You know, I think this is pretty significant. There have been some new and startling developments in the war in Somalia, and I think it is important to highlight what is really going on. The other reason I want to post this, is to set the record as to who is really responsible for all of this chaos over there.
First off, my message to these extremists groups in Somalia is that Blackwater did not bomb your mosques. Nor did Blackwater dig up Sufi graves and hide the bodies. Nope. Nor did Blackwater allow piracy to continue under their watch in Somalia, or cut off food supplies to the people of Somalia via banning the World Food Program food shipments, or proclaim that a 13 year old girl who was gang raped by thugs to be a whore and then have her stoned to death in public. Nope, Blackwater didn’t do any of that.
But I will tell you who did. It was al Shabab and company, and now that Somalia’s true Islamic scholars have spoken and rejected their war, from here on out they will have that hanging over them. How can you wage holy war, when you don’t have a case for such a thing?
Further more, I will go as far as to say that al Shabab and company care more about power and making money, than living some kind of purist lifestyle under Sharia Law. In other words, I call them hypocrites. You administer your form of sick justice on helpless little girls, yet look the other way when it comes to piracy, desecrating graves, bombing of mosques, chewing khat, recklessly launching mortars into population centers and otherwise making a hard life for the people of Somalia, even worse. And now you have lost the support of the guys who are more knowledgeable of Islam than you. And last I checked, these scholars said nothing about Blackwater at the Garowe Islamic conference. Nope, they were referring to your now ‘un-holy war’ and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
On a side note, I do think it is funny that islamic extremists fear contractors as much as they do. It used to be that the Marines or Special Forces where the ones that everyone feared or put the blame on for everything. But hey, if you guys want to make us into the new bogeyman, so be it……. Boo! lol –Matt
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Aweys rejects clerics’ verdict on Somalia war
11 May 11, 2010
The Islamist leader of Somalia’s Hizbul- Islam rebel group Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys dismissed the declarations of the country’s most respected Islamic scholars, who were in attendance at the recently concluded Garowe Islamic conference, Radio Garowe reports.
The Islamic conference was held last month in Garowe, capital of Puntland in northern Somalia, where more than 50 respected Somali clerics declared that the ongoing war in Somalia as un-Islamic.Aweys defended the war his waging against the foreign troops and UN-backed government as “in accordance with Islamic law.’“The war we are waging is in accordance with Islamic law, because we are not after power. We want to implement Sharia Law in the country,” said the 65-year old cleric.