A leader of Somalia's Islamist insurgency threatened to attack America during a speech broadcast. "We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country," said Fuad Mohamed "Shongole" Qalaf.
Al-Shabab has not yet launched an attack outside Africa but Western intelligence has long been worried because the group targeted young Somali-Americans for recruitment. About 20 have traveled to Somalia for training and at least three were used as suicide bombers inside Somalia. Al-Shabab holds most of southern and central Somalia and has the support of hundreds of foreign fighters, mostly radicalized East Africans.
It seeks to overthrow the weak U.N.-backed government, which is protected by 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian African Union peacekeepers.
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Comments:
These fanatics probably have not read that the use of violence is prohibited in spreading the faith, in their ignorance they become propaganda tool to the Islamophobes. The Qur’an explicitly states:
“There is no compulsion in religion”[Qur'an;2:256],
|Invite (all) to the way of Thy Lord with wisdom and preaching; and argue with them In ways that are best and Most gracious: for Thy knoweth best, who have strayed from His path, and who receive guidance.[Qur'an;16:125.]
“Say: "O Jews and Christians [people of the Book]! come to common terms As between us and you: that we worship none but [one] God that we associate no partners with Him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than God [Allah]." if then They turn back, say: "Bear witness that we (at least) are bowing to the Will of God [Islam]” [Qur’an;3:64]
"As for such [of the unbelievers] as do not fight against you on account of [your] faith, and neither drive you forth from your homelands, God does not forbid you to show them kindness and to behave towards them with full equity: for, verily, God loves those who act equitably. God only forbids you to turn in friendship towards such as fight against you because of [your] faith, and drive you forth from your homelands, or aid [others] in driving you forth: and as for those [from among you] who turn towards them in friendship; it is they, they who are truly wrongdoers!"[Qur'an;60:8-9]
How to preach Islam [Dawah]
