A United
Kingdom-based Islamic preacher, Mizanur Rahman, is being investigated by police
after a video showed him praising Boko Haram for kidnapping over 200
schoolgirls.
The
31-year-old of Palmers Green, north London, claimed in the video-recording
posted online that killing non-Muslims was ‘not necessarily a bad thing.’
The sect
had abducted the pupils from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno
State since April 14.
A report
by a UK tabloid, Daily Mail, said Rahman
also praised the terror group for its activities.
He said in
the video, “People want to make it out as though history began on the day these
girls were taken from – sorry I should say these women – were taken from this
high school in Nigeria.
“They
didn’t do to these girls what the Nigerian government had been doing to the
Muslims all these years. They didn’t rape anybody. They didn’t torture. They
didn’t murder any of these girls.”
The
preacher was quoted to have described the terrorist group as being “full of
good messages,” including its support for al-Qaeda.
Rahman,
said to be a follower of a firebrand preacher, Anjem Choudary, was convicted in
2007 for a murder-related case and bagged a six-year jail sentence. He was
released from prison in 2010.
Choudary,
who set up the banned Al Muhajiroun organisation with exiled Omar Bakri
Muhammad, however, said Rahman was a ‘good friend’ who had given a measured
response to the crisis.
He said,
“I believe if you look at what he was saying it was very measured. You just
have to look at the atrocities that, especially in 2011 and 2012, that were
carried out against the women and child of Al Mujahideen by the Nigerian
government.
“That
story has not been told, and this is retaliation for that. The Americans are
only interested in Nigeria because of its oil reserves. Otherwise, they would
not be bothered.”
Really, so killing Christians is a major tenet of the Islamic faith? Well now we know.
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