Islamic Takeover of Ivory Coast Imminent

Islamic Takeover of Ivory Coast Imminent
Tuesday, January 04, 2011=

We are witnessing an Islamic takeover of the Ivory Coast. And the French (and the UN, US, and <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Europe) are helping them. The reportage on the Ivory Coast election is biased and Islamophliac. Centurion has a good report here: The Ivory Coast = joins the Ummah.

What this article and others like it don’t tell you is that we are witnessing one of those watershed moments in history: Ivory Coast is about to toggle from a (mostly) Christian country to a Muslim country. The winner of the election is a Muslim — the head of the Muslim rebel for= ces in the north of the country — and the loser is a non-Muslim. Ivory Coast is on the verge of officially joining the Ummah.

The report below cites the surge of illegal immigrants from Ivory Coast’s Muslim neighbors as the cause of Mr. Ouattara’s<= /span> victory. However, Iv= ory Coast is already a member of the OIC, an= d as of the 2004 figures in my database, it had a population of 17,298,040, with 6,677,043 Muslims. That’s 38.6%, which is already past the point where you would expect the imposition of sharia. What is happening now is simply = the formal handing-over of the keys.

Muslims do not need to be in the majority to force Islamic rule= on a country. They simply need to be present in numbers sufficient to terroriz= e, threaten, bribe, and defraud their way into power. The exact percentage var= ies according to circumstances, but absent intervention from an external force, full Islamization can be expected by the time a country becomes 40% Muslim.

Below is a bulletin on the situation from ASSIST News:

Ivory Coast on the brink: A call to pray for Ivory Coast
By Elizabeth Kendal

We are losing Africa. Watch the referendum in Sudan this coming Sunday. The vote to d= eclare the Christian South independent of the genocidal Muslim north= and the jihadi Khartoum government is crucial. And Kenya just instituted a shariah compliant Constitutio= n, thanks to President Mobamma and your ta= xpayer dollars.

Islamic Revival, a website that aims to "provide a resource of arti= cles and multimedia material to aid in the Revival of the U= mmah," here:

What is going on in the Ivory Coast? The second presidential elections were held on 28th November, 2010 and the Constitutio= nal Council which supports the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo declared him elected with 51.45% votes, while the Election Commission decla= red his rival Hassan Ouattara to be winner with 54.= 10% votes. The United St= ates, the United Nations and the UN Security Council have meanwhile acknowledged = the results declared by the Election Commission and Hassan Ouattara as the winner. President Laurent Gbagbo has rej= ected this and regards himself as the winner as declared by the Constitutional Council and insists on remaining in authority.

More from Islamic apologist Erika Amoako-Agyei:<= /o:p>

The nation’s thriving cocoa industry has created one of the highest living standards in the West African region, so people from neighboring countries, such as Mali and Burkina Faso, migrated there to earn their livi= ng and benefit from the thriving economy. Some of these people shared ethnic t= ies to those living in northern Ivory Coast and like them were mostly Muslim. = Some southerners, encouraged by populist politicians, began to resent the influx= and demanded action to protect the country's "Ivoirit= e (Ivorian-ness)".

After being portrayed as not being real Ivoirians, northerners [Muslims] started to complain that they were being discriminated against. Mr. Ouattara, a Muslim, who was a former Prime Minister, = is a prime example. He was banned from standing for president in previous electi= ons because it was said his parents came from <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Burkina Faso. Similarly,= many northerners said they were being refused national identity cards and the ri= ght to vote.

From the leftist Spec: (hat tip Michael B.)

Gbagbo, once a history professor and a prodemocracy campaigner, has latterly turned himself into the self-appointed defender of the Christian peoples in the southern half of Ivory Coast. Now he says: “I do not believe at all in a civil war. But obviously, = if the pressures continue as they have, they will push toward war, confrontation.”

He knows about civil war, because one broke out two years after he was elected president in 2000. Military mutineers, mostly M= uslim troops from the north who didn’t want to be demobilized and lose their jobs, attempted to seize power in Abidjan.

They were quickly defeated in the capital, but other Muslim troops took control all across the north. French troops blocked them from moving south,= and after a couple of months the divided country settled into the sullen ceasef= ire that has lasted for the past eight years. The civil war that Gbagbo is warning about would be the second round, no= t the first.

Then why doesn’t he just accept his electoral defeat and quit? Par= tly because he just wants to stay in power, of course, but it’s not as si= mple as that. He has real support among the Christians of the south, because man= y of them see Ouattara as the democratic facade of a Muslim takeover bid that began with the military mutiny in 2002.=

The north-south division in Ivory Coast is real. The country has shifted f= rom a narrow Christian majority 25 years ago to a Muslim majority today —= and it has done so largely through illegal immigration from the much poorer, entirely Muslim countries to the north: Bur= kina Faso, Mali and Guinea.

About four million of the 21 million people now living in Ivory Coast are illegal immigrants, and almost all of those immigrants are Muslims. It has changed the electoral balance, because many of them register to vote, especially in the north of the country where they speak the same languages = as the local citizens. Southerners are afraid that they will lose control, and= so they back Gbagbo.

The African Union is determined to force Gbagbo to accept the election outcome because it wants to break with the past and make democratic elections the norm in Africa.= It has had some recent successes in thwarting military coups, but the situatio= n in Ivory Coast is a lot murkier, and direct intervention by the AU would be a lot harder.<= o:p>

Armchair generals in the AU and ECOWAS talk boldly of military intervent= ion to drive Gbagbo from power, referencing the successful operations to end civil wars in = Liberia and Sierra Leone in recent years. But Ivory Coast is five times bigger and richer th= an either of those countries, and its army can actually fight.

Besides, where would the AU and ECOWAS find enough African troops to intervene effectively? Only Nigeria is big enough, but it is most unlikely to commit a lot of troops this year = to what might be a real war in Ivory Coast. This is an election year in Nigeria= , and body bags coming home as the voters go to the polls are rarely a vote-winne= r.

The U.S. and the Eu= ropean Union have already imposed sanctions on Gbagbo’s= government, and the Central Bank of West African States has blocked his acc= ess to Ivory Coast’s account. These are measures that will work slowly, if at all, but there is = no alternative. Starting a war is rarely a good idea. Starting an unwinnable o= ne never is.

Islamic Takeover of Ivory Coast Imminent Tuesday, January 04, 2011=

Islamic Takeover of Ivory Coast Imminent
Tuesday, January 04, 2011=