“Our children are leaving and getting themselves killed with Koufa, and there’s more and more of them every day,” Cisse said. Much later, after completing his religious education abroad, Koufa re-invented himself as radical, preaching a hardline form of Islam. - In central Mali, hundreds of people have died and tens of thousands have fled their homes, after jihadist violence ignited conflict among the region's ethnic groups. Moderates, too, are taking their message of Islamic tolerance to young Fulani, seeking to counter distortion and propaganda. Cisse, 55, regularly makes radio broadcasts from the capital Bamako, on the Fulani radio station Tabital Pulaaku, which are immediately retransmitted via WhatsApp.

Source: New Strait Times November 05, 2019 03:00 UTC