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Somali Islamist factions clash

Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly versionSend to friendSend to friendPDF versionPDF version  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="512" caption="A governmental soldier stands guard in Mogadishu "]A governmental soldier stands guard in Mogadishu [/caption] KISMAYO, Somalia — Fierce battles erupted Wednesday between rival Islamist rebel groups in the southern Somali town of Kismayo, shattering a tentative peace agreement, witnesses said. The Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab militia and the more political Hezb al-Islam had announced a truce after clashing repeatedly over control of Kismayo since the beginning of the month. The Shebab on Wednesday said Hezb al-Islam militants had attacked them in villages outside Kismayo, shattering the fragile truce between the erstwhile allies, who combined to launch an offensive against the internationally-backed transitional government in May. "Our forces... came under attack, but we have repelled them (Hezb al-Islam fighters). They suffered a lot of casualties," Shebab commander in the region Sheikh Mohamed Yusuf told AFP by phone, but did not give details. A Hezb al-Islam commander confirmed the clashes, but also declined to give details of casualties. Fighting first erupted between the former allies on October 1 over control of Kismayo, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu. After wresting control of the town from government forces in last year, the two factions had agreed to share power, with each governing for six months alternately. But the deal was soured by local clan infighting, and the rotation failed when the Shebab refused to relinquish the administration. More 
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Same story, as usual, only

Same story, as usual, only place and country and groups are different.
It is happening in Pakistan,
It is happening in Iraque,
It is happening in Sudan,
It is happening in Afganistan,
It is happening in Iran,
It is happening in..........Islamic countries.
What is it? Looks like Jihadis are killing each other.
No. It is self destructive nature of Islam. If there is no Kafir to kill they will find reason to kill each other.


Well, this is Islam at its

Well, this is Islam at its best. That is the beauty of Islam. An Islamic world means a world in perpetual war.


Where is F????? LS and KL and

Where is F????? LS and KL and the Lie, they will ask , where is the proof in Qurand for these people's actions. They are not muslims , they are not following Qurand etc. MFing brain dead Pedo followers.


Each group claim they are the

Each group claim they are the only true muslim and rest of are mislead.It is their divine order given by allah to destroy the mislead muslim and make them genuine follower of genuine Islam.So they are doing Jihad against one another to establish genuine islam. Lets them establish their genuine islam.Our only regret for the victim women,child and sane men residing here.


According to London

According to London Spirit,Kabirlaw,The Truth and other brain-dead islamic zombie,Those Somali ISLAMIST are misunderstander of beautiful islam. Only brain-dead zombies who wrote here, understand islam correctly. My question to these zombies why those somali islamist don't understand beautiful islam? after all allah said he maid islam simple and easy to follow?


'Beautiful or peaceful' islam

'Beautiful or peaceful' islam is an illusion like water in the desert. Even you can get water in desert but not peaceful islam. Muslims who are peaceful are an exception due to many reason, one being ignorant of islam or having a distorted view of islam.
We must defend ourselves and force our governments not to waste money in aids, food etc to muslim countries, societies etc. Infidels must unite, whatever religion you belong to . We are 5 billion plus strong and must help muslims to know koran, hadiths and history of islam and free them from this deathcult and mind paralysing disease.


This is not news as it

This is not news as it happens everyday. Now if they were to suddenly become peaceful, that would be news. No, it would be a miracle.


Truth: "We must defend

Truth: "We must defend ourselves and force our governments not to waste money in aids, food etc to muslim countries, societies etc."

You're absolutly right. Aids never works, economically. Its been proven for decades and it has to stop. The main problem is that the Muslim countries and societies needs to change.


Yes, Arp, Murtad, very good!

Yes, Arp, Murtad, very good! The response of Muslims like LS, KL, The Truth etc always goes like: Where in Quran does it teach violence or crimes like this? Show me? And when it is shown, they explain that that part means something else or is taken out of context.

They always claim: Do not blame Islam for what Muslims do. And if they sometimes do admit that it was Muslims who did crimes inspired by Islamic teachings, then they start elaborating about likewise reprehensible teachings of other religions, and about likewise atrocious actions by followers of other religions. So in the end the detrimental teachings and the crimes were according to them not specifically Islamic but rather universal (you know; the Catholics did violence too in Northern Ireland, the Christians had the Crusades and Hitler, the Americans bombed Hiroshima for no good reason, and the Israeli’s are the worst devils of all).

And many fair-play-minded mostly ignorant Westerners, people AND politicians, often go along with these responses. It is often very frustrating, but it obliges us to inform the world well and use very sharp arguments.

But it seems most Muslims have heard all their lives that Islam is special, better than all the other religions, and certainly better than atheism. Well, if Jehovah’s witnesses say that to one another, who cares? There are about 7 million of them worldwide. Private religions are not our concern, are they?

But when a religion is so powerful, growing and has so much dictatorial and propagandistic power, which the other religions and atheism have now largely relinquished (maybe not in China, North Korea), then FFI’s work is very very useful in cataloquing all the faults, flaws, shortcomings, crimes that Islam and Muslims have, teach and perpetrate and inform the world about them.

In order to persuade as many innocent or ignorant Muslims and Westerners that Islam in the long run should not be permitted to have absolute power, ANYWHERE. Just as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, Muslims should submit to democracy everywhere or face heavy united opposition. Including merciless shaming-ridiculing, including their prophet. Who they themselves put on so high a pedestal.

Even by their own standards Muslims are going to have to admit that at least Islam does not on average make people behave better, it does not stop all this violence (even if it allegedly does not provoke it!). So no Muslims, now and in the future, should be trusted with absolute power, as in shariah law is required.


My point is: It may be very

My point is: It may be very hard to convince golden-rule, fair-minded Westerners and Muslims that Islam is worse than the average religion, but it may be doable to convince them that Islam is not better either. And that Islam has usurped much more power than it is justified to have in the world right now. So that it is reasonable to demand equity among religions, concerning power and influence.