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Islamists Boko Haram Tell Corrupt Nigerian Government: We Want Total Islam
28 July 2009
As the religious uprising that erupted in Bauchi two days ago spreads to some other states in the North, Islamists have told the President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua-led Federal Government that their mission is to enthrone the practice of total Islam in states with large population of Muslims in Nigeria. The Islamists said they reject western education and democracy in all the states in the North. Nigerian newspapers said in Kaduna this morning that Ustaz Yusuf and prominent Islamic fundamentalists have vowed to mobilize their members in Borno, Kano, Adamawa, Sokoto, Zamfara and other states in the North to join the fight in Kaduna and other states in the North against what the “Jihadists” called “a fight against enemies of Islam”. According to the group, Western education and democracy in Islam dominated states are anti-Islam which they will no longer tolerate.
•Some members of the Islamic group shot dead during a crossfire with the police in Bauchi. Believing that the police were constantly used as a state instrument to suppress their agitations particularly in Bauchi where hey have a large number of adherents, the religious extremists moved to attack the Dutsen Tanshi police station yesterday. But the police proved they were battle ready when they took the extremists unawares, killing over 60 members of the group, while several others escaped with injuries and many were arrested. The Bauchi State government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew throughout the state. But threat of more attacks has thrown most residents of Bauchi and other states in the North into panic. In Kaduna State for example, for fear of possible strike, some workers did not report at their offices for work, yesterday and today, while those who were present gathered in groups with apprehension, discussing their personal security, in the event of an attack by the group. The Kaduna State police command has beefed up security in order to forestall possible attack by members of Boko Haram group, a faction of Islamic fundamentalist sect that has threatened to join in the fight against perceived enemies of Islam in Muslin dominated states. Deputy Police Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Isaac Eke, told a Nigerian Newspaper that his men were fully prepared and battle ready to maintain peace and order in all parts of the state. Eke stressed that the alleged threat from the leader of an Islam group, Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf to attack Bauchi State and other Muslim dominated states will not be ignored. He warned religious leaders who made statements capable of breaching public peace to watch their utterances. The religious crisis erupted in Bauchi on Sunday when a group called “Boko Haram” meaning “Education is sin” in their thousands stormed a police station and attacked it. More than 30 members of the group which had campaigned for imposition of Sharia on the 36 states in Nigeria were killed during the attack. Many of them were wounded and arrested. A member of the group that was arrested, Abdullahi claimed that the mission of the group was to cleanse Nigeria of all anti-Islam people and install Sharia in all states, stressing that they decided to attack the police station in retaliation for the killings of its leaders. Declaring 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. curfew later in the day, Bauchi State Governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, described the Islamists as militants and urged all Nigerians to view the attack as a national problem. Soldiers have set up road blocks and imposed dusk-to-dawn curfews in the worst affected areas of Yobe, Kano and Borno States. There have been reports of youths armed with machetes and guns killing police officers and civilians at random. Nigeria’s military and police have been ordered to use all means necessary to contain the violence, the BBC’s Caroline Duffield in Lagos reports. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that police stations had been attacked and civilians pulled from their cars and shot dead. •Wares of the Islamic fundamentalists scattered on the ground in Bauchi. PHOTOS: AFP. In the town worst affected by the violence, Maiduguri in Borno State, bodies of residents and militants have been piled outside the police station and in the streets. A BBC reporter there counted 100 corpses. Some of the militants are believed to be supporters of a preacher based in Maiduguri, Mohammed Yusuf, who says Western education is against Islamic teaching. Nigeria’s police are understood to be searching for him. Late on Monday night there were still reports of shooting in Maiduguri. Earlier, witnesses told the BBC that a battle had raged for hours in Potiskum, Yobe State, where a police station and neighbouring buildings were reportedly razed. There was also attacks on police in Wudil, some 20km (12 miles) from Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria. Security is said to have been particularly beefed up in Plateau State, to the south of Bauchi, where hundreds were killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians last year. Mr Yusuf’s followers are known as Boko Haram, which means “Education is prohibited”. Youths began attacking police stations on Sunday after some of the group’s leaders were arrested. Correspondents say Boko Haram has aroused suspicion for its recruitment of young men, and its belief that Western education, culture and science are sinful. Reuters news agency reports that one of the group’s leaders, arrested in Kano State, said his followers were standing up for their faith. “Even if I’m arrested, there are more to do the job,” Abdulmuni Ibrahim Mohammed is quoted as saying. Sharia law is in place across northern Nigeria, but there is no history of al-Qaeda-linked violence in the country. The country’s 150 million people are split almost equally between Muslims and Christians and the two groups generally live peacefully side by side, despite occasional outbreaks of communal violence.
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