VIDEO: Muslim Fanatics Harass, Threaten To Stone Osun Priestess, Fellow Worshippers In Ilorin, North Central NigeriaThe Muslim clerics were captured on camera in a video making the rounds on the internet, threatening to stone the traditional religion practitioners and their priestess.
Some Muslim clerics in Ilorin, Kwara State capital threatened to stone some Isese traditional worshippers performing rites at a river in Oko Owo area of the state.The Muslim clerics were captured on camera in a video making the rounds on the internet, threatening to stone the traditional religion practitioners and their priestess.
In a video released online, the priestess said she was threatened and warned not to hold any Isese festival in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.Meanwhile, the Osun devotee had reportedly released fliers announcing a three-day traditional event aimed at celebrating certain Yoruba deities.But members of a Muslim group, Majlisu Shabab li Ulamahu Society went to her house to warn her to desist from holding the planned Isese festival.
Later, Mallam Abdulazeez Arowona, the spokesman for the Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu-Gambari, said that the monarch and the palace were in support of the Islamic group.Arowona said the monarch had made a public declaration against such events, which he described as ‘idolatry’.But Nobel laureate, Prof.
According to Soyinka, such actions “bred Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP and other religious malformations that currently plague this nation, spreading grief and outrage across a once peaceful landscape, degrading my and your existence with their virulent brand of Islam”.