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After all, they're in the Qur'an: "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks..." (47:4).
"Somali Islamist leader rejects talks with gov't," by Aweys Yusuf for Reuters (thanks to Twostellas):
MOGADISHU, March 16 (Reuters) - A senior Somali Islamist leader rejected on Sunday an offer of talks by the interim government to end insurgent attacks, including beheadings, that have sparked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein said last Wednesday his government was ready to negotiate with opposition groups to end a 15-month insurgency against government troops and their Ethiopian military allies.
Calling for international mediation led by the United Nations' special envoy to Somalia, Hussein said the government was willing to hold talks in any location to end fighting that local aid groups said had killed 6,500 people last year.
Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys dismissed the offer, saying his sharia courts movement and its fighters did not recognise the government of the war-ruined country.
"This is not a government. We believe they are people who brought the enemy forces to our country. They are criminals," Aweys, a hardline Muslim cleric, told Reuters in an interview.
"Our fight is against Ethiopia and as long as they are there Somalis cannot have dialogue," he said by phone from Eritrea, where he is living in exile after fleeing Somalia last year.
Aweys, who the United States says is linked to al Qaeda, said the Islamists were "freedom fighters".
"The country is under Ethiopian colonisation and must be liberated from the enemy," said the former army colonel who was decorated for bravery in a war against rival Ethiopia in 1977.
Many Somalis living in the shell-shattered capital fear the Islamists' refusal to accept talks unless historic foe Ethiopia withdraws its troops signals more attacks which are already forcing some 20,000 civilians to flee Mogadishu every month.
Islamist insurgents were accused of spreading terror by cutting the heads off three Somali soldiers last week....
Posted by Robert at March 17, 2008 10:10 AM
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Somali Jihad leader: The beheadings will continue ....until morale improves.
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at March 17, 2008 10:25 AM
"Our fight is against Ethiopia and as long as they are there Somalis cannot have dialogue," he said by phone from Eritrea, where he is living in exile after fleeing Somalia last year.
He's living in Eritrea but insisting Somalis must fight.
His complaint is with Ethiopia but Somalis are being beheaded.
Up is down. War is peace. That's Islam for you.
Posted by: PMK at March 17, 2008 10:39 AM
"Our fight is against Ethiopia and as long as they are there Somalis cannot have dialogue"
You mean there was dialogue with the current
Somolian government before Ethiopia intervened?
Somewhere, somehow I think I can remember that before Ethiopia intervened that the Jihadists said they would not have dialogue with the Somolian government because they were backed by the west, particulary the United States.
Maybe this is all just a bad dream and one day I'll wake up. Help! Anyone?
Posted by: havekoranwilltravel at March 17, 2008 10:40 AM
Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book "Infidel". It will give you insight in to the Somali culture and the Somali sense of superiority to others.
Posted by: tanstaafl at March 17, 2008 10:45 AM
Well, there is definitely a comfort that is derived from continuity.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at March 17, 2008 11:09 AM
Jihad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRHmAhhXUsU
at March 17, 2008 12:20 PM
Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book "Infidel". It will give you insight in to the Somali culture and the Somali sense of superiority to others.
Posted by: tanstaafl
Barack Obama needs to learn it, too.
Posted by: PMK at March 17, 2008 12:24 PM
Muhammad / Quran / Islam = "BARBARIC"
Posted by: champ at March 17, 2008 1:06 PM
I blame Somalia on Bill Clinton's mishandling of the affair in the 1990's.
at March 17, 2008 3:20 PM
They can all behead each other for all I care. Let's just start wasting time and money on these barbarians. And let's see to it they stay the hell away from here.
Posted by: Allah Schmallah at March 17, 2008 5:19 PM
Somali jihad leader: Beheadings will continue
... until morale improves I suppose.
Posted by: witness at March 17, 2008 5:37 PM
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