{"id":464,"date":"2012-05-27T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompanionsofthecave.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2012-05-27T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T19:09:40","slug":"mali-government-rejects-norths-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS &amp; Mali Yet to Come to Terms with Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As-Salamu Alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2012\/05\/2012527131849190185.html#.T8J3qmRQquc.wordpress\">Mali government rejects north&#8217;s independence &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The above report has a former female &#8216;mayor&#8217; from one of the northern Mali towns now within the borders of the independent Islamic State of Azawad wherein she states the very words of apostasy that ring out among the Hypocrites whenever actual Muslims fulfill the mandates of the religion- &#8216;we do not want Shari&#8217;ah&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What people should know is that once the words &#8216;we do not want Shari&#8217;ah&#8217; ring out from Hypocrities, they actually become Kuffar. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even if there is some intention or interpretation that could mean something else, as the Prophet SAWS commanded, we judge upon the apparent. This command works both ways. As long as a person speak and acts upon Islam then no one can strip them of their Islam. When a person&#8217;s words or actions come to differ with regards to Islam and its mandates, then this person is at the very least a Hypocrite and, depending on the words or actions, can exit the religion altogether.<\/p>\n<p>So ECOWAS, the self-appointed west African organization that is backed by the West, is vehemently opposed to &#8216;the repartitioning of Mali&#8217; and &#8216;negotiating with terrorists&#8217;. What they&#8217;re really saying is that they are opposed to an Islamic state in the lands they claim to administer.<\/p>\n<p>What ECOWAS and the rest of the western-backed, funded, installed, or supported organizations and regimes in Muslim territories need to understand is that Muslims will never, and I mean NEVER, stop struggling to establish Islam as a means of civil, religious, social, political and governmental authority.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims may disagree on the method of achieving this authority, however no one who considers themselves as Muslim and actually qualifies by affirming Allah&#8217;s rights in the land, will ever disagree on the fact that Islamic authority must be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Mali&#8217;s current president was whisked out of the country for being attacked with shoes in his own palace by people who don&#8217;t even support Azawad or the Islamic state, yet we&#8217;re supposed to believe that somehow they&#8217;re going to get it together and oust Ansar e Dine and the MNLA from the north?<\/p>\n<p>Make Du&#8217;a that the Islamic state in the north of Mali is successful, like every other attempt at Shari&#8217;ah currently. That is the least we can do for our fellow Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As-Salamu Alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi, Mali government rejects north&#8217;s independence &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English. The above report has a former female &#8216;mayor&#8217; from one of the northern Mali towns now within the borders of the independent Islamic State of Azawad wherein she states the very words of apostasy that ring out among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[128,129,131,132,133],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-ansar-e-dine","tag-azawad","tag-ecowas","tag-mali","tag-mnla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanbali.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}