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Sayyid Muhammad Zakzaky has this to say: >>>>>>
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.
Free Zakzaky Procession which was held by some Members of the Islamic Movement In Nigeria Kano zones. Members of IMN came out in Mass in the afternoon on 25/01/2016, caryying Banners and Placard and Poster of the leader of the Movement Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky cant down oppression and Injustice by the Govt. and demanding the unconditional release of Sheikh Zakzaky and some Members detained some with fatal injuries. They also demand the release of the Bodies those killed by the Army for appropriate Janaza. Malam Sunusi Abdulkadir lead the Procession and explains to the general Puplic the objectives of the procession and speak out the reasons why the govt attacked the IMN. He say the only reasons are Zakzaky's stand against the Injustice and his refusal to be co-opted within the Status quo.
S/W Shi’ite members ask FG for ElZakzaky’s unconditional release, compensation for the slain
January 24, 2016
S/W Shi’ite members ask FG for ElZakzaky’s unconditional release, compensation for the slain
By; Bayo Akamo, Ibadan.
Members of the Islamic Movement In Nigeria, under the umbrella of Shi’ite Movement in the South West Nigeria has asked the Federal Government to release Mallam Ibrahim Elzakzaky without any condition attached.
The Shit’te members at a press conference in Ibadan, through their spokesperson and the South West Coordinator, , Mallam Muftau Zakariyah also demanded compensation for all the 2,000 Shi’ite members who were allegedly massacred during a clash with the military in Zaria recently as well as all the movement’s property that were destroyed.
According to Mallam Zakariyah, Shi’tte members “are innocent of all the allegations by the military,” saying, ”COAS is our servant, he has no right to order the killing of our followers. We demand formal apology from the Nigerian Army. We demand Payment for all movement property that has been destroyed”.
Addressing the media amidst shouts of “Allahu Akbar” from the Shi’ite members from across the South west states that stormed Ibadan for the press conference, Zakariyah declared that his followers numbering millions
all over the country were not ready for any violence.
“We demand that Mallam Zakzaky be released unconditionally. We demand payment for all movement property that has been destroyed. We demand compensation for all two thousand that have been killed. We demand formal apology from the Nigerian army. Today it is Zakzaky, who will it be tomorrow? This is the time to speak out,” he said.
Describing the military action on Shi’ite members as unjust, inhuman and crime against humanity, he alleged the Nigerian Army of being “the
prosecutor, the jury and the executioner”. He said the composition of the panel set up by the Kaduna state government on the matter was faulty,
saying, the likes of Chief Femi Falana, Professor Ishaq Akintola of the
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) and other human rights should have
been included for the panel to attract any credibility.
ZARIA CARNAGE:
FOR THE NOISEMAKERS
By Sameer El-Hajj
Keep making noise, please don't stop. Your nuisance is of paramount importance. Nevertheless, the noise you are busy making will only propagate the cause of the Islamic movement in Nigeria. Many more will understand us and accept the ideology. Say it aloud again, we are not a sect members, call us the Islamic movement in Nigeria, period!
For your information, this conspiracy has two dimensions with two contending interests. The west interest is to crush anything with freedom struggle or anti-Israeli movement without any other consideration. While for the Saudi Wahabi regime, they are against shi'ah as a sect. The two giants share something in common, Islamic movement as a target.
You are busy shouting, seeking for Nigerian government’s recognition. While the fact is that Nigerian government is just a stooge serving the interest of Saudi Arabia, and Israelis puppet on the other hand.
Every Nigerian is a target in this case. No matter hard you try to clean yourself, they will never allow you to live peacefully. The west needs our wealth and resources. And by that, it means we must play the role of slaves. It is not a sectarian problem.
Continue praying for them to crush us, when they are done with us, get ready for your turn. And believe me you; it wouldn't be favourable when it comes to you, because it is coming with thousands of surprises.
For the hearts that shows sympathy, thank you very much. May Allah reward you all and ease all calamities of this nature on you.
But for the jubilating Wahabi sect members, western arrogant are not your type. They have a ready-made plan for you and it is very crude. Get a piece of paper and write it down, I'm the source.
And for the shi'ittes noise makers, you will never get a place as the enemy friends. The Wahabi's wouldn't accept you, unless if you convert to Wahabism and Takfiri ideology. Spend hundreds of hours making unnecessary noise in the Radio stations and television, it will change nothing. And that will never dent the image of the Islamic movement in Nigeria.
You will die with your jealousy. I pray for the noisemakers to live long and see the outcomes of their nuisance. Sheikh Zakzaky will be released as a hero, the only standing and trusted leader. You will witness how million more will pay allegiance to him, for he is the only solution to the problems of Nigeria.
A thought, enough for the wise to grab.
ZARIA CARNAGE:
FOR THE NOISEMAKERS
By Sameer El-Hajj
Keep making noise, please don't stop. Your nuisance is of paramount importance. Nevertheless, the noise you are busy making will only propagate the cause of the Islamic movement in Nigeria. Many more will understand us and accept the ideology. Say it aloud again, we are not a sect members, call us the Islamic movement in Nigeria, period!
Wahhabism is the ideology that inspired all murderous terrorism in the name of Islam. All Wahhabis have terrorist tendencies, the only difference is that the degree of this tendencies differ from one level to another. If you remove Wahhabi teachings from Sunni Islam there will no terrorism in the name of Islam. The Wahhabi contamination of Sunni Islam is the root cause and source of the murderous terrorism that we see today.
It is Wahhabism that legalised the blood of the innocent and encourage massacres and mass killings of civilians. There is no inclination in Islam that will inspire heavily-armed terrorists to go to a university and kill innocent students and their teachers except Wahhabism.
This is the main reason why Western imperialism and Global Zionism are closely allied to the Saudi regime that promote Wahhabism among Sunni Muslims. Wahhabism does all the dirty jobs for the New World Order, from been the incubator for producing bloodthirsty murderous terrorists to causing hate and division among Muslims.
Remove Wahhabism from Sunni Islam & there will be no terrorism in the name of Islam, to simply put it.
OPEN LETTER TO THE NHRC
The Academic Forum
Islamic Movement in Nigeria
Hussainiyya Bakiyyatullah, Zaria
18 January 2016
The Chairman
National Human Right Commission
19, Aguiyi Ironsi Street
Maitama, Abuja, FCT
Dear Sir,
OUR MESSAGE
We are the Members of the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibrahim Yaqub Zakzaky (H). We are here today in front of your Headquarters in Abuja on this day 19th January 2016, on the occasion of commemorating the 40th day of the genocide that took place in Zaria on the 12th and 13th December 2015 which led to massacre of over 1000 of our brothers and sisters.
Nigeria killing of Shias, unjustified’: Analyst
Wed Jan 20, 2016
Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, editor of Veterans Today in Madison, to discuss the deadly attacks by Nigerian forces against Shia Muslims in the northern city of Zaria last month.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: What part of the massacre that took place last month with so many people being killed at the hands of the Nigerian army, what part of it do you think was appropriate as the Nigerian army chief put it?
In the name Islam:
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They attack hotels and universities all over the world and call it a religious duty worthy of emulation. Yet they hold a lopsided view that the trouble that rocks Islam nowadays is not their terrorist activities but Shias.
