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Monday 31 Aug 2015 - 09:56 Makkah mean time-16-11-1436
Nigerian senior military official
Abuja, (IINA) - Blasting Boko Haram militants, a Nigerian senior military official has claimed that insurgents don’t know how to read the Holy Qur’an and don’t practice the religion that they claim committing atrocities in its name, OnIslam reported quoting news agencies.
"Most of the Boko Haram terrorists captured by Nigerian Military cannot read the Holy Qur'an, some of them cannot even recite the first chapter- Suratuh Al-Fatiha, yet they claimed they want to establish an 'Islamic State',” Acting director Army Public Relations (Ag DAPR) Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman wrote on Facebook.
Considering the acts of extremist group as “ironically shameful”, the senior military official revealed that “when the Nigerian Military captured their bases and training camps, they never found Qur'an, Hadith or other Islamic literature.”
Usman’s Facebook post was shared hundreds of times by his followers who asserted that the terrorist group tarnishes the image of Islam.
On his part, Stephen Andow, former military officer, said that the insurgents were never Muslims from the onset.
“We must face it. This problem affects the whole of Nigeria and not just the North. We must all arise with one voice to condemn these evil men.”
For the last five years, Nigeria has battled a fierce Boko Haram insurgency that has ravaged the country's volatile northeastern region and claimed thousands of lives.
Last month, President Muhammadu Buhari accused the US of aiding the Boko Haram militant group by denying his country weapons under a sustaining arms ban.
SM/IINA
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