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 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 forces
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
victory. However, Ivory
Coast is already a member of the OIC, and 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 terrorize,
threaten, bribe, and defraud their way into power. The exact percentage varies
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 declare
the Christian South independent of the genocidal Muslim north
and the jihadi Khartoum
government is crucial. And Kenya just instituted a shariah compliant Constitution,
thanks to President Mobamma and your taxpayer
dollars.

Islamic Revival, a website that aims to "provide a resource of articles
and multimedia material to aid in the Revival of the Ummah,"
here:

What is going on in the Ivory Coast? The second
presidential elections were held on 28th November, 2010 and the Constitutional
Council which supports the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo
declared him elected with 51.45% votes, while the Election Commission declared
his rival Hassan Ouattara to be winner with 54.10%
votes. The United States,
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 rejected
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:

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 living
and benefit from the thriving economy. Some of these people shared ethnic ties
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 "Ivoirite
(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 elections
because it was said his parents came from Burkina Faso. Similarly, many
northerners said they were being refused national identity cards and the right
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 Muslim
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 ceasefire
that has lasted for the past eight years. The civil war that Gbagbo is warning about would be the second round, not the
first.

Then why doesn’t he just accept his electoral defeat and quit? Partly
because he just wants to stay in power, of course, but it’s not as simple
as that. He has real support among the Christians of the south, because many 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 from
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: Burkina
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 situation in
Ivory Coast
is a lot murkier, and direct intervention by the AU would be a lot harder.

Armchair generals in the AU and ECOWAS talk boldly of military intervention
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 than
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-winner.

The U.S. and the European
Union have already imposed sanctions on Gbagbo’s
government, and the Central Bank of West African States has blocked his access
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 one
never is.