Voltage wrote:
If AL SHabaab resists, they will unmask themselves as enemies of the Somali people. Ethiopia is gone and the honorable fight against them will always be viewed as the war for liberty and freedom, but the fact is Ethiopia is now gone. It is Somalia and Somalis. If Al Shabaab picks up the gun against the Somali consensus and dialogue to bring their nation back, they would have declared themselves as enemies of the Somali people and it is both religious and patriotic to support a campaign against them.
nacasyaho, has it ever dawned on you that al-shabab never toke up arms for a nationalistic cause, nor for liberty or freedom, but for allah's cause and deen?
to them (rightly), allah's sovereignty and shariah can't be compromised at all - and compromise it and, therefore, his imaan is exactly what sharif has done by accepting man-made laws/concepts and by allying himself and his group with the murtad tfg and their kuffar allies (the west/ethiopia) - and also that allah's laws aren't compatible with western/eastern political philosophy; because, to them (again, rightly), ruling by other than what allah has revealed is clear kufr and takes one out of the fold of islam.
and further more, if their purpose - which, thankfully, it's not - was only restricted to expelling all kuffar out of somali land and ensuring the liberty and freedom of all somalis, not allah's cause/deen, as you're implying, then it'd still be upon them to resist sharif and his murtad allies, for they're willing to negotiate with the enemy over some parts of somalia/the liberty and freedom of certain somalis.
so, if they are sincerely fighting for allah's cause, as they say they're, then they can't just turn around and support kufr constitution based on western concepts/values - where man-made laws have rights over allah's law - and ally themselves with the very apostates they were just fighting. for if they did, it'd make them hypocrites and take them out of the fold of ummat al-mu'minin.
so, not resisting the murtad sharif and his allies (foreigners or not) isn't an option to al-shabab. and also, by resisting the murtads and standing up for islam, the mujahideen are doing what's in the best interests of the somali people. surly if somalis are muslims (which, alhamdulillah, they're), then only islam has their best interests at heart. no?
anyway, at the end of the day, the mujahideen will have to answer to their creator - allah swt - not the somali people.