by ZefiHapi Dematepia

Internal Agents of Islamist Terrorism

On May 26, 2026, the president of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, arrested an Imam named Mohamad Ishad Kindo, a prominent leader of the Sunni branch of Islam in Burkina Faso who completed his doctoral studies in Islamic religious sciences in Saudi Arabia. He was arrested because he publicly criticized Burkina’s Presidential Council for adopting a preliminary draft law on religious freedoms on March 19th. 

A month later, on June 23, 2026, Emile Zerbo, Burkina’s Minister of State and of Territorial Administration and Mobility, signed two decrees banning Imams Idrissa Sawadogo and Omar Sankara from preaching throughout the country until further notice. The government issued these decrees due to radical statements both Imams made in favor of Jihadism. They expressed unequivocal allegiance towards Islamist extremist groups, calling for these groups to overthrow Burkina Faso’s government. Naturally, the government reacted with this severe sanction because both Imams used their religious platforms and influence to fuel hate and Islamist propaganda, thereby undermining the nation’s fight to preserve social cohesion and end terrorism. 

Furthermore, the government issued both decrees in accordance with the draft bill on religious freedoms, which reaffirms freedom of worship, but regulates the establishment of places of worship in accordance with urban planning rules. It also prohibits these acts of worship in public facilities, with the exception of healthcare facilities, prisons, and military barracks, and it provides penalties against hate speech and disturbances related to the practice of religious worship. 

So while the muslim community has denounced these successive measures as unfounded attacks on “religious freedom,” these three Imams have shown that they cannot be trusted with their religious platforms because they use their social influence to spread hate and disinformation in favor of Islamist extremist leaders who continue to lead coordinated attacks against Indigenous villages, civilians, and army officials. 

For instance, Iyad Ag Ghaly is the prominent chief and leader of the Jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaïda, which operates in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Another prominent leader is Alghabass Ag Intalla, a chief military leader of Azawad, a secessionist extremist group in Mali. According to the viral West African news chronicler and activist, Les Textes de Camara Laye, the Azawad group is asking for 71,12 % of the Malian territory, which translates to 882 000 square kilometres of land. Back in 2012, this group had already claimed control over more than 827, 000 square kilometres of land, which was equivalent to 66% of the Malian territory at the time. For more than 10 years, they have been waging war against the Malian government, in hope of establishing an Islamist caliphate in the North of Mali. They regularly attack defenseless indigenous villages and commit heinous atrocities against women and children in their hunger to establish Jihadist rule in the Sahel. 

In such a climate of terror, you would think that our West African Imams would side with their own brothers and sisters against the incursion of violent Islamist attacks. However, in a move that defies the logic of self-preservation, many African Imams choose to side with their extremist masters instead. As such, they become local agents of destruction, promoting Islamist terror and spreading even more violence, hatred, and genocide in Africa.

Ironically, Western media that claim to fight against terrorism have condemned the government’s  actions, citing strategic buzz words such as  “social justice,” “liberty,” and “religious freedom.” But for the viral chronicler and cultural activist, Les Textes de Camara Laye, these radical measures taken by the government are necessary when our nations continue to be infested from the inside by African terrorists and extremists who prioritize the destruction of their own Indigenous villages to please extremist Arabs in the Middle East who are trying to invade and control strategic parts of the Sahel, in Burkina, Niger, and Mali. They hope to build caliphates that will turn African peoples into slaves. But we cannot let this horrific plan for Africa ever see the light. In fact, careful observation of existing nations ruled by such religious extremism reveals that it is always the people who suffer most under the rule of psychological, religious, and physical terror. 

The Historical and Ongoing Islamist Genocide of African People

In the past, our Indigenous Ancestors fought against both traitorous African terrorists (i.e., Fulanis, Nubians, Moors) and foreign terrorist invaders for more than 6,000 years before these extremist invaders were able to successfully conquer the Northern territories of Africa in the last 2,000 years. Sadly, this invasion continues to this day, resulting in Indigenous peoples continuing to fight a very old war. 

