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Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, on Saturday visited the Kano Central Mosque which was bombed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists yesterday. The emir says the attack won't force Muslims into abandoning their beliefs. He also said the attack wasn't a retaliation to his earlier call to all Nigerians to arm themselves against the terrorist group. Excerpt from Vanguard:
The Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, on Saturday said Nigeria’s Muslims will not be intimidated into abandoning Islam following coordinated bomb and gun attacks on the city’s central mosque that left at least 120 people dead.
“We will never be intimidated into abandoning our religion, which is the intention of the attackers,” the emir said during a 20-minute-visit to the mosque shortly after his return to the country.
Last week, the emir — who is the country’s second most senior Muslim cleric — made a call at the same mosque urging civilians to take up arms against the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
But during his visit, he implicitly dismissed widespread speculation that the attack was in retaliation to that call.
“From all indications, they (attackers) have been planning this for at least two months,” Sanusi said in Hausa, the dominant language in northern Nigeria.
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The Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, on Saturday said Nigeria’s Muslims will not be intimidated into abandoning Islam following coordinated bomb and gun attacks on the city’s central mosque that left at least 120 people dead.
“We will never be intimidated into abandoning our religion, which is the intention of the attackers,” the emir said during a 20-minute-visit to the mosque shortly after his return to the country.
Last week, the emir — who is the country’s second most senior Muslim cleric — made a call at the same mosque urging civilians to take up arms against the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
But during his visit, he implicitly dismissed widespread speculation that the attack was in retaliation to that call.
“From all indications, they (attackers) have been planning this for at least two months,” Sanusi said in Hausa, the dominant language in northern Nigeria.
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#Sanusi #Kano