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They bomb mosques and churches, they displace thousands of people yearly, they kidnapp hapless women and children and indoctrinate them into suicide bombings which kill in droves, maim in scores and destroy in magnitude, yet they blame Shias for the current rise in terrorism.
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They rape and enslave women after they slaughter their husbands, they deny women of right to any form of education, they deprive them of right to drive cars, they think women are solely created to satiate their sexual appetite. Yet they blame Shias for giving Islam a bad image.
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Their mosques are a cesspit of radicalism, their preachings are laced with hatred, their followers' minds are programmed to hate whoever disagrees with their version of Islam, they hate Christians and Shias to the extent that they wish them deaths and suffering for eternity. Yet they think Shias are causative factors of the problems that surround Islam.
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They create states within states. They seized a large swath of land in Syria and turn into the most hellish place to live on earth. They once seized Afghanistan and made it the most dangerous place on earth for women. They seized part of Iraq and turn it into a purgatory where dead bodies pile up the streets, where thousands of people are massacred and buried in mass graves. They once seized northern Mali and embarked upon the destruction of shrines and antique edifices. They once seized part of northern Nigeria and banned any form of Western education and they are currently terrorising Somalia, Libya, Egypt, Pakistan and Kenya all in the name of Islam, the religion of peace. But despite the dirty manifestations of their dreaded creed, despite the universal hatred their ideology has incurred to Islam, they still think Shias are the problems.
Reflection:
The First Revelation to Prophet Muhammad (sa) was: "Read by the name of your Lord" (96:1). This means the first word of Revelation was "Read". This shows the importance Islam attach to knowledge and education.
But unfortunately today the Wahhabi contamination of Sunni Islam have produced murderous terrorists who attacked Universities and schools killing students and their teachers and chanting "Allahu Akbar"!
Today Muslims are the most backward nations among all communities, in Nigeria more than 80% of children out of school are Muslims from Northern Nigeria. And more than 50% of children out of school in the world are Muslims from Northern Nigeria.
Yet we have bloodthirsty savages who kill people for going to schools. They want darkness and ignorance to continue as knowledge is light and progress.
Re: Panel:We only killed 7 Shia Muslims – Buratai
January 20, 2016 Uncategorized
The Nigerian Army, in a petition lodged before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on December 14, 2015, maintained that only seven (7) members of IMN were killed during the face-off, with 10 others seriously injured.
This is the beginning of the move by the Nigerian government to bury the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army. We have it on good authority that the highest authority in the land gave the go ahead for the brutal slaughter that took place in Zaria on 12th to 13th December, 2015.
WE DISOWN A VIDEO CLIP RIDICULING NSCIA
This week a video clip authored by unknown persons has gone viral in the social media, wherein aspersions were cast on the person of Professor Dahiru Yahya on his recent visit to Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky where he is being held incommunicado together with his wife since the military’s attack on his residence last month. In the said video, various Islamic scholars with different shades of opinion about Islam were quoted out of context on the massacre that happened in Zaria.
On viewing the video clip, even those not conversant with the workings of the Islamic movement, will begin to doubt if it really emanated from us, as the narrator in Hausa was trying to portray.
We hereby categorically make it clear that the Islamic movement has no hand in the making and distribution of the said video clip.
We on the other hand completely align ourselves with the laudable efforts of the Nigerian Supreme council for Islamic affairs in dealing with the issue. We laud its courageous stand as the umbrella of all Muslims, devoid of sectarian sentiments whatsoever. We support its efforts in seeing to the peaceful resolution of this unfortunate and avoidable attack on unarmed Muslims in Zaria by the Nigerian military.
The Islamic Movement conducts its affairs openly for all to judge. We are not a sect, but a mass movement of people with different shades of opinions of Islam and the world view. In whatever statement or utterances, emanating from us there is proper attribution. But in this video there is no proper indication of who were the producers.
In fact, the video in question might be the handiwork of our detractors, who are in tandem with those who attack the Islamic movement, trying to sow the seed of discord within the Islamic community on this issue that all well-meaning Nigerians and the International community rightly believe we are the victims.
We will not rest on our oars until and unless our most important demand is met by the government of Muhammadu Buhari, which is the unconditional release of our revered leader Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky, his wife and other brothers and sisters who are in detention.
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IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT
0805 078 6093
19-01-16
PRESS RELEASE
WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE KILLING OF STUDENTS IN ZARIA
It is now over one month since the Nigerian Army launched a coordinate brutal attack on members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, that killed hundreds of people in Zaria after over 27 hours of indiscriminate shooting and bombing by the Army.
Despite this display of inhumanity and gross violation of fundamental human rights, to which no remorse was shown by the state authorities for what was undoubtedly a war crime against fellow Nigerians, the home of the revered leader of the Movement Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, two Islamic Centers and the Cemetery/Film Village were demolished with graves dug up and desecrated by the Kaduna state government.
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
Supreme Leader Warns Iran’s Officials to Be Vigilant about US Deceitful Measures:
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran
Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that recent remarks by US officials - that came after official
implementation of a nuclear accord and
lifting of sanctions on Iran - are “totally a
cause for suspicion."
In a letter to President Sheikh Hassan
Rouhani answering his thanks for Leader's support, Ayatollah Khamenei stated that the achievements of nuclear talks are a result of resistance, urging the Iranian government “to be aware of the other party's fulfillment of its obligations” under the nuclear accord which went into force on Saturday.
The leader said he was pleased that parts of oppressive sanctions against Iran have been lifted and certain sides of talks who are known for their hostility towards Iran have been madento retreat from their previous positions.Reiterating that any achievement gained against the arrogant and bullying front has been the result of the Iranian nation's
resistance, he warned the government to benvigilant about deceitful measures and breach of undertakings by the arrogant governments, especially the United States. His eminence called the outcome of nuclear talks as the result of Iranian nation's resistance bagainst oppressive sanctions and also due to the efforts of Iranian nuclear scientists who advanced this industry forward.
Nigerian Students in Abuja protest the illegal detention of Sheikh Zakzaky.
On Tuesday 19th January, 2015 Nigerian students under the aegis of the Academic forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria under the leadership of his eminence Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky 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 flex banners carrying the pictures, names, institutions and course of study of students killed by the Nigerian military in Zaria.
SOME SECTARAIN MISCHIEF MAKERS ON THE PROWL IN KANO
Islamic movement in Nigeria Kano Zone today Monday January 18th, 2016
release a press Statement signed by Dr Dauda Nalado decrying the
intent of some mischief makers in Kano in a letter addressed to the
State Government and signed by Alhaji Lawan Hasan a resident of
Kofar-Waika.
Zaria Massacre:Matters Arising
I just saw graphic pictures of the attacks on the residence of Sheikh Zakzaky by the Nigerian Army on the 12th & 13th December, 2015. I saw dead bodies everywhere, I saw some dead bodies blown to pieces, I saw burnt dead bodies. I saw an inhuman brutality never imagined. Those pictures will be part of the second video to be release next week on the Zaria massacre.
