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US "treasures Islam" says envoy in Nigeria

Feb 4, 2007, 17:40 GMT

Abuja - The US ambassador in Nigeria John Campbell during a visit to that country's north-western Sokoto Caliphate on Sunday said that the United States 'treasures Islam.'

The Sokoto Caliphate, founded in the 19th century by the legendary Othman Dan Fodio, was the first area of Nigeria to embrace Islam.

Campbell was Sunday paying a courtesy visit to the Caliphate and the direct descendant of Othman Dan Fodio, Sultan Sa'ad Abubakar III, the current and the 20th sultan of Sokoto and the supreme leader of Nigerian Muslims.

'While here in your palace, I want to tell the entire Muslim community in Nigeria, through you, that America treasures your friendship and honours your faith,' Campbell said.

'Islam is a religion that inspires hope and grants solace to more than a billion Muslims around the world, including millions of American Muslims,' the envoy added.

Campbell said Americans knew that Sokoto was an important cultural and religious centre in northern Nigeria.

'Throughout West Africa, the triumphs and splendour of the Sokoto Caliphate ... are well known and celebrated,' he said.

Responding, the Sultan said Nigerians valued 'our relationship with countries that identify with us, and the United States is among them.'

© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur


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I do not Treasure islamFeb 4th, 2007 - 19:54:47

What nonsense.

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Michael ReineltFeb 4th, 2007 - 22:09:01

What crock! The U.S. hates Islam, fights against Muslims, even prepares to use nuclear weapons against them (Ira, in spring 2007).

The U.S. undermines all Muslim attempts to reach into modernity. Islam is the new enemy of the United States.

How can any journalist write such nonsense, even when the idiot-U.S. ambassador is spouting his lies?

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Grow upFeb 4th, 2007 - 23:29:06

'The U.S. undermines all Muslim attempts to reach into modernity. '

LOL! Are you sure it isn't the slavish adherence to an intolerant religious dogma that divides the world into infidel and believer, suppresses half of their own population as inferior, (Women) and their complete inability to get along with themselves or anyone else? (Since before the USA was a country?) Might that not undermines attempts to reach into modernity a bit?

What wont you blame the US for? You are pathetic, you stub your toe and whine that is Americas fault.

'How can any journalist write such nonsense,'

You are hardly the arbiter of what is truth and what is nonsense.

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