Leadership (Abuja)
Abdulaziz Ahmad Abdulaziz
5 January 2009
Kano — Disturbed by what they call "gargantuan injustice and merciless genocide" by the Zionist state of Israel on the Palestinians of Gaza, thousands of Muslims in Kano staged various peaceful demonstrations and prayer sessions from Friday through the weekend to express dismay over Israel's air strike on Gaza.
Different groups of Muslims in Kano held various events to express their anger and disapproval with a call on the Federal Government to cut diplomatic ties with Israel.
Last Friday a group of Muslims under the banner of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky's Islamic Movement converged at the Fagge Juma'at mosque for protest meeting.
The group, led by Sheikh Muhammmad Mahmud Turi flew Palestinian flags chanting curses and disapproval slogans to Israel . Some of the chants include "death to Israel ", "victory for Hamas" among others.
The protesters condemned the action as merciless and cowardly. Addressing the gathering Sheikh Turi said Israel's injustice on the Palestinians is infamous through out the world as he said that the aerial strike had claimed 1,200 women and children.
According to him, the fact that only 61 Hamas jihadists lost their lives in the battle that claimed 1,200 innocent women and children testifies to the fact that " Israel is coward that cannot fight in the front but only resort to injustice."
He described the Palestinian people as courageous and called on them to continue fighting until they are freed. "The world is with you against this cowardly act by the Zionist regime, but we have proved that we are stronger than before by your continued resistance, despite six days of aerial bombardment," Shiekh Turi said.
He also described the event in Gaza as the "beginning of the end of the Zionist state, especially the growing ability of the resistance movement to withstand the aerial bombardment," Sheikh Turi said, adding that with the failure of Israel to deal with Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon in 2002 and in 2006, the acclaimed invincibility of Israel has not only been disproven, "it has also been shown that the illegitimate nation will soon cease to exist," he said.
On the same vein, Israeli and American flags were set on fair by a group of demonstrators under the banner of Jama'atut Tajdidil Islamy, JTI, after the Friday prayers at the Kano city Central mosque in disapproval of the Israel 's attacks on Gaza .
Speaking at the event, the leader of JTI in Kano Mallam Abdullahi Salihu Aikawa expressed anathema on Israel calling it "illegitimate and merciless country". Aikawa noted that for a long time Israel has been cooking any flimsy reason on which to camouflage for assault on the Palestinians.
He, in a strong worded remarks, called on the Federal Government to untie diplomatic ties with the Zionist state even as he lambaste Arab countries and other nations for exhibiting sheer disregard for the situation.
Meanwhile, thousands of Muslim faithful attended a special prayer session at Darul Qadiriyya in the heart of Kano where prayers were offered for divine intervention on the happenings in the Middle East.
The faithful, under the guidance of Sheikh Musal Qasiyuni Nasiru Kabara, equally flay the action of Israel of murdering innocent women and children. They also offered Islamic funeral prayer in absentia to the Palestinians that were killed in the strikes.
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