{"id":17589,"date":"2020-12-06T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2020-12-06T18:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:08:55","slug":"dont-use-our-youth-as-tools-for-electoral-violence-chief-imam-warns-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=17589","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t use our youth as tools for electoral violence \u2013 Chief Imam warns politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu has warned politicians not to use the youth as tools for violence ahead of tomorrow\u2019s general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to emphasize that politicians themselves will be very unjust on our young people to explore their venerability and use them as tools for violence against political opponent\u201d, Spokesperson for National Chief Imam, Sheik Aremeyaw Shaibu has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cViolence is bad, it\u2019s evil, it destroys the accomplishment of so many years, its divides societies so that is exactly what we don\u2019t want politicians to use our young people for. I want to emphasise that politicians themselves will be very unjust on our young people to explore their venerability and use them as tools for violence against political opponent\u201d, the spokesperson chided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on violence which has become common among youths in Zongo communities across the country, Sheik Aremeyaw Shaibu noted that Muslim youths have involved themselves in political violence because they have interpreted \u201cJihad\u201d wrongly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, politicians have wrongly invoked \u201cJihad\u201d as teaching of the Muslims beliefs in a wrong context and at the wrong time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJihad does not need you necessarily going to fight with somebody and kill. Jihad deals with the inner struggle of the self to fight against evil.&nbsp; And then when it comes to matters of oppression Jihad can be invoked as defensive mechanism that self-defense and those some in which it was used. But in matters of peace and where we are living now, Jihad has no relevance in our political terms and I think that it will not be used\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: MyNewsGH.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu has warned politicians not to use the youth as tools for violence ahead of tomorrow\u2019s general elections. \u201cI want to emphasize that politicians themselves will be very unjust on our young people to explore their venerability and use them as tools for violence against political opponent\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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