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Nigeria: Jihad group murders Muslim cleric who opposed them

Feb 4, 2014 9:55 pm By Robert Spencer

SHEIKH MUHAMMAN AUWAL ALBANI ZARIA

Why we don’t see more sincere Muslim reformers, part 37,509: “Nigerian Muslim cleric opposed to Boko Haram shot dead,” from Reuters, February 3 (thanks to Jayke):

(Reuters) – A Nigerian Muslim cleric who openly criticized Islamist sect Boko Haram has been killed in Zaria, hundreds of miles from where the military is fighting insurgents, police said on Monday.

Gunmen opened fire on Sheik Adam Albani’s car on Saturday evening as he drove home from preaching in a mosque, also killing his wife and young son, police spokesman Aminu Lawan said.

Western governments see prominent leaders like Sheik Albani playing a role in the long-term fight against Boko Haram and other al Qaeda-linked groups, in a deeply religious country of 170 million people.

The assassination of Sheik Albani in Zaria, the capital of Kaduna state in a central northern region, could discourage others from speaking out against Boko Haram, whose primary recruiting pool is the millions of uneducated youths in the north of Nigeria.

President Goodluck Jonathan is struggling to end a four-and-a-half year insurgency by Boko Haram but a military push begun in May last year has largely confined bloodshed to the country’s remote northeast corner, where the group originates and has most support.

The sect has killed thousands in its attempt to carve out an Islamic state in a country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims. It has attacked anyone who appears to oppose its insurgency, from security targets to schools, churches and mosques where its ideas are rejected.

Boko Haram, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, is considered the biggest security threat in Africa’s top oil exporter and second-largest economy.

More than a hundred people were killed last week in two attacks in northeast states under a state of emergency, including a siege at a packed church service.

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  1. PGuud says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    How does one go about reforming that which is categorically irreformable? I’m still waiting for the definitive answer to that question.

    Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

    • Salah says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 11:33 pm

      Islam is indeed irreformable. Nevertheless, some people are trying hard to reform the irreformable. How? they are arguing that the peaceful verses (the Mekka verses) should have priority over the less peaceful ones (the Medina verses) since, according to them, the Medina verses came down for a specific situation and for a specific time.
      Whether we agree or not, these persons are heroes. They know the risks and they are willing to take it.

      Others would rather take a shortcut: They’d simply tear and burn the Qur’an!!!

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

    • mortimer says

      Feb 4, 2014 at 11:53 pm

      THERE IS NO ‘GOOD’ CHANGE IN ISLAM, BECAUSE ISLAM IS ‘PERFECT’

      The usual explanation for ‘no change in Islam’ is that Mohammed is the last prophet. He is dead. Allah cannot now abrogate any of the revelations of Mohammed. Therefore, Islam cannot be changed.

      Mohammed cursed anyone who changed Islam, “‘Far removed (from mercy), far removed (from mercy are) those who changed (Islam) after me! “Bukhari 9.88.174

      Muslims are stuck with this mess. It cannot be changed.

      The mullahs have proclaimed the following:

      “Every Innovation Is A Misguidance”

      The Prophet (saw) said:

      “…Beware of newly invented matters, for EVERY invented matter is an innovation and every INNOVATION is a going astray, and every going astray is in Hell-fire.” (1)

      Likewise ‘Abdullaah Ibn Mas’ood said:

      “Follow and do not INNOVATE, for indeed you have been sufficed, and every innovation is misguidance.” (2)

      Also, Ibn ‘Umar (ra) mentioned:

      “Every BIDDAH is a misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.” (3)

      And then some people bring ‘proof’ from the khalaf saying there is something as ‘good biddah’?

      Footnotes:

      (1) Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi

      (2) Saheeh. Reported in Ahmad in Az-Zuhd p. 162, Ad-Daarimee (no. 211), Al-Bayhaqee in Madkhal (no. 204), Wakee’ in Az-Zuhd (no. 315), Ibnut-Tararaanee in As-Sunnah (no. 104), Ibn Nasr in As-Sunnah (p. 23) and by Mujaahid in As-Sab’ah (p. 46)

      (3) Related by Ad-Darimee, Abu Shamaah (no. 39), Ibn Nasr in as-Sunnah (no. 82), al-Laalikaa’ee in Sharh Usoolul-Ftiqaad (no. 126) & Sharh I’tiqad Ahl as-Sunnah (1/92), and by al-Bayhaqee in al-Madkhal (no. 191). Its authentic; Ahkaam al-Janaa’iz (258) and Islah al-Masajid (13). Salim Al-Hilaali said: “Its isnaad (chain of narration) is as authentic as the sun!“

      Source: http://theauthenticbase.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/every-innovation-is-a-misguidance/

    • EYESOPEN says

      Feb 5, 2014 at 5:40 am

      PGuud asked: “How does one go about reforming that which is categorically irreformable? I’m still waiting for the definitive answer to that question.”

