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April 9, 2006

Trinidad: Rally Calls For Islamic Law

Muslims only account for 9% of the population of Trinidad and Tobago. This did not stop members of one Muslim group, the Jamaat al-Muslimeen from staging an attempted coup in 1990, during which the local television station was invaded, and 24 people died.

We reported in October last year that a new Islamic broadcasting network was being set up, under the aegis of the local cable TV company, CCTT. Originally, it seemed that the Islamic Broadcasting Network (IBN), headed by Inshan Ishmael was going to provide entertainment and news for a minority strand of the population.

News from today's Trinidad Express suggests otherwise. At a rally held yesterday (Saturday April 8) at Woodford Square in Port of Spain, which was organised by Inshan Ishmael of IBN, Ishmael openly advocated that Trinidad should be governed by Sharia, Islamic Law. The rally (pictured, top) was attended by 300 people.

The practical solution for extremist Muslims perhaps, Islamic Law will hardly be acceptable to the 91% of inhabitants of Trinidad and Tobago who are not Muslims. Once again, Muslims in Trinidad & Tobago are showing that, even when demographically they comprise only a minority, Muslims still wish to dominate and control others.

The rally and forum was organised following a particularly brutal murder of a six year old boy, Sean Luke, an American citizen (pictured above). On March 28, little Sean's naked body was found in a canefield at 6.45 am. A sugarcane stalk had been inserted into his rectum, where it had been pushed until it reached the child's throat. He had also been beaten. Sean was a pupil at the Orange Valley Hindu School.

It seems strange that a rally about a child, who attended a Hindu school, should be organised by someone who used the opportunity to promote Islamic law. But Muslims are Muslims, and will exploit any opportunity, it seems, to promote their case for domination. Even exploiting the grieving of a family whose son was murdered so cruelly.

Meanwhile, Yasin Abu Bakr (pictured right), the leader of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, the group which tried to take over the island in 1990, will be appearing in court on Monday (tomorrow), states Friday's Trinidad Express.

64-year old Bakr will appear to face a retrial for a case in which he is accused of conspiring to have two former members of his group murdered, in comments made on June 4, 2003 in Diego Martin. He was first tried for this offence in April last year.

He appeared in the Port of Spain Second Criminal Court at the Hall of Justice on Thursday, but as the Director of Public Prosecutions was unavailable, the case was postponed.

When he appeared in court on February 16, Bakr said that the State, under the governance of Patrick Manning of the People's National Movement (PNM), was trying to make him a pauper by initiating action to recover $32 million in damages, as a result of the attempted coup of 1990. The government sued in March for a lower figure of $5 million.

Bakr has been in custody since November 7, 2005. He is charged on a separate case of incitement, sedition and terrorism. These charges relate to a speech Bakr gave at the Jamaat al-Muslimeen mosque at the end of Ramadan, in which he threatened bloodshed and war if he did not receive zakat or donations from the nation's wealthy Muslims. Bakr (born Lennox Phillips and a former police officer) has yet to face trial on these charges.

UPDATE: A larger and more appropriate march has been successfully organised by people closer to Sean than the exploitative Inshan Ishmael. Pupils and staff from the Waterloo Hindu Primary school, in Orange Valley, marched in a tribute to Sean Luke yesterday, accompanied by villagers, states Trnidad Express. Hundreds attended, and many parents shed tears. Two youths have been arrested in connection with the child's murder.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 9, 2006 2:08 PM

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