Banditry, terrorism, criminality not Islam – Sultan of Sokoto

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has insisted that banditry, terrorism, and different forms of criminality person nary spot successful Islam.

Abubakar, who is the President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, spoke portion playing big to members of the 2026 batch ‘B’ watercourse I of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, astatine his palace successful Sokoto.

He noted that Islam is simply a religion founded connected peace, justness and respect for the sanctity of quality life.

Abubakar said Islam forbids the sidesplitting of guiltless radical and encourages Muslims to coexist peacefully with adherents of different faiths by promoting compassion, communal knowing and bully neighbourliness, careless of spiritual oregon taste differences.

The Sultan besides condemned the increasing signifier of linking transgression to peculiar taste oregon spiritual groups, stressing that offenders should simply beryllium identified arsenic criminals.

“Give them their due name, criminals. Don’t telephone them Fulani, Tiv, Yoruba, Muslim oregon Christian.

“Criminality has nary religion oregon ethnicity. Evil radical beryllium everyplace and should beryllium treated a...