Gya: Iranian cleric still missing

The local Shia Muslim community has appealed to the security services and Commissioner of Police Winston Felix to do more in the case of abducted college director Mohamed Hussein Ibrahim.

Sheikh Salim Ibn Abdul Kadir, one of the local leaders, made the appeal yesterday, expressing the concern of the group that Ibrahim has not yet been found. Kadir is the head of the Guyana Islamic Information Centre based in Linden.

Ibrahim, 35, director of the International Islamic College for Advanced Studies (IICAS) was grabbed last Friday night by two armed men from outside the college's premises at 42B United Nations Place in what seemed a well-planned mission. He has not been seen or heard from since.
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Kadir, who is a close friend of Ibrahim from his years studying Islamic Theology in the Islamic Republic of Iran, said the issue is being given prominence in the news in Iran.
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Classes at the college have been curtailed since the abduction and a decision on the way forward is expected to come from the Iranian authorities responsible for it.
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What was puzzling was the silence of other local Islamic groups, Kadir said.

The IICAS was established about two years ago and is geared towards the promotion of Islamic studies. It also offers sewing and computer classes among others.

Police up to yesterday could only confirm that they are continuing investigations.

I can't help wondering at the extent of Iran's influence in Guyana, in T&T -- where Muslims are also Shi'a, and in the Caribbean, as a whole. Had it not been for the Islamic Republic of Iran's adversarial stance to the U.S.; it's fostering of Islamic terrorism in the Mid-East and, perhaps, the U.S., this matter would have flown under the radar. As it stands, especially given the attempted coup in T&T in 1990, the presence of Iranians in Guyana bears close watching.