Nigeria: World's Largest Muslim Body Says Girls' Kidnap Un-Islamic

Islamic scholars and human rights officials of the world's largest Muslim organisation yesterday denounced the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by the militant group Boko Haram as "a gross misinterpretation of Islam".

The statements from a research institute and human rights committee of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) echoed denunciations of the radical Islamist group by religious leaders and officials in Nigeria and several Muslim countries.

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