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The Saudi Arabian grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh condemned Nigerian terror outfit Boko Haram as a group “set up to smear the image of Islam”, and criticized the group’s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls.
Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the top religious authority in the country, said that the radical group, which claims it wants to set up a “pure” Islamic state in Nigeria, is “misguided” and needs to be “shown their wrong path and be made to reject it”. His remarks came on the back of several religious leaders in the Islamic world denouncing the group and its leader Abubakar Shekau for saying that God told him to sell the kidnapped girls.
In an interview in the Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat, the leader said, “This is a group that has been set up to smear the image of Islam and must be offered advice, shown their wrong path and be made to reject it.These groups are not on the right path because Islam is against kidnapping, killing and aggression,” he said. “Marrying kidnapped girls is not permitted”.
The Boko Haram had kidnapped 276 girls on April 14 from a school in the village of Chibok near the Cameroon border. Fifty of the girls have since escaped. Shekau claimed the kidnappings in a video released on Monday, which sparked a strong wave of repulsion in Nigeria and the international community. Since the video, The United States, Canada, France, Britain and several other countries have offered their help to search for the girls.
The Boko Haram has led a five year insurgency, and says that it intends to revive the medieval Islamic caliphate in Nigeria. Its violent attacks have by far become the largest security threat in the country. In the past five years, it has spread from Nigeria to its neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger.