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Nigeria: Sultan of Sokoto says Islam is a religion of peace

May 29, 2016 6:51 pm By Robert Spencer

The idea that Islam is a religion of peace has to be constantly repeated, because it is contradicted daily by the behavior of Islamic jihadists, and their justification of their murders by pointing to the Qur’an and Sunnah.

The Sultan of Sokoto did not explain how it happened that a group that called itself the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, which was the official name of Boko Haram until it changed its name last year to the Islamic State in West Africa, could have misunderstood Islam so spectacularly. Nor, unfortunately, did he say what he planned to do to teach young Muslims why they should reject and avoid this understanding of Islam.

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“Islam is a religion of peace – Sultan,” by Seun Opejobi, Daily Post, May 29, 2016:

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III has described Islam as a religion of peace, lamenting that, “men of state rather than elder statesmen” often found it very easy to attribute every negative thing to Muslims and Islam.

Disclosing this at the 22nd Annual Ummah Convention 2016 organised by the National Islamic Centre, NIC, Zaria, Kaduna State, on Sunday, the Sultan declared that, “it is our right to practice our religion without any interference by anybody.”

He went on to urge Nigerians to rally round President Muhammadu Buhari in his task of building a strong nation, stressing that the call became imperative following the economic upheavals bedevilling the country and the quest by the present administration to proffer lasting solution….

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  1. billybob says

    May 29, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Who could dispute whatever the Sultan of Sokoto says? I mean – he is the Sultan after all.

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 29, 2016 at 8:11 pm

      Hello billybob — If your nickname is a clue about heritage, I am also a PROUD REDNECK. My daddy was one of seven children in an Irish Alabama hardscrabble family, growing up in 1930s Depression years.

      RESPECT THE SULTAN AND HIS COOL WARDROBE! Where are your manners? Those expensive threads did not fall out of the sky just so they could conveniently land on his well-buffed martial arts Krav Maga trained body.

      To get some context on how women adore guys like him, look up ZZ Top — my favorite kick-ass band, who did a classic song titled “SHARP DRESSED MAN”. Check out the ORIGINAL VIDEO (primitive early low budget) but featuring hot cute Texas bunny rabbits — and crank volume up to maximum.

      Open an adult beverage on this Memorial Day weekend, give thanks to God, the Founding Fathers’ courage, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, David Wood, Bill Warner, Nonie Darwish, Brigitte Gabriel, Jamie Glazov, Walid Shoebat, Daniel Greenfield, and dozens of others who work ceaselessly against the pathology of Islam.

      • b.c.terry says

        May 30, 2016 at 5:10 pm

        jihad3tracker,

        Well said.

        I’m a Canadian senior, much respect for those who serve, and the next serviceman, or servicewoman you bump into, shake their hand in thanks from an old Canadian fart.

        Freedom.

  2. Giovanni Gripshi says

    May 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm

    Wow , the Sultan shares the same point of view with Obama….let’s candidate him for President of the USA!!!

    • Oliver says

      May 29, 2016 at 7:25 pm

      I hope that your comment is either a joke or sarcasm.

      One Muslim leader (?) (apologist ( although I think asshole better fits both) ) is enough.

  3. Cecilia Ellis says

    May 29, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    “It is our right to practice our religion without any interference by anybody.”

    There went all those overtime-pay work hours for policemen, security and emergency response personnel, EOD teams, and hospital staff . . .

    • Oliver says

      May 29, 2016 at 7:26 pm

      I agree with the FIRST SENTENCE- THE QUOTE–WHEN ALL RELIGIONS-WITHOUT EXCEPTION-GIVE ALL OTHER RELIGIONS THE SAME RIGHT.

      I am not holding my breath

    • Keith says

      May 29, 2016 at 10:17 pm

      It is their right up to the point where it infringes on anyone else’s rights including their own members. So many of them don’t seem to understand that part of freedom of religion. No religion has any right to enflic or enforce any rule or religious laws on anyone. In Canada and the USA we already have secular law that we all have to live by. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work but lately muslims have been constantly demanding AND GETTING extra rights privileges and exemptions to our established laws.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      May 29, 2016 at 10:55 pm

      Oliver and Keith, I agree with you both. Sadly, historical evidence consistently indicates that Islam is intolerant of other religions and, as devout Muslims consider our secular laws to be inferior to those established by Allah, there is no reason to consider that future change might be in the air. Islam will remain intolerant of other religions … It’s in its QuranIc DNA.

  4. Voytek Gagalka says

    May 29, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    This “sultan” either does not have any power to enforce his not-so-novel ideas, or he simply lies in usual taqiyya style.The third possibility is that he is a fool.

  5. citycat says

    May 29, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    “It is our right to practie our religion without any interference by anybody”
    No it is not.
    You don’t simply practice your religion without yourself interfering in the way of life of others who have not yet been forced by threats of death, torture, beheading, amputation of hands and feet of starving unfortunates.

