Centre for Eradicating Innovation & Establishing SUNNAH Oyo State, Nigeria.
Nigerians’ main language is English and it is quite worrisome to have a group that has a main objective of standing against innovation.
It is a bit eerie, considering that Boko Haram literally means “No to Books” or “western education is haram (abomination).
Is this the new bus boko haram just bought?
The izala sect was banned by @MBuhari for their extremist views.
The same thing the izala sect was doing is what those who branded this bus want to do.
It was also the structure yusuf of boko haram took advantage of, Islamic extremism is taking roots in the SW!
WIKILEAKS: BOKO HARAM EVOLVED FROM IZALA SECT – US CABLES; BUHARI BANNED IZALA FROM PREACHING IN PUBLIC
“When he headed Nigeria’s military regime in the mid-1980s, Buhari sought to drastically curtail religious activism, banning Izala clerics from open-air preaching.
Sheikh jafar that was assassinated by BH was a ranking member!!
is it salafist?
It’s a registered Islamic body like Ansarudeen and Nasfat etc…the original name is the Arabic transliteration “ Jamaatu Izalatul Wa Ikamatil Sunnah”… the English Interpretation of the meaning and context is poor…
The English name should have been this way “ Centre for Eradicating Innovations in Islam and Establishing Sunnah…Innovations In this context is not about the goods of life like cars and technology advancement but insertion of what’s not in the Quran and Hadith
“Izala Society, formally Jama’at Izalat al Bid’a Wa Iqamat as Sunna (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunna), also called JIBWIS, is a SALAFI movement originally established in Northern Nigeria to fight what it sees as the bid’a (innovation)”
We have a historical reference point…the Izala sect. they are extremists. period!.
what is “innovation” in an Islamic context?…
Transliteration is the process of transferring a word from the alphabet of one language to another. Transliteration helps people pronounce words and names in foreign languages. … Its English transliteration is Hanukkah or Chanukah.
