Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has declared “all-out war” against al-Shabaab. Meanwhile, al-Shabaab continues to strike with impunity. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud seems unable to do the slightest thing about it.
Kharijites were an early Islamic sect; they rejected both Sunnis and Shia. Muslim authorities today often like to refer to jihadis as Kharijites, so as to imply that they have no legitimacy within Islam. If only that were the case.
“Somalia: Nine dead in a car bomb attack in Mogadishu,” La Croix, July 15, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Nine people were killed and 20 others injured in the Somali capital of Mogadishu when a car bomb exploded in front of a crowded café filled with patrons watching the Euro 2024 final Sunday night, security sources said July 15.
“A vehicle loaded with explosives is suspected to have caused the devastating explosion at the restaurant. We have confirmed that at least nine civilians were killed and 20 others injured in the explosion,” Mohamed Yusuf, an official with the national security agency, told AFP. An earlier report indicated five deaths.
Images posted online show a huge fireball and plumes of smoke rising into the night sky as the explosion ravaged the popular downtown establishment.
“A car bomb exploded this evening in front of the Top Coffee restaurant…placed by Kharijite terrorists,” reported SONNA, using the term authorities use to refer to the radical Islamist group, Al-Shabaab….
Al-Shabaab, a jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda, has carried out numerous bombings and other attacks in Mogadishu and various regions of the troubled country….
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has promised a “total” war against the jihadists. The army has joined forces with local clan militias in a military campaign supported by an African Union force and U.S. airstrikes. Nevertheless, the offensive has faced setbacks, with Al-Shabaab claiming to have captured numerous localities in the country’s center by early 2024….
Hindu American says
Some people did something…
PRCS says
+1
gravenimage says
Salient reference. I doubt that Omar will condemn this savagery.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wouldn’t that put her at odds w/ the leader of her country who endorsed her run in MN a few weeks ago?
gravenimage says
Maybe, maybe not, Infidel. Many Somalis seem to have little trouble with Al Shebab unless they are being personally blown u by them–Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wants to be in power, of course, and Al Shebab is a rival–but I doubt he actually has much of an ideological disagreement with them otherwise.
somehistory says
How would ilhan elmi, alias omar, feel if someone called her a Kharijite? The *rep* for islam in the U.S. works against what Americans want (per her former somalia president who spoke at her rally).
Which side does she take regarding al shabab?
mozlums can’t get along with anyone, even others devoted to islam.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She would have a conflict, since the prime minister who condemned these “khajarites” is the same person who endorsed her in MN a few weeks back, telling the Somalis gathered there that her sole loyalty is to Somalia. So she would be torn b/w her jihadist self, vs being opposite the leader of her country
As Hindu-American glibly described above, some people did something….. ?
gravenimage says
Somalia: Muslims murder nine people and injure 20 at café crowded with people watching Euro 2024 final
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These *poor people*–Jihad against football fans.
My husband and I also watched the Euro Final on July 14. The only bad thing that happened was England losing (and only because I was rooting for them–I have no problem with Spain winning otherwise).
No fear of our being murdered. But this may change, as more of these Islamic thugs perform Hijiara here.
GE says
I just received a letter yesterday about Burkina Faso. Bishop Justin Kientega shared:
“There is no freedom of worship. In some villages, they allow people to pray but forbid catechism. In other places they tell the Christians not to gather in the church to pray. Islamic terrorists come by motorcycle to the villages, they gather the people and tell them not to go to school, not to obey public administration, instruct the men to grow their beards, and the women to wear the Islamic veil. Sometimes they take one person and kill him in front of everyone.”
In a recent attack inside a chapel killed 10 adults and two children.
gravenimage says
Terrible, GreekEmpress, but no surprise, Burkina Faso has long been a terrible Islamic place.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Talking about Khajarites – the only Khajarite sect there is in the world are the Ibadis in Oman. Which is one of the most moderate countries in dar ul islam, compared to anybody
If anything, it’s the sunnis that people need to be wary of