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Mozambique: Islamic State captures key port, establishes its first outpost in southern Africa, imposes Sharia
JIHAD WATCH ^ | AUG 19, 2020 3:00 PM | ROBERT SPENCER

Posted on 08/19/2020 12:22:11 PM PDT by robowombat

Mozambique: Islamic State captures key port, establishes its first outpost in southern Africa, imposes Sharia AUG 19, 2020 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

The desire to restore the caliphate is not discarded after setbacks. The service of Allah is not negated by setbacks. The jihad continues, and will continue, while the world yawns and tends to other matters.

“Islamic State now has its first outpost in southern Africa after capture of key port in Mozambique,” by Julian Kossoff, Business Insider, August 17, 2020:

Mozambique has become the latest African stronghold of Islamic State (IS) after well-armed insurgents captured a strategic port in the north of the country.

Fighters affiliated to IS overran the port of Mocimboa da Praia after several days of fighting earlier this week. The town is now under Sharia law, according to The Times.

The latest reports say government troops are still battling to regain control of the town and hundreds of reinforcements have been rushed to the battle, the Guardian reported, on Sunday. Mercenaries from Russia and South Africa have also been in combat for the government, said the report.

The Mozambican defense minister, Jaime Neto, said that the extremists had infiltrated parts of the port and “attacked the town from the inside out, causing destruction, looting, and the murder of defenseless citizens”, according to a report from the local Zitamar news agency.

A conflict has been bubbling in the region for three years with local jihadists who align themselves with the Islamic State franchise – called the Islamic State Central Africa Province – growing in confidence and military strength. Since 2017, monitoring groups say more than 1,500 people have been killed and at least 250,000 displaced from their homes in the area, reports Al Jazeera.

Cabo Delgado is a Muslim majority province and the Islamic militants have been able to exploit local grievances and economic hardship to rally fighters around the IS flag. Almost 20% of Mozambique’s 32 million population are Muslims.

The loss of the town is a severe blow to impoverished Mozambique. It is in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado where energy giants, such as the French-owned Total, are planning to develop offshore gas projects worth up to $60 billion (R1 trillion), according to Al Jazeera.


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Jihad on the march.
1 posted on 08/19/2020 12:22:11 PM PDT by robowombat
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sixty billion in gas projects supposed to be starting in that area.

I’m guessing some of that may be called off if things don’t change


2 posted on 08/19/2020 12:24:33 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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we should take care of this immediately


3 posted on 08/19/2020 12:25:45 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K
Not that easy.

They are inside a city of lots of hostages.

4 posted on 08/19/2020 12:27:51 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Mr. K
Absolutely not other than perhaps some F-35 therapy. If there are blackamoors who want to fight the muzzards then give them the means and say ‘Have a Nice Day’.
5 posted on 08/19/2020 12:28:15 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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FWIW this is the port that the Beirut ammonium nitrate was supposedly headed to ...


6 posted on 08/19/2020 12:29:39 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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> Islamic State captures key port, establishes its first outpost in southern Africa, imposes Sharia <

How long before Pope Francis sends his congratulations?

Side note: A year ago I would have thought my comment to have been inappropriate. So I wouldn’t have posted it. But Francis has gone way over the top with his “outreach” to Islam. So nope, not sorry.


7 posted on 08/19/2020 12:30:48 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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The fun keeps on rollin’.


8 posted on 08/19/2020 12:31:34 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: robowombat

Minnesota is next.


9 posted on 08/19/2020 12:39:03 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: robowombat

Minneapolis?


10 posted on 08/19/2020 12:41:48 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Ain’t Islam wonderful....?..../s


11 posted on 08/19/2020 12:44:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Maybe just mine the port and make it useless.


12 posted on 08/19/2020 12:46:52 PM PDT by Woodman
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“Maybe just mine the port and make it useless.”

They’d just send boats out loaded with Christians.


13 posted on 08/19/2020 1:02:13 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Heartless Republican Gutter Rat)
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To: robowombat

I’m a little surprised the Chinese aren’t doing anything to protect their loans. since Mozambique needs a the money from the gas to pay off the Chicom loans for building projects in the capital.


14 posted on 08/19/2020 1:40:21 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: dp0622

Mozambique has been fighting with the Islamic State for three years in that area.


15 posted on 08/19/2020 1:41:23 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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To: robowombat

Jihad after the oil of course.


16 posted on 08/19/2020 1:54:07 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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Well that’s how Isis operates...they dress in local clothing until enough of them have infilitrated the target cities. Then when the time is right they attack, kill, threaten and rape until the city falls and the people run.

Unfortunatly Mozambique was and is not in a financial position to ask the Western Nations for help as the price tag is unaffordable, though Tunsia has helped along the border it’s not enough to take out Isis.

I understand the Port fell because Mozambique’s army ran out of ammunition to continue defending it.


17 posted on 08/19/2020 2:01:24 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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To: texas booster
FWIW this is the port that the Beirut ammonium nitrate was supposedly headed to ...

Before it ran into a seven year long shipping delay.

18 posted on 08/19/2020 2:04:49 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: VanShuyten

The conflict in Mozambique is rooted in widespread anger at the failure of central government to fairly distribute earnings from the exploitation of the region’s rich natural resources, as well as a range of historic grievances. Discontent has been heightened by endemic corruption, expulsions to clear land for international firms to invest in the gas project and an indiscriminate military response to the violence. Muslims comprise around 18% of the overwhelmingly Christian country.

19 posted on 08/19/2020 2:14:54 PM PDT by caww ( Trump - the most pro-life president in History !)
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Muslims comprise around 18% of the **ONCE** overwhelmingly Christian country. Like Lebanon **ONCE** and overwhelmingly Christian country.


20 posted on 08/19/2020 2:24:25 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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