Indeed, as Chancellor Williams notes in his seminal book, The Destruction of Black Civilization, Greco-Roman terrorists and later Islamist terrorists fought hard to destroy Kemet and to erase the Indigenous values that guided the people and helped us preserve harmony, peace, and order all over the motherland. For reasons beyond the scope of this article, people who live outside of Africa have an obsession with colonizing Africa and turning its children into slaves. The years pass, but the story does not change. Humans repeat history in cyclical, reactive compulsion because they remain attached to self-destructive narratives that go against human evolution and harmony.  

If you think about it, there really is no need for war or terror or division on Earth because we have more than enough resources for everyone on Earth to live well. And yet, terrorists who subscribe to colonial, invasive, and extremist views have decided that there can be no peace on Earth unless they alone rule and control the world. As such, they have decided that all Indigenous, Ancestral traditions must be destroyed and eradicated from the surface of the Earth so they can have complete dominion over the minds of all human beings. 

Sadly, this battle continues to this day, between Indigenous peoples and the savage colonial regimes that control the land. Specifically in Africa, we continue fighting to protect our physical, spiritual, and psychological borders from violent and barbaric parasites who insist on enslaving and ultimately eradicating Black peoples from the surface of the Earth, as evidenced by the growing Islamist terrorism in North African territories and the Sahel. 

The Vicious Cycle of Racist Extremism, Epistemicide, and Ethnic Genocide 

For instance, in Mali, Islamized African and Arab terrorists (funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Middle Eastern Islamic states) have continued to destroy Timbuktu’s historical and Indigenous archives, in an attempt to weaken Indigenous African identity and history. In Sudan, these same terrorists have been leading a violent ethnic genocide to eradicate the Indigenous Black people of the land. They do not hide their agenda. Indeed, from the historical track record and deliberate targeting of Africans, it's not too far-fetched to say that they want the Black race, and more importantly the original Ancestral identity of Indigenous Black people, to be completely eradicated from the Earth so that in another 2,000 years when we claim that our Black Ancestors founded Kemet and that their descendants continue to live in these invaded lands, the Western and Arab worlds alike can claim that these are sensational lies made by Black people who remain desperate for validation. And by then, they’ll tell our children that “no proof exists” of Black people ever living in Northern Africa because they made sure to genocide our people off their own lands.  

Of course, that’s not what we want, but it’s the inevitable path history will take if the genocidal, colonial, and terrorist agenda against Indigenous Africa continues unchallenged, and if we continue to stay silent and pretend that what’s happening isn’t happening. In any case, our political correctness won’t save us. Our silence won’t save us. Like Audre Lorde said, “your silence will not protect you.” So it is better to speak than to stay silent because we are being killed every day, and as always, our children and women face the worst of this violence through continued public lynchings and horrific sexual violence. 

Ironically, you will still see modern Black Africans swearing allegiance to the physical, psychological, and spiritual plague of Islamic terrorism that continues to destroy us. Right under our noses, the horrific enslavement and sex trafficking of Black women in the Middle East continues, without a single word from our corrupted African governments. Clearly, it is a continuation of the horrific Arab holocaust and the veiled genocide of Black people (see Tidiane N’Diaye’s Le Génocide Voilé) that occurred long before the second trans-Atlantic holocaust or Maafa with European nations. 

To this day, our people are abused in broad daylight by Islamist terrorists in Tunisia, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Chad, and, more recently, Burkina, Mali, and Niger, but no one bats an eye. No corrupted government officials or religious leaders stand up to defend our most vulnerable girls and women, except the AES states, who are sending their men to the frontlines of this savage war every day to protect the people. 

In the meantime, Western media have the nerve to rave about religious freedom when they are the ones destroying Africa through continued imperial invasions. Worse still, Islamized African terrorists continue to pledge allegiance to their violent masters, by systematically targeting and destroying their own Indigenous villages, which are critical crucibles of Indigenous culture, traditions, history and memory. 

Which begs the question—who will free us if not ourselves?