It’s time to stop calling everyone an Islamist – a term created by and for Westerners. They are Muslims. They want sharia law. They wage jihad to implement it. They kill other Muslims wantonly. via Mali Islamists beat journalist after sharia plan thwarted – Yahoo! News.
Islamists occupying northern Mali beat a
radio presenter for reporting on their failed efforts to amputate a
thief’s hand as an embattled interim regime in the capital struggled to
win back confidence.
Amid attempts by Islamists to enforce
sharia in the occupied vast desert north, the government vowed Monday to
work flat out to regain lost territory and underscored its commitment
to secularism.
However protesters demanding the
resignation of interim President Dioncounda Traore took to the streets
of the capital Bamako and police fired tear gas to disperse them.
In the extremist-occupied north, radio presenter Abdoul Malick Maiga was in the Gao hospital on Monday after a thrashing by the town’s Islamist rulers.
“He regained consciousness but is still in intense pain,” a doctor at the hospital told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“He has scratches on his eye. He explained
that the Islamists came to arrest him as he was commenting on the
population’s refusal to accept the amputation of a thief’s hand,” he
added.
Another doctor said the presenter had been beaten “with a stick by the Islamists who accused him of criticising them.”
Hundreds of people protested on Sunday
night in Gao demanding Maiga’s release from detention and set fire to a
car belonging to a leader of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West
Africa (MUJAO) which controls Gao.
The Islamists fired shots into the air to disperse the crowd.
On Saturday MUJAO announced on
private radio they would amputate the thief’s hand at a town square, but
hundreds of protesters on Sunday stormed the square to prevent them
from carrying out the sentence.
According to local sources, the accused was a young MUJAO recruit who had stolen weapons to re-sell them.
“We don’t want to know what this
young man did, but they are not going to cut his hand off in front of
us,” a resident said on Sunday.
This is the first report of the extremists
trying to stage an amputation since they occupied the north of the
country four months ago.
The residents of Gao have struck
out against the occupation, and MUJAO had eased up on applying Islamic
law after violent anti-Islamist protests in May left one dead.
In the small town of Aguelhok, another
armed Islamist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) publicly stoned an
unmarried couple to death late last month.
Just like they beheaded Daniel Pearl and viciously gang-raped Lara Logan. This is Islam.
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