Mozambique:

Muslims attack two towns, ransack government buildings, say “We only want Islamic law”

MAR 29, 2020 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER12 COMMENTS

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.

“Jihadist Group Claims Northern Mozambique Attacks,” Associated Press Of Pakistan, March 26, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A jihadist group that assaulted two towns in northern Mozambique this week has released a video claiming the attacks, its first official communication in over two years of activity in the gas-rich area.

Insurgents descended on Mocimboa da Praia, a town in Cabo Delgado province on Monday, ransacking government buildings and hoisting their flag before retreating.

A similar attack was launched on Wednesday in the nearby town of Quissanga, where assailants destroyed police headquarters….

If “you who are watching us out there, we are calling on you to come here to fight under this flag,” said one man in Portuguese, wielding a kalashnikov and a black-and-white flag with Arabic inscriptions on it.

“We are not fighting for wealth, we only want Islamic law,” he continued.

African history expert Eric Morier-Genoud said he considered the video to be genuine and recognised the speaker from an older clip.

“This video is an echo of another circulated in January 2018 where the same speaker was calling for Mozambicans to join the fight for Sharia rule,” said Morier-Genoud, a senior lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast told AFP….

“It is not a sophisticated message and programme,” he explained. “But it is bluntly clear: Sharia rule and an Islamic State.”…