“We want everyone here to apply Islamic law. We don’t want a government from unbelievers, we want a government from Allah.”
If our moral superiors weren’t around to assure us to the contrary, one might almost get the idea that this had something to do with Islam.
“Extremists in northern Mozambique declare goal of caliphate,” AFP, April 15, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
MAPUTO, Mozambique – A shadowy Islamist group that has terrorised northern Mozambique for more than two years has suddenly become more brazen, unmasking its fighters and openly declaring its goal of turning the gas-rich region into an Islamic state.
In recent weeks, the jihadists have seized government buildings, robbed banks, blocked roads and hoisted their black-and-white flag over towns and villages across Cabo Delgado province.
“We want everyone here to apply Islamic law,” a Kalashnikov-wielding group member told terrified residents in a video that appeared to have been shot in Mocimboa da Praia after a recent attack….
“We don’t want a government from unbelievers, we want a government from Allah,” the group member added, speaking in the local Kimwani language to residents rounded up for a rally….
Locally they are known as al-Shabab, although they have no known links to the ruthless jihadist group of that name operating in Somalia.
Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP), affiliated with the Islamic State group, has claimed the Mocimboa attack, as it has in a few previous attacks since last year.
“From the images and from what the insurgents said, we know that these men are from the town of Mocimboa da Praia and that they belong to the group that made the first insurgents attack in October 2017,” said African history expert Eric Morier-Genoud, a senior lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
“We hear them again lay out their ultimate objective: the establishment of an Islamist state regulated by Sharia rule.”…