Showing posts with label Somalia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Somalia. Show all posts
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Minneapolis Muslims: Sharia Law Better Than American Laws
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Deadly Suicide Bombing Strikes Somalia's Capital
Thursday, August 04, 2016
Monday, November 10, 2014
Book on Apostasy in Islam Earns Writer the Moniker ‘Somalia’s Salman Rushdie’
Now, he is being branded as “Somalia’s Salman Rushdie” a reference to the British–Indian novelist whose book, “The Satanic Verses,” provoked worldwide Muslims protests and a fatwa from Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.
Abdisaid Abdi Ismail’s book, “The Rule of Apostasy In Islam: Is it True?” was published in Kenya in September.
Ismail was following the Meriam Yahya Ibrahim case before starting work on the book. She is the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for converting to Christianity, but later freed. Her case outraged the world and drew attention to the growing abuse of apostasy in Islam. (Ibrahim said she has always been a Christian.)
The book, written in the Somali language, is being read in Western cities such as London, Toronto and Minneapolis, where there are large populations of ethnic Somalis.
Ismail said the book furthers the growing voice of Muslim scholars, intellectuals and prominent clerics worldwide who are increasingly rejecting the abuse of Islam by extremist groups such as the Islamic State, Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Somalia’s Al-Shabab.
“What we need are secular states where there is democracy, justice and equality for all,” he said. “Not theocratic ones where leaders rule by the name of God.”
Ismail’s concern is that Somali Islamic militants, clerics and other extremist groups in Muslim-majority countries are applying apostasy as a political tool, branding those with contrary opinions as apostates who need to be killed. He has watched Al-Shabab justify the deaths of those who oppose their hard-line interpretation of the Quran by branding them apostates. Somali civil servants, national army officers, local or international nongovernmental organization officials, are considered devil’s spies who deserve death, he added.
“I wanted to explain to my people the true meaning of apostasy in Islam,” he said. » | Frederick Nzwili | Friday, November 07, 2014
SOMALIA ONLINE: Abdisaid Abdi Ismail, a professor at East Africa University in Bosaso, recieves death threats after writing a controversial book on Islam »
Sunday, May 25, 2014
I Renounced Islam, So My family Think I Should Die
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| Amal Farah, above, said the case of Meriam Ibrahim prompted her to speak out |
If Amal Farah were not living in Britain, she believes she might well be dead.
For the 33-year-old financial manager had carried out an act so heinous, her family felt she deserved to die.
Her crime? She had renounced her Islamic faith – “and within my community, that’s a capital offence,” she said. “They believe you deserve to die.”
Mrs Farah, who was born in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, but now lives in Britain, has never told her story before.
She was too afraid; told that, even in the UK, it was safer for her to keep a low profile.
But when earlier this month the case of Meriam Ibrahim came to light – an eight-month pregnant Sudanese woman, sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith – Mrs Farah felt she had to speak out.
“I had to do something,” she said. “I am so fortunate to be here, and I am in a position to be able to shout and scream and say this is wrong.” » | Harriet Alexander | Sunday, May 25, 2014
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Hate Preacher Anjem Choudary Being Used in Al-Shabaab Recruiting Video as Terror Groups Target British Muslims Who Question Radical Islam
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| Anjem Choudary |
Militant preacher Anjem Choudary has been identified as a leading British influence for the Al Qaeda-linked terrorists who carried out the Kenya shopping mall atrocity, it emerged yesterday.
London-based Choudary, who has been linked to dozens of terrorist suspects, is highlighted in a video issued by East African group Al-Shabaab.
The video also says 11 Britons have died waging jihad in Somalia.
One of the leading figures in Al-Shabaab – blamed for last month’s Nairobi attack which left 67 dead – is ‘white widow’ Samantha Lewthwaite. The whereabouts of Lewthwaite, former wife of 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, remains a mystery.
Counter-terrorism detectives at Scotland Yard, who have been on a heightened state of alert following the Kenyan outrage, are examining the 58-minute video by Al-Shabaab which endorses Choudary.
Called ‘Woolwich Attack: It’s an Eye for an Eye’, the English-language production urges Muslims in Britain to go to Somalia to fight jihad or carry out terror attacks in the UK if they are unable to travel.
It is the first such propaganda video to be entirely focused on recruiting Britons and inciting terror attacks in the UK. » | Jill Reilly | Friday, October 18, 2013
Saturday, October 05, 2013
'Western Special Forces' Raid al-Shabaab Stronghold in Somalia
The assault took place shortly before dawn on the coastal town of Barawe, 110 miles south of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of al-Shabaab, is known to have stayed in Barawe in the past. The fishing town is in the heart of an area controlled by the al-Qaeda affiliate.
