The cleric’s reaction followed an announcement by President Donald Trump that US forces and the Nigerian armed forces carried out a joint military operation that led to the killing of al-Minuki in Africa.
Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has reacted to the killing of Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, identified as the second-in-command of the Islamic State, by United States forces in collaboration with the Nigerian military.
Gumi, in a Facebook post on Saturday, said combating terrorism was a religious duty but condemned the involvement of those he described as having “hands stained with the blood of innocent men, women, and children.”
“It’s a religious obligation to annihilate terrorists, but not with Beelzebub and hands stained with the blood of innocent men, women, and children,” he wrote.
The cleric’s reaction followed an announcement by President Donald Trump that US forces and the Nigerian armed forces carried out a joint military operation that led to the killing of al-Minuki in Africa.
