Somalia: insurgency spreads, Sufis appeal for peace

[Jeddawi]

Somalia: insurgency spreads, Sufis appeal for peace

 

Submitted by WW4 Report on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 00:16. A Wahhabi terrorist group al-Shabaab insurgents seized two districts in central Somalia without violence Dec. 7, including the stronghold of a Sufi group that traditionally abjures violence. Residents in Galgadud region reported that fighters aboard armed trucks peacefully entered the provincial capital Dhusamareb. "The local clan militias withdrew before they came," one resident told the independent Radio Garowe. Shabaab fighters also took control of Mataban district to the south, with clan militias similarly offering no resistance. The Shabaab faction already controls key regions in southern Somalia, including the port towns of Kismayo and Marka.

 

A spokesman for the Sufi group Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamee'a rejected reports their followers battled against Shabaab guerrillas in Galgadud region. Sheikh Abdulkadir Somow told reporters in Mogadishu: "The fighting in Guri El [in Galgadud] was between brothers, and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamee'a was not involved." He called on Somalis to "stop fighting each other" and for Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur Adde to "resolve differences," while praising Djibouti for supporting the peace process. (Garowe Online, Puntland, Dec. 8)

 

 

 

 

Wahhabi Somali fighters destroying Sufi shrines

 

Somali fighters used hammers to destroy the graves of clerics and other prominent people in Kismayo ,

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWahhabi terrorist group Al-Shabab fighting transitional government and Ethiopian forces in Somalia, is desecrating religious shrines in the south of the country, Al Jazeera has learned. The ancient graves of clerics and other prominent people are among holy sites being targeted by the armed group in the port city of Kismayo.

 

Al-Shabab took control of Somalia's third-largest city about four months ago and quickly announced it would not tolerate anything it deemed un-Islamic.

 

Graves targeted

 

The fighters then turned their hammers on graves, some of which contained the remains of followers of Sufi, a mystical form of Islam.

 

The sites have been revered for decades and are regularly visited by people paying homage to the dead, a practice al-Shabab has condemned as being akin to idolatry.

[Jeddawi]

Somalia: Sunnis resist al-Shabaab Wahhabi terrorists

Submitted by WW4 Report on Sun, 12/28/2008 - 19:35. Heavy fighting erupted in central Somalia Dec. 27, with two religious orders seeking control of the town of Guri El in Galgadud region, Radio Garowe reports. At least 10 people were killed and 12 others wounded during the battle, in which the town's hospital was hit by a mortar shell. Gunmen loyal to a Sufi group—Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamee'a—reportedly took control of strategic locations inside Guri El, ousting al-Shabaab guerillas who had seized the town earlier this month.

 

Sheikh Abdirahman Abu-Qadi, a spokesman for the Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamee' a sect, told reporters that al-Shabaab a Wahhabi group was responsible for destroying the graves of revered Islamic sheikhs. "The bones of Sheikh Nur Hussein have been sold to Italians and Jews and we do not know why," Abu-Qadi said. Al-Shabaab fighters last week reportedly destroyed graves in Jilib and Kismayo districts, in the Middle Jubba and Lower Jubba regions respectively.

 

The day before the fighting, Sheikh Abdulkadir Somow, spokesman for the Sufi group, held a press conference in Mogadishu to protest the desecration of the graves by al-Shabaab fighters. "It is prohibited to bother a Muslim person, living or dead, in Islam," Sheikh Somow said, adding that the graves of Sheikh Nur and his two sons were destroyed. He urged restraint on the part of Sufi followers, while appealing to al-Shabaab to "stop destroying graves and mosques." He also asserted that foreign Wahhabi fighters were involved in the desecrations.

 

Watch this Video of Wahhabi Terrorists destroying Sufi shrines in Somalia..

 

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWI-p9Kl4g

[Abdur Rehman]

 

Wahabis always served and kept on serving zionist agenda by creating mischeif amongst ummah..

 

May Allah unite us all against our enemies. amin