Al-Shabaab claimed that British and Turkish special forces carried out the raid and that one SAS officer was killed. However, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said that "no UK forces at all" were involved. Turkey's government made a similar denial.
France, which has carried out raids in Somalia in the past, also said that none of its soldiers was deployed.
In Washington, Pentagon spokesman George Little said: "I decline comment." » | David Blair | Saturday, October 05, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Kämpfer der radikalen Shabab-Miliz haben das Gebäude der Vereinten Nationen in der somalischen Hauptstadt Mogadischu gestürmt und 15 Menschen getötet. Truppen der Afrikanischen Union schlugen die Islamisten zurück.
Mogadischu - In der somalischen Hauptstadt Mogadischu haben Islamisten das Gebäude der Vereinten Nationen angegriffen. Die Polizei berichtete, ein Attentäter habe sich am Eingang zum Uno-Entwicklungsprogramm (UNDP) in die Luft gesprengt. Anschließend hätten mehrere Männer in Militäruniformen das Gebäude gestürmt und um sich geschossen. Bei dem Angriff seien 15 Menschen getötet worden, darunter vier ausländische Mitarbeiter des UNDP und vier somalische Sicherheitskräfte, sagte Innenminister Abdikarim Husien Gulled. » | tob/dpa/Reuters/AP/AFP | Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2013
Friday, October 26, 2012
WORTHY NEWS: NAIROBI, KENYA – The militant Islamist group al Shabaab is targeting converts from Christianity to Islam to wage jihad in Kenya.
Controlling southern Somalia, al Shabaab has been launching border attacks into Kenya with poor youths from Christian backgrounds.
Godffery Ngumi, senior lecturer at the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Kenyatta University, said recent converts can be easily manipulated because they know very little about their new religion.
"It is the recent converts who (are) being used to bomb churches," said Rev. Wellington Mutiso, head of the Evangelical Alliance. "It is not members of the Somali, Boran, or Swahili communities, which have many Muslims, but the other tribes which have been known to follow Christianity …" » | Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent | Friday, October 26, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A High Court ruling overturning attempts to stop the Egyptian-born imam being sent to the US was “a testament to the reality of the west’s vicious war against Islam and the Muslims”, al-Shabaab said.
For this, the group said on its official Twitter feed, Britain faced another terror attack that would be deadlier than those on July 7 and July 21, 2005.
“Britain will pay the heftiest price for its brazen role in the war against Islam and endless brutality against innocent Muslims,” al-Shabaab’s press office tweeted on Monday. “We remind the British government that we’re a nation that doesn’t tolerate oppression [and] their actions will be repaid in retaliatory measure.
“The nightmare that surreptitiously looms on British shores is bound to eclipse the horrors of 7/7 and 21/7 combined, insh’allah.” Security agencies have long feared that terror cells trained in Somalia, some comprising British citizens, were planning attacks in Britain. » | Mike Pflanz, Mogadishu | Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Islam has cast a pall over the civilised world. – © Mark
Monday, October 01, 2012
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Die radikale islamistische Shabaab-Miliz hat sich nach dem Angriff kenianischer Streitkräfte aus ihrer letzten Bastion, der somalischen Hafenstadt Kismayo, zurückgezogen. Die Miliz will sich künftig auf die „Guerilla-Taktik“ verlegen.
Die radikale islamistische Shabaab-Miliz in Somalia hat sich nach dem Großangriff kenianischer Streitkräfte am Wochenende aus der Hafenstadt Kismayo zurückgezogen. Ein Sprecher der mit Al Qaida verbündeten Extremisten bezeichnete den Rückzug als „taktische Neuaufstellung“ und kündigte an, die Miliz werde sich künftig auf eine „Guerilla-Taktik“ verlegen. Wohin Al Shabaab ausgewichen ist, ist unklar. » | Von THOMAS SCHEEN, JOHANNESBURG |Sonntag, 30. September 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
CBN.COM: SOMALIA -- Somalia's Islamist terror group al Shabab wants to rid the Muslim country of all Christians and is specifically targeting Christian converts from Islam.
Al Shabab recently joined with al Qaeda and wants Sharia law implemented in the country.
An al Shabab video that swept the Internet in September 2008 shows the brutal beheading of 25-year-old aid worker Mansour Mohammed. His crime? Mohammed converted to Christianity in 2005. Blindfolded, Tortured » | Gary Lane | CBN News Sr. International Correspondent | Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Somalia’s prime minister, was at the podium giving a speech when the girl detonated her explosives, at 11am local time on Wednesday.