  6. Trico says

    May 29, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    “The idea that Islam is a religion of peace has to be constantly repeated”
    –
    “”If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.”
    -Joseph Goebbels , Adolf Hitler’s Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany

  7. Concerned Indian says

    May 29, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    “Peace only if you convert to Islam because then I will not kill you.” This is the sublime philosophy behind such statements.They think converting to Islam will make them equals.They will still be treated as less important than the Arabs But money flows from Saudi Arabia so they love it.

    • Angemon says

      May 29, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      Concerned Indian posted:

      “Peace only if you convert to Islam because then I will not kill you.”

      Indeed.

      • Bob says

        May 30, 2016 at 6:55 am

        Angemon- Islam offers alternatives or peace…the peace of the graveyard!

      • Jerry says

        May 31, 2016 at 12:13 am

        Many a hill in India is constructed from the skulls of Indians murdered by the Muslims as a monument for the Islamic idea of “peace”.

        • Concerned Indian says

          May 31, 2016 at 12:32 am

          Quite true.The real question is when is Europe going to wake up.Massive protests are necessary.People are too indifferent.Leftists are vocal with weird theories and have widespread support.We write here and feel great without being able to really do something and that’s a major lament.

  8. Jay Boo says

    May 29, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    It appears that Boko Haram has stolen the Sultan of Sokoto’s clothes and wrapped him up in a toilet paper role.

    The Sultan is delusional.
    Boko must have wrapped his head too tight

  9. Guest says

    May 29, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Sultan’s still exist?

  10. Westman says

    May 29, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    “it is our right to practice our religion without any interference by anybody.”

    No, it isn’t – when that involves intimidation or violence to “..enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong…” Quran 3:110

    The devil is in the details of what is done in the name of “forbidding”, such as laws, religious police, or Sharia patrols. You may believe whatever you wish. When your religious “practice” takes away other peoples rights with your forced forbidding you have crossed out of religion into political fascism.

    Fascism – a form of radical authoritarian nationalism. Strangely this seems to be what Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III is requesting; a unification of Islam and the Nigerian State.

  11. mortimer says

    May 29, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    The Sultan is a ‘denialist’. He denies like many Sunnite Muslims that Islam has anything to do with Islam.

    He makes up his own version of Islam and asks us to accept he and only he has the true version.

    The true version of Islam is promoted by Al Azhar University, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States that impose Sharia. However, the fullest version of Islam is practiced by ISIS under the leadership of Islam expert Caliph al Baghdadi.

    What constitutes ‘Islam’ is not a matter of private opinion. There is no ‘Islam-à-la-carte’.

  12. mortimer says

    May 29, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    About 20% of Nigerians approve of Boko Haram because they are opposed to the central power and want to return to tribal ways as well as implement discriminatory Sharia.

    Muslims are aware of the rapid growth of churches in Nigeria…several new ones each week…and they wish to stop it. Several million Nigerians approve of Boko Haram. The situation is exceedingly dangerous!

  13. DFD says

    May 30, 2016 at 12:50 am

    Wasn’t that a joint statement with the Sultan of Stockholm?

  14. No Fear says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:27 am

    Mohammed killed for loot and raided Jewish trading caravans. So we are expected to believe that at some point after Mohammed’s henchmen killed Jews and stole property, Islam changed into a “religion of peace”. Yeah, right …….

  15. Lizzy says

    May 30, 2016 at 4:17 am

    ‘“it is our right to practice our religion without any interference by anybody.”

    Apart from the fact the word ‘religion’ is debatable in respect of islam, they can do what they want in their own country. But it doesn’t stop there, at their own borders. It is being carried like the Zika virus on the backs of mosquitoes to every corner of the world with their vile infection.

  16. Liz says

    May 30, 2016 at 7:19 am

    Not Nigeria, we are praying.

    • Oliver says

      May 30, 2016 at 4:13 pm

      Nigeria-it seems has for decades having civil wars.

      Back in the 1970’s-1980’s and etc it was against (best I recall) The Ibo’s- who lived in one area and some other group.

      As I recall (I was with a firm for some of this time that did business with Nigerian firms-but via Britain) that tens of thousands thousand people died ( were killed).

      So, probably nothing really new, just different players.

      The curse of oil welath

  17. Liz says

    May 30, 2016 at 7:27 am

    While you are about Sultan, have they not flooded and overran Europe like a mighty rushing ocean? what have you done?

  18. fedupAmerican says

    May 30, 2016 at 8:04 am

    The more politicians repeat something, the less true it is.

  19. fedupAmerican says

    May 30, 2016 at 8:12 am

    The more politicians repeat something the more likely it is to be false.
    The statement most repeated by politicians all over the world is that Islam is a Religion of Peace.

