Film Library

The Imams

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Two radically different forms of Islam were among the elements brought into conflict in Timbuktu over the last year. One of Mali's best known imams, Chérif Ousmane Madani Haidara, who received death threats and state protection after speaking out against the Islamist incursion in the north, explains that a tolerant Sufi version of Islam has existed in Mali for 1,000 years."But now there are two: the Wahabists are here. They don't have mausoleums and don't like to see people buried when they die, so they broke the mausoleums. It's as if they broke our heads," he said. Watch the whole series as a multimedia package: http://www.irinnews.org/webspecial/mali/index.html#