Not only guns were used to kill defenceless Nigerians civilians in the Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army, they were also bombed to pieces. There is no brutal crime know to man that the Nigerian Army did not commit in the Zaria massacre that is undoubtedly a brutal war crime.
Hopefully, we are compiling the stories of the survivors of the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army. We will translate them to English. From English, those stories will be translated to all international languages. We want humanity to know what actually happened in Zaria massacre. I have never heard of #BokoHaram killing people & burning their dead bodies. But that was what the Nigerian Army did in the Zaria massacre.
InshaAllah, I will share some of those pictures here during the Twitter Trend of today. And I will make an Album of it on Facebook and share. It is important for the world to know the extent of brutality.
Alhamdilillah (Glory be to God), the #FreeZakzaky protest are all peaceful all over the wZaria Massacre:Matters Arising
I just saw graphic pictures of the attacks on the residence of Sheikh Zakzaky by the Nigerian Army on the 12th & 13th December, 2015. I saw dead bodies everywhere, I saw some dead bodies blown to pieces, I saw burnt dead bodies. I saw an inhuman brutality never imagined. Those pictures will be part of the second video to be release next week on the Zaria massacre.
Not only guns were used to kill defenceless Nigerians civilians in the Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army, they were also bombed to pieces. There is no brutal crime know to man that the Nigerian Army did not commit in the Zaria massacre that is undoubtedly a brutal war crime.
Hopefully, we are compiling the stories of the survivors of the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army. We will translate them to English. From English, those stories will be translated to all international languages. We want humanity to know what actually happened in Zaria massacre. I have never heard of #BokoHaram killing people & burning their dead bodies. But that was what the Nigerian Army did in the Zaria massacre.
InshaAllah, I will share some of those pictures here during the Twitter Trend of today. And I will make an Album of it on Facebook and share. It is important for the world to know the extent of brutality.
Alhamdilillah (Glory be to God), the #FreeZakzaky protest are all peaceful all over the world. 1000s of salutations to all who participate. We all grateful to all those who shared our post, shared our Tweets, matched in rallies and processions, all those who prayed and showed support & those who sympathize. You all showed us that humanity is one. Thank you!
#FreeZakzakyorld. 1000s of salutations to all who participate. We all grateful to all those who shared our post, shared our Tweets, matched in rallies and processions, all those who prayed and showed support & those who sympathize. You all showed us that humanity is one. Thank you!
#FreeZakzaky
'Nigerian forces sprayed Sheikh Zakzaky with six bullets'
Sun Jan 17, 2016
Nigerian army soldiers fired six bullets at Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, seriously injuring the Shia cleric when they raided his residence to arrest him, says a member of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA).
Professor Dahiru Yahaya of Bayero University Kano (BUK), who has visited Sheikh Zakzaky, said he was told by the cleric that he was severely wounded after the soldiers fired six bullets at him. The academic made the remarks in an interview with Hausa Radio, which is the Africa desk of the IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) world service, on Sunday.
Zakzaky is the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). He was injured and arrested during the raid by the army on his home in the northern city of Zaria, Kaduna State, in December.
Yahaya said the condition of the cleric has improved. The academic is currently working with a committee set up to follow up on the well-being of Sheikh Zakzaky.
The university professor described as "very bad and repulsive" the treatment of the committee members by army officials upon their inquiry about the sheikh, adding that the police also denied them a meeting with Zakzaky.
He said Sheikh Zakzaky is currently detained by the intelligence ministry, adding that the Nigerian government only permitted three members of the committee to visit the cleric.
When asked about Zakzaky's opinion on the recent developments in Nigeria, Yahaya said the cleric only sufficed expressing his "deep regret." The academic said the conduct of the Nigerian army had been "truly inhumane."
On December 12 last year, Nigerian soldiers attacked Shia Muslims attending a ceremony at a religious center in Zaria, accusing them of blocking the convoy of the army’s chief of staff and attempting to assassinate him. The Shias have categorically denied the allegations.
The following day, Nigerian forces also raided Zakzaky’s home and arrested him after reportedly killing those attempting to protect him, including one of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN)’s senior leaders and its spokesman.
The two attacks led to the deaths of hundreds of members of the religious community, including three of Zakzaky’s sons.
The Shia cleric is said to have been charged with “criminal conspiracy and inciting public disturbances.”
The IMN has called for Zakzaky’s unconditional release and for Abuja to respond to the “unjustifiable atrocities committed by the army.”
On Thursday, IMN said more than 700 of its members are still unaccounted for a month after the deadly attacks in Zaria.
The IMN says it will continue the peaceful campaign to secure the release of Sheikh Zakzaky and the other detainees.
On December 16, the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said there was credible evidence of mass graves in Nigeria following the deadly attack on Shias.
The rights group said the Nigerian military had secretly buried hundreds of bodies in the graves after storming the house of the Shia cleric.
Human rights organizations have called for a full investigation into the deadly attacks by Nigerian forces against Shia Muslims.
Amnesty senior research adviser Lucy Freeman on Friday described the Nigerian army’s human rights violations as “shocking,” saying soldiers “going above and beyond and outside of the rule of the law” was not unusual.
Governor Elrufai Judicial Commission Of Inquiry On Zaria Massacre:
The Kaduna state Governor @elrufai
announced a “commission of inquiry” to look
into the brutal Zaria massacre by the
Nigerian Army that according to some
sources killed 1000+. After the brutal Zaria
massacre by the Nigerian Army, Governor
@elrufai showed naked hostilities towards
Sheikh #Zakzaky & the IMN in all his actions
& words.
Nigerian military under scrutiny after Shiite group clashes
AFP By Aminu Abubakar
Zaria (Nigeria) (AFP) - Officially, there's been no death toll from two days of clashes between Nigerian troops and a Shiite Muslim group in the northern city of Zaria last month.
But talk on the ground is of 300, 400, 600 or more -- a huge number even in a region where at least 17,000 have been killed in Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency since 2009.
On Thursday, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Shiite group said 730 of its members were unaccounted for, "either killed by the army or... in detention", describing the violence as a "pogrom".
Human Rights group condemns Nigerian army’s detention of
A human rights group, Access to Justice, has accused the Nigerian army of undermining the Constitution by its continued detention of the leader of the Shi’ite sect, Ibrahim Zakzaky, and some of his members.
In a statement issued Sunday, the group said more than one month after the Shi’ite sect clashed with military officers in Kaduna, the army are still holding on to the members.
“From the information gathered by Access to Justice, we believe that members of the Shi’ite Sect are still being detained at Nigerian Army’s Basawa Barracks and its Depot located at Zaria, other locations at Kaduna and Abuja without any formal charge or arraignment before a competent court of law,” the group said in a statement signed by Ibrahim Otteh and Ifeanyi Odom, Director and Programme Attorney respectively.
“The Buhari government is turning a blind eye while the Nigerian Army turns the rule of law on its head.
“The Nigerian Army is not only brutally abusing the rights of members of the Islamic Movement; it is grievously abusing the Nigerian Constitution.
“The Nigerian army has no powers to detain civilians outside the context of war. If those detained have committed any offences, the proper agencies to deal with are the Nigeria Police and other civil security and law enforcement agencies.”
