Top Nigerian Islamic scholars have condemned as un-Islamic and barbaric the massacre of hundreds of people, mostly women and children, in attacks on three Christian villages south of Jos metropolis, urging authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
"The massacre is no doubt a condemnable and abominable act which is totally rejected by the Muslim community," Dr Abdul-Lateef Adegbite, Secretary General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), told IslamOnline.net on March 9.
Some 500 people, mostly Christian women and children, are believed to have been killed in attacks by machete-wielding gangs on three villages on the fringes of Jos, capital of Plateau state.
Abdullahi Shuaib, coordinator of the Conference of Islamic Organizations (CIO), branded the killings as unacceptable and called for holistic probe into the progrom that has left the hitherto beautiful state into a shadow of its old self.
Professor Lakin Akintola, prominent Islamic televangelist and lecturer at the Lagos State University (LASU), said the Muslim community condemns these wanton killings.
Ethnic, Not Religious
Prof. Akintola said the conflict was ethnic and not religious in nature but both divergent faiths of the two tribes get a bad name.
Reference by:http://islamicvoice.com
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