twist the narrative rather than confront it head on? Until we condemn in totality some behaviour of our religious and tribal people, we are only beating around the bush.
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