Islamophobes prevent enforcement of Sharia in Mali

"And the thief, male and female: cut off the hands of both, as a recompense for what they have earned, and a punishment exemplary from God; God is All-mighty, All-wise." -- Qur'an 5:38

Ibrahim Hooper, call your office: "Islamophobia" has broken out in Mali! Amputation of thieves' hands is a non-negotiable part of Sharia, since it is in the Qur'an. Thus those who thwarted this hand-chopping had to be greasy Islamophobes, seething with anti-Muslim hate as they saved this man's hand. Or at least that's how Anna Ringstrom would tell the story.

"Protestors in Gao thwart hand-chopping by Mali extremists," from AFP, August 5 (thanks to David):

RESIDENTS of Gao in Islamist-occupied northern Mali yesterday prevented extremists from chopping off the hand of a thief, the penalty for stealing according to strict sharia law.

"They [Islamists] were not able to cut off the thief's hand. Very early on Sunday hundreds of youths stormed independence square in Gao to prevent the sentence being carried out," a local teacher told AFP by telephone.

On Saturday night the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) announced on private radio that they would carry out the sharia sentence yesterday at the square.

"They [Islamists] were not able to take the prisoner to the square to cut off his hand. The residents of Gao occupied the square and refused to allow the thief's hand to be amputated," the leader of a local NGO said on condition of anonymity.

According to corroborating 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. The Islamists have retreated and the civilians sang the national hymn as a sign of victory," another resident said....

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How intolerant of them!

Chalk one up for civilization in Mali.

They do deserve better than rabid imported Salafism.

Good on Mali!

In Africa, there is a pretty rapid rate of conversion of Muslims to Christianity.

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Traeh, I have some colleagues from Mali who teach either English for Speakers of Other Languages, French, or both. Although they identify as Muslims, I have heard them say some rather harsh things about the Salafists and other sorts.

The article makes me suspect, however, that for Malians, it may be no more than support for a local person against some people from another tribe.

Still, I'd rather see theft punished by restitution to the victim rather than by either amputation or incarceration in those universities of sociopathy that we call "penitentiaries".

And some of it has been happening in Mali.

A year or two ago, I was reading at the website of the French branch of the Bible Society and came across mention of a Bible Society project in Mali called 'a l'ecoute de la parole', involving the training of people, converts to Christianity, to recite/ declaim Scripture in the style of the griots, the traditional singer/ storytellers. One such reciter was a Bambara speaker who had been converted to Christianity - from Islam - after reading the Scriptures in Bambara language.

(The Bible Society in France, by the way, also had on its website, on that particular occasion, a story about some Berber ex-Muslims, converts to Christianity, who showed up at their head office one day, seeking professional assistance with the task of translating Scripture into one of the Berber languages; these Berber believers had already made a start on a rough translation from the French version into Berber, but I think they wanted to consult people with access to the original Hebrew so that the final translation would be as accurate as possible).

If Malian Muslims can revolt against the cruel barbarism of Sharia, may be all hope is not lost for an Islamic reformation.

The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) would be more aptly named the Movement for Onehandedness and Jihad in West Africa.

A wonderful sign of humanity and compassion. I wish we could hear more of that from northern Africa.

No good will come of this. When Allah reads this news in his morning newspaper, he is going to be most upset.

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