The group’s call came a day after the Kaduna State government instituted a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the incident in which about 300 members of the sect were allegedly killed.
On Sunday, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria said it would only appear before the Commission if Mr. Zakzaky is released from detention.
Access to Justice accused the Nigerian Army of failing to give detailed information on the number of persons it claimed it had handed over to civil authorities.
“Continued detention of members of this sect, after extra-judicially killing many of their members in horrifying and atrocious circumstances is simply impunity gone out of control,” said the group.
“Access to Justice demands the unconditional release of the leader and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Shi’ite Sect) from the detention of the Nigerian Army, the Nigeria Police Force or any other civil security and law enforcement agencies.
“If there are crimes alleged against them, they should be taken before courts of law in accordance with the Constitution, as well as Regional and International Treaties to which Nigeria is signatory.
“Therefore, the continued detention of the members of the Movement for 33 days now, without charge and trial before competent courts of law is a gross abuse of power by the military and violation of the Rule of Law which the Federal Government has sworn to promote and preserve.
“We restate that the Federal Government cannot continue to give the silent treatment to this issue which is capable of affecting peace and order in the society.
“Nigeria can ill-afford the radicalization of another group on account of grievances over the treatment of its members. The Buhari government should direct the release of the detained members of the Shi’ite Sect in custody of the Nigerian Army and other security and law enforcement agencies without trial now.
“The Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari must practice the change it preaches and not lend its weight to lawless acts of abuse and suppression.”
Shi’ites killings: Army will pay dearly, says Falana
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said the Nigerian Army will pay dearly for soldiers’ alleged killing of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria.
Falana told SUNDAY PUNCH on Thursday that the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai, and soldiers who “protected” him during the Zaria fatal shootings that left scores dead should not have taken the law into their hand.
According to the activist, it is also regrettable that the Nigerian Army reportedly said it had no regrets for killing members of the IMN, “demolishing their houses and holding Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife incommunicado.”
Falana said, “I have condemned the government over the unwarranted military attack on the members of the Shiites movement in Zaria. “Assuming without conceding that some criminal elements constituted public nuisance by blocking a major highway which affected the movement of the Chief of Army Staff who was going to pay a courtesy call on a traditional ruler, the police ought to have been called in to remove the nuisance. A chief of army staff is an ordinary citizen who is subject to the rule of law. The law does not permit him to resort to self-help by asking armed troops to start killing unarmed civilians.
“When the residence of the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was set on fire by the ‘Unknown Soldier’ under the (Olusegun) Obasanjo-led military dictatorship in 1978, the Supreme Court lambasted the government. Even though the action was dismissed the apex court held that by virtue of section 6 of the Constitution the government could henceforth be sued and be made liable for unleashing barbaric assaults on citizens.” Falana said he was convinced that the Nigerian army would pay d
PRESS STATEMENT
OUR CONDITIONS FOR APPEARING BEFORE THE JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY BY THE KADUNA STATE GOVERNMENT
The Kaduna State Government has finally established the Judicial Commission of Inquiry it promised to establish. While the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has called for the setting up of an impartial and independent Judicial Commission of Inquiry made up of independent persons and members of the international human rights community to unravel the circumstances that led to the pogrom in Zaria and its environs, it believes that the events of December 12, 2015 that led to the massacre of its members, the maiming of hundreds, the detention of its cadres and destruction of its properties are premeditated and that the Federal and Kaduna State Government are in a face saving measure regarding the gross human rights violations that it deliberately perpetrated.
The Movement believes in the justness of its cause and the fact that the events that led to the setting up of the Judicial Commission is premeditated and will appear before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry only on the following conditions:
That the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria should be released unconditionally. The Nigerian Government is holding the leader of the Movement incommunicado knowing that he is the custodian of the documents of the Movement and has to give direction to the Movement in the preparation of its Memorandum and the assembling of its witnesses.
The Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Police must make a full disclosure of the number of persons in their various detention centers and grant lawyers of the Movement access to most of them. This is because the Movement has credible evidence that a large number of its members are still in detention in military facilities and detention centers.
The Nigerian Military and the Nigerian Police must also make full disclosure of the number of persons they took to the various hospitals and the location of the hospitals to enable the Lawyers of the Movement have access to them and interview them preparatory to the inauguration of the Commission.
The Commission of Inquiry must also give full assurance that the members of the Movement that will give evidence will be fully protected.
The Kaduna State Government and the Kaduna State Police Command must disclose the number of persons it has charged to court and the number of persons it has in prison custody. This is necessary as the Kaduna State Police Command and the Kaduna State Government illegally and in a secret procedure granted detention orders against members of the Movement and herded them to the Kaduna Central Prison without taking any of them before any Magistrate Court. Presently, over 200 members of the Movement are in custody at the Kaduna Central Prison.
The IMN has a list of 730 missing persons that are either killed by the Army or are still in military detention facilities for which the Army is claiming that there is no single member of the Movement with them. Those in military detention facilities should be released and corpses of those killed be handed over to us for befitting Islamic burials.
There are some members of the panel that are clearly neither impartial nor credible having shown open hostility to the movement and its leadership through their utterances, writings or actions in the past. Some had even called the government to go for the jugular of the Islamic Movement in the past. The IMN does not see any possibility of fairness and justice from them due to their stance on the Movement and Shia. Definitely in their position of arch-enmity with the Movement compromises any fairness from them in this matter. Independent human rights bodies should be included in the commission.
These conditions that have been stated need to be fulfilled by the state government to convince the IMN that the state government, which is also an accomplice in the crime, since it demolished our properties and deliberately wiped out practical evidences of the army’s brutality on the movement, is not setting up the enquiry to justify the indictment of the Movement by both the federal and state governments.
SIGNED BY
IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT
0805 078 6093
17/01/16
Hussainiyya is Still Our Property: STOP the building Project
By Umar Shu'aibu on Saturday, 16 January 2016
Despite the carnages on the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria and the illegal detention of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) his wife Malama Zeenatudden Ibrahim and hundreds of the members of the movement by the blood thirsty Nigerian army in December 2015.
The military have continued their devilish mission in Zaria.
Recently the military personnel were seen on 13th and 14th of January 2016 conducting a survey at the demolished Husainiyya Baqiyatullah Zaria, they conducted some measurements in the field, that clearly shows that the millitary are planning to build something there.
Therefore, we want to remind the Nigerian government and its military that, Hussainiya is still the property of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadeship of Allama Ibrahim Zakzaky, even the world is aware of that and no one can take it from us.
We also call on the Nigerian government to immediately release our leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H).
Shi’ites killings: Army will pay dearly, says Falana
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said the Nigerian Army will pay dearly for soldiers’ alleged killing of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria.
Falana told SUNDAY PUNCH on Thursday that the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai, and soldiers who “protected” him during the Zaria fatal shootings that left scores dead should not have taken the law into their hand.
According to the activist, it is also regrettable that the Nigerian Army reportedly said it had no regrets for killing members of the IMN, “demolishing their houses and holding Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife incommunicado.”
