It is almost 8 weeks
now that the young school girls in Nigeria while answering their exams were on gun point kidnapped
by the Islamic extremists group called Boko Haram and regretfully still not
freed. This is a shocking incident and also
un-Islamic which is shamelessly committed by the Islam promoter extremists group and it deserves highest
condemnation.
The first word in the
holy book of Islam, i.e. Koran, is “Ikra” which means “Read”. Reading requires education and because of which Islam gives highest importance to education and to get it, as it is said in Islam that “to obtain education one can even go to the
farthest place like China”.
Though Islam gives
topmost priority for education yet some of the Islamic extremist groups like
Boko Haram are going against this principle and because of this they go against
the promotion of education mainly for the girls. We have seen earlier how a young Pakistani
girl Malala was shot by the Muslim extremists who are preventing education for
girls.
Boko Haram by kidnapping
over 200 young girls while answering their exams have prevented these girls
comprising Muslims and Christians from getting educated. In this way Boko Haram
by taking these girls as hostages committed not only a great sin but a great sacrilege against the
doctrine of Islam. In one way they claim
to be the promoters of Islam but on the other side they are doing a great
injustice to their own religion Islam.
It is time now for the
Muslim leaders all around the Islamic world to raise their voice in unison
against this barbaric act of Boko Haram who are bringing a very bad name for
Islam by soiling the good image of great religion Islam. It is time now for the Mullas, Imams and
Khomeinis to air their voice against this brutal kidnapping and demanding their
release unharmed and without any precondition.
According to the latest
information, Boko Haram has threatened to convert all the Christians girls among the kidnapped ones into Islam. This is
another sin the group is going to commit by forcibly converting the Christian
girls into Islam. Islam forbids forcible conversion and forcible conversion is
as good as no conversion.
In this whole scenario
of Boko Haram’s kidnapping the image of Islam is affected. For this reason the Isalmic leaders must come
out in the open to demand in the name of Islam the release of these young
innocent school girls. It would be nice at this hour if the Islamic
organization, Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) had to step in to put
pressure on the kidnappers to release the kidnapped girls.
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