How the Twin tower attacks were received in Couseri, Cameroon

The Hausa service of Voice of Nigeria was the first broadcaster to make the Hausa world to know what had just stroked the great Satan as the US is identify by some Muslims. Then, the BBC Hausa service also began broadcasting detailed news about the attack. It was one of the beneficiaries of the transistor Radio that Nguelemedouga had given his guests as sign of appreciation during his conversion who first heard the news. His name was Idriss.

And as he heard the news, he shouted “thank you, Mr Sub district officer. Without you, we would have taken weeks to know this, because those infidels in Yaoundé have never thought of putting a relay station here to permit us receive signals of Radio Cameroon or their Television station”. Idriss hurried to the Sharia court and met at the entrance a member of the oulema who had just left the deliberations of the Sharia court to honour a natural call. He murmured to him: “our brothers have done some thing that; I don’t know whether it is noble or it is calamitous”. And the Mullah by name Njang Ibrahim answered: “be very clear”. Idriss said: “Mullah Ibrahim, our Muslim brothers are alleged by Voice of Nigeria and the BBC to have attacked the great Satan with two aeroplanes”. And Mullah Ibrahim retorted: “from which language service did you get such horrible news?” Idriss responded: the Hausa services of both VON and the BBC”. “Then it must be true”. Mullah Ibrahim replied and went into the court room where the other oulemas were deliberating on Nguelemedouga’s and Fatima’s fates. He lifted his right hand up and immediately the presiding judge told him: “speak!” Mullah Ibrahim said: “I beg to ask the court in the name of almighty Allah to lift the deliberation of it present sitting. Why? Because, Idriss has just told me a very bad news that, will change for ever the perception that, the infidels have toward our religion”.

One Mullah by name Buhari interjected: “well, the infidels have never liked us. What is new or it is just a calculated attempt to deny Allah’s decisions to be applied on his servants Ali and the stupid Fatima?” Ibrahim said: “far from that, as you know, any decision taken here, I will be the first to apply it, especially if it is stoning.” “Ok! Tell us what the bad news is all about”. One Mullah grumbled. “As I was saying, our brothers have attacked the great Satan in her eyes in New York city with two aeroplanes”. “This can not be true, I am happy and may their souls go straight to Paradise”. Mullah Abdulsalam cried from behind. It was in chaos that, the Sharia court holding in Makari ended and all the Mullahs rushed to their homes and tune on the Radio sets, which were gifts from the one whom they were deliberating on at the Islamic court on the appropriate punishments to inflict on him and his interpreter, who had become pregnant. As they rushed to their homes, after getting the news on the Hausa Voice of Nigeria (VON) or the BBC Hausa service, they decided in the evening to meet at the home of the Imam of Couseri. The name of the Imam was Mustapha Mohamed Sayed. Before the consternated religious dignitaries could reach the home of the Imam, he had also received a phone call from the Imam Sokoto in Nigeria and he told him what has happened in the United States. Imam Mustapha after some procrastinations, decided to ring the sub district officer Ali Lenin Nguelemedouga, for he was not only the representative of the government in the area, he was above all, the most educated male Muslim. His opinion mattered.