Falana said, “I have condemned the government over the unwarranted military attack on the members of the Shiites movement in Zaria. “Assuming without conceding that some criminal elements constituted public nuisance by blocking a major highway which affected the movement of the Chief of Army Staff who was going to pay a courtesy call on a traditional ruler, the police ought to have been called in to remove the nuisance. A chief of army staff is an ordinary citizen who is subject to the rule of law. The law does not permit him to resort to self-help by asking armed troops to start killing unarmed civilians.
“When the residence of the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was set on fire by the ‘Unknown Soldier’ under the (Olusegun) Obasanjo-led military dictatorship in 1978, the Supreme Court lambasted the government. Even though the action was dismissed the apex court held that by virtue of section 6 of the Constitution the government could henceforth be sued and be made liable for unleashing barbaric assaults on citizens.” Falana said he was convinced that the Nigerian army would pay dearly for the reckless killing of unarmed civilians in Zaria.
PUNCH.
A FOOLISH JUDGMENT OF A STUPID ACT
I am always dumbfounded at the sense of judgment
of the Army and those gullible-minded and myopic
people who have chosen to believe that the people
of Gyallesu in Zaria where the revered leader of the
Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) was residing
jubilated the genocide on members of the
Movement in Zaria perpetrated by the Army and
even hailed the Army.
They even go further to shamelessly concoct a
blatant lie that the Gyallesu people were freed from
a long time bondage imposed on them by the IMN
in the area.
It strikes me hard that human beings could descend
so low and lose their senses of judgment, reason
and intellect. How could a right thinking person ever
assume that hooligans scavenging on corpses of
people killed by the Army are jibilating freedom
from bondage?
It is very stupid to think that way because what the
hooligans were actually celebrating was that the
Army had made it easier for them to steal phones
and monies belonging to the members of the IMN
and even other properties where buildings of the
IMN were demolished.
They are mistaking what looked more like a state
sponsored ARMED ROBBERY for jubilation from
bondage. One wonders how a government could
reduce so low in aiding lawlessness and branding it
as jubilation.
It is really against the principles of civility and
sanity and also foolish for anyone to think that
people at Gyallesu were actually celebrating the
killing of Shi'ites by the Army. They were
celebrating an opportunity provided for them by the
Government/Army to steal properties that do not
belong to them.
The theory of jubilation after the massacre was
founded by the Army as a means of diverting public
attention from the extent of senseless brutality
meted on the IMN by the soldiers who killed
unarmed men, women and children. this is indeed a
very foolish judgment of a stupid act.
BY ABDULMUMIN GIWA
While some Nigerians, swallowed, hook, line and sinker, the army's shallow and unconvincing propaganda,
Niger Delta militants are on rampage blowing up pipelines & Gas Stations in the Niger Delta region of Southern Nigeria. The genocidal Nigerian Army is nowhere in sight.
The Nigerian Army recently boasted that they will deal with anybody who pose threats to the peace and security of Nigeria. Why do they not go and deal with the well-armed Niger Delta militants? From the information reaching us the Nigerian government is seeking peaceful solution to the problem.
But in the Zaria massacre it was the exact opposite. Heavily-armed soldiers descended on defenseless Nigerians killing them in the most inhuman form.
The Nigerian President #TyrantBuhari will proceed to #UAE to be rewarded for executing the brutal agenda of targeting Sheikh Zakzaky that resulted in the Zaria massacre.
The God we worship is Just & he told us that there is no veil between the prayers of the oppressed and Him.
Facts On The Zaria Massacre:
-The Nigerian Army paid expensive Advertorials in major TV channels in Nigeria on the Zaria massacre. The Nigerian Army paid for two sets of videos with the intention to brainwash ordinary Nigerians to justify its brutal killings of more than one thousand defenseless Nigerians in Zaria.
-The Nigerian Army recently hosted an expensive gatherings of hungry looking "Islamic scholars" with most of the participants Wahhabi clerics who have genocide agenda against Shia Muslims. It was reported that the Nigerian Army paid them huge amounts of money.
Questions:
-Who is providing these funds to the Nigerian Army since these funds are not part of its budget?
-Why is the genocidal Nigerian Army authorities desperate to justify the brutal Zaria massacre?
-Why is it that the Nigerian government/Army have until now refused to disclose the actual number of Nigerians killed in the Zaria massacre?
-Why is it that the Nigerian government/Army have uphill now refused to release the death bodies of the Nigerians killed in the Zaria massacre?
-Why is the Nigerian Army playing the sectarian card after the Zaria massacre? Why were Shia scholars not invited to that game gathering? Is the Nigerian Army a tool for promoting sectarianism in Nigeria?
PRESS STATEMENT
WE DECRY GOC 1 DIV’S MEETING WITH ISLAMIC SCHOLARS IN KADUNA
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria IMN is aware of a meeting organized on 14th January 2016 by the General Officer Commanding 1 Mechanized Division Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, with members of some Islamic sects and some Muslim Chieftaincy title holders in Kaduna, where the GOC made all efforts to convince them of the justification of killing over 1000 members of the Islamic Movement. After which he gave them N500,000.
The GOC carefully selected Wahabi sect scholars that have always rivaled the IMN and operated campaigns of calumny and concocted lies against the IMN, to commune in finding ways to wipe out the Islamic Movement and seek their support in that.
He constructed a story to convince the scholars and chiefs that the Army acted angelic and that he pleaded with the members of the Movement all through to surrender for a cordon and search operation, which the IMN resisted.
We wish to state here that he as a Christian, the GOC himself is not safe from those religious bigots he is communing with to fight Shi’ites because of their of religious intolerance and this could be supported with the statement made to the press after the meeting by Sheikh Zakzaky’s elder brother, Sani Yaqoub, who said the Shi’ites, Jews, and Christians are of the same ilk.
The IMN needs not respond to the malice and concoctions in the GOC’s tale of the unfortunate killing spree he spare-headed on 12-14th of December 2015 because everything is now clear to the world that the attack was pre-planned and deliberate and no amount of fabrications could change that.
Hence, the Army’s claim that it has no issues with the IMN is deceptive because the blood of 34 members of the Movement was hanging on the Army already barely a year before it launched its second attack where it killed over 1000 unarmed members of the Movement, including innocent women and children.
Zaria Massacre: WHAT IS NOT TALKED ABOUT
It is now one month since the Nigerian Army massacred over one thousand members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Zaria. The government, at both the state and federal levels has decided to keep deaf ears to agitations for the release of the revered leader of the Movement, his Eminence Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H). These agitations are from home and the diaspora across all continents including the said God’s own country America and in London where protesters besieged the Nigerian Embassy. This is not talking about Asia where the campaign for the release of the revered leader of the Movement has become a public activity in most of the countries.
It is now no more news that the Nigerian Army had committed a sin punishable by the ICC by all standards for which it invented various stories to justify its brutality and thereafter engaged in funding public deceit to defend its ugly acts in Zaria.
PRESS STATEMENT
A COMMITTEE OF NSCIA VISITED SHEIKH ZAKZAKY
On Wednesday 13th January, 2016 some members of the contact committee set up by the National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) visited Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement, who is incarcerated by the federal government since 14th December, 2015.
According to a member of the committee, Prof. Dahiru Yahya, they met the Sheikh and his wife Sister Zeenah Ibraheem in Abuja, who are all recuperating from the bullet wounds they sustained during the army’s attack on the Islamic Movement in Zaria.
