Monday, May 21, 2007

Fear grows in a cauldron of radical Islam

From Mark MacKinnon of the Globe and Mail (Cabada)

Though experts disagree on how strong the ties are between the groups behind the attacks in Morocco and a recent spate of bombings in neighbouring Algeria, there is little question that the al-Qaeda network has established itself more firmly than ever before in North Africa ... “I don't consider the new organization as a simple change of name. We're facing a new group that wants to unite all the Salafis and jihadis of the Maghreb,” said Mohammed Darif, an expert on Islamic movements at King Hassan II University in the city of Mohammedia. Salafis are followers of a fundamentalist strain of Islam that began in Saudi Arabia and whose followers often use violence in their pursuit of a pure Islamic world.

No comments: