Ghanaian Muslim Clerics are alarmed by the rising political tension ahead of the November 7 general elections.<\/p>\n
They anticipate chaos if appropriate measures are not put in place to safeguard the nation\u2019s tranquility.<\/span><\/p>\n All Imams across the country have therefore been instructed to intensify peace advocacy in their sermons.<\/span><\/p>\n This was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 issued at the end of a two-day 22nd<\/sup> Ramadan conference held at the Tamale central Mosque.<\/p>\n The conference was dubbed, \u201cPeaceful election prerequisite for national development.\u201d<\/p>\n The statement signed by Alhaji Mohammed Gazali and Alhaji Dawuda Baba Nuhu, members of the Ramadan Conference Communication team requested that Sunday June, 2016 should mark the first day for the sighting of the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf seen, Monday the 6th<\/sup> of June shall be the first day of Ramadan 2016. If not seen, Monday becomes the 30th<\/sup> day of Shaban. Tuesday 7th<\/sup> of June automatically becomes the beginning of the fasting 2016,\u201d the statement underscored.<\/p>\n Islam and Terrorism<\/b><\/p>\n The statement decried attempts to tag Islam as a religion of violence. \u201cIslam is a religion of peace that preaches peace and peaceful co-existence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cTherefore, Muslims should not be misconstrued as terrorists in sub-Saharan Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n Cleanliness\/Godliness<\/b><\/p>\n The statement reminded Muslims of their responsibility to always keep their environment clean.<\/p>\n \u201cMuslim communities should attach a considerable amount of seriousness to the national monthly cleanup exercise to ensure proper disposal of solid and liquid waste in order to enhance hygienic condition for good health.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Girl child education<\/b><\/p>\n The statement urged Muslim parents to invest in their children especially girl child education.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will empower women by throwing the necessary support behind them to enable them give proper upbringing of children in the light of secular and religious education.\u201d<\/p>\n Desertification\/Climate change<\/b><\/p>\n The statement condemned the indiscriminate cutting of trees. \u201cMuslim communities especially the rural poor should desist from indiscriminate cutting of trees that lead to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe should therefore embark on mass tree planting to replace the lost ones to enhance sustainable land use including food security.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghanaian Muslim Clerics are alarmed by the rising political tension ahead of the November 7 general elections. They anticipate chaos if appropriate measures are not put in place to safeguard the nation\u2019s tranquility. All Imams across the country have therefore been instructed to intensify peace advocacy in their sermons. This was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}