Soomaali diinta kiristaanka qaadatay oo lagu soo bandhigay Rinkeby (SWEDEN)

Xaafada Rinkeby ayaa shalay waxaa ka dhacday arin mucjiso ah ka dib markii Soomaali isku

 sheegeysa in ay yihiin masiixiyiin ay yimaadeen halkaa oo ay ka bilaabeen in ay dacwo u jeediyaan Soomaalida kale ee Muslimiinta ah.

Ragaan oo qaarkood ay idaacada Sverige la yeelatay wareysi ayaa sheegay in uu soo adeegsaday ilaahooda ay ku sheegeen in uu yahay Ciise Masiixi oo ay doonayaan in ay hordhigaan diinta ay qaateen walaalahooda Soomaaliyeed ee Muslimiinta ah.

Ragaan ayaa meesha waxaa ku soo bandhigay kaniisada Rinkebykyrkan iyadoo la sheegay in goobta uu buuq badan ka dhacay oo Soomaalidu ay rumeysan waayeen waxa meesha ka dhacaya.

Mid ka mid ah dadka halkaa yimid oo magaciisa ku sheegay Cabdi Masiixi ayaa sheegay in ay ku socdeen “qorshe uu rabigooda ugu talagalay in ay Soomaalida hordhigaan diinta ay qaateen.”

Waa markii ugu horeysay ee Soomaali diinta ka baxday ay si bareer ah u horyimaadaan Soomaalida kale isla markaana ay is cadeeyaan. Arintaan ayaa xiisad abuurtay maadaama ay ragaan diinta ka bexeen isla markaana ay tahay bil Ramadaan oo barakeysan. Sababta arintaan loogu soo aadiyay bisha ramadaan ayaa la dhihi karaa mid daandaansi ah oo la doonayo in lagu kiciyo shucuurta Muslimiinta.

Christian Genocide in Somalia

Posted by Frank Crimi Bio ↓ on Aug 19th, 2011

(FrongPageMag.com) The Islamist terrorist group al Shabab is intentionally starving Somali Christians in territory it controls. It’s just the latest incident in the terror group’s systematic efforts to eradicate all of Somalia’s Christians.

According to the International Christian Concern (ICC), al Shabab’s intentional denial of humanitarian aid has resulted in the deliberate starvation of 18 Christians in the Somali cities of Afgoye, Baidawa, and Kismayo. As ICC spokesman Jonathan Racho said, “Any Somali that is suspected of being a Christian, or a friend of a Christian, does not receive any food aid.”

Unfortunately, the ongoing and purposeful elimination of the small Somali Christian community at the hands of al Shabab has gone largely unrecognized and unreported, eclipsed by the other horrors of rape, torture and murder perpetrated upon most of Somalia’s Muslim population by the Islamist terrorist group.

It goes without saying that al Shabab’s brutality has been well documented, most recently in a report issued by Human Rights Watch, which found the terror group continuing to carry out public beheadings and floggings; forced recruitment of children into its forces; and the denial of humanitarian assistance to the 2.2 million starving Somalis in al Shabab-controlled territory.

So, it shouldn’t surprise that al Shabab, which has openly professed its intention to rid Somalia of a Christian presence, is focusing its particular brand of barbarity on Somali Christians. After all, this is the same group that in August 2010 banned three Christian Aid Groups that it stated were “acting as missionaries under the guise of humanitarian work” while at the same time spreading what they termed as “corrupted ideologies in order to taint the pure creed of the Muslims in Somalia.”

Of course, it should be noted that the persecution of Christian Somalis pre-dates the rise of al Shabab. That assault arose from the outset of Somalia’s 1991 civil war and has gone unabated ever since. During that time it is estimated that over a thousand Somali Christian adults have been killed in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, with thousands of others forced to either flee Somalia or deny their faith to save their lives.

While Somalia’s Transnational Federal Government ostensibly grants religious freedom, it is either unable or unwilling to enforce those rights. As such, the enforcement of Islamic law is carried out from area to area and clan to clan, often with brutal consequences. The result has been to reduce the Christian population down to an estimated 1,000 and drive the remaining worshipers underground.

In a disturbing report gathered from Open Doors, a British-based Christian aid organization, Somali Christians gather secretly at pre-arranged meeting places to worship. According to the report, “These believers dare not meet for longer than three hours. Careful not to leave any tracks, they abandon the meeting place separately at intervals…When caught with a Bible, Christians face certain death.”

One of these underground believers said, “We know that anyone suspected of being a Christian will be tortured or even killed. So we pray secretly. We have prayed in mosque prayer rooms but despite our precautions many of our friends have been killed. We now live in fear.” Another Christian said he converted from Islam and told his family who then kept him in a dark room for 13 days without food until his mother begged the father to let him go.

One truly horrifying incident occurred in December 2010, when a 17-year-old girl who converted to Christianity was shot to death by relatives. The young girl had escaped her village after her parents had shackled her to a tree and tortured her for leaving Islam

Yet, while persecution has been the norm for Somali Christians, al Shabab has taken it to a whole new and brutally disturbing level.

