You Can’t Stop Us, Shi’ite Leader Tells Boko Haram

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Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria otherwise known as Shi’ite yesterday vowed to resist the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents, insisting that the Shiite cannot be wiped out of Nigeria.

This is just as thousands of the shi’ite members defy Boko Haram threat to embark on endurance trek from Kaduna to Zaria today.

The leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in Kaduna, Sheikh Mohammed Mukhtar Sahabi disclosed this while addressing a press conference ahead of today’s trekking to Zaria.

According to Sheikh Sahabi “the Boko Haram insurgents can’t stop our procession.”

Sheikh Sahabi who reacted to report that Boko Haram was set to wipe out Shi’ite in Nigeria, said his group is not bordered by mere threat.

“If we consider this as a threat which will stop you from practising your religion then you may end up not practising. Because these people attack people in the Churches, Mosques, houses, motor parks and market places among others. Are we to say because they attack people in Mosque then it means all the Mosques will be closed. No more going to the church and market places. Then what is going to be left, everything will be stopped? And that will be the end of the world.

“We have to face the challenge because if Imam Hussain did not face the challenge, we won’t be commemorating or celebrating him as a symbol of resistance to tyranny and operation.

“So these people who are doing this want to paralyse the whole way of life.

So we take it as a test from Allah. We don’t take it as a threat that will stop us from our religion.

“We are not worried about the threat. How can we be worried about people who are ghost? They don’t have houses, schools not to talk of identity. How can you fear ghost that don’t even exist? During the administration of Jonathan, our leader says he (Jonathan) is the BokoHaram because if one is educated you will not be deceived by all these things.

Source: Leadership