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| Salafists lead a counter-election campaign in Algeria |
| 2007-11-20 |
| Religious affairs ministry is investigating about the extremist Salafist trend in Algeria which is leading a counter-election campaign in mosques. Salafists are circulating tracts urging people not to vote in the upcoming local assemblies elections scheduled for November 29. Tracts calling for local elections boycott are being circulated in mosques, a security source told El Khabar. Preliminary investigations disclose that the extremist Salafists are behind this nationwide propaganda. Further investigations are to be undertaken to unveil who is really behind the completely erroneous fatwa, according to the ministryÂ’s fatwa commission. In turn, religious affairs ministry has given an instruction to Imams calling them to devote next FridayÂ’s sermon to invalidate the fatwa and raise people awareness as regards taking part in the local ballot. |
| Posted by:Fred |