Governor
Kashim Shettima of Borno on Thursday inaugurated a body of scholars
with the mandate to regulate Islamic preaching to prevent indoctrination
in the Boko Haram-ravaged state.
“We must take firm, consistent and knowledge-based steps to
continuously separate between those clerics who preach in the name of
Allah and those who kill in the name of Allah,” he said at the
inauguration ceremony in Maiduguri.
“Often times, preachers with violent attention start on a normal
note, they tend to start by being nice, they exhibit friendship to gain
acceptance before they systematically begin to share misguided
ideologies in their true colours,” he said.
He added that plans are on ground to raise a board that will monitor
the proliferation of traditional Islamiyya, Tsangaya or Almajiri.
There are also plans to raise Arabic schools to “protect noble
schools from infiltration by others which may have hidden motives aimed
at teaching violent doctrines,” he added.
The Nation
Friday, 12 August 2016
Gov Shettima Moves to Regulate Islamic Preaching in Borno State
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