VideoThe total deterioration of Somalia continues - with plowshares turned into swords:
Their shrines were being destroyed. Their imams were being murdered. Their tolerant beliefs were under withering attack.So the moderate Sufi scholars recently did what so many other men have chosen to do in anarchic Somalia: they picked up guns and entered the killing business, in this case to fight back against the Shabab, one of the most fearsome extremist Muslim groups in Africa."Clan wars, political wars, we were always careful to stay out of those," said Sheik Omar Mohamed Farah, a Sufi leader. "But this time, it was religious."..more..http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/05/onwards-sufi-soldiders-islamis.html
Their shrines were being destroyed. Their imams were being murdered. Their tolerant beliefs were under withering attack.So the moderate Sufi scholars recently did what so many other men have chosen to do in anarchic Somalia: they picked up guns and entered the killing business, in this case to fight back against the Shabab, one of the most fearsome extremist Muslim groups in Africa."Clan wars, political wars, we were always careful to stay out of those," said Sheik Omar Mohamed Farah, a Sufi leader. "But this time, it was religious."..more..http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2009/05/onwards-sufi-soldiders-islamis.html
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