      I’m afraid that one cannot reform that which is categorically evil. We have seen what happens to those few who have tried.

    • Abdullah ibn Salam says

      Feb 5, 2014 at 8:13 am

      Why would you want to reform the TRUE religion of God? Quran is a literal word of Allah, you can only fall away from it.

      When someone saw the beauty of Islam and has fallen away from it – then he or she is the vilest of the creatures: “Indeed, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire – and never will you find for them a helper” (4:145).

      Jesus also fought against the pharisees, this is almost all he did – it to fight the pharisees. According to Wiki, “Pharisaic beliefs became the liturgical and ritualistic basis for Rabbinic Judaism (commonly known as simply Judaism)”.

      The pharisees run Israel. “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.”

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 5, 2014 at 12:34 pm

        Yeshua never “fought” anyone. Unlike muhammad, Yeshua was peaceful in both word and deed and never caused physical harm to anyone and worked to prevent harm to others.

      • Allahisthedevil says

        Feb 6, 2014 at 10:29 am

        Islam is poison. The stench of this foul ablution pollutes all of mankind. Mohamed, the pig, is roasting in hell. He was happy buggering little boys as much as he liked little girls. To follow this swine means an ending with satan himself. Evil cult. Eradicate this shit cult and humanity will weep with joy.

  2. No Fear says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 10:49 pm

    Islam was, from it earliest days, designed to dominate through strength. There is only one true Islam and that is the most dominant and most virulent strain which is able to win against all other strains.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    More-Islamic-than-thou Syndrome! If you aren’t Islamic enough…you are a MUNAFIQ…a hypocrite! Off with your head!

  4. islamisdeath says

    Feb 4, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    islam IS death

  5. eib says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 10:44 am

    Quote:
    Gunmen opened fire on Sheik Adam Albani’s car on Saturday evening as he drove home from preaching in a mosque, also killing his wife and young son, police spokesman Aminu Lawan said.

    Western governments see prominent leaders like Sheik Albani playing a role in the long-term fight against Boko Haram and other al Qaeda-linked groups, in a deeply religious country of 170 million people.
    end
    Proof positive that one can be a “deeply religious man” without being a dangerous, violent nihilist.
    He put his faith in God. In this “dispute” over the future of Nigeria, here is the man who dies and yet is in the right.
    I hope he is remembered with pride and honor for a long time.
    The wielder of the sword is not necessarily the bravest man in the room.

  6. eib says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 10:46 am

    Quote:
    Become a true Muslim and you will see corruption everywhere in the world.
    end

    Become a true Christian, and you will know that Islam is profane.

  7. eib says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 10:56 am

    I just want to write here that when I hear of incidents like this, I find it heartbreaking.
    Like the incident of the old man in Mali who was shown contempt for bringing out 800-year-old books of Islamic law and trying to argue a bunch of power-mad young punks out of their fanaticism. Thank God Mali, with the help of their old French colonizers, turned back the tide.

  8. southeuropean says

    Feb 5, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    Abdu&the otgers, Nature(God) gave me my reason to think and to recognizd coruption. I have no need to worship or make rithuals to fight evils and help people. ISLAM separates people,therefore is Fascism

  9. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 7:16 am

    Abdullah ibn Salam mate. go away.
    this man was murdered. is that your idea of religion? keep it. use it on yourself, and DROP DEAD.

  10. bret says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 11:42 am

    The infidels will be at war with the Muslims in the near future. Muslims always looking for a fight everywhere, Philippines,Thailand,India,Malaysia, Myanmar to mame a few. War will be inevitable.
    How much non Muslims have to compromise for Muslims. There will reach a point non Muslims will get fed up and will have to fight back.

    God save us all.

  11. gravenimage says

    Feb 6, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    Nigeria: Jihad group murders Muslim cleric who opposed them
    ………………………..

    These pious Jihadists regarded Adam Albani as a “hypocrite” or “apostate”, who was then fair game for murder.

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