“As Sky’s Africa John Sparks reports, the crisis has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.”
Why? Because the perpetrators don’t fit the establishment narrative that Muslims are always victims. But you can see EU foreign minister Josep Borrell Fontalles below doing his best to shoehorn it in.
“Ansar al-Sunna want to establish an Islamic state in the region and claim the Islam practised in Mozambique has been corrupted and no longer follows Muhammad’s teachings. Its members, which have grown to the thousands, have tried preventing people from going to hospitals or schools as they consider them secular and anti-Islamic….The group has become increasingly violent since 2017 and is now calling for Sharia law across Mozambique.”
But, but, how do these fellows not understand that jihad violence has nothing to do with Islam, and that Sharia is entirely peaceful and benign, as well as compatible with Western-style democracy? Pope Francis or Joe Biden or Steve Harvey somebody who knows that Islam is a religion of peace should go over to Mozambique and explain to these good folks how they’re misunderstanding their religion.
“Mozambique conflict: Why have 500,000 people been forced to flee their homes?,” by Alix Culbertson, Sky News, February 5, 2021:
More than 500,000 people have been displaced from a ruby and oil-rich region of Mozambique in what the UN has called “a perfect storm of instability”.
The people of Cabo Delgado, the country’s northernmost province, are dealing with an insurgency by Islamist militants, food insecurity, extreme weather, disease and government failures.
Reliable information is severely lacking from the region as journalists face intimidation, with two local reporters held for months in a military prison in 2019, while international media has been refused permission to enter.
As Sky’s Africa John Sparks reports, the crisis has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world.
This is what is happening.
In 2017, a group calling itself Ansar al-Sunna (translation: supporters of the tradition) started carrying out attacks on government and civilian targets in Cabo Delgado, a province rich in rubies and oil and with a population that is 54% Muslim – whereas most of Mozambique is Christian.
The group was reportedly formed in 2015 by followers of the radical Muslim Kenyan cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who resettled in Mozambique after his death in 2012.
Mozambicans call them Al-Shabaab, but they are not the same as the terror group in Somalia.
Ansar al-Sunna want to establish an Islamic state in the region and claim the Islam practised in Mozambique has been corrupted and no longer follows Muhammad’s teachings.
Its members, which have grown to the thousands, have tried preventing people from going to hospitals or schools as they consider them secular and anti-Islamic.
Mozambicans make up the majority of their members, many who hold grudges against the government, but they are also known to come from Tanzania and Somalia.
The group has become increasingly violent since 2017 and is now calling for Sharia law across Mozambique, while it no longer recognises the government and has created hidden training camps to fight against the military.
There have been numerous attacks on government buildings, mosques and civilians, with decapitations and the burning down of houses becoming their modus operandi….
More than 2,500 people have been killed in the conflict since it started in 2017.
By December 2020, more than 530,000 people (nearly a quarter of Cabo Delgado’s population) had been displaced from the province into neighbouring Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa provinces, UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, said….
Women and girls are “significantly vulnerable to gender-based violence”, with many being abducted, forced into marriages or prostitution, raped or subjected to other forms of sexual violence, the UNHCR said….
Now, why might that be? Might it have anything to do with the justification for sex slavery in Islam? A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has previously said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an. In India, a Muslim gave a Qur’an and a prayer rug to the woman he was holding captive and repeatedly raping. And the victim of an Islamic State jihadi rapist recalled: “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God…He said that raping me is his prayer to God.” In India, a Muslim kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old Hindu girl, and forced her to read the Qur’an and Islamic prayers. The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.
EU foreign minister Josep Borrell Fontalles said not everything can be blamed on Ansar al-Sunna, adding: “The armed violence in the northern part of Mozambique was triggered by poverty and inequality and by the population of the areas losing respect for a state which could not provide it what it needed….
Of course. It can’t all be blamed on an armed jihad group that wants to establish a caliphate. It’s about poverty and inequality, so the remedy is foreign aid and socialism.
President Nyusi also met US counter-terrorism officials for discussions, but the attacks continue to increase.
What a surprise, given that US counter-terrorism officials don’t know the first foggiest thing about jihad.