BY: Newspeddlers
Condemning the murder of Deborah Samuel
by Muslim fanatics, the Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) Nigeria, said
Islam and its paraphernalia were there for people’s good and not the other way
round.
NASFAT’s Chief Missioner, Abdul Azeez Onike, said this in a
statement signed by the group’s Publicity Secretary, Abdul Akeem-Yusuf, and
made available to journalists in Lagos on Saturday, and was made public by News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
“Religion and all its paraphernalia meant to worship
Allah are for man and not man for those,” Mr Onike said, further condemning the
extra-judicial killing meted out to the late Ms Deborah Samuel in Sokoto by
Muslim extremists.
Stating that “In the case of any disrespectful act on those
religious paraphernalia or on Allah, capital punishment is not the answer but
civilly calling the person involved to order by making him or her understand
that he or she committed sacrilege for him to refrain from such and not to kill.”
Mr Onike advised against reprisals and unnecessary maligning of a particular
ethnic group or religion over the incident.
He added that jungle justice, becoming rampant in our
country, was a condemnable act by all religions, and urged law enforcement
agents to do a thorough investigation, arrest all culprits and speedily bring
justice to bear.
Ms Deborah Samuel was allegedly killed for objecting that
religious matters should not be posted in their class WhatsApp platform meant
for academic information.
Source: (NAN)