“So far, the violence has been concentrated in the northern coastal areas where the majority of the population is Muslim.”
The fact that Islamic jihadists kill Muslims has led many Western analysts to conclude that the jihadists are not actually Muslim, since the Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92). But heresy, apostasy, and blasphemy carry death sentences in Islamic law, and so Muslims of differing sects have frequently killed each other, as The History of Jihad shows in detail from Islamic sources. And that is likely what is happening here.
“Dramatic flare-up in militant violence shocks Mozambique,” Barnabas Fund, November 27, 2018:
An estimated 50 attacks have taken place in northern Mozambique since October 2017, killing 200 people.
In one particularly brutal attack, suspected Islamist militants armed with machetes rampaged through a village in northern Mozambique at dawn on 5 June, beheading seven people and burning 164 houses.
At the time of writing, no organisation has claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the intentions of the Muslim group remain ambiguous, although local news sources suspect hardline Islamists are responsible. So far, the violence has been concentrated in the northern coastal areas where the majority of the population is Muslim….