Sheikh Abubakar Sumaworo, Liberia's Grand Mufti, has been urged to retract his recent statements describing Shia Muslims as terrorists. Sheikh Askary M. Kromah, a Liberian Shia Muslim leader, said at a press conference that Islam is a peaceful faith and that Shia Muslims in Liberia have coexisted peacefully with their brothers and sisters for more than seventeen years, with no history of being violent enmity. Sheikh Kromah further stated that Shia Muslims in Liberia had never committed any violent activities. So we've come to clarify the Grand Mufti of Liberia, Sheikh Sumaworo's erroneous and misleading information about Shia Muslims in Liberia,” he stated. According to him, his comment comes in response to Sheikh Sumaworo Khutubah’s sermon during the Eid Al-Fitr Prayer on May 2, 2022, during which the Grand Mufti encouraged the Liberian government to prohibit Shia Muslims from working in the country, accusing them of being terrorists.

Source: Daily Observer May 07, 2022 21:20 UTC