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2003-02-17 East/Subsaharan Africa

Ivory Coast rebels seek backing for war threat

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Posted by Steve White 2003-02-17 10:49 am|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's simply astonishing that in almost all coverage of the civil war in the Ivory Coast, reporters and editors seem to omit from the lead that the northern rebels are radical Islamists (Islamo-Fascists who want to impose and Islamic state based Sharia law), and that the southern government represents the Christian and animists of the south (the vast majority). The Islamic population in the north has mushroomed over the last 15 years by the migration of Muslim refugees from the civil war in Burkina Faso, artificially inflating the Muslim percentage in the Ivorian population. But they are foreigners, from another country (hence the resentment against Ouattara). France, in all its nuttiness, brokered a "peace deal" to give the army and the police to the radical Islamists! That is, the real apparatuses of state power. This is France actively HELPING allies of al Qaeda win state power.

Posted by joeh 2003-02-17 10:33:47|| [home.earthlink.net/~joeh/] 2003-02-17 10:33:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Joe:
Yes, Muslims are aggressing everywhere. Knowledge of the Islamic concept of "gharabaa" is essential to an understanding of this "final jihad." (see: www.as-sahwah.com)

Good sources on the aggression in Africa:
www.algeriadaily.com
www.vanguardngr.com
www.aipj.net (French)
www.odili.net/nigeria.html (the writers - including Nobel laureate Woye Soyinka - welcome e-mail)

Posted by Anon 2003-02-17 13:19:54|| 2003-02-17 13:19:54|| Front Page Top

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