Mogadishu, Somalia, January 02, 2010 (SL Times) – Sheikh Sharif’s Minister of Interior, Sheikh Abd al-Qadir Ali Omar described the situation in Somalia as miserable. He said the people behind Somalia’s problems are not fighting for the cause of religion as they claim but are fighting for personal interests.
He added things are so dire that the knowledgeable and respected Islamic scholars have fled the country. He added that in the old days, the Islamists used to listen to the advice of the intellectuals and big religious scholars but these days not only are the opinions of the learned scholars ignored but they are told they are not Muslims and are threatened with death, and that is why they have left the country.
Abd al-Qadir Ali Omar’s denunciation of extremists carries little weight with Somalis because he along with Sheikh Sharif and many of the so-called newly-minted pseudo sheikhs of the Islamic Courts played a huge part in indoctrinating southern youth with religious extremism, after all, the al-Shabaab that they are now denouncing did not fall from the sky but was the armed wing of the Islamic Courts.
















 

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