Working toward a caliphate in West Africa. “Daesh/ISIS-affiliated terrorists kill at least 17 civilians in northern Mali,” by Sidonie Aurore Bonny, Anadolu Agency, June 29, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): At least 17 people were killed and several others were wounded in two simultaneous attacks in the Gao region of northern Mali, a […]
Mali: Islamic State in the Greater Sahara murders hundreds of civilians, forces thousands to flee
Once again, the local governments appear unable or unwilling to stop them, and the jihadis seem to have an unlimited supply of men, money, and materiel, but no one ever seems to stop and wonder why these people who supposedly represent a tiny minority of extremists are so resilient and ubiquitous. “Islamist militants in Mali […]
Mali: Muslims murder 42 soldiers in ‘complex and co-ordinated attack by armed terrorist groups’
Whoever is funding and equipping these jihadis is making them a more formidable force than the national militaries of several West African countries. “Mali raises death toll in suspected Islamist attack to 42 soldiers,” by Souleymane Ag Anara, Business Day, August 11, 2022: Bamako — Mali’s government blamed an Islamic State affiliate for Sunday’s attack […]
Niger: Armed jihadis forcibly recruiting children, slaughtering others
At Niger’s borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) and al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) are battling it out, and it’s unimaginably brutal. Jihad wars and the excessive violence jihadists commit against their victims, including women and children, are always about the expansion of the Sharia — […]
Sharia in action in Mali: Muslims amputate right hands and left feet of three men in accord with Qur’an
This is, says AFP, “an apparent revival of a practice that had all but vanished.” Why is it being revived? Because it’s in the Qur’an, and so when it is discarded, some Muslims will continue to insist that their troubles can be attributed to having departed from Allah’s law, and claim that if full Sharia […]