The intrepid mujahedin, saving Somalia from 57-year-old teachers. "Al Shabaab Militants Execute Christian Leader in Somalia," from Compass Direct News, May 5:
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 5 (CDN) -- Islamic militants yesterday killed another leader of the underground church movement in Somalia, sources said.
Before he was fatally shot on Tuesday (May 4) in Xarardheere, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Jowhar, 57-year-old Yusuf Ali Nur had been on a list of people the Islamic extremist al Shabaab suspected of being Christian, sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told Compass. Al Shabaab, said to have links with al Qaeda, has vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity.
The militants fighting the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu had been engaged in a two-hour battle with a rival rebel group, the Ahlu Sunna Waljamer, which had taken control of the Xarardheere area, before they came across Nur. Nur had lived in Xarardheere since leaving Jowhar in July 2009.
Eyewitnesses said that after al Shabaab took control of the area, they went from house to house looking for enemy fighters when they arrived at Nur's rented home at about 10:30 a.m. Sources said that upon finding Nur, one of the militants remarked, "Oh! This is Yusuf, whom we have been looking for," before they sprayed him with bullets at close range.
Nur is survived by his wife, whose name was withheld for security reasons, and three children, ages 11, 9 and 7.
This latest death comes after several execution-style murders of Somalis suspected of being members of a suppressed yet resilient underground faith movement in Somalia. A number of Christians have been beheaded by the radical Islamists out to topple the fledgling TFG and introduce a strict version of sharia (Islamic law). [...]
Nur, who had worked on a farm while in Jowhar, had long being monitored by al Shabaab, the sources said. After settling in Xarardheere, he became the head teacher of Ganane Primary School and also taught English. The al Shabaab militants object to the use of English, preferring Arabic, and even after relocating to Xarardheere Nur realized he was in danger of the militants finding him, sources said...
Christian fundamentalists are just as dangerous.
Why, Christians are killing people just on suspicion of ... um, never mind.
I once have heard that there is no compulsion in islam, but I surely must have misunderstood, there is no compassion in islam!
" The al Shabaab militants object to the use of English, preferring Arabic, and even after relocating to Xarardheere Nur realized he was in danger of the militants finding him, sources said... "
thE al-Shabaa militants object to a lot of things...kids playing soccer, tvs, internet use, women listening to music, exercising, talking to men, wearing pants and much more..I guess the al-Shabaab militants are just protecting and projecting the Islamic faith upon those it encounters. Quite possibly some of the members of the al-SHabaab may have actually come from your neighborhood...you may be closer to the al-Shabaab militants than you realize..Are you a Christian like Nur?...One thing is sure...when Muslims feel strong enough...they will attack as brother Nur has learned and discovered.
Yusuf Ali Nur is a Christian martyr in the truest sense of the word...one killed for the practice of his faith. But where is the acknowledgment of his martyrdom from anywhere in the Christian world?
Somebody (everybody?) is asleep at the wheel.
Hitler said, when he was discussing an SS unit of Palestinians with the mufti of Jerusalem, I like Muslims they are killers while Christians are wimps!
Why aren't we reading about this in the mainstream media-(with the definite example of the Christian and specifically Catholic press)-why the media blackout? It would be tempting to suggest that the MSM fears being termed "Islamophobic"(and there may be an element of truth here) but I believe the answer to be more prosaic- with the end of the Cold War many newspapers closed down their foreign bureaus(presumably on the grounds that "what happened overseas" was no longer a matter of interest to their readers.
Terry
The story of Esther in the (original, not rewritten by Mohamed) Bible extols how Esther obtained permission from the King for the Jews to defend themselves against those who would exterminate them. As a world community, we need to, at the very least, acknowledge (and not condemn in the media)those who would fight back against those who would exterminate non-Muslims and take over their lands and/or make them slaves. Actually, that's what the Crusades were about. False guilt prevents us from helping Christians in Africa who are being exterminated under Islam now. Shame on us for our weakness.