Nigeria: Zakzaky Followers, Youths Clash in Zaria

13 November 2003

Zaria — A group of youths identified as members of Wahabi Movement, otherwise known as "Salafi Muslims" engaged followers of a Zaria-based leader of Nigeria's Islamic movement, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, in a fierce battle Tuesday night which led to serious casualities on both sides but no life was lost.

A witness who gave his name as Aliyu Musa Gina, told Daily Trust that the incident started like a joke at about 9 p.m. when the Salafi Muslims gathered in their mosque at Tudun Wada where they started shouting, "death to Zakzaky! Death to Shi'ah! Death to non-followers of Sahabi! Today is the 'Day of Badar! and we must follow the footstep of the Prophet of Islam to fight Zakzaky and his followers," whom they called infidels.

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