  20. Phil says

    May 30, 2016 at 9:50 am

    Islam is a religion of peace! It has to be so, because the Sultan of Sokoto says so. After the Sokoto Caliphate was a wonderful exercise in Islamic tolerance wasn’t it? Just like the fabled conviviencia of Al-Andalus!

    Unfortunately….yes. It was just as tolerant as the Caliphate of Cordoba – a hell-hole of Al-Maliki jurisprudence for nearly all its existence. The Sokoto Caliphate was the second largest slave-owning society in the latter half of the second millennium. The renowned McKay & Hill summarized it best in 2011 – the Caliphate created “a new slaving frontier on the basis of a rejuvenated Islam”.

  21. Phil says

    May 30, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Oh…I forgot to mention the people slaughtered in the Fulani War and the subsequent Sokoto Jihad…
    ….well, omelets and eggs, guys. You can’t make a Caliphate without slaughtering infidels, after all.

  22. Florida Jim says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:03 am

    Ha,ha, ha, ha this is a joke surely. First comes immigration, then Sharia, Jihad, Taqiyya, enslavement, taxation beheading and it is all for peace.
    A challenge from an ex-muslim exposing The Prophet.

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge.htm
    and
    A reminder for all “A peaceful Religion?”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks

  23. SD says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:17 am

    ” Islam is a religion of peace” is a slogan just like ” always Coca-Cola”, it would be very difficult to get new converts to Islam if they were told that Islam is about cutting off heads raping women that even the false prophet muhammad was a rapist, enslaver, murderer and genocidist. So it all plays into this attempt to Islamize non muslims. Any non-muslim who would dare say that Islam is a religion of peace should be forced to pack up his bags and go on live in territories where Muslims have the majority and where Christians are facing the worst punishments simply for not being Muslims. And then when they come back after six months if they survive obviously then we will see if they still will talk some shit like that.

    • Trico says

      May 30, 2016 at 11:31 am

      ” Islam is a religion of peace” is a slogan just like ” always Coca-Cola”,
      I disagree. Slogans change all the time.
      Islam is a “religion of peace” is a fairy tale just like “Little Red Riding hood”, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, or take your pick.
      At some point all those who opine that Islam is a religion of peace are going to have to back up those “words” with “actions” that prove those words to be true otherwise it’s just a fairy tale devised to deceive people both Muslims and Infidels alike.
      peace be upon you.
      AMEN.

  24. rolf wittwer says

    May 30, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    I was working as Expat 1979 in the North of Nigeria.
    Many western factories have been operating that time. Good life and even beer was available.
    Various Clubs, Cinemas etc. did exist for white people and modern Africans.
    Now 2016: everything is down but Religion is highly up, incl. its strictly dresscode etc.
    Conservative Islam ist arising and taking over day by day every aspect of life.
    Intolerance becomes a powerful way of life. Freedom of expression – good bye!
    Nothing else to enjoy anymore for Nonmoslems.
    God help the Planet!!!!!

  25. Giovanni Gripshi says

    May 30, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    Naturally it was sarcasm, my friend and cann’t be differently!!! It’s absurd how londonese people have voted for mayor a muslim!!…..this thing get me sick!!

  26. John Marst says

    May 30, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    HAHAHA — Religion of Peace! HAHAHA

    What? You mean he wasn’t joking?

    The good news is that I don’t think over time Islam will survive the Internet Age, among more educated people at least. There are just too many ways to check the lies, contradictions, and glaring inconsistencies in cyberspace. And of course, Robert Spencer and many others are engaged in this effort.

    Also, I think if there is ever a real dismantling of the “Religion of Peace,” women will lead the way because they have the most to gain by the end of its tyrannical grip.

  27. Jerry says

    May 31, 2016 at 12:19 am

    Islam has always been a religion of p..a, since the days of the Plunderer for Profit PBUH (P..s Be Upon Him).

  28. Jerry says

    May 31, 2016 at 12:20 am

    Correction – p..s

  29. ploome says

    May 31, 2016 at 1:43 pm

    these individuals are murdering clowns, and should be treated as such and ridiculed-laughed at and shunned

    expelled from the human race

    look at the sheets he has wrapped around himself

  30. Oliver says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    A bit off topic- but not sure if anywhere on JW ( I definitely did not see it on the Internet–heard it on the radio over the weekend).

    An American teenager (I believe the age given was 15-16 ) and from an affluent area. he decided that school (here in Fl. either over or just about over) was a drag, and left- route unmentioned- and joined ISIS.

    Then he saw the heads on a spike, freaked out, and managed to get back to the US.

    But, I am sure that the radio person mentioning this (local broadcast) had (it was a holiday weekend) on a local broadcast and not what the lame stream media wishes to hear. (And probably not what the GOP elitist want heard, either).

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