Allah has also apparently commanded the murder of all the other MP’s in Somalia as well. Al-Shabab wants to establish Sharia there; these men, on the other hand, are governing by what they consider to be a form of government that is directly incompatible with the Qur’an and Sunnah. So they must die.
“Somali Islamists shoot dead fifth lawmaker this year,” Agence France Presse, August 2, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Al-Shabab insurgents said they had assassinated a lawmaker in Mogadishu as he left prayers at a mosque Friday, the fifth MP killed this year in a string of attacks.
“This was a legitimate target, and he was killed on the orders of Allah,” Al-Shabab spokesman Abdiaziz Abu Musab told AFP, adding that the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents were “preparing to kill all the other MPs.”
Gunmen opened fire from a car in a drive-by shooting in the center of the city before racing off, witnesses said. “Sheikh Adan Madeer was shot and killed in central Mogadishu by gunmen, the gunmen then fled,” witness Abdisalan Mohammad said.
Madeer was chairman of the parliamentary finance committee. “He returned from a mosque near his house … when two gunmen shot him dead. Now we are preparing his burial,” relative Nur Mohammad said.
Al-Shabab fighters fled fixed positions in Mogadishu three years ago and have since lost most large towns to a 22,000-strong U.N.-backed African Union force, fighting alongside government soldiers. But they still hold sway in vast swathes of the rural hinterland from which they regularly launch guerrilla raids.
Recent Al-Shabab attacks in Somalia have targeted key areas of government and security forces in an apparent bid to discredit claims by the authorities and AU troops that they are winning the war. Last month Al-Shabab launched an assault on the presidential palace using similar tactics deployed in an attack on the same fortified compound in February.
In May, the Islamist insurgents also launched a similar attack against the national parliament. Al-Shabab spokesman Musab said the extremists were targeting MPs as they had “authorized the deployment of foreign troops in Somalia and were a pillar of the apostate government.”
Al-Shabab have also increased attacks against regional countries with troops in the AU force, with a series of killings in neighboring Kenya, following last September’s attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall in which at least 67 people were killed….