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Nigerian jihad leader: “We have anti-coronavirus; it is the Allah we worship. We slash fornicators, we cut hands.”

Apr 20, 2020 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

“We pray five times a day, we pray Jummu’a, we sleep with our families, we hug, we shake hands, we are fine, fine fine,” he said on the recording. “We have anti-virus while you are infected with the coronavirus, we have anti-coronavirus; it is the Allah we worship. We pray, we slash fornicators, we cut hands.”

Shekau thus joins several other Islamic leaders who have stated that the coronavirus is Allah’s judgment, and that Islamic piety will protect people from it. If he or any of his followers contract the coronavirus anyway, this will not disabuse them of this belief. They will simply assume that they were not obedient to Allah enough, and redouble their efforts to please him, which could lead to more jihad activity, as Muhammad called jihad the greatest of all deeds.

“Boko Haram’s Shekau Labels Anti-COVID-19 Measures an Attack on Islam in Nigeria,” by John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations, April 17, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Abubakar Shekau, a Boko Haram faction leader, kidnapper-in-chief of the Chibok school girls, notorious for his grisly videos and brutal implementation of punishments of seventh century, Middle Eastern origin, this week issued an audio recording on the coronavirus after a long period of radio silence.

In it, he characterizes international measures to address the coronavirus pandemic as part of the war on Islam by evil forces. He denounces especially social distancing, the suspension of pilgrimages to Mecca, and the likely modification of certain Ramadan observances. “Just look at it, they stopped you from Umrah and Hajj, even the fasting they are telling you that corona season needs a lot of drinking water.” He asserts that “Muslims,” by whom he means exclusively the followers of his extreme brand of Salafi Islam, are protected from the virus.

“We pray five times a day, we pray Jummu’a, we sleep with our families, we hug, we shake hands, we are fine, fine fine,” he said on the recording. “We have anti-virus while you are infected with the coronavirus, we have anti-coronavirus; it is the Allah we worship. We pray, we slash fornicators, we cut hands.” (“Cut hands,” according to the translator of the recording, means amputating the hands of thieves.)

He comes close to saying that COVID-19 is Allah’s punishment on the ungodly.

As he has many times before, he is contemptuous of secular leaders: “In the times of infidels like Trump, Idris Derby [sic] with the goat eye, Buhari, Muhammad Issoufu, the dog of the hands of France. Children of pigs and monkeys. If you don’t repent you will be finished.”…

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 10:51 am

    Abubakar Shekau,
    Say after me:
    “Mohammed owned black slaves, Mohammed owned black slaves,
    Mohammed owned black slaves, Mohammed owned black slaves,
    Mohammed owned black slaves.”

  2. European pagan says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 11:09 am

    This man on the picture has an evil face.
    “We have antivirus” -> in your dream maybe.

    • keith says

      Apr 20, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      The civilized world also have an antivirus,,,for people like you. It ranges in size from .223 all the way up to .50 cal.

  3. CleaningCrew says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Okay, you think you are immune from COVID-19 because you are Muslims. See how many of you win Darwin awards.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    Who is arming Boko Haram?
    Does anyone know?

    • Gordon says

      Apr 20, 2020 at 3:06 pm

      AQIM… From Libya through Chad

  5. Westman says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    Islam sems to attract angry low-intelligence men who desire the life of a mercenary and the ability to demand the women they want. These Boko losers, who can’t find success in being productive, spend their time in destruction and theft; which is much easier than actual achievements. Islam comes ready-made with justifications for these mercenarys to take what they want and live off others as parasites.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Nigerian jihad leader: “We have anti-coronavirus; it is the Allah we worship. We slash fornicators, we cut hands.”
    ………………….

    As much as I know about the horrors of Islam, I am still sometimes shocked by its savagery.

  7. James Lincoln says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    gravenimage says,

    “As much as I know about the horrors of Islam, I am still sometimes shocked by its savagery.”

    It would be horrible for the free world to get to the point that they were not shocked by the “savagery of islam”.

    Remember when Mayor Sadiq Khan warned Londoners that terrorist attacks are “part and parcel” of living in a big city in the wake of the September bombing in New York City.

    The Poles and the Hungarians, for example, will have nothing to do with this defeatist attitude!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm

      Yes, James–we never want to consider this barbarism acceptable and normal.

  8. Rolf Wittwer says

    Apr 21, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    None of these idiots has never ever considered what to do with senseles slaughter, burning, stealing and annihilation. They are commanded by the devil, highly primitive brainless and haphazard professional killermachines at Neantertaler level.
    The civilised world must finally stand together to destroy this spreading global religious junk.
    Or is it still covered and sponsored by “the corresponding UN states”?

  9. OLD GUY says

    Apr 22, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    YEA! YEA! and elephants can fly., these islamic criminals just love to spread their B.S. Boko Haram needs to be totally destroyed, these individuals are nothing short of murderous thugs.

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