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Minister Pantami’s case and the ‘War on Terror Witchhunt’ in Nigeria
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Tue Apr 20 2021
Following the publication of a Daily Independent article alleging that Minister Pantami is on a United States’ “terrorist watchlist”, the Nigerian social media started to circulate quotes of an article I had published in 2019, where I analysed some of the public speeches Pantami had given in the early-to-mid 2000s. From social media, references to that article have filtered to the national newspapers.
I remain committed to my criticism of what I see as the many problematic aspects of those speeches, but I believe that the core of my analysis is lost in the current mediatic brouhaha.
We are all happy whenever unbelievers are being killed, Pantami said.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 18, 2021
Isa Aliyu Pantami, President Muhammadu Buhari s communications minister, once declared that he was always a happy man hearing of the massacre of those he considered infidels. We are all happy whenever unbelievers are being killed, Pantami said. But the Sharia does not allow us to kill them without reason. Our zeal (hamasa) should not take precedence over our obedience to the sacred law, he added.
Pantami s comments were contained in three audio recordings of his teachings in the 2000s when he took extreme positions in support of the brutal exploits of Al Qaeda and Taliban elements who were on a campaign to obliterate the West and conquer other parts of the world.
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By Farooq A. Kperogi, @farooqkperogi
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – This is a difficult column to write because although scores of people have importuned me to intervene in the controversy regarding Communication and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s utterances before he came into government, my wife, who knows Pantami is my friend, pleaded with me to stay out of it.
But I would be a hypocrite and betray the meaning of my name (and also my late father who taught me the meaning of my name when I was too young to fully grasp it and who never failed to remind me to live up to it) if I sidestep this consuming national controversy because it puts my friend in a bad light.
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