In 2008, al Shabab members sliced the head off of Mansuur Mohammed, a 25 year-old convert to Christianity. According to witnesses, the insurgents took a video of the slaughter and circulated it in Somalia purportedly to instill fear among those contemplating conversion from Islam to Christianity.

In July 2009, al Shabab beheaded seven prisoners it accused of abandoning the Muslim faith; in August 2009 four Somali Christian women working for an NGO orphanage were beheaded after refusing to renounce their faith; and in July 2009 a 40-year-old Christian mother of 10 and her 23-year-old daughter, who was six months pregnant at the time, were both raped and held captive for five days before the terrorists left them for dead.

In July 2010, Muhammad Guul Hashim Idiris, a Christian convert from Islam, was taken by al Shabab members to a makeshift soccer stadium, attended by hundreds, and executed. A statement from Sheik Adan Yare, the al Shabab governor of the Bakol region, read: “Our holy warriors have today…executed in front of angry Muslim witnesses a young man who insulted our beloved prophet.”

In September 2010 al Shabab members broke into the home of Osman Abdullah Fataho, an active participant in the underground Christian community, and shothim dead in front of his wife and four children. The terrorists then took Fataho’s children as recruits to be trained as child soldiers in its organization.

In January 2011 insurgents slit the throat of Asha Mberwa, a recent convert to Christianity and mother of four; in March 2011 al Shabab insurgents shot Madobe Abdi to death. Abdi’s alleged crime was not that he was a convert from Islam but rather was an orphan raised as a Christian.

Finally, in May 2011 militants shot and killed Yusuf Ali Nur on suspicion he was a Christian as well as killing 21-year old Christian convert Hassan Adawe Adan, dragging Adan outside and shooting him several times before shouting Allahu Akbar (“God is great”).

Yet, while al Shabab has worked fervently to kill all of Somalia’s Christians, the terror group has other avenues by which it hopes to wipe all vestiges of Christianity’s presence from Somalia.

For example, in April 2010 al Shabab outlawed school teachers using bells to signal the beginning of class because “Christian churches also sound bells.”According to an al Shabab spokesman, Sheik Farah Kalar, “All schools must stop using the bell to summon students; otherwise they will face punishment.”

Most recently, al Shabab instituted a ban on Samosas, a popular Somali food staple, from its territory because the pastry is fried in a triangular shape that looks suspiciously similar to the Christian Holy Trinity symbol.

So, tragically, the news that al Shabab is now using the current famine in Somalia to deliberately kill Somali Christians isn’t very astonishing. Rather, what truly is amazing is that there are still Christians left alive in that ravaged country in which to be killed.

Somaliland: Israel eyes new alliances in Africa

Flags: State of Israel and the Republic of Somaliland

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 9 ( The Diaspora Post ) - Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation

But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to fight the growing menace of jihadist terrorism emanating from war-torn Somalia, Kenya's northern neighbor where jihadists linked to al-Qaida are active.

Israel is also seeking a foothold in the turbulent Horn of Africa to guard the approaches of the Red Sea. This is a vital shipping route and the access to the Arabian Sea for missile-armed Israeli submarines to target Iran should hostilities erupt.

It is also used by Iran to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip via Sudan and Egypt.

The Kenyans have suffered three major attacks by al-Qaida in recent years -- the suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on Aug. 7, 1998, and twin attacks Nov. 28, 2002, in Mombasa, the bombing of a hotel frequented by Israelis and a missile attack on an Israeli airliner.

Kenyan Minister of Internal Security George Saitoti asked for Israeli counter-terrorism assistance when he visited Jerusalem in February.

According to media reports, he told Israeli leaders: "The jihad is taking over Somalia and threatening to take over Kenya and all of Africa. No one is more experienced than you in fighting internal terrorism."

These reports said the Israelis responded by saying they were prepared to consider establishing a joint force with Kenya to guard its northwestern border to prevent terrorist infiltration.
Somalia's al-Shebab Islamist movement, which is fighting a Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu, has repeatedly threatened to attack Kenya for allegedly training Somali troops.

According to the Jamestown Foundation, a U.S. think tank that monitors jihadist militancy, "The talks with Kenya appear to be part of a growing Israeli interest in the Horn of Africa."

In early February, Yigal Palmor, spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, reportedly told the Somaliland media that Israel was prepared to recognize the breakaway territory of Somaliland, which split from Somalia in 1991, as an independent nation.

If that happened, Israel would be the first country to recognize Somaliland, which is strategically located on the Gulf of Aden.

There have been reports, all unconfirmed, that Israel has its eye on setting up a naval outpost at the port of Berbera to monitor the approaches to the Red Sea. The Soviet military established a naval port there in 1969 during the Cold War, along with an airfield capable of handling all types of military and cargo aircraft.

Last June, one of the Israeli navy's German-built Dolphin class submarines, reputedly able to carry nuclear-armed missiles, transited the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean into the northern end of the Red Sea for "exercises." That was generally seen as a warning to Iran as Israeli warships usually have to take the long route from the Mediterranean via the Cape of Good Hope to reach the Red Sea.

