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• Jihad Center In Stockholm Funded By Swedish Government!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 445
  A youth recreation center in a Stockholm suburb has become a recruiting center for Somalia immigrant youth in order to lure them into serving with the terrorist group al-Shabaab. The center was begun by a mosque which received $70,000 from the Stockholm sports administration. The sports administration leader was ...
  4 days ago

• Stoned to Death for Having Unmarried Sex in Somalia

  
  IT DAWNED ON ME — Authority: 103
  33-year-old Abas Hussein Abdirahman, who confessed to adultery in an Islamic court, was stoned to death on 11/7/09 in Somalia for having sex with his girlfriend. She will be stoned to death after she gives birth to their baby. The BBC reports that an eyewitness…one of 300 to the stoning…said that Abas “…was ...
  1 week ago

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  Talk Islam — Authority: 543
  Al Shabaab applies its own ruthless brand of justice again. Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the ...
  1 week ago

• Kenya denies recruiting Somali youth liv…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 543
  Kenya denies recruiting Somali youth living in that country to fight for the transitional government against al Shabaab. Somalis living in northern Kenya have accused the government in Nairobi of secretly recruiting and training youths from the region as soldiers to go to fight for the transitional Somali ...
  1 week ago

• Al Shabaab bans musical ringtones

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 604
  What a dichotomy. Seventh century ideology used to ban 20th century technology. Gizmodo Seriously, how messed up is this. Al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia (Al Qaeda’s proxy in the region) are going around flogging teenagers for listening to music and watching videos on their phones. Not to mention the senseless ...
  1 week ago

• Political Humor Under Fiar

  
  The Planets Best Political Humor at RadioactiveLiberty.com — Authority: 461
  In an attempt to be a little more up to date on current events, I bring you my own version of political humor quick hits . Fort Hood Texas Shooting First off, there’s big news of a shooting near Fort Hood, Texas. Current reports list casualties at 12 dead and 31 injured. One mass murderer is identified as ...
  1 week ago

• Somalia Sufi forces organize to fight th…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 543
  Somalia Sufi forces organize to fight the ‘existential threat’ of Shabaab Wahhabis. Somalia’s main Sufi movement, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, on Thursday wrapped up an unprecedented conference in Nairobi to strategize its response to the rise and radicalization of the Shabaab group. Dozens of the usually quiet ...
  1 week ago

• Terrorist Group Bans Ringtones In Somalia

  
  Foolocracy — Authority: 481
  The Somalia terrorist group al-Shabaab, which has close ties to al-Qaeda, has banned ringtones on cell phones in the areas it control in southern Somalia. This is part of an attempt to impose their version of Islamic law. Al-Shabaab already runs sharia law courts that impose floggings and amputations on those who ...
  1 week ago

• Al Shabaab whipped women for not wearing...socks

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 604
  First al Shabaab groped women to make sure they werent wearing bras. Now theyre whipping women for not wearing socks. Whats the next article of clothing theyll be checking, panties? CNN (CNN) -- Militants who control parts of Somalias capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical ...
  2 weeks ago

• A real tragedy: Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brenan still held captive

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 604
  Compared to Rustys post , this is a real tragedy. Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian photojournalist Nigel Brenan have been held captive by al Shabaab for over 14 months. Initally, al Shabaab demanded $2.5 million for their release but since then have lowered their demands down to $100,000. Lindhout ...
  2 weeks ago

• Somalia is a safe haven for al Qaeda

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 604
  "Somalia has now clearly become a haven for the pariah that is Al-Qaeda," Its been clear for some time now. From AFP LONDON — Al-Qaeda is using Somalia to train, regroup and plan further attacks, the Somali prime minister said Wednesday, warning it was also beginning to threaten regional stability. "Somalia ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warped priorities

  
  nickhereandnow — Authority: 117
  Somalia is a country in the grip of famine and administrative chaos. So what is the powerful Islamic al Shabaab movement concerned about? Whether women are wearing bras , naturally. According to them, women shouldnt wear such heretical garments as they are instruments of fraud and deception. They are tricking men by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Christian in Somalia Who Refused to Wear Veil is Killed

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  ‘Moderate’ Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian.NAIROBI, Kenya, October 27 (CDN) — Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Christian source in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Al Shabab threatens regional war in Afri…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 543
  Al Shabab threatens regional war in Africa. Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters have said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from the two countries. The threat follows the killing on Thursday of at least 30 people in Mogadishu, the capital, by Amisom, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Somali Islamists call for terror attacks on Uganda and Burundi

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Somalias alQaedainspired Islamist rebels alShabaab called yesterday for suicide bombers to attack the capitals of Uganda and Burundi which provide peacekeepers to the anarchic nation.
  3 weeks ago

• Somali Shabaab Rebels Say They Shot Down U.S. drone

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 505
  By Abdi Sheikh Hardline Somali Islamist insurgents from Hisbul Islam patrol the streets of the capital Mogadishu, October 19, 2009. Hardline al Shabaab rebels have destroyed a mosque and the grave of a revered Sufi Muslim sheikh in central Somalia after shooting in the air to drive away local ...
  3 weeks ago

• Whipped for a bra

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 141
  Islamist savagery, this time in Somalia: Somali Women Whipped for Wearing Bras Somalia’s hardline Islamist group al Shabaab is cracking down on residents who do not follow a strict form of Sharia Islamic law, now publicly whipping women who wear bras, the Times of India reported. Residents tell the paper that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Norways charges Somali for funding al Shabaab

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 604
  A Norwegian of Somali background has been the first to be charged with financing a terrorist group in Norway. The Somali-Norwegian is accused of funding al Shabaab with $36,000. Canadian Press OSLO, Norway — A Somali-born Norwegian citizen accused of funding a Somali militant group has become the first person to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Al Shabaab Awards AK-47 to Winner of Koran Reciting Competition

  
  European Alliance for Rational Thought — Authority: 125
  "The winner of a Koran recital contest and general knowledge competition organized by Islamist militant group al Shabaab in Somalia was rewarded with an AK-47, two hand grenades, an anti-tank mine, and a computer." god is great and islam the greatest!!
  3 weeks ago

• One of Pakistan’s responses to the urba…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 543
  One of Pakistan’s responses to the urban terrorist attacks in its borders has been to raid a Hizb ut-Tahrir ’seminar’ that was being held in Islamabad to, as a HuT spokesman described, “mobilize people against the American raj and Waziristan operations.” …police arrested dozens of suspected members of ...
  3 weeks ago

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