WorldStage Newsonline– Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria has condemned the killing of students in Yobe State and other attacks by the Boko Haram insurgents, calling them barbaric and uncivilized.

According to them, the killings have nothing to do with religion.

They say that Islam requires its followers to be kind to all God’s creation without discrimination and that the Boko Haram insurgents have no right to impose their beliefs on others because everyone is accountable to God alone.

President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria, Dr. Mashhud  Fashola, stated this in Abuja over the weekend, at the 3rd Northern Region Jalsa Tarbiyah with the theme: Islamic Model for National Reconciliation and Re-Birth.

 “The heart of all human beings should bleed at these killings because it is barbaric, it has nothing to do with religion, and it has nothing to do with civilization,” he said.

 “As we worship the God of all creation, it requires us to be kind to all God’s creation without discrimination. If I recognize that I have the right to choose any religion or sect  that I want, then I also need to recognize that the next person also has the right to also choose any religion or sect  and I should not fight anybody on that basis, I only have right on my own decision to choose a religion or none at all.

“We have no right to compel anyone but to dialogue.

 “You see all things have their causes, both immediate and latter causes and I feel that this has thought us to enlighten the people and one major enlightenment is the spirit of justice, we should educate all religious people that there is freedom of worship, freedom of believe because there are people who are fanatics or extremists who are killing people, thinking they have the right to impose their beliefs on others, we have no such rights, we are accountable to God alone.

“Islam teaches us to address poverty, if everybody is taken care of, there will be less insecurity, for when someone is hungry and has nowhere to go to for survival, you have turned him into an animal, so we have de-humanized most of our citizens and so they can be used by most evil people.”

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