His sheer energy kept UNITA going: he walked thousands of miles between remote villages, preaching war and organising his followers into revolutionary cells.
Since leaving power he has toured around preaching war against everyone in sight, and earning multimillions from vaguely defined services to various dictators he had got to know.
Returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1823, he began to preach holy war (jihad) against the Sikhs who had been oppressing their Muslim subjects.
Not for a one-way process of Israeli withdrawals while the Palestinian Authority's media and schools preach holy war and deny Israel's right to exist.
But it is also this heritage that has left their society largely unintegrated, intensely aware of sectarian identity, and open - at least in part - to the messages of those who preach holy war.
There is no lack of moral entrepreneurs, poised to preach the war on doping: sports authorities, politicians, opinion leaders, ethicists, and the media.
Last Sunday, at an outdoor Mass in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, he again preached against war.
One could find pastors who preached against war but also against divorce or abortion, without running afoul of the laity's Democratic or Republican expectations.
April 29 , 1779Phulat, India May 6, 1831 Muḥammad Ismāʿīl Shahīd, (born April 29 , 1779 Phulat, India died May 6, 1831, Balakote) Indian Muslim reformer who attempted to purge Indian Islam from idolatry and who preached holy war against the Sikhs and the British.
