“The Americans’ suicide attacks and speeches are meant to attract other Americans.” As this report notes, sometimes they “attract” a different set of Americans than they intended, like Navy SEALs who are interested in finding them before they export their new-found expertise back home. “Americans Rise in Rank Inside Somalia Jihadi Group,” by Jennie Olson […]
Somalia: Misunderstanders of Islam publicly flog convert from Islam to Christianity
Muslim spokesmen such as Salam al-Marayati, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Ali Eteraz, all of whom (among many others) assure us that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy, despite Muhammad’s words, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). Somehow these Somali Muslims have misunderstood Islam in the same way Muhammad did. But […]
Somalia: “Alarming increase” in women and girls who have been raped as spoils of war
The Qur’an sanctions sex with captive and slave women: “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you” (4:24). Al-Shabaab is acting barbarically, but as far as they are concerned, they are acting within their rights and not forbidding what […]
“Britons” streaming into Somalia to train for jihad
How exactly are the people in question “Britons” at all? Some or all were born there, and maybe a few like fish and chips or soccer, but in what way is their outlook on life in any recognizable sense “British”? These men are jihadis, plain and simple. Their outlook on life is an Islamic one […]
Minnesota banks to stop money transfers to Somalia to end jihad funding, Al Franken enraged
“In an effort to cut off funds to Somali terrorists, banks in Minnesota will no longer support money transfers via local businesses called ‘hawalas.’” But the Useful Idiot Franken, with a typical Leftist inversion of reality, says that if they do this, the terrorists win: “Ending remittances from the United States would be a victory […]
Somalia: Al-Shabaab reportedly plans to re-brand itself as Imaarah Islamiya, “The Islamic Authority”
The old name meant “The Youth,” in the most common translation in the American media. Now, they’re going for the image of a more mature bloodthirsty, paranoid jihadist thug. “Al-Shabaab terrorists change name which means ‘lads’ because its leaders are all getting old,” by Dan Newling for the Daily Mail, December 6: Somalia’s Al-Shabaab terrorist […]
San Diego: Somali refugee pleads guilty to helping funnel jihadists from Minnesota to al-Shabaab
Nothing says “gratitude” for refugee status like turning around and helping the main reason Somalia is hemorrhaging refugees. “Somali refugee acknowledges aiding terror group,” from the Associated Press, December 1 (thanks to Kenneth): A Somali refugee living in San Diego pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to aiding four men who left Minnesota to join […]
Somalia: Aid agencies banned on charges of “misappropriating funds, collecting data, and promoting secularism, immorality and the ‘degrading values of democracy in an Islamic country'”
People will die, and al-Shabaab does not care. Controlling the flow of aid allows them to starve out resistance. The charge of “misappropriating funds” is particularly curious. It’s certainly not al-Shabaab’s money that groups like UNICEF and the World Health Organization were spending, but clearly, al-Shabaab has made it their business to mind the business […]
Al-Shabaab vows to defeat “black colonialist” Ethiopians
Ethiopian and Kenyan self-defense are colonialism, but al-Shabaab’s religious and cultural imperialism are A-OK, of course. In addition to its intention of imposing Sharia, the group has shown impulses like those of Sudan’s Bashir toward the Arabization of Somalia. Those measures have included banning the teaching of English in schools in favor of Arabic, and […]
Ethiopian troops reportedly enter Somalia
More bad news for al-Shabaab: more resistance it can’t starve into submission. “Ethiopian troops move into Somalia: witnesses,” by Abdi Sheikh for the Associated Press, November 19: MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Scores of Ethiopian military vehicles pushed at least 80 km (50 miles) into neighbouring Somalia on Saturday, residents said, five weeks after Kenya entered Somalia […]