It is a sad day today because the militants in Mali have just destroyed the door to the entrance of the Sidi Yahya mosque , a 15th century mosque, in Timbuktu (also called Tombouctou), a city we knew because of this rhyme...chul meray matkay tombouctou, kahan ki burhiya, kahan ka tou?) "they tore the sacred door off which we never open," said a resident.
It is said that they came with pick-axes, they cried 'Allah Akbar ' and broke the door. It is very serious. Some of the people watching began crying. No doubt about it.
A man, a relative of a local imam (religious leader), said he had spoken to Islamist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) who have gone on a rampage destroying cultural treasures after occupying the town for three months.
I think that people like these, the religious zealots, have become a cancer of the society. Muslim countries have created their own enemies within their own borders and amongst its own people. A lot has to do with the policies that governments of many of the Islamic countries pursued for years and now it is backfiring.
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