Cameroon has assembled all its Muslim leaders in the capital, Yaounde, to teach them how to identify and denounce promoters of the Islamic State group’s radical ideology. The effort comes amid reports supporters of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram have dropped their arms and are now preaching “extremism.” Boko Haram earlier this year announced its adherence to the Islamic State group.
Cavaye Yegue Djibril, speaker of Cameroon’s national assembly, traditional ruler and Muslim spiritual guide, said Boko Haram fighters have dropped their guns and are now preaching Islamic State ideology.
He said the Boko Haram terrorist group, though in agony after joint forces attacked its strong holds, are now spreading a demonic religion that can led to social unrest. He said he is calling on the Cameroonian people to be vigilant and is also warning whoever collaborates with Islamist State ideology that Cameroon is solidly one and indivisible.
Yaounde-based Cleric Nouri Dine said many Cameroonians, especially unemployed youths, have been converted and now secretly share the extremist group’s ideology.
He said he is praying that God should help Cameroon eradicate the Boko Haram terrorist group and its ideology and establish peace, security and stability. He said God should open the eyes of people and give them wisdom to quickly detect the strategies being used by the enemies of progress, propagators of Islamic State ideology who want to destroy Cameroon.
In March this year, the Nigerian militant group swore allegiance to Islamic state, which claims a self-declared caliphate in parts of Iran and Syria. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video posted online, promised to endure being discriminated against but never to dispute sovereignty with those in power he described as infidels.
Chieck Nsangou Mama of the Union of African Muslim scholars, who together with Cameroon’s Islamic cultural association organized the training to detect and denounce extremism, said the groups have been educating Muslims on how to identify people spreading Islamic state ideology.
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