Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Wahhabi Cleric in Mosque

(Hat tip: LGF)

More violence in Nigeria today, where two gunmen entered a mosque and killed a Wahhabi cleric trained by our friends the Saudis, then opened fire on his followers.

KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Gunmen shot dead a radical Muslim cleric in his mosque and fired on the congregation, killing two more people, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano Friday, witnesses said.

Followers of Jaafar Adam, a Wahhabi cleric, said the attack was political, ahead of the weekend elections for governors and legislators for the country’s 36 states. Two gunmen entered the mosque in a Kano suburb where Adam was leading morning prayers, shot the cleric twice and then opened fire on worshippers, Haruna Idris, one of Adam’s disciples, told AFP at the scene where thousands of people had gathered. ...

Saudi-trained Adam was known for his scathing criticism of the government and other Muslim sects, especially the Sufi order, as well as his strong calls for the strict implementation of the sharia legal system.

He would always snub the governors of the 12 northern states that practise sharia for allegedly not implementing it properly. Hundreds of his followers would flock to his mosque built by the London-based Saudi charity Al-Muntada Al-Islami in the Dorayi district of Kano to listen to his Friday sermons.