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Somalia: “A mujahid with a car bomb entered the hotel, followed by two well-armed fighters who sprayed bullets”

Mar 18, 2014 1:08 pm By Robert Spencer

SomaliacarbombOnce again we see Islamic jihadists explain their actions with reference to Islamic jihad theology — in the reference to the car bomber as a “mujahid.” This is so routine as hardly to invite comment, except that it becomes noteworthy due to the steadfast refusal of Western analysts to face it and its implications.

“Somali Islamist militants attack hotel in central region,” from Reuters, March 18 (thanks to Maxwell):

MOGADISHU: Somali Islamist militants drove a car bomb at a hotel in a town in central Somalia that was being used by African Union and Somali military forces, a resident and the militant group said.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab movement said that its raid on Monday claimed many lives, but poor communications to that region of the Horn of Africa nation, a country wracked by fighting for more than two decades, made it difficult to verify numbers.

The insurgent strike followed an attack on a military convoy near the capital Mogadishu on Monday which killed four Somali soldiers, an army captain said.

The AU peacekeeping force AMISOM, now bigger after Ethiopian troops joined this year, has launched an offensive to clear more territory still held by al-Shabaab rebels. The Islamists have responded with more guerrilla assaults.

Hussein Nur, a resident in Bulobarde town, said a car bomb exploded late on Monday at the Camalow hotel, and this was followed by fighting between troops and militants that lasted several hours. He was speaking on Tuesday morning, but his line cut before he could provide further details.

AMISOM could not immediately be reached for comment.

“First, a mujahid (holy warrior) with a car bomb entered the hotel, followed by two well-armed fighters who sprayed bullets,” said Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al-Shabaab’s military operation spokesman, told Reuters on Tuesday.

He said 32 soldiers were killed.

In the past, al-Shabaab has exaggerated numbers while officials have downplayed losses….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    The article that informs the reader about the jihadist car bomber. It sounds a lot like this car bomber was actually a suicide/homocide attacker. That being the case it’s thus time to restated the many of these jihadist attacker or bomber are the outcome of the extreme mind programing that is done the the Islamic clerics such as the imams in and mosques as well as in other places. These Islamic clerics thoroughly brainwash other people in believing in the Islamic doctrine form the Quran , Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., of a lust filled paradise with many virgins in it for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam. Two things need to be stated . First, the reader might notice the the Islamic clerics such and the imams and mullah are never the ones who go out and commit the suicide bombings. They just brainwash others into the mindset of wanting to do it and then these Islamic clerics send them out the commit the murderous acts. All the same time the same Muslim clerics sit home safe . This says a lot about the real character of these imams and mullahs. Second, the Bible does warn about about such false teachers who very much indoctrinate such false teachings as that of a lust filled place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others. For the Bible in Second Peter 2:18 reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity;, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Furthermore , many a time a jihadist in his death recording talks about “the wedding withe virgins” that he will have after he become a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based of false teachings. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures , nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22;29,30. In contrast to the in the Islamic pipedream ofthe jihadist in the story/doctrine of place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]

  2. enwhitenment says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    Mujahid ? Holy warrior or just warrior full of holes ?
    Perhaps if they are taught that F.R.A.G means “foreign radical arab gang”
    Then they can look to the sky and pray that the FRAG will bless them with eternal holiness.
    But in the meantime they are just murderers

  3. Jay Boo says

    Mar 19, 2014 at 1:32 am

    Without someone to hate
    the truth about Islam Muslims must bravely face.

  4. shaun says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Why are we so soft with terrorists, should they not hang and fuk the fact they geet 40 male virgins to screw!! hehe

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