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Muslim Missionaries Recruiting Africans For Holy War
AP ^ | 2.23.04

Posted on 02/25/2004 11:03:29 PM PST by ambrose

Muslim Missionaries Recruiting Africans For Holy War

POSTED: 12:44 p.m. EST February 23, 2004

PEMBA, Tanzania -- Muslim missionaries from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Pakistan have been visiting mosques in East Africa to recruit young men for holy war.

Moderate Muslim leaders say the part-time preachers go from mosque to mosque spouting sermons of hate, then offer young men a chance to wage holy war in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan.

A moderate Muslim leader in Tanzania says most older clerics try to warn their congregations that the extremists distort Islam.

Most people in Zanzibar follow a mystical form of Sufi Islam, which emphasizes peace and harmony, so they tend to reject the missionaries' fiery rhetoric.

But the missionaries appeal to a frustrated minority who believe Islam is at war.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; africa; insurgents; iraq; jihad; jihadinafrica; martyrsiniraq; mosques; pakistan; recruits; tanzania

1 posted on 02/25/2004 11:03:29 PM PST by ambrose
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To: ambrose
bttt
2 posted on 02/25/2004 11:27:18 PM PST by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: ambrose
Maybe they should setup a meeting...

3 posted on 02/26/2004 12:11:35 AM PST by endthematrix (To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
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To: ambrose
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are probably this nation's worst enemies.
4 posted on 02/26/2004 12:20:00 AM PST by dagnabbit (Settle illegals on the Crawford TX ranch)
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To: dagnabbit
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are probably this nation's worst enemies.
But, dagnabbit, they're our 'allies' </sarcasm
5 posted on 02/26/2004 2:57:12 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: ambrose
Islam has two uses for Blacks: slaves and cannon fodder.
6 posted on 02/26/2004 4:15:36 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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