“The Boko Haram terror group released a new video Saturday threatening to kill Nigeria’s Minister of Communication after the latter stated he would interrupt the group’s lines of communication. Ali Pantami was appointed Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy last August and recently said that Nigeria needs to take the battle against Boko Haram to the digital sphere.”
There is also another reason that Boko Harm wants to murder Ali Pantami. It’s because the group considers him to be not a good Muslim. In the Boko Haram video Pantami was told…
“Our messengers are like the angels of God. How dare you attempt to stop the works we are doing for the creator of the heavens and earth, simply because you have become a slave to the western world and the country….I swear to Allah, you are nothing. Initially, we did not bother with you, but now you have become a slave to the infidels; repent now and become a good Muslim. If you don’t comply from now on, death will come to you, Isa Ali Pantami.”
Boko Haram’s official Arab name is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which translates in English to “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.”
Boko Haram is responsible for severe persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Jihad Watch reported days ago about a former Nigerian Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, who blamed Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton for aiding and enabling the Muslim persecution of Christians.
Boko Haram’s latest threat to assassinate Ali Pantami is not surprising, as Muslim-on-Muslim violence in rampant in the course of the jihad. But it is noteworthy that here again Boko Haram’s chief speaks as if his group were implementing Islamic teaching, as jihadis always do, in contrast to the claims from Western leaders that they are not Muslim at all.
“Boko Haram Threatens Nigerian Minister with Death,” Breitbart, by Thomas D. Williams, February 16, 2020:
The Boko Haram terror group released a new video Saturday threatening to kill Nigeria’s Minister of Communication after the latter stated he would interrupt the group’s lines of communication.
Isa Ali Pantami was appointed Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy last August and recently said that Nigeria needs to take the battle against Boko Haram to the digital sphere….
Although Pantami is himself a Muslim and an imam, he is Western educated, having obtained a PhD from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, and is therefore despised by Boko Haram, whose name translates “Western education is forbidden.”
On Saturday, Boko Haram released a video in which its leader, Abubakar Shekau, taunted and threatened the Minister of Communication, accusing him of being a bad Muslim and a Western collaborator.
“I am speaking to those who pretend to be good Muslims but they are not,” Shekau said. “God will judge the hypocrites of Islam who use the platform of religion to achieve their selfish gains.”
“This video message is specifically released because of one man, who thinks he has the knowledge and is knowledgeable about religion. Keep this message in your heart until you die if you don’t repent,” he said.
Speaking in Hausa, Fulani, and Kanuri, Shekau said: “From today, you will continue to live in sorrow, because I, Shekau, say so on behalf of Allah, Allah hears us, he is the judge in the hereafter.”
“This warning is for Isa Ali Panatami; don’t think simply because you preach in English or because you are called a doctor, means you have knowledge of Islam. You know nothing,” he said. “Today you have become a minister, and you are feeling you can achieve your selfish ends. You must know that speaking English is not Islam.”
“You said you are going to block phone lines and other means of communication, to frustrate the activities of Boko Haram. But you must understand that we don’t depend on such to send out our messages,” he continued.
“Our messengers are like the angels of God. How dare you attempt to stop the works we are doing for the creator of the heavens and earth, simply because you have become a slave to the western world and the country,” Shekau said.
“I swear to Allah, you are nothing. Initially, we did not bother with you, but now you have become a slave to the infidels; repent now and become a good Muslim. If you don’t comply from now on, death will come to you, Isa Ali Pantami,” he warned….