BURIAL SPOT OF IMAM HUSAYN,FOUNDER OF THE ISLAMIC SECT:SHIITE
INQUEST RUBBISH CLAIMS OF SHIITE
AND SUNNI DIVIDE LINKED TO NIGERIAN
STUDENTS IN TURKEY
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
An inquest launched by the News
Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia group regarding whether it was right
for people to think that the government
had kept quiet on the recent arrest of 50 Nigerian students schooling in Turkey
over alleged links to Fethullah Gülen
and that the Islamic leader was probably a Shiite and not Sunni has led to a
no-guilty position at least for now.
Checks by The News office Desk of
Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria suggests that the head of the Gullen
Movement actually believes in some forms of Sunni and was never Shiite in orientation.
In a related issue,the over 1,000
years sectoral division between the Sunnis and the Shiite may be playing out in
the current imprisonment of 50 Nigerian students in Turkey.
A public affairs analyst while
speaking to The News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria
affirmed that he did not see what the nation was benefitting from Turkey to the
extent that 2 to 3 weeks after the issue
was reported in the press ,The Nigerian Presidency was still keeping mute.
In his analysis ,he suspectd that
while the likes of President Muhammadu Buhari,Recep Erdogan of Turkey were
sunnis ,he felt may be Fethulleh Gullen may be a Shiite Muslim and this was why
Abuja was confused on what steps to take on the heated issue.
He warned that except Nigeria
recalls its Ambassador home for consultations and asks that of Turkey to go
back home the crisis may linger on for a while.
He added that he was not
comfortable with the lukewarm attitude of Nigeria’s foreign ministry over the
affairs as they ought to be briefing the nation regularly on the incident.
As at press time, the News office
Desk of Paedia Express learnt that at least close to 20 Shiite Muslims were
killed in clashes with security agencies in Northern Nigeria as they celebrated
an annual ritual with the Iranian Authorities calling on their Nigerian
counterparts to exercise caution in handling cases of sectarian violence in the
land
Meanwhile about 50 Nigerian
students are still in custody of the Turkish regime of Recep Erdogan as at
press time.
Gülen teaches a
Hanafi version of Islam,
deriving from Sunni Muslim scholar Said Nursî's teachings. Gülen has stated that he
believes in science, interfaith dialogue among
the People of the Book,
and multi-party democracy.[11] He has initiated such dialogue with
the Vatican[12] and some Jewish organizations.[13]
Gülen is
actively involved in the societal debate concerning the future of the Turkish
state, and Islam in the modern world. He has been described in the
English-language media as an imam "who promotes a tolerant Islam which
emphasises altruism, hard work and education" and as "one of the
world's most important Muslim figures."[11][14]
Gülen was an
ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
before 2013. The alliance was destroyed after the 2013
corruption investigations in Turkey.[15][16][17][18][19] Erdogan accused Gülen of being behind
the corruption investigations.[20] He is currently on Turkey's
most-wanted-terrorist list and is accused of leading what the current Turkish
officials call the Gulenist Terror Organisation (FETÖ).[21] A Turkish criminal court issued an
arrest warrant for Gülen.[22][23] Turkey is demanding the extradition of
Gülen from the United States.[16][24][25] However, U.S. figures in general do
not believe he is associated with any terrorist activity, and have requested evidence
to be provided by the Turkish Government to substantiate the allegations in the
warrant requesting extradition.[26][27][28]
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