The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has petitioned the Inspector general of police and Films and Censorship board over a movie titled Fata...
The Islamic Movement in
Nigeria has petitioned the Inspector general of police and Films and Censorship
board over a movie titled Fatal Arrogance which is currently being shot in
Enugu.
This was made known to
pressmen recently in a press statement released by Ibrahim Musa, President Media
Forum of the Movement.
The Movement accused
the Nigerian Army of sponsoring the movie, saying “In a normal circumstance,
this kind of clips can be dismissed but not at times like these when Buhari
regime is sponsoring a contractor/activist for, and supported by, the Nigerian
Army like Kuanum Terrence and security operatives to launch offensive on the
Islamic Movement that has a reputation for upholding peace even at the peak of
unprovoked attacks.”
It further says, “The
Islamic Movement in Nigeria wishes to call upon the respected professionals of
Nollywood to address this issue immediately. If film producers are not careful
some disgruntled elements in governance will make them side with the oppressors
against the oppressed as the film "Fatal Arrogance" is meant to
achieve. Genocide is involved here; any move to justify the brutal and inhuman
Zaria genocide of December 2015 is an affront on the Rome Status of the
International Criminal Court.”
Below is the press
statement:
Shame on producers of
FATAL ARROGANCE
On September 9, 2020,
some bizarre video clips of FATAL ARROGANCE, a movie produced and directed by
Anosike Kingsley Orji, alongside shots from a movie location in Enugu surfaced
on the internet, where half-cladded women dressed in a cult-like outfits, heads
covered with scarfs, with sharp swords gripped to their hands, with others
holding banners and flags displaying a bearded man in turban and gown while
chanting meaningless protest-like slogans. We are of course shocked by the film
where the popular Islamic Movement in Nigeria and its leader Sheikh Ibraheem
Zakzaky are being depicted and badly portrayed as terrorists.
In a normal
circumstance, this kind of clips can be dismissed but not at times like these
when Buhari regime is sponsoring a contractor/activist for, and supported by,
the Nigerian Army like Kuanum Terrence and security operatives to launch
offensive on the Islamic Movement that has a reputation for upholding peace
even at the peak of unprovoked attacks.
Evidently, for every
Nigerian these clips are meant to disparage the peaceful movement and portray
it to the world as a violent armed movement. Also, the movie on the pipeline
has the same title with Terrence’s book that died on its arrival, where he
blamed the victims of terror for being their own nemesis. He had launched what
he called a book titled ‘Fatal Arrogance: How El-Zakzaky Hypnotized IMN Members
into Killing Themselves while Protecting Him’. As ridiculous as the name may
sounds, the content is not far from that too.
The Islamic Movement in
Nigeria wishes to call upon the respected professionals of Nollywood to address
this issue immediately. If film producers are not careful some disgruntled
elements in governance will make them side with the oppressors against the
oppressed as the film "Fatal Arrogance" is meant to achieve. Genocide
is involved here; any move to justify the brutal and inhuman Zaria genocide of
December 2015 is an affront on the Rome Status of the International Criminal
Court.
After the Zaria
Genocide, the Buhari regime launched massive campaigns of calumny and
demonization against Sheikh Zakzaky, the Movement and Shia Islam using Saudi
petrodollars. Books were written to further this hate campaigns and "Fatal
Arrogance" is one of those books. The regime saw that Nigerians did not
show interest in that book because it is full of lies, fraudulent fabrications
and gross distortion of history. They then decided to use a famous father of
the Nigerian film industry Pete Edochie to produce a film that will change the
true narration of history and justify their brutal murder of thousands of
innocent Shia civilians in Nigeria.
However, most Nigerians
are aware that all Free Zakzaky protests are peaceful. It is the Nigerian Army
and Police that violently attacked these protests and they have killed hundreds
of innocent civilians that included women and children. Why spread the
fraudulent propaganda that these peaceful protesters are carrying guns and
bombs? History will never be kind on any film producer for this monstrous evil
of spreading fabricated and fraudulent propaganda to justify a genocide and
multiple massacres of innocent and defenseless civilians.
We want the world,
Nigerians in particular to bear witness that this film FATAL ARROGANCE can be
used in creating conflicts among our diverse communities. It is a propaganda
machine that can deceive millions, and it's also an easy way to use for
character assassination. It can be used to distort the truth, free criminals
and blame the victims as well as making the bad guys the good guys. We
therefore call on well-meaning Nigerians to exert pressure on the producers of
that abominable film to stop it.
For now, we have
petitioned the Films and Censorship board, and the Inspector General of police
on the matter. We await their response before we take further action on the
issue.
Sign:
IBRAHIM MUSA
PRESIDENT,
MEDIA FORUM,
ISLAMIC
MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA
SKYPE:
Ibrahim.musa.42
10/09/2020
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