[ Religious riot: fanatics set the North ablaze]
An article and an interview on riots in September 1996 in Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria (towns in northern Nigeria). A. Olorunfewa describes the riots between Shiite fundamentalists and the police and how the military government is responding to Shiite fundamentalism. He also gives an account of an at...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Tell Communications
1996
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In: |
Tell
Year: 1996, Issue: 40, Pages: 10-20 |
Further subjects: | B
Religious conflict
B Shi'ah B Riot B Islam and politics B Nigeria B Muslim |
Summary: | An article and an interview on riots in September 1996 in Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria (towns in northern Nigeria). A. Olorunfewa describes the riots between Shiite fundamentalists and the police and how the military government is responding to Shiite fundamentalism. He also gives an account of an attack on a Christian evangelist by Shiites in Zaira. In the interview, the acting leader of the Shiite Muslims tells about arrest and detention of the leader of the Shiites, Sheik Ibrahim Yaquob El Zak-Zaky, the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood etc. (DÜI-Sen) |
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Item Description: | Enthält u.a.: 'There's limit to oppression'. (Interview with Muhammad Mahmud Turi, acting leader of the Shiites Muslim sect). - S. 18-20 |
ISSN: | 1115-7615 |
Contains: | In: Tell
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