The Nation Newspaper Ahmad Gumi: Cleric of blood, face of hate
Am a Christian. I was born one and I will die one. I take my faith very seriously and I count it as being more important to me than anything else in life.
I also believe that where we see danger signals and identify circumstances and individuals that may threaten that peace and harmony we must challenge and expose them, call them to order before it is too late and bring them to the attention of the authorities. The words were translated from Hausa & here is the link of the FULL text: https://newsonlineng.com/exclusive-sheikh-gumis-full-statement-against-fct-minister-and-christians/
His late father, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, was an equally controversial cleric with a massive following and a committed hard-line Islamist. When he was confronted with a barrage of criticism & outrage from Nigerians after his sermon Ahmad Gumi expressed no remorse & instead he said, “I will not respond to irritants in democracy!”This is the kind of man that would have been celebrating and having multiple orgasms whilst watching the slaughter and massacar of innocent and helpless Jewish women and children by the beasts of Hamas on CNN on October 7th.
I am simply astounded by the hateful disposition, poisonous venom, putrid verbiage, puerile assertions, malicious deceit, perfidious falsehood & divisive rhetoric coming from a man who lays claim to being a pious & peaceful religious leader! When he says Southerners & Christians “cannot be trusted with security”, that the FCT Minister is “satanic” simply because he received the Israeli Ambassador in his office & that those of us that supported a Muslim/Muslim ticket are worthless hypocrites, money-mongers & accursed citizens who chased dollars for pleasure & worldly purposes, it is clear that he has lost touch with reality & that he is looking for trouble.
That arrangement, despite its blatant disregard for the principles of Federal Character & ethnic & religious balancing, gave him joy.Better still, given his words & by his warped & asinine logic, he would prefer us to remove ALL Christian personnel from our military, intelligence & security agencies, ban them from joining & allow only Muslims to serve.
I do not believe or subscribe to the erroneous notion that the Minister of the FCT is the exclusive preserve of Northern Muslims & neither do I believe that Nigeria, a nation with over 120 million Christians should EVER sever its diplomatic ties with the State of Israel. This assertion betrays the fact that he and those he represents do not regard our President as a Muslim. That is the implication of what he has said.
At this point I really do wonder whether this man is above the law & I am amazed at the fact that he has not been arrested. The question needs to be asked: is this man well in the head? Is he mentally stable? Is he suffering from mental illness?Needless to say I have always despised him & I have always known that there is something dark & sinister about his more than cosy relationship with the bloodthirsty & heartless ISWAP & Boko Haram terrorists that have plagued our nation but now I have cause to question his sanity as well.
He mentioned the fact that Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Tafawa Balewa & other Muslim leaders were killed by mutinous Christian soldiers on the night of January 15, 1966. This “revenge coup” was led by Northern officers of both Christian & Muslim extraction like Lt. Col. T. Y. Danjuma, Lt. Col. Martins Adamu, Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, Lt. Colonel Murtala Mohammed, Lt. Ibrahim Babaginda, Lt. Muhammadu Buhari, Lt. Col. IBM Haruna, Lt. Ibrahim Abacha & others.
Most of the key planners and senior officers involved in that mutiny, including General Ibrahim Babangida, General Sani Abacha, General Tunde Idiagbon, General Muhammadu Buhari and many others happened to be Muslim and sadly during the course of the event blood was shed. He says Christians like to kill but can he tell us if it was Christians that killed over 100,000 innocent Igbo Christian civilians in three months of genocidal pogroms in core Northern Nigeria in 1966?
Are those that have wiped out entire communities in the name of ethnic cleansing & stolen their land Christians? Did Gumi ever complain about or make any reference to this great injustice done to a fellow Muslim or is it that Southern Muslims are not Muslim enough? No-one should attempt to demonise or paint ALL of the adherents of either of these two great faiths in the colours of psychopaths & cold-blooded murderers.The fact that some do not is not a reflection of their faith but rather a reflection of their personal disposition, human failings & character.
There are Nigerian Muslims and Nigerian Christians & each of these groups have every right under our constitution to express their views, practice their faith & aspire to man any public office in the land. This provocative & incendiary rhetoric must stop before it ignites a full scale religious & ethnic war in our country! I call on the DSS & the NPF to call this reckless malefactor to order before he sets Nigeria on fire.
His spokesman, one Tukur Mamu who is the publisher of the Desert Herald, was arrested at Cairo Airport just over one year ago for being involved with terrorists & extremists, deported back to Nigeria & has been in the custody of the DSS ever since.
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