No cause for alarm. That is the assurance from Minister for Foreign Affairs
\nMr. Geoffrey Onyema over Nigeria’s has membership in the Saudi Arabia led
\nIslamic Coalition against terrorism.<\/p>\n
Onyema, after a closed door meetings with President Mohammadu Buhari at
\nthe State House, told Journalists that Nigeria’s membership of the group
\nis purely in the fight against terrorism in the country.<\/p>\n
He dispelled the insinuations that such membership has religious connotation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has nothing to do with religion as far as Nigeria is concerned. We
\nhave to look at what the objective is. We face terror challenges and its a
\nglobal phenomenon,” the Minister said.<\/p>\n
According to him \u201cUnfortunately, the problem we have today is that some of
\nthe terrorists groups are claiming some of the things they are doing is in
\nthe name of a particular religion and it is clear to everybody that this
\nis not the case which is obviously a concern to people of Islamic faith
\nand Islamic countries that their religion should be so abused.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, there is naturally a tendency to show that this has nothing to do
\nwith Islam. Terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. Islamic countries,
\nIslamic people want to be seen as being in the forefront of the battle
\nagainst these terrorists to show also that it has absolutely nothing to do
\nwith religion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what this is all about. So, we are supporting every move to
\nachieve this, to disabuse people\u2019s minds that some of these terrorists are
\nspeaking in the name of Islam or are Islamic or that there\u2019s anything
\nabout Islamic teaching that somehow condones these barbaric actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s something we should all get together and we should all
\nsupport whoever is working towards it. And that\u2019s what this coalition is
\nfor, to show too that we are a Muslim country, we are Muslims and these
\npeople do not speak for islam, have nothing to do with islam.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the victims of these people are Muslims if you look at it. So,
\nthat\u2019s what it is. \u201cIt has nothing to do with Nigeria, Christianity,
\nIslam. I think the media should really get the main message across\u201d, he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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