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Somalia: Islamic jihadists behead mother of two girls and her cousin after discovering they were Christians

Mar 17, 2014 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

Militants of al Shabaab train with weapons on a street in the outskirts of MogadishuFrom their names, they seem to have been converts from Islam to Christianity. Leaving Islam is, according to Islamic law, a capital offense. Muhammad commanded: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-`ashriyyah, Al-Ja`fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.” There is only disagreement over whether the law applies only to men, or to women also – some authorities hold that apostate women should not be killed, but only imprisoned in their houses until death.

Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, the most prestigious and influential institution in the Sunni world, certifies as a reliable guide to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Muslim community a manual of Islamic law that states: “When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed” (Reliance of the Traveller o8.1). Although the right to kill an apostate is reserved in Islamic law to the leader of the community and other Muslims can theoretically be punished for taking this duty upon themselves, in practice a Muslim who kills an apostate needs to pay no indemnity and perform no expiatory acts (as he must in other kinds of murder cases under classic Islamic law). This accommodation is made because killing an apostate “is killing someone who deserves to die” (Reliance of the Traveller o8.4).

Qaradawi even said last year: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.” And so Sadia Ali Omar and Osman Mohamoud Moge died for the defense of Islam.

“Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead Two Christians,” from Morning Star News, March 14 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia last week publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin in southeastern Somalia after discovering they were Christians, sources said.

In the port town of Barawa in the Lower Shebelle Region, the extremists on March 4 called residents to the town center to witness the executions of the 41-year-old mother, Sadia Ali Omar, and her 35-year-old cousin, Osman Mohamoud Moge, the sources said.

Before killing them, an Al Shabaab militant announced, “We know these two people are Christians who recently came back from Kenya – we want to wipe out any underground Christian living inside of mujahidin [jihadists’] area,” according to an area resident whose name is undisclosed for security reasons.

Omar’s daughters, ages 8 and 15, were witness to the slaughter, sources said, with the younger girl screaming and shouting for someone to save her mother. A friend helped the girls, whose names are withheld, to relocate to another area.

“We are afraid that the Al Shabaab might continue monitoring these two children and eventually kill them just like their mother,” the area resident said.

The militants from Al Shabaab – which has vowed to rid the country of the Christian fellowships, which meet secretly as leaving Islam in Somalia is punishable by death – became suspicious of Omar and Moge due to their irregular attendance at Friday mosque prayers, sources said.

“The two people who were killed on many occasions did not take Friday prayers seriously, especially Omar, who claimed that she was praying in her house,” another area resident said.

Another source noted of Al Shabaab, “They have some spy everywhere in Somalia.”

Somalis who have lived in Christian-majority Kenya are especially suspect. The sources said Omar lived in the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh for seven years; her husband became ill in 2011 and returned to Somalia, where he died. Omar and her cousin Moge, who helped take care of her daughters, left Kenya for Somalia in January 2013.

Barawa reportedly came under Al Shabaab control in 2009. In October 2013, a U.S. Navy SEAL team raided a beachside house in the town in an unsuccessful search for Al Shabaab leader Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr.

In the capital city of Mogadishu last October, gunmen who said they intended to kill a Christian for spreading his faith shot him to death, according to an area resident. Two men armed with pistols on Oct. 20, 2013 shot Abdikhani Hassan seven times as he approached his home after closing his pharmacy in Dharkenley District. Hassan was survived by a wife who was pregnant and five children ranging in age from 3 to 12.

The Somali cell of Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab was suspected of killing Fatuma Isak Elmi, 35, on Sept. 1, 2013 inside her home in Beledweyne, Hiran Province in south-central Somalia (see Morning Star News, Sept. 9, 2013). Her husband had received a threatening note that morning believed to be from the Islamic extremist group and was away at the time of the murder.

Al Shabaab’s attack on the upscale Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya on Sept. 21, 2013 killed at least 67 people, with dozens still unaccounted for (see Morning Star News, Sept. 22).

On April 13, 2013, Al Shabaab militants shot Fartun Omar to death in Buulodbarde, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Beledweyne (see Morning Star News, April 22, 2013). Omar was the widow of Mursal Isse Siad, killed for his faith on Dec. 8, 2012 in Beledweyne, 206 miles (332 kilometers) north of Mogadishu. He had been receiving death threats for leaving Islam (see Morning Star News, Dec. 14, 2012).

Siad and his wife, who converted to Christianity in 2000, had moved to Beledweyne from Doolow eight months before. The area was under government control and there was no indication that the killers belonged to the Al Shabaab rebels, but the Islamic extremist insurgents were present in Buulodbarde, and Christians believed a few Al Shabaab rebels could have been hiding in Beledweyne.

On June 7, 2013 in Jamaame District in southern Somalia, insurgents from the group shot 28-year-old Hassan Hurshe to death after identifying him as a Christian, sources said (see Morning Star News, June 20). Al Shabaab members brought Hurshe to a public place in the town of Jilib and shot him in the head, they said.

