Sanusi Urges Muslims To Stay With The Times

The Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II today, urged Muslims to not look past the social, economic and political challenges facing them.

 

Sanusi said this during the 10th Annual Ramadan Lecture organised by VON, FRCN and NTA, with the theme: The Challenges of Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.

Emir Sanusi

He blamed the recent growth of terror group, Boko Haram on the region’s failure to invest in quality education and scholarship.

The Emir observed that due to dwindling socio-economic situation in the region, majority of the people, particularly the youths have been left “without any hope in life”, and therefore, easy recruits into insurgency.

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“If there is no future in a society, then Boko Haram ideas will thrive,“ he said.

The Emir advised political and religious leaders in the region to take a cue from other regions in the country and thrive to effect necessary changes.

“If Borno and Yobe were a country, they would be poorer than Niger, Chad and Cameroun. No wonder the Boko Haram crisis started there.”

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He then asked Muslims in the region to avoid exposing their children to “quack Malams.”

He also advised parents to take “very serious interest in the activities of their children”, saying that the new media has radicalised alot of youths across the world and turned them into extremists.

“We need to watch what our children watch. If we do not give them the correct Islamic education, they will get the wrong one from somewhere else.”

“We must not continue to allow culture to be dorminant in our lives. We need to look at ourselves, reappraise our socio-economic approach to life.”

Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II was born into the Fulani Torodbe clan of Kano on the 31st of July 1961. He was crowned on the 8th of June 2014 as the Emir of Kano, succeeding his late great-uncle Dr Ado Bayero.

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