Yes, this is the same fellow who supports al-Qaeda and the Taliban and insists he doesn’t support terrorism, which is likely true, as he probably doesn’t think of what the Taliban and al-Qaeda do as terrorism, but as jihad.
And from this it is clear that he supports Boko Haram also. Did Buhari know this when he appointed him? Did he care?
“Boko Haram terrorists are our Muslim brothers, shouldn’t be killed like pigs: Minister Pantami,” by Idris Ibrahim, Peoples Gazette, April 16, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
President Muhammadu Buhari’s communications minister Isa Pantami once condemned Nigerian Army’s incursion into Boko Haram strongholds, describing the insurgents as “our Muslim” brothers who did not deserve to be killed like pigs.
“See what our fellow Muslim brothers’ blood has turned to? Even pig blood has more value than that of a fellow Muslim brother,” Mr Pantami lamented in a sermon issued a few years ago when former President Goodluck Jonathan ramped up military operations against the rampaging terror sect.
Peoples Gazette obtained the audio through an anonymous contact on Thursday night. The location of Mr Pantami’s sermon and those who attended could not be immediately obtained, but the words, nonetheless, contradicted his recent claims that he had long maintained a hardline posture against Boko Haram.
Mr Pantami’s media allies have also been on an image laundering blitz to cast him as a moderate preacher who has been widely celebrated for his longstanding contempt for Boko Haram. Mr Pantami also joined his supporters to amplify a threat issued against him by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, evoking it to dismiss insinuations of his sympathy towards terrorists as counter-intuitive.
But in the February 2020 video, Mr Shekau appeared more frustrated by what he saw as Mr Pantami’s betrayal in becoming a top government official after spending years preaching Salafi doctrine than he was about the minister’s purported condemnation of Boko Haram’s deadly exploits.
Mr Pantami has long been famous across northern parts of Nigeria as a respected Islamic cleric. He used most of his preachings to rail against the government’s high-handedness, and Peoples Gazette published a video on Thursday that showed him promising never to go into public service. The sermon was delivered in the mid-2000s, years before Mr Buhari appointed him in 2016 as the head of NITDA and later in 2019 as a cabinet minister in charge of communications….
DavidR says
“Image laundering blitz” Sounds haram to me and akin to the Islamic sin known as “spreading corruption in the land”. On the other hand Muslim politicians just like politicians everywhere have many faces with the ugliest one being the closest to true.
tom parry says
Read/see all about it at former American newspapers NY times LA times, Washington Post and TV news programs;cbs,nbc,pbs, cnn,abc stations. (HaHa)
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truth says
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Walter Sieruk says
This is yet more Islamic evil and madness.
Pr so uremadu says
If all these allegations of supporting BHM are true then he should be arrested and tried for working against Nigeria.
gravenimage says
Buhari himself is a pious Muslim–I doubt he has a problem with this.
Jude Cross says
Buhari has long campaigned for the implementation of Sharia throughout Nigeria. He’s completely at ease with the jihadi minister Pantami.
Rob says
No surprise. Al Azhar U is on record as saying there is ‘nothing heretical about Isis’.
If Isis isn’t out of line with mainstream Sunni Islam, then ‘That’s all Brother’.
But we have it coming. I’m currently reading AH Ali;s ‘Prey’
All I can say is where are the European men?
VickyK says
Muslim leaders have been terrorizing and slaughtering Nigerian Christians for many years. When Trump was in office he hosted a press conference to announce he was awarding the visiting Nigerian President a huge chunk of taxpayer dollars, weapons, military vehicles, military planes along with the use of U.S pilots to train them to use the planes. Since 9-11 the U.S. government has actually been facilitating Islamic jihad as it suits their diabolical needs. Even here in American neighborhoods. The muslim terrorist organization, CAIR, couldn’t exist without the protections and pandering of U.S. federal, state and city governments. We are willingly ‘sleeping with the enemy’.
OLD GUY says
That goes to show there are no moderate muslims. If this Clown wants to be associated with Boko Haram as his brother in Islam that should tell the rest of us that ISLAM is the enemy and is supported by the muslim/islamic population world wide. Beware of the Muslim/Islamic migration invasion of your non-islamic country, they don’t come as friends. They are the enemy of FREEDOM.
Del says
Quebec buys Nigerian oil. Quebec obviously supports and approves of Muslim terrorists. Disgusting and offensive.
Chris says
Pardon? How come we support and approve islamic terrorism? I personnaly don’t.
tgusa says
He should be booted out of the brotherhood just for having such a pathetic excuse for a beard.