Last updated: 15 august, 2009 - 03:32 GMT

Nigerian muslim community under scrutiny

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Just a few weeks ago, at least 150 people were killed in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, when security forces cracked down on the militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, whose name loosely translates as 'Western or non-Islamic education is a sin'.

With the dust not yet settled on that storm, questions have now been raised, also in northern Nigeria, about an isolationist Islamic community called Darul Islam or 'The House of Islam' - a community of about 2,000 people trying to live according to strict Islamic principles.

Though set up in the early 1990s, Darul Islam has found itself under official scrutiny since the troubles involving Boko Haram.

Fred Dove spoke to our reporter Ibrahim Isa, who has just visited Darul Islam...

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