Olvana Jemaah Islamiyah

The Olvana Jemaah Islamiyah (OJI) is a Muslim insurgent group that operates primarily in Western Olvana. Many of its leaders are trained in the Middle East. As the OJI becomes stronger, the group continues to push further to the east. Mainline OJI is usually content to slowly convert people to Islam by providing services to the poor rural people that the central Olvana government seems to forget. There are, however, OJI cells that do not feel the conversion process is occurring fast enough, and are thus trying to convert rural villages by force. These OJI cells enter a village and try to convince the people to convert to Islam. If the local leaders are unwilling to convert, the OJI executes the village leaders. If this does not convince the people to convert, more of them are killed. If the village converts and pays tribute to the OJI in the form of supplies and/or money, the OJI cell moves on to another village. The OJI will send in spies to the converted villages at later times to see if the village has actually converted to Islam. If they have not, the OJI may return to set another example. These extremist OJI cells sometimes will kidnap young women, usually from 10-20 years of age, and force them to become wives of the OJI members.  The OJI cells also kidnap younger male children (5-10 years of age) to convert them to Islam and join the OJI cause. The OJI tests the loyalty of these young children by using them as couriers to carry messages, supplies, ammunition, and arms, as local police seldom bother the children carrying goods in rural areas.