Will the Islamophobia never end? “Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Church Leader, Torch Home,” from Compass Direct News, March 24: NAIROBI, Kenya, March 24 (CDN) — Islamic militants in Somalia tracked down an underground church leader who had previously escaped a kidnapping attempt and killed him last week, Christian sources said. Islamic extremist al Shabaab […]
Report: Regional al-Qaeda honcho takes over Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab
An update on this story. “Al-Qaida vet ‘takes over Somali jihadists,” from UPI, March 11: MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 11 (UPI) — The reported takeover of Somalia’s al-Shebab Islamists by al-Qaida veteran Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the 1988 [sic] U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, could rally the divided jihadists as they brace for […]
Somali tied to jihadists worked with two UN agencies
And why not? What does the UN do these days but play the dhimmi for the OIC, anyway? “Somali tied to Islamists worked with two UN agencies,” by Louis Charbonneau for Reuters, March 11 (thanks to Sr. Soph): UNITED NATIONS, March 11 (Reuters) – A Somali businessman linked to Islamist rebels who likely received a […]
Somalia: Islamic supremacists ban English and science classes in schools
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.” Sharia Alert from the Horn of Africa: “Somali Islamist rebels ban English, science lessons,” by Sahra Abdi for Reuters, […]
U.K. to ban al-Shabaab jihadist group
Good idea: “A ban would make membership in the group a criminal offense and would mean it could not lawfully raise money or conduct other activities on British soil.” “Britain to Ban Somali Islamic Militant Group,” from Voice of America, March 1: The British government says it is banning the Somali militant group, al-Shabab and […]
“There’s no longer a serious risk that southern Somalia could become a jihadi operational deployment facility. It already is.”
Indeed. The Somali jihadists have already threatened Kenya, Uganda and Burundi, and even Israel, and will eventually attempt an attack outside of Somalia. All of this activity points ultimately to the global nature of the jihadist agenda, above and beyond what are all too often written off as “regional” or “nationalistic” squabbles. In one al-Shabaab […]
“We will attack them once we unite the Somali Holy fighters, then we will unite with our brothers in Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya to help them in their war against the infidels”
But…but…what do Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya have in common? Don’t the learned analysts assure us that those are all separate nationalist insurgencies? And what’s all this about a “war against the infidels”? Doesn’t Sheik Muqtar Robow know that Obama said that the United States “is not and will never be at war with […]
Somali Taliban’s new envoy to U.S. is HuffPo columnist, CAIR official
Abukar Arman is the new special envoy to the U.S. for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) that leads the Somali Unity government and presided over bloody Sharia rule in Somalia in 2006. Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Alert: Abukar Arman is also a columnist for the Huffington Post. There he has said of the Rifqa Bary case: “It […]
Report: Somalia’s al-Shabaab declares jihad on Kenya
That was bound to happen sooner or later, just as soon as al-Shabaab got strong enough to expand its horizons. The newly minted alliance with al-Qaeda is also significant, as al-Shabaab has access to al-Qaeda’s assets in the region to make good on its threats. “Somalia: Al-Shabaab declares jihad on Kenya,” from Garowe Online, February […]
Alabama boy joins the jihad
Here is an extensive profile of the American jihadist Omar Hammami, a.k.a. Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, and how he moved from a middle-class Alabama upbringing to the jihad in Somalia and a life full of hatred and violence. “The Jihadist Next Door,” by Andrea Elliott in the New York Times, January 27 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): […]