Mr Ali was unharmed, but there were reports that one of the five government ministers also attending the event was slightly injured, as were two MPs.
At least five people died, including the presidents of the Somali Football Federation, the head of the country’s Olympic Committee, and a television cameraman, according to eye-witnesses.
Bodies were strewn across a large area as ambulances and private vehicles began ferrying the wounded to hospital.
Among them were well-known musicians and artists, and the deputy chairman of the National Union of Somali Journalists. » | Mike Pflanz, Nairobi and Abukar Albadri in Mogadishu | Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
INSPIRE MAGAZINE: Islamist militants in Somalia have beheaded a Christian relief worker – the third Christian to be killed in this way since September, reports Release International.
It has emerged that al-Shabaab militia murdered 26-year-old Zakaria Hussein Omar in January 2012 near the capital Mogadishu.
Zakaria worked for a Christian humanitarian organisation that had been banned by the Islamist extremists. He converted to Christianity from Islam seven years ago. A close friend who identified his body said Zakaria realised his life would be in danger if he continued in his work.
Al-Shabaab has vowed to rid the country of its Christian minority.
In September the terrorist group beheaded two other Christians, including a 17-year-old boy. They have publicly flogged and paraded other converts. » | Sources: Compass Direct, Assist, ICC, Operation World | Undated
Friday, February 10, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The Somali militant group al Shabaab has formally joined al Qaeda, the terror network's leader Ayman al Zawahiri has announced in a new video.
One analyst said the connection could signal that the insurgents, known as resourceful, determined and increasingly web-savvy, had al Qaeda's approval for attacks against the West.
In a video posted on Islamist forums on Thursday, al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri said: "Today, I have glad tidings for the Muslim ummah (nation) that will please the believers and disturb the disbelievers, which is the joining of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia to Qaedat al-Jihad to support the jihadi unity against the Zionist-Crusader campaign and their assistants amongst the treacherous agent rulers.
"I appeal to our people in Somalia not to follow those who teach ill, and the weak leaders who brought the crusader rabble to the land of pure Islam." » | Friday, February 10, 2012
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Two Western aid workers, from the US and Denmark, were kidnapped on Tuesday from a town in central Somalia where they were contracted to a landmine clearance programme.
The pair, a man and a woman, were abducted close to the airport in Galkayo, a town split between two different local authorities but north of territory controlled by al-Shabaab, Somalia’s Islamist insurgents.
A Somali colleague was taken hostage with them.
The three were working for the Danish Demining Group, an offshoot of the Danish Refugee Council, and had spent the day visiting projects in Galkayo’s south, local officials said.
It is the fourth abduction of Westerners by Somali gangs in the last six weeks, following kidnappings of British, French and Spanish women from northern Kenya. » | Mike Pflanz, Nairobi | Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Die radikale islamistische Miliz al Shabaab hat mit Selbstmordanschlägen in Kenia gedroht, sollte Nairobi seine Truppen nicht aus Somalia abziehen. Zuvor waren schwer bewaffnete kenianische Truppen ins Nachbarland eingerückt.
Die radikale islamistische Miliz al Shabaab hat mit Selbstmordanschlägen in Kenia gedroht, sollte Nairobi seine Truppen nicht aus Somalia abziehen. Zuvor waren schwer bewaffnete kenianische Truppen ins Nachbarland eingerückt, um, wie ein Sprecher der kenianischen Regierung sagte, die Milizionäre "auszuschalten", die für die Entführung von zwei spanischen Entwicklungshelferinnen sowie einer französischen und einer britischen Touristin verantwortlich seien.
Ein Shabaab-Sprecher sagte am Montag, die Kenianer sollten daran denken, was in Uganda geschehen sei. Bei einem Doppelanschlag in Kampala während der Übertragung des Endspiels der Fußballweltmeisterschaft im Juli 2010 waren 76 Personen getötet worden. Der Shabaab-Sprecher sagte, dieser Anschlag sei verübt worden, weil Uganda Soldaten für die Truppen der Afrikanischen Union nach Mogadischu geschickt habe. » | Quelle: tos.; F.A.Z. | Montag 17. Oktober 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Somalia's al-Shabaab group has banned samosas after ruling the popular snacks are 'offensive' and too Christian.
Militant Islamist fighters last week used vehicles mounted with loudspeakers to announce the bizarre ruling across the regions of the war-torn country it controls.
The extremist group has offered no official explanation for the ban on the triangular snacks, which are commonly cooked up and served across the Horn of Africa. Islamist group in Somalia bans samosas after deciding they're too Western » | Stewart MacClean | Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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