The Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje, has said it is an abomination for people to rise up against a democratically elected government.
Mubaje made the remarks as he joined the Turkiye community led by their ambassador Karem Alp to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the aborted July 15th coup against the President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Speaking as chief guest at the Memorial celebrations of 251 citizens killed by suspected separatists linked to Turkish scholar and philanthropist Fethullah Gulen.
Mubaje paid tribute to the citizens of the Turkiye for standing firm with passion and nationalism to protect their democratically elected government.
Mubaje told selected guests that it is incumbent upon believers to obey God and their rightly appointed leaders.
"It is an abomination (Haram) to rise up against democratically elected Gov't when there is the freedom to go for free and fair elections using the ballot box. Using the bullet becomes prohibited because it leads to violence and threatens the lives of innocent people," he said.
He prayed for the souls of those who lost their lives in the attempted coup and the well-being of their families.
Mubaje commended the bilateral cooperation between Turkiye, the Ugandan government and Uganda Muslim Supreme Council(UMSC).
On his part, Alp recounted how the Turkiye masses resisted what he described as terroristic forces as they forcefully attempted to take over power.
"The group led by Gulen a Self-style Imaam were spreading dangerous ideologies that promote division, separatism of people, and Islam," he said.
