Al-Shabaab was essentially demanding jizya: $20,000 every six months for “protection” of World Food Programme operations in areas the jihadists controlled. “WikiLeaks: UN aid cash went to Islamist insurgents,” by Holly Watt and TIm Ross for the Telegraph, February 4 (thanks to Twostellas): The UN World Food Programme (WFP) had to suspend activities in southern […]
Axe-wielding Somali convicted of attempted manslaughter, terrorism in attack on Motoonist gets 9 years in jail
The court also ruled that Mohammed Geele should be expelled from Denmark after serving his sentence. An update on this story. Being sentenced to life in Somalia is easily the harsher part of the punishment. “Somali sentenced to 9 years for axe attack against Danish cartoonist; defence launches appeal,” by Jan M. Olsen for the […]
Somalia: Islamic supremacists confiscate Christian farms
“Five of the farms were owned by Somali Christian converts from Islam,” who have now fled and are in hiding, no doubt because of Islam’s death penalty for apostates. “Islamic Somali Militants Confiscate Christian Farms,” from International Christian Concern, February 3: Washington, D.C. (February 3, 2011)-International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that members of Al-Shabaab, […]
Somalia: Misunderstanders of Islam murder mother of four for apostasy
We’re told again and again in the West that there is no death penalty in Islam for apostasy, and that those who think otherwise are greasy Islamophobes. Unfortunately, a persistent group of Muslims refuses to get the memo. And in reality, Muhammad, the prophet of Islam and supreme example of conduct for the Muslim (cf. […]
Somali women complain of draconian Sharia restrictions
Somali cultural Islam meets the formal requirements of Sharia. “Somali women say Islamists becoming more draconian,” by Sahra Abdi for Reuters, January 15 (thanks to David): NAIROBI (Reuters) – Women living in areas controlled by Somalia’s Islamists say they are increasingly the target of more draconian rules meted out by the rebels bent on enforcing […]
Somalia: Misunderstanders of Islam ban handshakes between men and women, women working in public, music, movies, bras
Where are the Moderate Muslim voices speaking up to say these Somali Muslims are getting Islam all wrong, wrong, wrong? Sharia Alert from Somalia: isn’t it great that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange made Oklahoma safe for Sharia? “Somali Islamists ban men, women from shaking hands,” from AP, January 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): […]
“We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country”
First, invite the unbelievers to accept Islam. Then, attack: “Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you […]
Misunderstanders of Islam “call on our brothers to come to Somalia and to help us expand the East Africa jihad”
It’s funny how none of the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims seems interested in going to Mogadishu to explain to al-Shabaab how they’re getting Islam and jihad all wrong, wrong, wrong. Honest Ibe? Brave Ahmed? Boy Reza? Anyone? Anyone? “Somalia: Al Shabaab calls for continuation of ‘East Africa jihad,’” from Garowe Online, December 25: Somali […]
Somalia: Islamic supremacists pray noon prayer, then destroy underground Christian library
An act of Islamic piety: destroying the Christians’ “misguided” books. After all, as the caliph Umar is supposed to have said when ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned: “If the books agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical.” “Islamic Militants Destroy Underground Christian Library in […]
Somali girl tortured, murdered by her family for leaving Islam
More Misunderstanders of Islam fail to realize what Islamic apologists in the West always tell us: that Islam has no death penalty for apostasy, and forbids honor killing. “Somali Teenage Girl Shot to Death for Embracing Christ,” from Compass Direct News, December 3 (thanks to all who sent this in): NAIROBI, Kenya, December 3 (CDN) […]