about 50 miles from the capital, bamako, i meet the hunters.brandish their 19th century flintlock rifles, and their talismans. the islamists who now control northern mali hate all this, but the hunters culture goes back a thousand years and they like to show it off. these men see themselves as muslims, but they mix their islam with animism, traditional culture, and they know that if the islamists came down from the north to here then they'd be the first target. but they're an essential part of malian culture. they show me how they aim their rifles-- no shooting, though because it's ramadan and they say, they can always send magic to destroy the islamists. >> ( translated ): we're scared of the new islamic wave. when they see us wearing hunters clothes, they won't regard us as muslims. they'll automatically think were infidels who cannot know allah. but our external appearance is different from what we feel inside. these foreigners are showing us a kind of islam which has never been prophet mohammed's message, taking knives and killing others. >