Biography of abu bakr trinidad express
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Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt
1990 failed attempt by Islamist militants to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago
The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990. Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical extremistIslamist group, held hostages (including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and other government officials) at the Red House and at the headquarters of the state-owned national television broadcaster, Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). On 1 August, the insurgents surrendered. They were charged with treason, but were ordered released bygd the Court of Appeal. Twenty kvartet people were killed and many more were injured in the coup attempt.
Background
[edit]Conflict over No. 1 Mucurapo Road
[edit]The Jamaat al Muslimeen was founded in 1982 bygd Yasin Abu Bakr, a former policeman and omvandla to Islam, and established a compound at No. 1 Mucurapo Roa
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ALIYAH KHAN
I. PROLOGUE
“Abu Bakr is dead,” declared Trinidad’s Daily Express headline on October 21, 2021. No introduction or title was necessary for the man whom even Trinidadian emigrants long gone from the islands still whispered about “in hushed tones, as if he is the country’s shadow ruler” (Gold). Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, the Caribbean’s most notorious Muslim to himself and everyone else, passed on to his reward in heavenly Jannah or hellish Jahannam—depending on the Caribbean observer’s religion and politics—days after celebrating his 80th birthday.
Once a mounted policeman named Lennox Phillip from Carenage, and a convert to Islam since 1969, Abu Bakr was a protégé of Libya’s Muammar Ghaddafi. On July 27, 1990, Bakr, who was the founder and leader of Trinidad’s Jamaat al-Muslimeen, led 113 men in the only armed Islamic government coup in the Western Hemisphere.
That is what people know. But me and Bakr have we own story.
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The ongoing legal case against Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, the founder and leader of Trinidad’s and Tobago’s Jamaat al-Muslimeen (Muslim Group), continues to shed light on the group’s radical and criminal activities.
The 64 year-old Abu Bakr is a former police officer and Afro-Trinidadian Muslim convert born Lenox Philip. He has been a thorn in the side of the Trinidadian authorities and a fixture of Trinidadian politics since the mid-1980s. He is best known for leading over 100 members of the Jamaat in storming the National Parliament and taking the prime minister and the cabinet hostage in 1990 to protest a land ownership dispute with the government, poverty in the Afro-Trinidadian community, and state corruption. The ensuing siege set off rioting and violence in the capital of Port of Spain that resulted in scores of deaths and injuries and heavy damages. It also left an indelible mark on Trinidadian politics that is still felt today.
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