The Islamic Movement İn Nigeria: Quds Day Our Stand

In the Name of Allah, the Magnificent , the Merciful. Ramadan 1429.

Quds Day is a global day exclusively initiated by late Imam Ruhullahi al- Musawi al- Khumaini to commemorate the dilemma of our Palestinian brothers. In a broader perspective, the day is the day to venerate the oppressed worldwide wherever they are.

This year’s Quds Day is significant as it marks sixty years of Israeli brutality and inhumane treatment of Palestinians in their ancestral land. While Israel marks sixty years of illegal existence and brutality (what they referred to as “independence”), the Muslim Palestinians on the other hand commemorated the Day of the Catastrophe" for their displacement, dispossession and consequent usurpation of their land by Israel in 1948.

Today we join our Muslim brothers in Palestine to mourning the 60 years since when million people- men, women, children, the aged- were compelled to leave their homes, which resulted in the killing and expulsion or flight of over million Palestinian refugees, and the destruction and abandonment of hundreds of Palestinian villages. In spite of the criminal rape, destruction and oppression of the Palestinians, world leaders and United Nations continue to cover and condone the atrocities describing it as a just cause. World media also turn blind eye to the true happenings in Palestine .

What is so painful and alarming is the occupation of Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Zionist Crusaders. Quds is the third holiest mosque in Islam, and today it is in the hands of the Zionists in which Muslims are prevented by military force to pray in it. Not only Palestinian Muslims are prevented to pray in the sacred mosque, the pace of worship is constantly being desecrated by these enemies of Islam and humanity.

These atrocities are achieved today under the bogy of Zionism, which is an international doctrine that aims to make Israel a “Super Nation” of the Jews dominating all human races. It is established on erroneous belief that Jews are the “chosen people” by God, created to be served by other creatures. This is why today it is mobilizing economic, social, political and geographical resources available in the world for its of global domination. For this obvious reason, Zionism is not regional; it is rather a world-wide human phenomenon.

The Zionist backed by the United States has instituted the remembrance of the so-called Holocaust? Western media and governments are constantly reminding the world of the suffering of Jewish people in World War II. “Survivors” of the myth of Holocaust are annually remembered and compensated, while the day is widely observed.

Our revered Leader Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqub Zakzaky has re-echoed the call of Imam Khomeini to liberate the oppressed from the shackles of world tyrants and oppressors under whatever guise and colour they manifest. Here in Nigeria we are aware of Israeli’s close ties with the Nigerian government.recently the Isreal’s Ambasador Moshe Ram have warned against Hizbullahs attack on there Embassies in Nigeria and other African Countries, which is part of the Zionist conspiracy to suppress the Islamic Movement.

We call on Muslims worldwide and all peace and freedom lovers to condemn in totality Israeli aggression on innocent civilians, as they are living witnesses of the historical injustice and the deprivation of fundamental human rights, is intended to push our Palestinian people into political projects which do not meet the basic standards of international law and resolutions. The scale of Israeli military brutality is so intense that recently Israeli human rights groups presented a joint report in which they strongly condemned Israeli aggression on innocent Palestinians.

Peace be unto those who follow the right path

Muhammad Mukhtar

27 Ramadan 1429