Women in Islam are coming out strongly to rebuke radicalization on grounds of religion that is claiming thousands of lives around the globe.
These are women that have also ranked highly in the male dominated Islam to take up leadership roles including guidance in prayers and advice.
With Algeria on the forefront under its group of “mourshidates,” the women imams’ goal is to spread the good word of Islam and a message of tolerance, helping those who have strayed from it.
They have a special focus on the sanctity of life guided with an aim to steer women away from false preachers promoting radical forms of Islam that segregate Muslims from non-Muslims and thereby killing the latter.
Radical Muslims have been in the habit of picking on non- Muslims and brutally murdering them whenever they attack. Recent cases are in states in which the radicals have an interest of carving an Islamic State in their borders especially the West African countries.
In Kenya, they have waged attacks on churches killing dozens of Christians and in public places, they isolate people who cannot recite the Quran and shoot, behead or maim them in any inhumane way possible.
Mourshidates in Algeria have contributed to help youths from falling into the grips of radical Islamists, who take advantage on the internet space to recruit more young people for themselves.
The group which boasts of over 300 members was formed to teach the religion, following the country’s civil war in the 1990s, which killed at least 200,000 people.
The war erupted after authorities cancelled the 1991 elections, Algeria’s first democratic vote, which the Islamic Action Front was poised to win.
