Immediate past governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has described members of the Boko Haram sect perpetrating acts of violence against the Nigerian state and her citizens as non-Muslims.
He said this on Tuesday in MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos as a guest of honour at the launch of a book titled, “Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Africa” which was written by Dr. Yinka Olomojobi.
Fashola, who is a Muslim, stated that Islam is a religion that treasures peace and therefore could not be the basis on which Boko Haram’s murderous tendencies are based.
The two-time Lagos governor applauded the intellectual rigour that the author underwent to produce such a brilliant piece on the pertinent questions of motives behind terrorist ideologies and why they keep trying to hide under the umbrella of Islam.
“It is sheer propaganda to fool the general public and to deceive gullible people in the name of a faith whose tenets they themselves breach and violate.
“The simple truth is that we have allowed the voices of a few criminals to rise above that of billions of law-abiding global citizens.
“What we are dealing with is a new wave of crime by criminals who seem to have an edge because of the need for a new global order and the gaps created by globalisation,” he stressed.