The Islamic movement welcomes this development. It is a step forward in quelling the anxiety of the teeming millions, muslims and non muslims alike, all over the globe, in knowing at least the where about of the Sheikh and the condition of his health.
However we are still adamant in our request that the Sheikh be set free unconditionally, because up to now the government has not been able to justify the unjustifiable atrocities committed by the army that led to his arrest.
So far we have been able to establish some figures that indicate how gruesome the avoidable attack by the Nigerian army has been.
A) In our list there are about 730 people, men and women who are still missing, since that fateful Saturday 12th December, 2015. These missing people were either killed by the army or are in detention, but whose where about is still unknown and undisclosed.
B) Also there are 220 brothers of the Islamic movement in detention in Kaduna Central prison, some of them with fatal gun wounds and burns.
C) Reliable reports from some detention facilities owned by the Nigerian army in Kaduna, Bauchi and Abuja have confirmed the detention of some brothers of the Islamic movement therein.
D) As at the time of writing this statement, no single corpse has been handed to the families of those killed.
In as much as we commend the NSCIA for its effort to resolve this crisis initiated and executed by the military, we still demand answers to some questions that the Chief of army staff couldn’t answer, when the contact committee met him in his office. The questions are as follows as narrated in a national daily by a member of the committee: “What is the actual number of the dead, and when are they going to be handed over to their relatives for proper burial? Are the injured receiving adequate treatment?”
In view of the above;We renew our call for:
1.The unconditional release of our leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and all his followers unjustifiably being detained. 2.Corpses of those killed should be handed over for proper and befitting Islamic burial. 3.We also reiterate that an independent judicial commission under the watchful eyes of the international community be set up to unearth the truth in this matter and the perpetrators of the Zaria 12th -14th pogrom(massacre) be brought to book. Only then can justice be seen and said to have been done
Therefore, We call on the well meaning Nigerians and Human Rights activists here in Nigeria and the diaspora to keep on with the pressure on the federal government until justice is done on Zaria massacre of 12th December, 2015.
SIGNED BY
IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM ISLAMIC MOVEMENT
0805 078 6093
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
We must thank all supporters of humanity around the world, those that stand with us in this terror clampdown enforced on the Islamic movement by the Nigerian government. May Allah reward you in abundance.
We might recall that the Nigeria army attacked members of the Islamic movement in Nigeria on Saturday 11th December 2015 at Hussainiyyah Baqiyyatullah, which is located at Sokoto Road, Zariya. They killed many people at the Hussainiyyah centre and apprehended many.
On same Saturday at night, they invaded the resident of sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky (H) with heavy artilleries as if they are fighting a sovereign state. They used RPG’s (Rocket-propelled grenade) and other foreign sophisticated weapons.
The Nigeria army mercilessly fired on our brothers that possess not a single bullet. In the night, they killed as many as they could. We taught their barbaric attack will only last for Saturday night. But unfortunately they came back in the early hours of Sunday 12th December 2015 fully reinforced. While our brothers were busy observing Subhi Prayer, they began to fire.
Fresh Plot to Intermit Islamic Movement's Activities in Saminaka, Kaduna State, by Governor El-Rufa'i:
Notwithstanding the Zaria Massacre and notorious demolition of Islamic Movement's monumental buildings, it has came to our notice that, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufa'i, has sent a paper mandating the District head of Saminaka, Alhaji Sani Musa, to bring to an end, all activities carrying out by brothers and sisters in Saminaka and environs.
The exposition of the fresh plot, came to limelight through the Saminaka District head, where he presented the warrant paper to the Amir of Saminaka and other brothers, acknowledging that, the warrant came through Kaduna State Bureau For Islamic Affairs.
In another same news, this was also part of sinister plan conspired by some thugs of Saminaka area, where were seen mobilizing mobs on how to storm all buildings belonging to Shi'ites, and attack
them during pre-sermon and the weekly Ta'alimats taking place in the area under the guiding Ameer of the area.
Below are some names of the thugs mobilizing how to attack brothers and sisters in the area:
-Lawal Yusuf (Lawal Mudi Dangwate).
-Tijjani Hasan Dangude.
-Musa Aliyu(Na'umma).
More names and details of the mischievous plan to be published in due course.
The Nation News Paper Editorial El-Zakzaky's detention We should follow the rule of law
What triggered military violence in Zaria, Kaduna State, last December, resulting in the death of Shiite Muslims shot by soldiers? What about Shiite leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky who is in detention on account of the incident?
Reactions from two significant quarters highlighted the seriousness of the crisis that generated another round of tension in the country as the year drew to a close. The Senate set up an ad hoc panel to probe the incident in which 61 Shiites were reportedly shot dead by soldiers who were allegedly protecting the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, from attack. Senate President Bukola Saraki said: “The Senate is seriously concerned and committed to ensuring that peace reigns in our dear country…”
It is a measure of the dimensions of the clash that senators from seven standing committees of the upper legislative chamber were given the responsibility to get to the root of the problem. The investigators are from the committees on Defence, Intelligence and National Security, Judiciary and Human Rights, Army, Police Affairs, Internal Affairs, and Foreign Affairs.
Also, the 19-member Northern States Governors’ Forum responded to the conflict with an emergency meeting in Kaduna. Chairman of the group and Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima said: “The issue has to do with an Islamic group that has membership across the 19 states in the North and beyond. We want to look how to ensure that the incident does not provide room for anyone or group to perpetuate violence in any of the 19 northern states.”
Shettima’s hint was unmistakable as it raised the spectre of terrorism, especially against the background of the ongoing terror war against Boko Haram Islamists terrorising parts of the country’s northern region.
Thoughts of possible extremism were not far-fetched. Shettima noted: ”When Boko Haram went wild in July 2009 with clashes between them and the police in Bauchi on 25th and 26th in Maiduguri, most Nigerians saw the issues as the problems of Bauchi and Borno. When they continued to attack Borno and Yobe, it became the affairs of Borno and Yobe states. All of a sudden, there was suicide attack in Abuja in 2012 and then everything went out of control and we are where we are today.”
Indeed, the country cannot afford another terrorism-related conflagration while one is still burning. Although the Shiites are not Boko Haram and there may be no solid grounds for comparison, it is important to nip the trouble in the bud.
There are conflicting versions of what led to the killings. Officially, the army accused the sect of an assassination attempt on its boss, saying that Shiites “barricaded the roads with bonfires, heavy stones and tyres” which prevented his convoy from advancing. “They refused all entreaties to disperse and then started firing and pelting the convoy with dangerous objects,” the army claimed. The sect’s counter-statement alleged that “the military had pre-planned this and had acted according to their mischievous script.”
It is disturbing that the bloodletting was another in a series of clashes that have characterised relations between security agents and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The tragic killing of three sons of El-Zakzaky, allegedly perpetrated by soldiers in similar circumstances in July last year, was another instance of the seemingly unending conflict.
It is high time the authorities tackled the recurring tragedy. Just as no sect should be allowed to constitute a menace to the society, the army should not be allowed to act in a manner that amounts to killing an ant with a sledgehammer.
