Banditry: Defend yourselves, Katsina cleric tells residents - Daily Trust

Banditry: Defend yourselves, Katsina cleric tells residents - Daily Trust

A Katsina State-based cleric, Sheikh Musa Ibrahim Faskari, has advised communities ravaged by banditry to take up arms and defend themselves. In a Friday sermon that went viral on social media, the Islamic scholar said Islam encouraged people who were being attacked and killed to take arms and defend themselves. He said communities were allowed to take up arms in order to defend five things: religion, lives, wealth, dignity and family. He furthe…