{"id":80864,"date":"2015-01-09T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=80864"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:02:39","slug":"islam-president-mahama-paris-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=80864","title":{"rendered":"This is not Islam &#8211; President Mahama on Paris attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has spoken out against Wednesday&#8217;s deadly attack by suspected Islamists on a French magazine, Charlie Hedo which resulted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/07\/gun-attack-french-magazine-charlie-hebdo-kills-12\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>deaths of 12 people<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the President, the attack and many others by suspected Islamists around the world was inconsistent with the teachings of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we reading the same Holy Book?\u201d President Mahama asked on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80868\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/80112975_80112974-620x3301.jpg\" alt=\"80112975_80112974-620x330\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/80112975_80112974-620x3301.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/80112975_80112974-620x3301-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lAzXx3aso9660nTxEAXl0ChZMkryVxws&#8221;]Most of those killed were journalists who worked at the publication which has courted controversy in the past with its presentation of news and current affairs topics, in a manner often described as irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>The two masked gunmen, who were armed with assault rifles were reported to have shouted \u201cwe have avenged the Prophet Muhammad\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This has led to suggestions that the attack may have been in response to the magazine&#8217;s caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in November 2011, when it was fire-bombed.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/08\/arrests-as-france-hunts-gunmen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>arrests have so far been made<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the French capital and the two main suspects who had been on the run since the incident, <a href=\"www.citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/09\/charlie-hebdo-suspects-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>have been killed<\/strong><\/span><\/a> after police surrounded their hideout.<\/p>\n<p>The President also criticised Islamist militant attacks on the continent, which he felt were not a true representation of the religion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80869\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80869 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/78894856_024676851-1.jpg\" alt=\"_78894856_024676851-1\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/78894856_024676851-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/78894856_024676851-1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victim receiving treatment after Nigerian school bombing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf poor school children are going to school to seek knowledge, what is their crime for them to be killed?\u201d he queried, apparently in reference to the killing of 47 school children in a school in Nigeria in 2014 by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has spoken out against Wednesday&#8217;s deadly attack by suspected Islamists on a French magazine, Charlie Hedo which resulted in the deaths of 12 people. 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