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The Chicago Tribune notices the signs that a full-scale Inner Spiritual Struggle is breaking out in East Africa, as we have been telling you here for quite some time. "Fears of jihad in Horn of Africa: Somali Islamists put neighboring nations on edge," by Laurie Goering in the Tribune:
JOHANNESBURG -- Four months after Islamists seized the Somali capital of Mogadishu, promising a return to order and peace in war-ravaged Somalia, the Horn of Africa country and its neighbors sit at the brink of a new and potentially deadly conflict.Somali Islamists, furious that Ethiopian troops have crossed the border to support Somalia's Western-backed secular government, have called for jihad against Ethiopia, raising fears that Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, could suffer bombings or other guerrilla attacks.
Ethiopia, the region's military powerhouse, accuses Islamist leaders of terrorist ties and remains determined to deny the movement control of Somalia. It helped Somalia's weak government push the movement out of the southern town of Bur Haqaba, handing the Islamists their first military setback.
With Islamist troops just 60 miles from the government's base in Baidoa, about a thousand Somali refugees a day are streaming over the border into Kenya, fearing new conflict, according to the United Nations.
`Low-intensity war' possible
What's ahead for Somalia is probably "chronic low-intensity war," said Ken Menkhaus, a Somalia expert at Davidson College in North Carolina. That makes any promises by the Islamists to effectively rebuild the shattered nation hard to fulfill, he said....
Posted by Robert at October 23, 2006 8:48 AM
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Surely islam is a plague, evident thousands of miles from the West.
Why are we tolerating these taquyya masters and mistresses in our own backyards ?
Why are we allowing the koranic hate sermons in local mosques ?
Why are we allowing local mosques ?
Why are we allowing Saudi students into our universities by the drove ?
How long can the media remain stupid ?
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at October 23, 2006 9:10 AM
Assalamau Laikum Dgene,
Please, you must not say such things about the house of Allah SWT...HE, who gave you birth, health and free oxygen to breathe.
There is every chance of Islam reaching a sort of a status quo within Kafur lands....we are already seeing this in the veil argument, in the Taxi ranks of the Amerekie (where some muslims drivers did not want to carry passengers carrying liqor) because it would affect their chances in the afterlife.
Many muslims know that Islamic culture will reach only so far within Kafur lands and no more. They will get used to this and become wuslims. When they go back home to visit family in the horn of Africa for example...and see conservative practices...they will ask them to desist form such nonsense....thereby attempting to reach the same status quo in these land too...having a stablising effect on Islam worldwide. This certainly would be a positive step forward.
Indeed this leads me to a striking thought, and I believe we maybe missing a trick here....that muslim immigration to the west should be increased (not decreased) to speed along the stabilisition of Islam that I talked about above.
Let me say that again, Ironically increasing muslim immigration to the west may actually save the west....what do you think?
Posted by: Naseem at October 23, 2006 9:31 AM
Hi Naseem,
Since I believe you are a psych-ops (at best), middle age, balding male pervert, dialogue with you is foolish.
Begone you comic troll !
Posted by: dgene at October 23, 2006 9:37 AM
American aid should not be given to Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, the "Palestinians," or the potentially very rich people of Iraq (not "the Iraqis") who should borrow against future oil revenues. It should be given, when given at all, only to the countries most endangered by Jihad. That may include military, economic, diplomatic, and every other kind of aid. Clearly in East Africa, the Americans and NATO forces -- as yet still uncontrolled by, and unconstrained by, the political power of Muslims who are resident in Europe and may even have obtained citizenship -- should be helping the Christians in Ethiopia, and supporting as well any Christian missions. In black Africa, Islam must be depicted for what it is -- a primitive and aggressive cult, that purports to regulate all areas of life, that is against most forms of artistic expression, including sculpture (no African masks or other sculpture), little or no music, no free inquiry necessary for the enterprise of science. And while Muslim countries have managed to acquire a false and hollow prosperity because of oil, they have nowhere managed to create modern economices, and because of political despotism (a natural development in societies suffused with the idea, as Muslim ones are, that the legitimacy of government resides not in the expressed will of the people, but in the expressed will of Allah -- and if a ruler or despot claims to be Muslim, does whatever he must to prove his Muslimness, then he must be obeyed), and inshallah-fatalism, Islam is a guarantee of permanent backwardness.
Islam must be accurately portrayed as a belief-system that insists not upon the free individual, but the mental submission of individuals to the collective. It is a faith that militates against any conceivable kind of progress, moral or intellectual. Paint it thus. Paint it all over the walls of the world.
Posted by: Hugh at October 23, 2006 9:52 AM
allah is a figment of muslim limited imagination.
By the same token, ole' mo is a poster child for insane maniacal serial murderers, rapists and pedophiles.
If islam was so great, why are all these refuges fleeing? It's because islam is NOT great. It's the most horrific cult ever established by a male. The sooner the insanity is stopped, the better for mankind.
Posted by: freewoman at October 23, 2006 10:06 AM
Time for the OAU to show some unity and combat this menace.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 23, 2006 11:58 AM
"...a full-scale Inner Spiritual Struggle is breaking out in East Africa..."
Ah yes, a perfect description!
Posted by: alexon at October 23, 2006 2:32 PM
Why are we allowing local mosques ?
Why are we allowing Saudi students into our universities by the drove ?
How long can the media remain stupid ?
Posted by: dgene
Our media will remain stupid for as long as they continue to go to Yale and Harvard and Brown and.. shall I go on?!
Oh, can't lave out Columbia of course!
Posted by: germaninamerica at October 23, 2006 3:32 PM
Ideally it should be an AU (African Union) force - not Ethiopia - that should back the Secularist forces to kick out the Islamists from Somalia.
After all the secular government is the creation of a regional African peace agreement.
But the AU is weak in the knees when it comes to issues involving Muslims and Arabs.
Hence its ineffectual response in Darfur where the racist Arab occupation perpetrate genocide and ethnic cleansing against we black Africans.
The AU's ineptitude in this matter is due to the fact that about half of Africans are Muslims...whom by virtue of Islamic brainwashing consider Arabs Allah's chosen race.
Hence the conspiratorial silence of black Muslims even as the racist Arab occupation in Khartoum inflicts horrendous atrocities on other black Muslims in Darfur.
at October 23, 2006 4:56 PM
We must gather thought about where we go, and how to do it. Clearly, based on what is read here, even those who see islam as the enemy have trouble with a single, effective vision and plan forward.
We should support nothing without a plan for victory. A goal to reach before the next step forward. These , say guidelines ,if known, would allow countrys, or states to call for help along the guidelines , and the action could be then placed in motion.
I am being general here, but with the calls to "bring the troops home, get out of iraq" retreat from the "fight", I also know that to support any action against jihad is seen as a threat, and will make more enemys within islam. Any support must be a clear way to a goal or victory, not just "let them kill each other", that will not solve the threat of islam.
I heard the fight for iraq is lost, do you really believe we can not have victory there? Rules, goals, guidelines. Define what we wish to see, then make it so.
If the goal is to reform islam, fine, if the time needed is there. The ongoing conflicts pushes that to a later date, a stable world is needed for a reformation.
A fresh approach, a goal, must be placed before the people, to see the way forward, victory is the light at the end. A policy ,in place, known to all, would focus the effort to the light of victory.
Posted by: Islofob IS-1 at October 24, 2006 3:45 PM
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