Tags - Nigeria
Nusaibah Ibrahim al-Zakzaky:
Rasa – Nusaibah al-Zakzaky, the daughter of detained leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has written a letter slamming the media outlets which have referred to the IMN as a Shi’a movement and thus dividing Muslims. She stresses that the IMN is a Muslim movement.
News ID: 3708 Publish Date : 2015/12/22
Ayatollah Arafi:
Rasa – "The Islamic world is the battle scene of three interpretations of Islam – secularism, Takfirism and pure Muhammadan Islam," the head of al-Mustafa International University said.
News ID: 3703 Publish Date : 2015/12/21
Rasa – The Islamic Movement of Nigeria has release a statement in regard to the Nigerian army’s massacre of Shi’ites in Zaria and the arrest of their spiritual leader, Shaykh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky.
News ID: 3700 Publish Date : 2015/12/20
Rasa - Iranians have staged demonstrations in the capital, Tehran, and several other major cities across the country to condemn Nigerian military’s bloody crackdown on the Shia Muslim community in the African country.
News ID: 3697 Publish Date : 2015/12/19
Sheikh Zakzaky's son:
Rasa - Ibrahim al-Zakzaky’s son says his family has not been able to contact the Nigerian Shia leader since his arrest by the country’s forces earlier in the week.
News ID: 3696 Publish Date : 2015/12/19
Tehran Friday Prayer Leader:
Rasa – Tehran’s Provisional Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami condemned a recent attack by Nigerian Army on the country’s Shi’ite community, saying that killings of Shi’ite Muslims is an “indescribable and heinous” crime.
News ID: 3694 Publish Date : 2015/12/18
Qom Friday Prayer Leader:
Rasa – "More than 1000 innocent people were killed in Zaria, with trucks moving the bodies and burying them in mass graves. Some of the bodies were reportedly burned and the so-called human rights organizations have remained silent about this," Ayatollah Hoseyni-Bushehri stated.
News ID: 3693 Publish Date : 2015/12/18
Director of Women’s Seminaries:
Rasa – "Takfiri terrorists groups are a disgrace to the Islamic world," director of women’s seminaries across Iran said.
News ID: 3691 Publish Date : 2015/12/17
Rasa - Iran's Guardian Council on Wednesday condemned bitter incidents in Nigeria and asked the relevant Nigerian institutions to probe the crimes and punish the agents behind it.
News ID: 3690 Publish Date : 2015/12/17
Rasa - President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim called for the immediate release of detained Nigerian Shia leader Ibraheem Zakzaky.
News ID: 3689 Publish Date : 2015/12/17
The Teachers’ Basij Organization of the Islamic Seminary of Qom:
Rasa – The Teachers’ Basij Organization of the Islamic Seminary of Qom have issued a statement in regard to the tragic events in Nigeria and stressed that this massacre was perpetrated by Saudi-Zionist-Wahhabi mercenaries who have directed attacks against Shi’as all over the world and in Nigeria.
News ID: 3688 Publish Date : 2015/12/16
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi:
Rasa – Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi has condemned the massacre of a large number of Shi’a Muslims in Nigeria saying: "The Nigerian army attacked a number of Shi’a Muslims, who were totally unarmed, with full force.”
News ID: 3687 Publish Date : 2015/12/16
Rasa – Ayatollah Sobhani has condemned to the tragic massacre of Shi’a Muslims in Nigeria and called on Muslims to support their coreligionists in this West African country.
News ID: 3686 Publish Date : 2015/12/16
Rasa – Ayatollah Nouri-Hamadani has issued a message condemning the massacre of Shi’ites in Nigeria and called for the prosecution of the perpetrators of this tragic crime.
News ID: 3681 Publish Date : 2015/12/15
Ayatollah Arafi in regard to arrest of Shaykh al-Zakzaky:
Rasa – The head of al-Mustafa International University stated that the recent tragic events in Nigeria are a sign of the enemies’ fear of the spread of the discourse and thought of the Ahlul-Bayt in Africa, adding that Shaykh al-Zakzaky was educated in the discourse of the Islamic Revolution and is one of the great scholars of the Islamic world.
News ID: 3680 Publish Date : 2015/12/15
Rasa - Press TV has interviewed Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, the top Nigerian Shia cleric whose private residence was under siege and attack by the Nigerian government troops hours before getting arrested.
News ID: 3679 Publish Date : 2015/12/14
Rasa - Nigerian forces have arrested the top Shia cleric, Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, after carrying out a deadly raid on his private residence in the country’s northern region, rights activists say.
News ID: 3677 Publish Date : 2015/12/14
Rasa - Nigerian forces have arrested the top Shia cleric, Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, after carrying out a deadly raid on his private residence in the country’s northern region, rights activists say.
News ID: 3676 Publish Date : 2015/12/14
Rasa - Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqub Zakzaky across the country will embarked on this year’s Arba’een symbolic trek to Hussainiyyah Baqiyyatullah, Zaria, Kaduna State.
News ID: 3613 Publish Date : 2015/11/26
Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Garba
News ID: 3390 Publish Date : 2015/09/24