Leaders
within the Nigerian Muslim community have spoken out against the horrendous
killing of a British soldier that took place in Woolwich, southeast London,
yesterday.
The
brutal attack on 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby was carried out by Michael
Adebolaji, 28, and, at present, an unnamed accomplice.
They
are both now armed guard.
The
off-duty father-of-one was run over with a car and attacked with a large knife
as he walked towards the Royal Artillery Barracks in High Street, Woolwich.
British-born
Adebolaji, of Nigerian descent, was filmed at the scene with blood on his
hands.
He
attempted to justify the heinous act by saying: “In our land our women have to
see the same.”
However,
a spokesman for the Muslim Association of Nigeria UK (MAN) called the action a
“barbaric murder”.
“What
he did is condemnable,” Idris Eletu, secretary of the Muslim Association of
Nigeria UK, told The Voice. “Muslim Nigerians are not like that. Islam is a
religion of peace.”
“We
are equally horrified by what has happened. No muslim is expected to behave in
such way, he added as he urged “all muslims and Nigerians [to] disassociate
themselves” from the perpetrators.
Eletu
added: “We should not be looking at this on the basis of his nationality but
see him as a human being who has done something bad.
Source: The Voice
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