Tag: persecution

Eight Incontrovertible Facts The NY Times’ Video Evidence Showed The World

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Eight incontrovertible facts were exposed by the 8 minutes video investigation and evidence produced by the New York Times on the Nigerian army’s killing of peaceful Shiite protesters in the outskirts of Abuja, the national capital, at the end of October. Let us examine them: 1. The Shiites were on a religious march that is done at such time of the year in all the Shiite communities worldwide. New York Times indeed acknowledged this much. It was a religious march that didn’t have to be attacked. 2. The procession did…

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Islamic Movement Makes A Case At US Commission On International Religious Freedom

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Yesterday, Monday 17th December 2018, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria made its case for religious freedom during a panel discussion between religious and civil society leaders on opportunities and challenges for Religious Freedom in Nigeria hosted by the United States Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF) in Washington D.C. A report on the 3 years of brutal persecution of the members of the Islamic Movement by the Nigerian government, prepared by the Free Zakzaky Campaign Committee, was presented at the discussion panel. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent,…

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Visual Investigation: How Elite Nigerian Soldiers Turned A Religious March Into A Massacre

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Nigeria Says Soldiers Who Killed Marchers Were Provoked. However, investigations using video evidence shows otherwise. Watch the video here: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2018/11/03/78565_1_25-abuja_wg_720p.mp4 By New York Times

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Genocide Memorial: How Gov El-Rufai Went On Supervisory Visit To Soldiers Who Carried Out The Heinous Crimes Moments Before

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Watch the video evidence of the moment on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at dusk when the Kaduna state Governor Nasiru Ahmed El-Rufai came to the Islamic centre of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Hussainiyyah Baqiyatullah on a supervisory visit to the soldiers moments after they laid siege on hundreds trapped within and only a few hours before they brutally invaded the complex killing at least 300 people inside. The video was taped by the brave (now martyred) members who were trapped inside and transmitted to those outside before their ultimate…

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Genocide Memorial: Edifices Demolished By The Government

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The following iconic buildings belonging to the Islamic Movement were completely flattened as part of the brutal clampdown on the Movement. Hussainiyah Baqiyatullah: Sheikh Zakzaky’s Residence in Gyellesu Mosque at Darul Rahma, Dembu Sheikh Zakzaky’s Mother’s House and her final resting place:

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Nigeria: End Impunity For Killings of Shia, Halt Crackdown on Protests

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Nigerian authorities have failed to ensure justice for the killings of hundreds of members of the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) since 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a video of security forces’ violent crackdowns against members of the IMN. On December 12, 2015, the Nigeria army used disproportionate force against the group’s street procession in Zaria, Kaduna State in northwest Nigeria to clear a route for the army chief’s convoy. In an ensuing three-day violent crackdown, the army killed 347 members of the group and arrested hundreds more, including the group’s leader,…

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A new plot to cause mayhem in our name uncovered

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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has uncovered a fresh plot hatched by the hawks in the security agencies in a desperate move to associate violence and terror to its name. According to this devilish plot, some people will be publicly displayed to the media and be accused of teaming up with armed bandits of Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state to stage a terror attack in the name of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria. It is not surprising that security agencies will desperately go to any length in their attempts at…

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Victory Is Not Achieved By The Use Of Brute Force And Sophisticated Weapons – Sheikh Zakzaky

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The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has revealed the secret to the success of the Islamic MOvement in Nigeria barely a month before the Nigerian Army used brute force in a futile attempt to annihilate the Movement. He said “some people think success is achieved by the use of brute force and sophisticated weapons.” Asking rhetorically, “is it weapons that were used to gather all these followers? Was war waged? Were insults used?” He went on to explain what the secret behind the huge success of the Movement…

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My God! See The Level Of Savage Cruelty By The Nigerian Army Against Unarmed Mourners In Abuja

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More facts and untold stories continue to emerge as to the extent of savage cruelty exhibited by soldiers of the Nigerian Army against members of the Islamic Movement who were on a solemn religious mourning procession of Arbaeen in Abuja earlier this month. That depraved behaviour resulted in the death of over 50 of the unarmed mourners. Watch here a short video clip of the beastly behaviour: And this: And this:

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Christian Leaders Tell Buhari To His Face: Release Sheikh Zakzaky, Stop Using Live Ammunition On Citizens

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Facing a tyrant and telling him some hard truths requires some valour, a quality lacking these days among Clerics, especially of the Islamic faith, where the Prophet (S) even equated it to one of the best forms of Jihad (Struggle). However, this was the quality that was exhibited by Christian leaders when they met the maximum Tyrant of the land, President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday in Abuja under the auspices of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Very much unlike a similar visit by Muslim Clerics earlier whose praise-singing of the…

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