Kano -The Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II,
on Saturday said Nigeria's Muslims will not be
intimidated into abandoning Islam following
coordinated bomb and gun attacks on the city's
central mosque that left at least 120 people
dead.
"We will never be intimidated into abandoning
our religion, which is the intention of the
attackers," the emir said during a 20-minute-
visit to the mosque shortly after his return to
the country.
The mosque adjoins his palace in the city.
Sanusi was out of Nigeria on Friday, when the
deadly assault on the mosque occurred.
Last week, the emir - who is the country's
second most senior Muslim cleric - made a call
at the same mosque urging civilians to take up
arms against the Islamist extremist group Boko
Haram.
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