Boko Haram: Islamic Community Flays Bomb Blasts

The Islamic community in Enugu State, has condemned in strong terms, the spate of bombings and killings of innocent people in various parts of the country by Boko Haram sect, especially during the recent yuletide describing the incidents as uncivilised and unIslamic.

Expressing their total disappointment in a letter addressed to the state Governor, Barrister Sullivan Chime, and signed by the Chairman of the Islamic Council of Chief,  Alhaji Haruna Sule also said that the killings were “criminal, dastardly and a sin against God”.

The Islamic Community, therefore, dissociated itself from the motives of those behind the bomb blasts, claiming that they were not Muslims as a true Muslims “cannot align themselves with any act of crises, killings or any form of breach of the peace”.

“We the Muslim community in Enugu State maintains that this act of killing and bombing by a handful of people belonging to one sect or group, is not in accordance with Islamic beliefs and teachings. These people are not Muslims and we therefore dissociate ourselves with any act of crises, killing or any form of breach of peace”, the letter read in part.

The group, therefore, thanked the government and people of Enugu State for ensuring that peace and security reigned in the state,  adding that Muslims in the state had never experienced crises or had cause to regret their stay in the state.