“Once we take control we’re coming for you.”
That’s the message Christians in the Ivory Coast got from Muslims during a long-fought dispute over the nation’s presidency, an election late last year apparently won by a Christian candidate when the government found voter fraud in Muslim regions. But that result was overturned following intervention by the United Nations and the United States, who insisted that the Muslim candidate be given the office.
Which puts Muslims now in “control.”
A missionary who asked to be called only Pastor Andrew serves in the Ivory Coast and says that the administration of newly inaugurated president Alessane Ouattara, a Muslim, has shut off the Internet and now likely is tapping the Christians’ telephones.
“Just before (the civil war), they were warning the Christians that when we get in power, the first we’re going to do is come against the church. We’re coming to get you,” Andrew revealed.

“And so they did. Right at this moment we’ve been cut off for over a month. They have shut down the Internet so they (the Christians) can’t communicate with the outside,” Andrew said.
“Then we were advised not to talk to them by phone because they have phone taps. So to protect them, we’re not communicating directly into the country,” Andrew added.
There are reports that Ivory Coast authorities have restored Internet service in the country.
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The actions of Ouattara’s forces since his installation as president point to the issue of why the international community would support Ouattara. Andrew says there is a threefold reason.
“This has been between the predominantly Muslim north and the Christian south. It has been a mandate of the Islam world to take more control of more land, more people, and more resources and that’s part of their mandate,” Andrew explained.

Andrew also says that the removal of President Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent Christian, was nothing less than a coup.
“I watched that whole process take place and I would say that the whole process of putting in Ouattara into the presidency is a plot. According to what I saw and to what I understand, it’s not legitimate,” Andrew declared.
“One of my contacts warned me just before the war broke out and they overthrew Gbagbo that it was a coup,” Andrew related.
Andrew says that Gbagbo had put procedures in place that would have guaranteed a fair election in the country.
“He had these forms that everybody had to fill out; it was a way to prove that you’re an Ivorian. The put down who their mom and dad were, what tribe they were from, what village you were from, and what year you were born,” Andrew described.
“It could be proven by their dialect that they were Ivorian. So, the rebels fought against that. They didn’t want to use that form because they said they were not being treated fairly,” Andrew further described.
“What was happening was illegal. There was ballot stuffing. Besides the illegal voting, they also disqualified all of the Gbagbo votes, they got rid of their ballots and they killed [Christians], persecuted them and burned their villages,” Andrew added.
“I was getting the reports while it was happening, about whole villages being destroyed, so in most of those areas in the north, there was not one Gbagbo vote. That was impossible and it was so obvious that it was a rigged election,” Andrew declared.

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