The complication of El-Zakzaky’s detention without formal charges does not help matters. It is worrying that his supporters have expressed anxiety about his whereabouts and safety. The rule of law should prevail, meaning that justice should be pursued in civilised ways.
The fallacy of #Iran petro-dollars sponsorship of the Islamic Movement of #Nigeria under the leadership of His Eminence Sheikh Zakzaky:
There are these insinuations that the Islamic Movement of Nigeria is funded by #Iran & that the millions of its members are "bought" by #Iran! First, there are things that money can not buy. No matter one's money one can not buy love & faith. If faith is fake then it is not faith. The same apply to love. If love is not genuine then it is not love but something else. Love must be real & genuine to be called love.
The IMN is an Islamic organization & faith is the foundation of all religious beliefs. And faith has never been a commodity for sale in the market for the highest bidder. The IMN is an independent organization that funds it's programs & activities through voluntary donations from its members. I will give examples on this assertion.
Primary, secondary Tertiary schools going students in one of the Nigerian cities, Kano under the auspices of Academic Forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria protesting the continued detention of Shaikh Ibraheem Yaquob El Zakzaky ( H ) and atrocities of Nigerian Army carried out on the orders of Nigerian government yesterday Wednesday 13th January 2016.
They Students were holding Banners and Posters and Placard calling for the unconditional release of Shaikh Zakzaky and his Followers and the Release of the Dead bodies of those killed by the Nigerian Army. The way the Rally was Organized and held without causing Traffic jam, draw attention of Passerby and the Motorist. A lot of People stop and watch.
However, the demands of the Islamic Movements as stated earlier, they are:
1- Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) should be released unconditionally.
2- All corpses of slain brothers and sisters still with the authorities must be handed over to us for proper Islamic burial.
3- All detainees should be released together with the injured.
4- A strong and all-inclusive committee must be set up that include local and international representations to investigate and make public its findings for the world to know the truth.
5- Compensation must be paid for properties destroyed and lives lost and those who committed the genocide must be made to face the wrath of the law.
12/01/2016; 30 DAYS OF ZARIA MASSACRE : An Unprecedented Despotism in Nigerian Pages of History
WHAT ARE THE REASONS BEHIND THE ATTACK ?
In reality, the sovereign powers aimed to suppress the Islamic resurgence and prevent the current wave of Islamic awakening taking place in Nigeria and its neighbouring countries. For them to do that, they must have joined hand with irresponsible and despotic Nigerian rulers to execute their dreams. For over 35 years, since the advent of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, these World Mongers are always trying their best in any means, hook or crooked to crush the stable movement.
Some Members of Islamic Movement In Nigeria visited a highly respected Sunni Cleric, on 11/01/2016. Whose is the Chief Imam of Fagge Friday's Mosque, where Shahid Muhammad Turi used to delivered Friday Lecture on Current affairs and general issues concerning Muslims Umma to the general Pupblic. They paid the Sheikh a codolence Visit about the Lost of Shahid Muhammad Turi who was Shot and Killed by Nigerian Army 30 days ago in Zaria, during the Military Crakdown on the Islamic Movement and took away his Body to unknown destination.
The Sheikh lamented about the lost of Shaiekh Turi who is Examplary Figure for every good Muslims as he said. He said Shahid Turi was embodiment of Peace, Unity and love of the Prophet Muhammad (Saw). He said Shahid Muhammad Turi was the First to attend anythings that was connected to them and share with them either Happiness or Sadness. He called upon the Members to emulate him all their Activities so that they can achieved what he has gained.
IMN under the leadership of Sheikh Zakzaky does not have military wing:
One of the fraudulent campaign of the Nigerian Army to justify its recent brutal Zaria massacre is that the IMN have a military wing that threatened the peace & security of the Nigerian nation. The Nigerian Army is a present desperately sponsoring paid Advertorial in major Nigerian TV Channels to promote this baseless & fraudulent accusations. We will discuss this issue with practical examples especially for the benefit of our Nigerian Christian brothers and sisters.
In true Islam it is impossible for characters such as Osama Bin Laden, al-Baghdadi of ISIS and Abubakar Shekau to declare armed struggle. Armed struggle involves life and death so it is only the competent Grand religious references who can declare it by a Fatwa.
Re: One Dead As Shiites, Rival Muslim Youths Clash
In the late hours of Sunday 10th January, 2015 a Nigerian news blog, https://www.naij.com/691460-one-dead-shiites-rival-muslim-youths-clash.html cooked up a story to frame the members of the Islamic movement as belligerents. The report was credited to 'The Punch Newspaper' but going through accessible channels of the said newspaper, I couldn't find anything related to that.
First and foremost, one must know that the report by 'Naij blog' is a deception. There was nothing like 'Shiite & Sunni' clash yesterday in Jos.
Though there is tension in Jos since Friday 8th January, sequel to a clash between some Area boys from Gangare, Rikkos and 'Yan Shanu communities and thier rivals from Anguwan Rogo and 'Yan Tifa.
In the early hours of Saturday, sisters forum of the Islamic movement in Nigeria staged a peaceful protest demanding for the unconditional release of his eminence Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic movement in Nigeria. But their peaceful protest have no relationship with the fib of 'Naij blog'.
Armchair journalism is menace that must be curtailed. 'Naij blog or Newspaper (as they want to be addressed) is a threat to Nigeria and the profession of the pen.
- Mahdi Garba
2015 POLLS: BUHARI, EL-RUFAI WOULD NOT LIKELY HAVE WON WITHOUT ZAKZAKY
AFRICA.
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President Muhammadu Buhari defeated former President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 2015 polls by a slim margin of about 2.6 million votes. Nasir El-Rufai rode on Buhari’s goodwill as did many northern candidates to win in Kaduna by about 483,000 votes.
The sad but honest reality is that one of a handful of major factors that helped produce an APC poll victory was the massacre of Sheikh Zakzaky’s three children and 31 Islamic movement members in July of the previous year. This tragic event with the Stella Oduah scandal, NIS Moro scandal and a few other notable scandals galvanized the bleeding public and national editorials against the Jonathan administration.

Three sons, 32 others killed by Nigerian military onslaught on peaceful Muslim protesters in Kaduna
Kaduna governor El-Rufai notably paid a well photo-oped condolence visit to “State-within-State” Chief El-Zakzaky after the deadly event. He also notably referred to the act by the Nigerian army under Goodluck Jonathan as one more reason why Jonathan must go.

El-Rufai during condolence visit to El-Zakzaky last July

The 2014 Kaduna massacre irked the public, north, south, east and west who got very embittered about the Jonathan administration and saw it as murderous.
The Islamic movement of Nigeria has a population of 5-10 million Nigerians. Globally the Shia proportion of the world is about 12-15% of Muslims. Nigeria is known as one of the high Shia islam populated nations. A Pew poll found that 12% of Nigerian Muslims identified themselves as “Shia.” Of about 80 million Muslims, this gives 10 million. The body is not just large but well organized and cooperative.

