Sheikh Mukhtar Robow says that at this point all the Somali Islamic supremacists need is an inner spiritual struggle. “Somali Islamist leader vows holy war against ‘Christian invaders,'” from AFP (thanks to Twostellas):
MOGADISHU, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) – A key Somali Islamist leader on Tuesday called for jihad, or holy war, vowing that a bloody insurgency against the Ethiopian-backed government in Mogadishu would end only with the return of Islamic law.
“Our mission is clear. What we want is to free our country from Christian colonisers — by this I mean Ethiopia,” said Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a radical Islamist leader who recently resurfaced in the Somali capital.
“At this point, jihad is all we need. There is no political process we can be involved in unless we get a government practicing Sharia (Islamic law),” the militant leader told AFP by phone.
Sheikh Mukhtar — also known as Abu Mansur since he trained in Afghanistan and fought alongside the Taliban there in the early 2000’s — presented himself as “a spokesman for the Islamic movement” in Mogadishu.
“Our aim is to liberate our country from the Christian invaders and those who assist them, and I assure you that the holy war against them will not stop until the Islamic flag is raised,” he added.