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The Muslim purge of Timbuktu

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The legendary city of Timbuktu was once a great center of culture, trade, learning and wealth, but today it is only a shadow of its past.

Once home to thriving Jewish and Christian communities, it is currently in the throes of a radical Muslim insurgency, which is bent on driving out anything not acceptable to the strictest version of Wahhabist Islam.

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