But he indignantly denies supporting Boko Haram.
“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari 4.52.269)
An update on this story. “I Support Terrorist Groups Like Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Not Boko Haram— Minister Pantami,” Sahara Reporters, April 16, 2021:
Though Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, denounces any allegiance to Boko Haram, he expressed support for the global extremist groups — the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria,’’ Pantami said in one of his vicious preachings in the 2000s. “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm al Qā‘ida).”…
On Monday, Pantami threatened to sue some media platforms for reporting that he is on the U.S. terror watchlist for supporting Boko Haram….
Pantami invited Muslims, especially “Ahlus Sunna” (Salafis), to be sceptical of politicians and religious leaders calling for peace and understanding but retaliate with Jihad.
“This jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria (hādhā jihād farḍ ‘ayn ‘ala kull Muslim wa-khuṣūṣan fī Nījīriyā),” he added. Pantami’s comments were translated by Professor Andrea Brigaglia, an African expert at Naples University in Italy. Nigerian scholar, Musa Ibrahim of the University of Florida in the United States, contributed to the paper that explored the onset of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Top journal publisher academia.edu published the research in March 2019, several months before Buhari tapped Pantami as a minister. Pantami’s violent preachings, which he rendered in Hausa and Arabic throughout the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s, had gone largely unreported in the Nigerian mainstream media.
The document detailed how Pantami offered himself as a volunteer to mobilise the Hisba police of the North, requesting to be appointed as the “commander” (kwamanda) of a militia (ready to travel to Yelwa Shendam) to fight in defence of the Muslims.
The speech, which is about 20 minutes long, concluded with the prayer, “Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda (Allahumma’ nṣur Ṭālibān wa-tanẓīm alQā‘ida).”…
In a second speech, delivered in 2006, Pantami offered his public condolences for the death of the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Zarqawi.
“May God have mercy on Aḥmad alFāḍil al-Khalayleh, raḥmatullāh’ alayhi. May God forgive his mistakes. He is a human being. He has certainly some mistakes in front of God, so may God forgive his mistakes. Who am I talking about? He is Abū Muṣ‘ab al-Zarqāwī.
“He was born in 1966 of the Christian era, that is forty years ago. […] After some time, he was given responsibility for a camp in Herat. It was the Commander of the Faithful (Amīr almu’minīn) Mollah Omar ‒ may God preserve him ‒ who personally gave him the authority to run this camp.”
The document noted Pantami as further saying, “To this date, in the community of the Prophet we have some awesome people, people of awesome faith, who follow the creed of the Sunna and thanks to whom the enemies of God are unable to find rest in this world.
“They have killed the Shaykh, the martyr Abdallah Yusuf Azzam ‒ may God have mercy on him ‒ but did the struggle end? They went on to strike Chechnya, and they killed many of them: did it end? […] Whenever one goes, another one comes, and he is even more awesome than the first,” Pantami added.
In 2012, former President Goodluck Jonathan made a veiled reference to the fact that terrorists and their sympathisers had infiltrated his government….
mortimer says
Pantami is a self-declared JIHADIST. He says, “jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria.” This is an open-and-shut case.
This man ought not to have any role in a multi-religion, multi-party state, because he will be required to abuse whatever power he is given in favor of jihad. Moreover, he LIES about his declared intentions.
Pantami may be trusted to conduct the ‘jihad of the pen’ while in government and to favor jihadic terrorists within Nigeria if he remains in government. Let him seek a job in the private sector. He is dangerous to Nigerians. He will stir up more trouble and TERRORISM.
Joe clerf says
Holy christ, let Nigeria end now let Arewa be self dependent and sovereignty of its own and manage his resources and religion
danny says
The British are the ones tacitly supporting Islamic terror in Nigeria by propping up the Fulani Muslims as puppets to be controlled from 10 Downing Street, London, England. The larger/largest Nigeria’s problem is created by the English/British government, We need look into the root cause of the issue.
Mason Stewart says
Just another day in Paris.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1383358607178170372
Keith O says
You know a terrorist group is bad news when other psycho terrorists done want to play with them!
This has happened in other places where the Taliban and al-qaeda get the thumbs up from Jihadist’s but you mention isis or boko haram.
Tells you something when even nut job mudslimes are scared of them!
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
There’s always someone more badass…
Infidel says
This minister is a moderate. He only supports moderate jihadists like Taliban and al Qaeda, not extreme jihadists like Boko Haram or ISIS. Something about one of them not following the true islam
Del says
Justin Trudeau quietly supports Quebec buying it’s oil from Nigeria. Trudeau and Quebec obviously support Muslim terrorism.
Greatman says
They is no surprise about the minister’s comments because every Muslim is a potential terrorist.