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Somalia: Sheik Sharif speaks out the Islamic courts' willing
Wed. June 07, 2006 08:38 am. -
Mohamed Abdi Farah
(SomaliNet) We, Islamic courts' union, are ready to consult with the Somali people over their future and we would not attempt to forcefully impose the rule of Islamic law but we will convince the society to adopt it. Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the chairperson of Islamic courts' union in the capital Somalia Mogadishu said overnight.
In an interview with BBC Somali section, Sheik Sharif said the union of Islamic courts was established to ensure the Somali suffering people for 15 years to gain peace and full justice and free from the anarchic rule of warlords who refuted their people to no direction.
The Sharif's statement came as more floating rumors that Islamic courts in the capital conduct efforts to form an Islamic state bear a resemblance to former Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
"Since the Islamic courts won to defeated and run over the warlords who had been blockade ahead of nation for several years, I tell all Somalis not to lose the chance to determine their future” Sharif said adding "We librated the capital of Somalia from Islamic law-breakers and now we let the people to have their rights of living,”
Sheik Sharif, formerly Arabic school teacher in Mogadishu, urged the militia of the defeated anti terror alliance to put down their guns and join their Islamic troops. "I also appeal for the warlords, who took cash for killing Muslims, to repent from their mistakes and back to their Allah,” he said.
"This country had tired of long running tribal fighting and now it is not needed to act on tribalism,” Sheik Sharif said.
Sheik Sharif said I appeal for all Somali Diaspora to return back to home and rebuild their country by the time the warlords were finished after more than three months heavy clashes in Somalia capital of Mogadishu in which at least 300 people mostly civilians have been killed and more than 1,360 others wounded and thousands more displaced.
Sheik Sharif, the chairperson of Islamic courts' union said he welcomes any talks with officials of the transitional federal government in the provisional town of Baidao, some 250km southwest of the capital Mogadishu. "We, Islamic courts, are ready to come on the negotiation table with the TFG if they are interested, but there may be some principles that we and the TFG might disagree,” he said.
Earlier Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf welcomed the new change resulted from the nation revolution in the Somalia capital Mogadishu led by Islamic courts' union and encouraged the mayor and the governor of Banadir province to start talks with the Islamic groups who have taken the control of the capital from the US backed alliance for restoration of peace and counter terrorism (ARPCT).
Somalia had no functioning government for almost 15 years after the fall of former president Mohamed Siad in 1991 by factional leaders who ruled the lawless country into fiefdoms.
The Kenya formed government in 2004 after two and half years of reconciliation conference by representatives of all Somali clans in Nairobi.
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