By Bose Adelaja

The immediate past Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN has said that no act of terrorism shlould be linked with Islam. Fashola made this assertion during public presentaion of a book entitled: ‘Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Africaat’ held at the Muson Centre, Lagos, recently.

Fashola who was the chairman of the occasion commended the author, Dr Yinka Olomojobi, Acting Head of Department, Jurisprudence and Public Law Department, Babcock University,  for extraying the subject matter radical Islam saying, “any acts of terrorism should not be likened with Islam.”

Among other dignitaries that were present at the occasion were the radical preacher Pastor Tunde Bakare who presented the book, the Executive Secretary of Muslim Ummah of South/West Nigeria (MUSWEN) Professor Dawud Noibi and a lecturer with the University of Lagos Dr Adelaja Odukoya who reviewed the book.

The book exposes the clash of civilisations between Islam and the West focussing on issues about the factors that promote radical Islam in Africa as well as a global perspective to conflicts brewed by radicalism.

While reviewing the book, a lecturer with the University of Lagos, Dr Adelaja Odukoya said the author has devoted his intellectual efforts due to the contemporary, epistemological and pedagogical discourse which commands a global attention and currency across social, cultural, philosophical, intellectual and national boundaries.

In his submission, Professor Noibi said the book was a pointer to the fact that people can live together peacefully with mutual understanding, ‘’those who terrorise the society in the name of Islam cannot be regarded as adherents of Islam just as the author has claimed. This message should be passed across the country so that we can love one another for the benefit of Nigerians,’’ Noibi stated.