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“Taking Infidel Women Captive…Permits Whoever Is Holding Them To Have Sexual Intercourse With Them”

Women Raped As Spoils Of War

Recently there have been an alarming increase in women and girls being raped as spoils of war.  The rapists in most cases are from al-Qaeda and its affiliates, but these people view rape of such victims as permissible under Sharia law.

The Rape Fatwa

A question was sent to the jihadi forum Minbar [...]

Somalia – Al Shabaab Orders All Businesses And Shops To Use Arabic Only

Confusion

The al-Shabaab hardline Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda has just issued an edict that requires businesses and shop owners to take down any English or Somali posters and replace them with billboards in Arabic.  But the problem is that hardly anyone knows how to read Arabic.  Businesses and shop owners expect great confusion in the coming [...]

Somali Women Suffer At Hands Of Al Shabaab

Latest Decree From Al Shabaab Group

In the seaside town of Kismayu in southern Somalia, many women mostly widowed or divorced, have for years eked out a living by selling or bartering vegetables and fruit for fuel and other commodities from ship crews. Now the al Shabaab group, which is linked to al Qaeda, and which controls [...]

Limbs Amputated By Al-Shabaab And Taliban

All In The Name Of Sharia

Two recent reports of amputations of limbs for stealing caught my attention.  One happened in Somalia where Al-Shabaab fighters chopped off the hand and leg of an accused bandit.  The other happened in Pakistan’s tribal region where the Taliban’s brand of Sharia prevailed.

Al-Shabaab

In Somalia where the hardline Islamist rebel group, Al-Shabaab, [...]

Somalia – Women’s Dress Code And Restrictions Imposed By Al-Shabaab

Cover Up Or Else…

Al-Shabaab, which means “youth” in Arabic, controls most of south and central Somalia.  It is believed to be a proxy of Al-Qeada, and is itself a hardline Islamist group.  Al-Shabaab wants to impose its own brand of Sharia Islamic law throughout Somalia.  In pursuing this goal, Al-Shabaab reportedly carried out abductions and is [...]

Somalia – Now Al Shabaab Executed 2 Girls By Firing Squad

Spies?

For the past 19 years, Somalia had no effective government.  To be sure there is a government, backed by the UN, but it is so weak that it controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu.  Much of Somalia is under the control of warlords. The al-Shabaab group, which is linked to al-Queda, controls much of southern Somalia. Al-Shabaab [...]

Somalia – How Amputations Are Carried Out By Al-Shabaab

Amputations al-Shabaab Style

Thanks to a recent report in The Guardian, we now have a better insight into the amputation of limbs carried out by the al-Shabaab group, an organization in Somalia believed to be linked to al-Qaeda.  The story of a victim of amputation of limbs is told by 17-year old Ismael Khalif Abdulle who to this [...]

Rising Number Of Reports Of Women In Somalia Facing Forced Marriages And Rapes

Hawo Yousef’s Story Of Escape From Rape

Imagine the plight of a woman who is first threatened with rape, then has to watch her husband being killed as he tries to protect her, and later has to watch her two small daughters being thrown overboard by smugglers as the three of them flee across the waters. This [...]

Somalia – Another Death By Stoning

When we think of Somalia and the enforcement of Sharia law punishments on adultery and theft, and we mentally see adulterers being stoned to death and thieves having their limbs cut off.   Now there is another case of death by stoning reported in Somalia.

Most time the al-Shabaab group (believed by the US to be proxy for al-Qaeda) are [...]

Somalia – Another Woman Stoned To Death For Adultery

The al–Shabaab rebel group has done it again!  It has condemned another woman in Somalia to death by stoning for committing adultery. Judge Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman of the al-Shabaab group said that the 20-year old Halima Ibrahim Abdirahman, a divorcee, was stoned to death before 200 people after admitting to having an affair with an unmarried 29-year old [...]