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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