Looks like directions from George Bush…
Mali bans preaching by Pak clerics
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/aug-2005/1/index14.php
BAMAKO (AFP) - The governor of Mali’s northern Gao province on Sunday announced an immediate ban on the activities of a group of Pakistani Islamists living in the zone along the border with Algeria.
Hundreds of Pakistanis have arrived in Mali as part of a humanitarian aid and education effort, though once on the ground they turn their focus to preaching hardline positions that are not in line with the Muslim practice in the region, Colonel Amadou said.
“We cannot accept that just anyone can come here and preach however they see fit,” he told AFP by telephone from the remote northern outpost in the Sahara desert. “They must comply with the rules, fall in to line and seek all of the necessary authorisations” to expand their role in the region to include religious instruction.
Though the group has not been formally identified as belonging to any particular sect, they preach an Islam that is “pure and hard,” according to a municipal official, and are indoctrinating their disciples into an Islam that does not oppose violence.
Police have opened an investigation into their activities and have seized propaganda-filled tapes that call for violence in the name of Islam, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
They have already had to intervene on behalf of one family, whose son disappeared into their care for a week and had to be forcibly removed from their center.