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Robert Launay, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
The civil war in Côte d’Ivoire was definitely not a war of religion, pitting the Muslim north against the Christian south. On the other hand, it would be equally misleading to assert that religion was never an issue. The rhetoric of ressentiment deployed by partisans of Laurent Gbagbo has been rife with Islamophobia [1]. For example, one extreme (but hardly isolated) comment posted on a political forum on , an Ivoirian website hosted in the U.S., read: “The imans [sic] are ready to wage ‘gihat’ [“jihad,” sic], their Jula war. And to think that there are still people who call Ivoirians xenophobes!” Such sentiments sometimes erupted into violence targeting mosques and Muslims.
It is hardly incidental that anti-Muslim rhetoric categorizes Islam as a “Jula” religion. The emergence of Islam as an “ethnic” religion was indissociably linked to the nation’s colonial and postcolonial econo
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Laurent Gbagbo: Ivory Coast ex-leader denies war crimes
Inside the courtroom, Laurent Gbagbo seemed unsteady, leaning on his desk as he pleaded not guilty. His co-accused, Charles Ble Goude, gave a more defiant response, telling the judges: "I do not recognise the charges."
Prosecutors said Mr Ble Goude had acted as a spin doctor. He called himself the "street general". Archive footage played in court showed him comparing himself to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell.
Chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda used her opening statement to focus on the victims. She spoke of one woman who was arrested during a peaceful march in Abidjan and detained for three days. During that time, Ms Bensouda said, the woman was gang-raped by police officers - the very people who were supposed to protect her.
Outside protesters playing on bongo drums complained of "victor's justice". To date none of President Alassane Ouattar
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