This morning I was listening to a Feb. 3 podcast of Sverige Radios "God Morgon, Världen" (Swedish Radio's "Good Morning, World). It had a bit from a reporter in Timbuktu. She quoted one of the residents with something like "Who are these Islamic radicals to teach us about Islam?"
Timbuktu is known for its Koranic University, madrases, and mosques. See UNESCO's World Heritage List on Timbuktu.
The invasion of the radical Islamists seems to me akin to some militant Christian sect forcing everyone to believe Revelations to the exclusion of everything else in the Bible and church history.
