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| Mauritanian Salafist condemns kidnappings as breach of Islamic tradition | |
| 2010-01-30 | |
| [Maghrebia] Mauritanian Salafist activist Ahmed Ould Heinna Ould Mouloud said that kidnapping westerners is a violation of Islamic law, ANI reported on Thursday (January 28th). "You're not supposed to kidnap them! You chop their heads off! It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up!" In an interview published Thursday in Akhbar Nouakchott, Ould Heinna criticised all acts of violence, including the recent abductions of western tourists. "Foreigners who enter Muslim countries must be safe. Under Aman, it is sacrilege to assault them or make them suffer the slightest prejudice", he said. According to Ould Heinna, the foreigners' "blood, property and honour are strictly protected and doing otherwise would breach the principle of Aman". He also spoke out against fellow Salafist Khadim Ould Semane for wearing a tee-shirt emblazoned with al-Qaeda slogans at last week's religious debate between Islamic scholars and Salafist convicts in a Nouakchott prison. Such slogans "have nothing to do with Islam", he said, adding that the gesture was "contrary to Islamic law". Ould Heinna was arrested in 2005 on charges of recruiting insurgents to fight in Iraq. He was acquitted in 2007. Ould Semane has been jailed since 2008 for the murder of a family of French tourists.
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| Posted by:Fred |