The
first hint of his alleged involvement with the dreaded Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was from the former head of Department of the
School of Performing Arts of the University of Ghana, Africanus Aveh,
who, after reading the media report that one of the former students of
his department, Badhan Diallo, is the one recruiting Ghanaian graduates
into the terrorist group, had called to express his shock.
“Have u
read the Daily GUIDE today? He asked one of his former students, to
which he intoned: “No Sir, but let me check”. That at set the tone for
the shock-waves that is sweeping through the academic community; with
the student body gawking on how such a laid-back Guinean resident in
Ghana got himself into an organization whose modus operandi is to
publicly behead it opponents or those they regard as infidels.
From
the slight dapper he was, right from the day he set foot on the
university campus in the 2010/2011 academic year, till when he completed
last year, after majoring in Radio and TV Production in 2014, Badhan
Diallo, according to his course mates was very strong with his faith.
“Even
when we were staging the ‘Alien King’, because the play had a Muslim
setting he was very particular about how those playing the character of
the Muslims performed ablution and, therefore, taught them how they
should sit. He was friendly, very friendly to those that were closer to
him, so I’m surprised at this news today”, his course mate, whom we garb
with the cloak of anonymity, told this paper yesterday from the
university campus.
As a resident of Jean Nelson Hall on the
university campus, the youngman reported to be recruiting men for ISIS
was always motivated, quiet most of the time yet friendly, and always
wanted to be a part of something, the paper gathered.
Badhan
Diallo, who starred in Kongi’s Harvest, one of the plays that was staged
in the Drama Studio of the performing art department as a photographer,
our findings revealed, is also a writer with a Google blog, captioned:
Writers Thinking Allowed- Freedom of Expression to Think and Write.
Aside
that, he is also a member of Sadaqa Train Gh, which is made up of young
vibrant Muslim youth that have taken it upon themselves to identify
deprived communities in Ghana, where they undertake dawah and Sadaqa
activities.
Diallo, skeptics believe may have been recruited
into the ISIS through the Sadaqa TrainGh as he has been praised for
being a committed member of the group.
Meanwhile, all efforts to
reach Diallo on his cell phone since yesterday has hit on a snag as his
0247…93 number was switched off. Read one of Badhan Diallo’s write up
on: http://t.co/McQ73LYG
Our search on the internet revealed ISIS
as: The self-proclaimed Islamic State is a militant movement that has
conquered territory in western Iraq and eastern Syria, where it has made
a bid to establish a state in territories that encompass some six and a
half million residents. Though spawned by al-Qaeda’s Iraq franchise, it
split with Osama bin Laden’s organization and evolved to not just
employ terrorist and insurgent tactics, but the more conventional ones
of an organized militia.
In June 2014, after seizing territories
in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, including the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, the
Islamic State proclaimed itself a caliphate, claiming exclusive
political and theological authority over the world’s Muslims. Its
state-building project, however, has been characterized more by extreme
violence than institution building. Beheadings of Western hostages and
other provocative acts, circulated by well-produced videos and social
media, spurred calls in the United States and Europe for military
intervention, while mass violence against local civilians, justified by
references to the Prophet Mohammed’s early followers, has been a tool
for cementing territorial control. Widely publicized battlefield
successes have attracted thousands of foreign recruits, a particular
concern of Western intelligence.
What are the Islamic State's origins?
The
group that calls itself the Islamic State can trace its lineage to the
aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003. The Jordanian militant
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi aligned his Jama’at al-Tawhidw’al-Jihad with
al-Qaeda, making it al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
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