Two Saar 5-class missile ships followed in July to beef up the Israeli presence in the waterway.
According to several Internet reports, two more Israeli warships passed through the canal in recent weeks into the Red Sea. Israel's Defense Ministry declined comment.

In the 1950s and '60s, Israel cultivated links with many of the post-colonial African states because they provided considerable diplomatic support in the United Nations and other internal forums, usually in exchange for military and agricultural support.

That changed amid a swell in pro-Arab sentiment following the Middle Eastern wars of 1967 and 1973.

More recently, Iran has been buying off some of Israel's erstwhile allies in a systematic effort to spread Tehran's influence in the Third World.

Last year, Mauritania, one of the few Arab League members to have relations with Israel, told it to close its embassy in the capital, Nouakchott, after Iran moved in

Iran's clout in central and west Africa is also heightened by the presence of large and influential communities of Lebanese Shiites who are generally sympathetic to Hezbollah.
They dominate the diamond trade in the region, which provides considerable funds for the Iranian-backed movement.

However, in recent months, Israel has been building military and intelligence links with Ethiopia, Nigeria and other African states.

Source: UPI.com

Photo: The Republic of Somaliland flag and the accompanying flag of the State of Israel were not part of the original article.

WARKHAD FURAN: Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland

The Republic of Somaliland Flag

Taariikh: Agoosto 5, 2011

Tixraac: SLCAC/91/0508/2011

Warkhad Furan

Ku: Mudane Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud (Siilaanyo) 

        Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland

        Hargeisa, Somaliland

Ujeeddo: Xaqa Masiixiyiinta Somaliland ee Hoggaaminta Dalka

Mudane madaxweyne waxaan hawada kuu soo marinaynaa salaan waxaanan kuugu hambalyayn maamul wanaaga cusub ee ka muuqda maanta Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland.

Haddii aanu nahay Masiixiyiinta u dhashay Jamhuuriyada Somaliland ee ku nool dalka iyo dibadaba waxaanu taban in Masiixiyiinta reer Somaliland aan laga siin dawlada aad hogaamiso kaalin muuqata haba yaraatee.

Masiixiyiinta Somaliland kaalin muuqata ayay ku lahaayeen dawladihii hore ee soo maray Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland sida tii uu hogaaminayay mudane Dahir Rayale Kahin oo jagooyin wasiir iyo safiirnimo ahba ay ka hayeen Masiixiyiinta reer Somaliland.

Waxaanu kaa codsan in aadan ilaawin kaalinta ay Masiixiyiinta reer Somaliland ku leeyihiin hogaaminta iyo horumarinta dalka.

Mahadsanid

Indhadeeq Mohamed, RN

Xafiiska Warfaafinta

Guddiga Waxqabadka Masiixiyiinta Somaliland

Somaliland Christian Action Committee 

Al-Shabaab changes tactics, withdraws from Somali capital

African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, where they engaged in heavy fighting with Al-Shabaab militants on July 29.

By the CNN Wire Staff

August 6, 2011 -- Updated 2036 GMT (0436 HKT)


(CNN) -- Al-Shabaab has withdrawn from Somalia's war-ravaged capital in what the Islamist militant group called a "change in tactics."

The Somali president said Al-Shabaab, which controls much of southern Somalia, retreated from Mogadishu after heavy fighting early Saturday with government and African Union forces.

The al Qaeda-linked group has been waging an insurgency against Somalia's transitional government since 2006.

"Al-Shabaab and al Qaeda are a menace to Somalia and it is happy news that we defeated them in Mogadishu," Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed told reporters.

But he warned Mogadishu residents not to rush to areas vacated by Al-Shabaab fighters, saying the group may have booby-trapped the area. He also warned of possible suicide bombings.

U.N. special representative Augustine Mahiga lauded the retreat, saying "there is no doubt that the departure of Al-Shabaab would be a positive development and a step in the right direction for a city that has seen so much misery and devastation."

Spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage confirmed Al-Shabaab fighters left the city but said the fighting was hardly over.

"The reasons we withdrew from Mogadishu is we have made changes in our tactics of war," he told the group's radio station, Andalus. "We withdrew because we want to save lives of the poor civilians but we will launch operations against government (and African Union) forces in the coming hours."

Some believe the Islamists withdrew because of funding woes and drought-related issues.

The United Nations has declared famine in five areas of southern Somalia in June, including Mogadishu. In all, about 12 million people in the Horn of Africa region need assistance. Somalia is the worst hit.

"The immediate priority must now be to focus on the humanitarian situation and I call on all parties, from the donor community to all parts of the Transitional Federal Government, to do everything possible to ensure and facilitate the immediate delivery of assistance to those most in need," Mahiga said.

Al-Shabaab has called the famine a "crusader" invention and an excuse for occupation, and issued threats to aid agencies delivering food to afflicted areas.

As crops withered, thousands of people fled and livestock starved. But the militants kept their ban on aid groups operating in their territory in southern and central Somalia, and parts of the capital.