Kaduna Sheikh Gumi campaigned strongly against Buhari
The ~10 million “Shia” and other non Shia members of the Islamic movement which has strong relationships with “Sunni sect” and Christians were all influenced by the positions and choices of Sheikh Zakzaky. Had Zakzaky campaigned against Buhari as a notable northern Sheikh, Abubakar Gumi did, Buhari would have stood to lose much of not just this ~10 million block but others who were empathic about the events of the 2014 Goodluck Zaduna massacre.
No politician in his right senses wishes to alienate such a millions large block as well as numerous sympathizers of this large minority simply to satisfy a group of radical Takfiri Sunnite sect extremist and Wahabi fanatics. This would be tantamount to political suicide.
Again, with the enlightenment and intellectual capacity of the Islamic Movement, had it decided against Buhari or/and collected of Dasuki’s $2 billion largesse to campaign against him as Sheikh Gumi campaigned, the resource and material it would have churned out would have dissuaded tens of thousands- millions of potential voters.

Zakzaky and Buhari
In contrast Sheikh El-Zakzaky had admiration for General Buhari and his friendship with and promotion of the change government was clear.
Members of the 10 million+ strong movement not only voted for Buhari but were strong campaigners for him both online and offline.
A notable such activist who daily engaged in a religious online pro-Buhari battles and volunteered as an election observer in Kogi State was late Muhammadu Bukhari who died with his beautiful new family in the early hours of the morning of December 13th in Husainiyyah Baqiyatullah under the siege by Brutal Buratai’s armed forces.
THE ONGOING WAR AGAINST ISLAM
By Mu'assasatu Abul-Fadl Abbas (A.S)
After the recent carnage in Zaria, which lead to the death, injury and
imprisonment of over 2000 people by the Nigerian government , many
people all over the world have reacted in different ways, some
understood this incidence as an attack on Shias and some see it as an
attack on Muslims who stand firm in defence of Islam, which is viewed
by the Nigerian government as a threat as they understand we are
implementing, to the best of our abilities the Islam of Prophet
Muhammad (SAW) which has no place or recognition for a corrupt and
oppressive government such as theirs. We have the truth on our side,
and they realize that their power will inevitably come to an end if
the truth continues to spread, and so they decided to use force to
eliminate the truth
This would have happened to us whether we are Shi’a or not, whether we
even are Muslims or not so long as we support such a cause openly, it
can be recalled that last year during the massacre by the Nigerian
army in Zaria during the Al- Quds day procession amongst those
martyred was an old Christian man by the name of Julius Anyawu.
The Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army & the brutal beheading of the Martyr Scholar Sheikh Baqir #AlNimr are authored by the same source.
The Nigerian & Saudi regimes are just the tools of execution. The US government just yesterday
rewarded the Nigerian Army with 24 used mine
clearing vehicles for a job well done on the brutal massacre of defenseless Nigerians in Zaria.
The message of Sheikh Nimr pose a big threat to the rule of AlSaud especially as the Sheikh was not sectarian. The New World Order fear that other section of the oppressed Saudi society will hook up with his message of freedom and greater political participation. They thought by killing him & burying him his message is buried.
They failed to understand that killing will only spread his message & awaken dead souls.
The last Arba'een Trek in Nigeria & eventual gathering in the Zaria Husseiniyah sent chilling message to the New World Order when they saw those millions. That was why the Zaria Husseiniyah was their first target, they thought by destroying the Husseiniyah they had destroyed the Symbol of IMN. And there second target was the residence of Sheikh #Zakzaky to kill him once & for all but prominent Nigerians warned them of the consequences that will follow such a foolish move.
@Elbinawi
ZARIA POGROM: EVERY CHIEF IN NIGERIA RUNS A STATE WITHIN THE STATE
BY NEWSRESCUE
JANUARY 8, 2016
The allegations used in attempted justification of the Zaria pogrom of December last year have revolved around the so-called creation of a “State within the State” by the “despised” Islamic Movement.
“I read a Press report of the Kaduna community complaining about them…how can they create a State within this State,” President Muhammadu Buhari stated in support of the Military extremist actions. The same has been stated by the Military and Kaduna State government.
Every Chiefdom Is A State Within The State
But every single Chief in Nigeria has always run a State within the State. What else does the Chiefdom office in Nigeria mean? The Sultan of Sokoto runs a State within the State. The Alaafin of Oyo runs a State within the State. The Emir of Ilorin runs a State within the State. The Lamido of Adamawa runs a State within the State. The Emir of Zazzau runs a State within the State. What is so different about Zakzaky? Is it time we close all Chiefdoms (hopefully not the Buratai brutal way though)?
IRNA – The London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said it is applying pressure on various international organisations to help secure the release of the detained leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky was shot and detained last month when soldiers attacked the movement and its headquarters in Zaria. His condition or whereabouts are still unknown.
A picture later emerged of the wounded sheikh showed him being forced to sit on the floor while he is being tortured by military personnel. His face shows signs of evident beating and there is a bullet hole to his torso.
CHILDREN CAME OUT IN MASS TO DENOUCE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT ATTROCITIES
AGAINST SHEIKH IBRAHIM ZAKZAKY (H) AND THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT
Children in Kano, Nigeria from different schools, were not left out in
coming out on the street denouncing the Nigerian government injustice
against Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) and his followers today around
4pm, Thursday 7th January, 2016.
The protest march pass through some major streets in Kano metropolis
that include Murtala Muhammad way, Ibrahim Taiwo road, Kofar Nasarawa
and terminating in the old city Friday central mosque close to the
tradition Kano city Emirs Palace.
The children carried different placards and banners with pictures of some of the Nigerian military atrocities and their demand while chanting slogans denouncing the atrocities of the Nigerian Army on Shaikh Zakzaky (H),
his Family and follwers that include sproradic killings, injuries from
gun shots, raping, destruction of properties etc.
The children call for the immediate and unconditional release of
Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H), his wife and followers, some are with injuries from gun shots and have not receive appropriate medical attension. So also the return the dead bodies of their parents,brothers, Sisters and relations that have been killed by the army for appropriate burial. More so compensation of the destroyed and stolen properties and justice on all culprits of the atrocities.
THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA IS NOT ARMED
Our attention has been drawn to reports by some media outfits showing the picture of the General Officer Commanding GOC,1 Mechanized Division, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade inspecting some arms captured by the Nigerian Army from armed bandits and cow rustlers that were wrongly attributed to the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria by news reporters.
It is confirmed from journalists present at the conference that the GOC did not say that those arms were recovered from the Islamic Movement, but rather from armed bandits and cow rustlers .
We wish to reiterate here that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has never been armed and is not armed and does not operate or support any form of armed struggle. It is rather a Movement that believes in extending its message of fairness and justice to all irrespective of sect or religion in a peaceful manner.
We don’t need your apology, Shi’ites tell army.
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Shi’ia) says it is “not expecting an apology” from the Nigerian army, seeing that it has remained “arrogant and uncivil” despite “holding” 700 followers of the sect in detention.
Addressing journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday, Adeniyi Oyebade, general officer commanding (GOC), 1 mechanized division of the Nigerian army, had said that the military did not hold the sect any apology over the December 12 clash with soldiers, maintaining that the military could not fold its arms and watch any group or sect threaten the peace and stability of the country.
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