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September 9, 2006
Somalia: Islamic Supremacists Want Your Wealth, not Your Values
This story shows Islamic supremacism at its best: the Somali Islamists do not reject the West out of hand--no, that would be too simple--they only reject the West's 'humanitarian aid' (which they would administer, of course), and a free hand to pursue Jihad: Somali Islamic militia leader calls for humanitarian aid _ not peacekeepers
A leading member of Somalia's Islamic militia urged the international community and African countries not to send peacekeepers to war-torn Somalia, saying order had been restored. Two protests last week in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, denounced the plan by seven African countries to send peacekeepers Somalia. The Islamic courts militia mobilized some 3,000 people against the proposal, while some 500 former members of the armed forces before the state collapsed in 1991 held a separate protest to criticize the plan. "There is no need for foreign troops in the country," Sheik Sherif Sheik Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic courts said on his arrival Friday at the Libyan port of Sirte, 225 miles (360 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli. "I think that the international community should concentrate on aid - not on sending troops," Ahmed said. A spokesman for Somalia's virtually powerless official government, which has appealed for outside help in pacifying the country, said Ahmed's comments were preposterous.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 9, 2006 4:53 PM
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