By Godwin Tyonongu
Abuja
The battle for ideological supremacy between elements in the two blocs of socialism and capitalism may have been responsible for the spate of terrorism almost ravaging the entire globe with “Nigeria taking the centre stage at the moment.”
Chief Imam of Habibiyyah Mosque, Abuja, Fu’ad Adeyemi, who made the assertion while speaking to the media against the backdrop of the insurgency in the country during the Sallah holidays, wondered why some terror groups that had a negligible population compared to Islam, would prefer to hide under the canopy of the religion to perpetrate their dastardly acts.
He said: “What is happening is the conflict between socialism and capitalism across the globe. The population of those elements doing this evil is not up to five million people as compared to Islam which has billions of people under it as, the fastest growing religion in the world today.
“All what you see happening in the country today will soon end. It has happened before in the past if you read the world history when countries like Germany were involved.”
He said the concept of Jihad was always being misconstrued by many to mean violence, whereas Jihad, as was taught by Prophet Mohammed, “is to fight for the welfare of the downtrodden and to change the ills in the society to better the lot of people.”
Similarly, an Islamic scholar, Abdulfatah Adeyemi, argued that there was no place in the Quran where Muslims had been instructed to take laws into their hands by killing people at will, noting that religion “is something of the mind and should not be seen as force.”
Adeyemi said the mistakes made years ago by the successive governments in abandoning the Almajirai had been the consequence of “what the country is passing through at the moment.”
He noted that Prophet Mohammed, during his time, was conscious of the need for female child education and did warn against any form of discrimination on gender grounds contrary to what those he described as “faming embers of discord and terror to the society,” were doing.
