But…but…what do Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya have in common? Don’t the learned analysts assure us that those are all separate nationalist insurgencies? And what’s all this about a “war against the infidels”? Doesn’t Sheik Muqtar Robow know that Obama said that the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam”? Is Sheik Muqtar Robow some kind of Islamophobe?
Global Jihad Alert: “8 killed in fighting in Somali capital,” by Mohamed Olad Hassan for AP, February 12 (thanks to Maxwell):
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least eight people, including a six-year-old, were killed Friday as mortars pounded the Somali capital during an attack on government soldiers by an extremist Islamic group, witnesses said, as hundreds of residents fled Mogadishu. […]
After Friday prayers al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam leaders and their fighters and supporters held demonstrations in Mogadishu and three other southern Somalia towns to denounce the Somali government and the governments of Ethiopia, Burundi, Uganda and Djibouti.
“We call for our people to be ready for a war on our enemy. Their military preparation will not deter us from our holy war,” said Sheik Muqtar Robow, a senior al-Shabab leader.
“We will attack them once we unite the Somali Holy fighters, then we will unite with our brothers in Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya to help them in their war against the infidels,” he told congregants in a Mogadishu mosque after the prayers….