On Feb. 18, 2013, suspected Islamic extremists shot Ahmed Ali Jimale, a 42-year-old father of four, on the outskirts of the coastal city of Kismayo (see Morning Star News, Feb. 28).

In Barawa on Nov. 16, 2012, Al Shabaab militants killed a Christian after accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witnesses said. The extremists beheaded 25-year-old Farhan Haji Mose after monitoring his movements for six months, sources said (see Morning Star News, Nov. 17, 2012).

Mose drew suspicion when he returned to Barawa in December 2011 after spending time in Kenya, according to underground Christians in Somalia. Kenya’s population is nearly 83 percent Christian, according to Operation World, while Somalia’s is close to 100 percent Muslim.

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  1. richard Sherman says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 10:15 am

    Beheading infidels is foundational to Islam. The sociopath MUHAMMAD decapitated 900 unarmed Jews in 627…until a Muslim has beheaded 900 infidels he or she has not truly emulated the sociopath MUHAMMAD.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 10:58 am

    Normative Islam, canonical Islam, mullah-approved Islam, rather than an aberration. Chop. Chop.

    But don’t let them into my country.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 11:28 am

    Qaradawi even said last year: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
    That is a very revealing admission about Islam.

    It is amazing how smug faced (I am so much more worldly than you) Western liberals still speak about sharia as if it were just cultural value rather than a theocratic imperative.

  4. tpellow says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    What does Islamic convert, and Islamic jihadist, Samantha LEWTHWAITE, now with Al Shabaab, have to say about this Islamic jihad atrocity against Christian woman and her daughters?

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    I am awed by the courage of these my two siblings in faith, Sadia Ali Omar and Osman Mohamoud Moge.

    Presumably, they would have been told to renounce Christ and re-submit to Mohammed the Mad and the arab demon of blood and war, allah. Or else.

    They were killed; so I know they refused the offer. They chose to die as free human beings rather than live as grovelling slaves.

    They and many others like them are the Saints, Confessors and Martyrs of the Church in Somalia.

    If one wants to help that suffering church – a Church of Martyrs – then I recommend either Frontline Fellowship or The Barnabas Fund. Barnabas Fund channels direct physical and spiritual support to people like Sadia’s two daughters.

    A further thought: every one of us reading here who is a parishioner in a church must share this story with our fellow worshippers, and with our clergyperson.

    Write down the names – Sadia Ali Omar and Osman Mohamoud Moge – and keep a copy of their story, and of all the *other* Christians martyred by Muslims, that we will hear about in the course of the year; then, in early November, if your church celebrates All Saints’ and All Souls’, put those names on the list to be commemorated. Make sure people know exactly how and why these people were killed. Explain about Islam’s so-called apostasy law: if you leave, you get killed. Raise awareness.

    • gerard says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 1:39 am

      Actually, I don’t think an apostate who returns to Islam is safe. As I understand it, many Muslim teachers say that the death penalty still applies.

    • Kalliope says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 10:26 am

      @dumbledoresarmy

      Thank you for the information about the Barnabas Fund.
      The Church is watered with the blood of the martyrs.

    • Kathy Brown says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 9:11 pm

      How right you are! Every time I hear of these holy, holy martyrs, I ask that person to pray for me in Heaven.

      In myself I have nothing but fear and trembling; but by the grace of God we are taught that, should Christ call us to die for the Faith, we will be given all necessary graces…

  6. Reality Check says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 6:39 pm

    Women – the Muslims’ favourite victims regardless of religion.

  7. Cindy McCoy says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 6:07 am

    What are these folks afraid of when people leave islam to Christianity??? What do they think Christians are going to do to them?? Praise God that He gives His people such strength to stand strong against the forces of pure evil and that is what islam is, pure evil!!!!! Father God please call more people from that horrid religion, please save many more!!!

    • Kalliope says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 10:44 am

      Dear Cindy:

      ʾIslām is a religion from Satan himself.
      ʾIslām acquires its adherents through lies, and keeps its adherents through fear.
      Since the Garden of Eden, the Devil has always operated thusly.
      If no one no longer believes the lies of Muḥammad, ʾIslām would collapse like a house of cards.
      Therefore, ʾIslām must make sure converts are killed.
      Keep the fear.
      Just like murderous Muḥammad.

  8. gravenimage says

    Mar 19, 2014 at 7:55 pm

    Somalia: Islamic jihadists behead mother of two girls and her cousin after discovering they were Christians
    …………………………

    Damn barbarians. These poor, brave women.

    And yes, this savagery is very much normative Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2014 at 8:00 pm

      A read this too quickly, I’m afraid—Sadia Ali Omar’s cousin, Osman Mohamoud Moge, is most likely a man.

      A minor point, though. I will keep both victims in my thoughts and prayers, along with the surviving children.

  9. Peters Ojochegbe Abel says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Very soon the Lord God Almighty will visit them in His anger and displeasure.Henceforth,they shall eat their own flesh and drink their own blood in Jesus name.

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