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2004-01-14 Africa: West

Nigerian Taliban sez the fight will go on

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-14 12:40:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 FYI: no Muslim can only accept secular law as provisional to shariah. That is why the West should reconsider both citizenship grants to Muslims, and immigration of same.

Posted by Wasserman 2004-1-14 2:43:06 AM|| 2004-1-14 2:43:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 FYI: A Muslim can only accept secular law as provisional to shariah. That is why the West should reconsider both citizenship grants to Muslims, and immigration of same.

Posted by Wasserman 2004-1-14 2:43:28 AM|| 2004-1-14 2:43:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 A few more details from AP story:
The students were followers of a Nigerian Islamic cleric known as Abu Umar, or Mullah Umar, students and Nigerian security agencies told AP.
Little is known about Umar except that he, like all his followers, is under age 30. He drew his flock largely from northern Islamic states, but also from the majority Christian southern states of Oyo, Osun and Lagos. The students included children of top northern government officials, police said. The young men called themselves Al Sunna wal Jamma, Arabic loosely translated as Followers of the Prophet's Teaching. Leaving prosperous homes and university study, the students settled with Mullah Umar in a tent city on the banks of the Yobe River at the town of Kanamma. At least 200 students lived there - roughly the same number as is believed to have taken part in the uprising, said Yobe state spokesman Ibrahim Jirgi. Security agencies say the group may secretly have had as many as 1,000 members, spread out in cells.
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Mohammed said a friend introduced him to Mullah Umar, when Mohammed was an economics student at Bayero University in the northern city of Kano.
"Umar saw my interest in the Koran and the Islamic way of life," the jailed student said. "So he showed me portions of the Koran which says we should consider those who don't follow Allah's law as followers of Satan."
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Umar eluded arrest, and is being sought by authorities. Under Mullah Umar, the group for two years limited itself to political activity - handing out leaflets critical of officials they saw as lax on Islamic law, for example. Then, the sect began clashing with residents over fishing rights around their Yobe River camp.
Increasingly militant, students took over a primary school in Kanamma, hoisting a flag that labeled it "Afghanistan." Yobe state Gov. Abba Ibrahim said he was trying to persuade the students to disband when they launched their attacks.
The offensive failed, not only because security troops moved in, but because the rich students failed to connect with the area's Muslims - 80 percent of whom live on less than $1 a day.
"They put Islam upside down," said Ibrahim Tijjani, a Maiduguri-based Muslim cleric. "Violence is only justifiable in Islam when one's religion, life, family or property is attacked - none of which happened in this case."

Posted by Steve 2004-1-14 3:16:36 PM|| 2004-1-14 3:16:36 PM|| Front Page Top

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