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Guardian.UK: Timbuktu world heritage site attacked by Islamists.

“There’s about 30 of them breaking everything up with pick-axes and hoes. They’ve put their Kalashnikovs down by their side. These are shocking scenes for the people in Timbuktu.”

07/02/12 • 01:08 PM • Arts • History • Religion • (2) Comments

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Ansar Dine has gained the upper hand over less-well-armed Tuareg-led separatists since the two joined forces to rout government troops and seize control in April

Enemies of my enemies may be useful, but aren’t necessarily my friends

Posted by Emmett on 07/03/12 at 12:12 AM

Sigh. I am so sick of the term Islamists. If a purist is someone passionate about the purity or authenticity of something, wouldn’t a Islamist be concerned about the purity or authenticity of the religion? Yet what these separatists did violate everything about Islam.

Let’s call them by their true names: militants. Radicals. Extremists. Haters. grin

Posted by Sherif Tariq on 07/03/12 at 03:10 AM

 

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