Piety
Both Islamic and Christian shrines. The Islamic ones are manifestations of a cultural Islam that the Wahhabis of al-Shabab reject, deeming such shrines "un-Islamic." And the Christian ones of course are sites of infidel idolatry.
Sharia Alert: "Somali fighters destroying shrines," from Al-Jazeera, December 20 (thanks to W. D.):
Al-Shabab, an armed group 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.
Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Adow said Kismayo's Roman Catholic church was torn down just days after they seized power through bloody fighting.
"The 60-year-old church had not been used for nearly 20 years and not a single Christian lives in the city - but that was not a good enough reason for the militias to spare the building, he said."
"They are planning to replace it with a mosque."
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.
"We are a chosen lot by Allah to try and correct the mystics of the people and guide them," Hassan Yaqub, a spokesman for the Kismayo administration, told Al Jazeera."We have a responsibility to the people to guard the people against all evil deeds."
In Marka, another coastal town in the south of the country, Al Jazeera witnessed the public implementation of Sharia, or Islamic law.
Three men accused of smoking hashish were given a public flogging before the al-Shabab fighters set fire to the drugs that were purportedly found when the men were arrested.
Such practices have become more frequent as al-Shabab has increased its influence across southern and central Somalia, taking back many of the areas which were formerly controlled by the Islamic Courts Union until late 2006.
In October, a 13-year-old girl was reportedly stoned to death in Kismayo after she was found guilty of adultery.
The UN later said that she had been raped....
"We are a chosen lot by Allah to try and correct the mystics of the people and guide them," Hassan Yaqub, a spokesman for the Kismayo administration, told Al Jazeera
And what proof do they have that Allah has actually chosen them for anything?
Correcting the 'mystics' of the people is pure arrogance. Someone needs to correct Hassan's 'mystics'.
The guy with the hammer obviously is a stranger to hard work. He will never get any real work done holding it like that...
"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."
Saints worship is too deeply entrenched in those North African countries to be eradicated. In difficult times, that's where people go to find the courage to go on living, not to the mosques.
It seems that al-Shabab has identified Islam's rival: the ethnic memory.
Are Somalis absolutely the worst people in the world? Or is it just a prefect impression they conjure up?
Please, do continue to invite these people into our country so they can pluck chickens for us.
Hell really has been emptied out upon the earth.
Because it is mohammedans doing the wrecking the press will trivialize and dismiss the mohammedan shrines destroyed.
Were it anyone else the press (and the mohammedan population of the world) would be hysterical with fear, grief and rage over how "sacred" those shrines were.
Nobody worries about the Christian sites.
Transparent crap.
Remember how in kindergarden you and your buddies would build something out of wooden blocks and the class jerk would come along and kick it to pieces?
Islamic culture at its zenith.
Remember how in kindergarden you and your buddies would build something out of wooden blocks and the class jerk would come along and kick it to pieces?
Islamic culture at its zenith.
Warning -- reading the Qur'an may inspire one to pick up a sledgehammer. Islam, destroyer of all that is good and sacred. Down with Islam.
"They are planning to replace it [the Catholic church] with a mosque."
That sums up, in one sentence, the Moslem goal for the whole world: to tear down every church or temple in the world, and replace them with mosques.
"The guy with the hammer obviously is a stranger to hard work. He will never get any real work done holding it like that..."
Posted by: duh_swami
Probably one of the Minneapolis recruits: the heaviest thing he's used to lifting is his welfare check.
Funny I was going to say that it would be nice to see any of the Somali's in Canada actually working that hard. He may not be holding it right but he is at least swinging it at something. Beats mugging people in malls for money as we see in Canada with the Somali's disturbingly out of all proportion to their actual numbers.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/jail+mother+admits+swarmings+lawyer+argues/1018923/story.html
Video here: Somali fighters destroying shrines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWI-p9Kl4g