Oct 22
BAMAKO, Mali — When radical Islamists surged across northern Mali last year, temporarily seizing control of major cities and imposing a harsh form of religious law, they earned a stern public rebuke from an unexpected religious source.
“What right do they have to take up arms to tell us how to practice Islam in our country?” Mahmoud Dicko, the head of Mali’s High Islamic Council, said in an interview at the time. “What right do they have to impose the Shariah here?”
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