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ibraheem el-zakzaky leader of the shiites |
Recently I stumbled upon
a 1999 Tell Magazine where I found this chilling interview with Ibraheem El-Zakzaky
leader of Islamic movement popularly called Shiites following the raging controvery triggered off by zamfara state at that time. and decided to share. Excerpts
below:
Q. In spite of your advice that there should be
caution about the sharia being implemented in zamfara state, the government
there went ahead to launch it. How do you feel about this (now)?
I will say it is a welcome development. My caution has been
that one should understand the sharia to be in the last series of forces in the
establishment of Islam. sharia is a code of life which makes law on all aspects
of human endeavor. It should not be narrowed to a sort of punishment. That sort
of law envisages that an environment has already been created which is
conducive for the application of the sharia. It means that the environment is
already clean and the laws are there to protect the ills from coming back.