Moderate Islamists declare Jihad against Al-Shabab

The Islamist moderate group Áhlu-Sunna Waljamaca’ on Thursday declared jihad against what they called ‘the Islamist strangers’ which they mean the Islamist hardliners Al-Shabab after one of Ahlu-Sunna’s prominent clerics killed on Wednesday evening in Galkaayo town, of Mudug province in central Somalia.In an interview with mogadishu Media, Sheik Abdulahi Sheik Abdurrahman Ábu Yusuf, the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna three unknown men armed with pistols shot dead Sheik Ali Afyare as he was coming out of a mosque after maqrib prayer where they escaped unharmed.The spokesman said the men carried out were sent by Al Shabab group who also injured Sheik Shurie night before. “what we know is that the strangers earlier were behind the killing of Sheik Hussein Sheik Harun and other clerics. “Why they killed the Sheik is for his Islamic belief which is confronting their un-Islamic ideology, we beg from Allah to die for his righteous way,” said Abdirahman.He called for all Somalis supporting their Sufi group to join the jihad aimed to clear Al-Shabab Strangers from the territory of Somalia.He dismissed any attempt to reach agreement with Al-Shabab and underlined all out war with he called ‘the misguided men’ who are accustomed to killed the society’s clerics.