Somalia Edges toward Sharia

Two Islamist fighters of Al-Shabaab, an insurgency group in Somalia.
The Somali government goes forward with moves to establish sharia law across the country, but insurgents call the plans 'deceptive,' Abdurrahman Warsameh writes for ISN Security Watch.

The Somali parliament is expected to debate and vote this week on the implementation of Islamic sharia law after the new president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, agreed to accept the motion. This follows the recommendation by influential Islamic clerics that the war-torn country be ruled by the Islamic law, a key demand of hard-line insurgent groups and moderate clerics.

But armed opposition groups rejected the move as “a plot to betray their struggle for an Islamic state in Somalia” and vowed to continue to fight both Somali government forces and a small contingent of African Union (AU) peacekeeping forces based in, the capital Mogadishu...more..
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