{"id":16619,"date":"2013-08-25T21:03:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=16619"},"modified":"2013-08-25T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T20:03:50","slug":"protest-rocks-kano-nigerian-muslims-demand-reinstatement-of-deposed-egyptian-president-morsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/protest-rocks-kano-nigerian-muslims-demand-reinstatement-of-deposed-egyptian-president-morsi\/","title":{"rendered":"PROTEST ROCKS KANO: Nigerian Muslims demand reinstatement of deposed Egyptian President Morsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Muslims yesterday rallied peacefully in the restive northern Nigerian city of Kano to demand the return of Egypt\u2019s Islamist former president Mohamed Morsi, ousted by the military early last month.<\/p>\n<p>A Fox News report quoting AFP said that \u2018around 4,000 demonstrators carrying banners and placards chanted pro-Morsi songs and slogans outside a mosque in northern Nigeria\u2019s biggest city, Kano.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The report said organisers put the number of protesters at 5,000, adding: \u2018Egypt has been rocked by political unrest since Morsi\u2019s ouster in a July 3 military coup after massive protests against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018 \u201cWe call for the immediate release of president Mohamed Morsi and all political prisoners being detained by the illegitimate Egyptian authorities,\u201d protest leader Sheikh Abubakar Mujahid told reporters. \u201cMorsi must return to his position as president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous nation of 160 million people, is evenly divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It is grappling with a four-year insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram mainly in the country\u2019s northeast.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The violence has claimed some 3,600 lives, including killings by security forces, which launched a military offensive in May to try to end the insurgency.\u2019<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Muslims yesterday rallied peacefully in the restive northern Nigerian city of Kano to demand the return of Egypt\u2019s Islamist former president Mohamed Morsi, ousted by the military early&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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