Mali: Islamic supremacists arrest three Catholics for refusing to listen to Islamic sermon

Sharia in action. Less "extremist" Sharia entities don't have a different version of Sharia; they just don't enforce all of its provisions. "Foreign jihadists join north Mali Islamists," from AFP, November 25 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

AFP - Dozen of Algerian jihadists have arrived in the Malian city of Timbuktu to support armed Islamist groups who are imposing an increasingly brutal version of sharia law in the vast northern areas under their control, security sources said Sunday.
The latest influx of foreigners joining the Al-Qaeda linked Islamists was revealed as interim authorities in Bamako postponed a key conference to plan the country's transition back to democracy and tackle the crisis in the occupied north....

As plans for the internationally-backed intervention force take shape, reports have increased of Sudanese, Algerian and other west Africans joining the jihadists' ranks.

"Dozens of Algerian jihadists arrived in Timbuktu this weekend to reinforce the AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) camp," a regional security source told AFP.

He said the fabled city of Timbuktu was "increasingly becoming the headquarters of AQIM in northern Mali."

Regional security sources said in early November that dozens of young Europeans and Africans living in Europe had also attempted to join the Islamists in northern Mali.

On Friday a suspected French jihadist was arrested on the border between Mauritania and an area of northern Mali.

"The arrival of more and more Islamist reinforcements" is to be expected, a Malian security source said on Sunday....

And in the north, Islamists backed by the regional Al-Qaeda franchise soon seized full control, ousting the more secular Tuareg to pursue their goal of running the region according to a severe form of sharia law.

Married couples have been stoned, thieves have had their arms amputated and smokers and drinkers have been whipped.

A resident of Timbuktu, a former local government official, denounced the toughening of sharia in the city.

"Now, the Islamists are going through houses to confiscate televisions," he told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Yesterday (Saturday) they took at least 25 television sets. Today they began rummaging through houses near the grand mosque."

Two weeks ago the jihadists began going door-to-door to arrest women who were not wearing veils.

Also on Sunday, three Congolese citizens were arrested in Timbuktu after refusing to listen to an Islamic sermon because they are Catholic, a local government official told AFP.

"They were thrown into one of the Islamists' prisons in Timbuktu," he said.

According to him the three men were attempting to illegally enter Europe via the Malian desert but had been stuck in northern Mali after it was occupied by armed Islamist groups....

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salah | November 25, 2012 5:53 PM | Reply

"Yesterday (Saturday) they took at least 25 television sets."

Wonder why? Google Trends has the answer!!!

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-muslims-watchce-que-les-musulmans.html

ebonystone | November 25, 2012 7:16 PM | Reply

"...that dozens of young Europeans and Africans living in Europe had also attempted to join the Islamists ...."

Would these be real Europeans -- i.e. converts to Islam? Or simply Moslems presently living in Europe?

Papa Whiskey | November 25, 2012 10:05 PM | Reply

And yet to whose defense does our fearless leader Barry Hussein leap? Why, Burmese Muslims, of course:

"The Rohingya ... hold within themselves the same dignity as you do, and I do. National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country's future, it's necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence."

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-298620-obama-to-myanmar-respect-rights-of-rohingya-muslims.html

But Egypt's Copts? Syria's Christians? Nigeria's Christians? Indonesia's Christians? All of them are currently under attack, with nary a peep from that creature.

John C. Barile replied to comment from Papa Whiskey | November 26, 2012 5:19 AM | Reply

No voice for them but yours, Papa.

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