Interview of Sanda Ould Bouamama (a spokesman of Ansar al-Din) with Sky News about demolition of the tombs

(Arrahmah.com) – Why Ansar al-Din destroyed the ‘historic tombs’ in Mali? Sanda Ould Boumama, a spokesman of Ansar al-Din movement, explained it firmly in his interview with Sky News, the transcript as follows:

Sky News: I asked you who gives you, in Ansar Al-Din Movement, the right to violate these historical locations?

Sanda Ould Bouamama (Sob): The right if given from the one who has the right.

Sky News: Who is the one who has that right?

Sob: The messenger peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and the Sharia. They are the ones who have the right.

Sky News: That is based on what?

Sob: Of course, in the authentic Hadith narrated by Moslem from Abu Al-Hayja’a: “Should I not send you on the same mission as Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent me?” – the Hadith mentions – “a high grave without leveling It”. And now were adjusting the graves, only that.

Sky News: Mr. Boamma, these are historical landmarks which have been kept on the UNESCO list of World Heritage in Danger and calls from different parties to stop these actions. You in the Ansar Al-Din Movement, what is that status that you have to take such a decision?

Sob: Our status is that we were ordered to change the vice and found the power to change by hand, and this degree we are required to achieve it as much as possible. It’s a vice to see people circling around graves and making human bodies that have worn gods worshiped beside Allah, asking them for money, children and jobs. This is ridiculous, and stinking to it is ridiculous than the issue itself.

Sky News: It’s ridiculous according to you, but there is an international consensus and international organizations considered these landmarks ancient cites of cultural heritage and a cultural significance. The question is why do you act unilaterally towards these locations?

Sob: Our reference isn’t the international laws or the UN or the UNESCO. Our reference is the Sharia. I propose to you another question. Does the Sharia approves or demands from us what we did or rejects it. If that answer is the Sharia demands from us what we did, then we have did a purely Sharia matter and we raised our arms to achieve this matter and implement the order of Allah on His land.

But if you say to me that the UN and international organizations, we aren’t concerned of these organizations and aren’t interested in them, and their satisfaction upon us is a endorsement, which means that their discontent upon us is a recommendation, and their satisfaction is considered a libel in our Aqeeda because Allah Almighty says: (And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Christians until you follow their religion).

All these calls come from the Jews and Christians and their followers and lackeys, who claim to be Muslims. What is the value of these walls? Aren’t there in Timbuktu walls inside it living beings? Why this concern about the graves more than those alive?

(siraaj/AMEF/arrahmah.com)