The Muslim clerics were captured on camera in a video making the rounds on the internet, threatening to stone the traditional religion practitioners and their priestess.
Some Muslim clerics in Ilorin, Kwara State capital threatened to stone some Isese traditional worshippers performing rites at a river in Oko Owo area of the state.
The Muslim clerics were captured on camera in a video making the rounds on the internet, threatening to stone the traditional religion practitioners and their priestess.
The video posted on Friday night by a Facebook user, Alfa Aribidesi At-Tawdeeh Islamic Da'wah, and captioned "ANOTHER OSUN WOMEN CAUGHT LIVE @ OKO OLOWO IN ILORIN TODAY!!!", shows the Muslim clerics disrupt the traditional rite In the video, a Muslim cleric who spoke in Yoruba is heard saying, "We have warned you. You putting on hijab, we also see you. Don't put the calabash down. You know Ilorin doesn't belong to you; you understand."
The traditional religion worshipers replied that they are Ilorin indigenes but the Muslim fanatics said, "Is this what we will be doing in Ilorin? You say you are indigenes, is this what we will be doing in Ilorin? Where is your family house in Ilorin?"
He beckoned to some other Isese adherents still by the river and said, "Come out of there. You are in Ilorin. Leave that place. Is this Osun?"
But when they did not leave, he charged towards them and threatened to stone them, insisting that their religion was not allowed in Ilorin, saying, "Leave! Leave! Leave now! Can’t you hear me? Leave or I'll stone you."
The fanatics could be heard chanting Muslim prayers in Arabic.
Also, a recent viral video that generated controversy revealed how a traditional religion priestess, Yeye Ajesikemi Olokun Omolara Olatunji, was threatened by Muslim fanatics not to hold Isese festival in Ilorin.
In a video released online, the priestess said she was threatened and warned not to hold any Isese festival in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Omolara bemoaned the unfortunate situation and disclosed that her life was in danger.
Meanwhile, the Osun devotee had reportedly released fliers announcing a three-day traditional event aimed at celebrating certain Yoruba deities.
But members of a Muslim group, Majlisu Shabab li Ulamahu Society went to her house to warn her to desist from holding the planned Isese festival.
Later, Mallam Abdulazeez Arowona, the spokesman for the Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu-Gambari, said that the monarch and the palace were in support of the Islamic group.
Arowona said the monarch had made a public declaration against such events, which he described as ‘idolatry’.
He added that Muslims in the city would oppose the Isese festival.
But Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who is the Akintalun of Egba, Giiwa of Ijebu-Remo and Akogun of Isara, in an open letter to the Emir on Thursday, said that “it is sad to see the ancient city of Ilorin, a confluence of faiths and ethnic varieties, reduced to this level of bigotry and intolerance, manifested in the role of a presiding monarch”.
According to Soyinka, such actions “bred Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP and other religious malformations that currently plague this nation, spreading grief and outrage across a once peaceful landscape, degrading my and your existence with their virulent brand of Islam”.
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