Mecca for the Rich

[Grant]

MM,

This is a sectarian matter. The Salafist agenda is, in large part, responsible for the resurgence of Ahlu Sunnah wal Jamaaca, which disagrees with you at a very basic level. Given that the Sufis do form a majority in Somalia, I think you need to take their opinions into account.

http://muslimsinafrica.wordpress.com/20 ... r-furnish/

" On the opposite African coast from Nigeria, Somalia’s 10 million people are beginning to emerge from several decades of civil war and de facto anarchy with the help of Ethiopian, African Union and Kenyan forces—the latter of which, in early October 2012, occupied Kismayo[38]—at the behest of the US. This is a far cry from just a few years ago, when the latest incarnation of violent and intolerant Salafism, al-Shabab, was in control of much of the country and advancing an austere, anti-Sufi agenda. The Sufis of Somalia, led by the shaykhs of the Qadiriyah, Idrisiyah and Salihiyah orders, came together and created a Pan-Sufi political and, eventually, military organization called Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jama`ah [ASJ], “Family of the Sunnah and Community.”[39] While the ASJ was not loathe to actually take up arms against al-Shabab, whose members razed Sufi tomb-shrines and practiced suicide bombings and beheadings of those Muslims deemed insufficiently Shari`ah-compliant, the movement would not be enjoying the success it has were it not for the fact that al-Shabab’s vision is anathema to many, if not most, in this predominantly-Sufi country. "

[Minneapolis Mayor]

MM,

This is a sectarian matter. The Salafist agenda is, in large part, responsible for the resurgence of Ahlu Sunnah wal Jamaaca, which disagrees with you at a very basic level. Given that the Sufis do form a majority in Somalia, I think you need to take their opinions into account.

http://muslimsinafrica.wordpress.com/20 ... r-furnish/

" On the opposite African coast from Nigeria, Somalia’s 10 million people are beginning to emerge from several decades of civil war and de facto anarchy with the help of Ethiopian, African Union and Kenyan forces—the latter of which, in early October 2012, occupied Kismayo[38]—at the behest of the US. This is a far cry from just a few years ago, when the latest incarnation of violent and intolerant Salafism, al-Shabab, was in control of much of the country and advancing an austere, anti-Sufi agenda. The Sufis of Somalia, led by the shaykhs of the Qadiriyah, Idrisiyah and Salihiyah orders, came together and created a Pan-Sufi political and, eventually, military organization called Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jama`ah [ASJ], “Family of the Sunnah and Community.”[39] While the ASJ was not loathe to actually take up arms against al-Shabab, whose members razed Sufi tomb-shrines and practiced suicide bombings and beheadings of those Muslims deemed insufficiently Shari`ah-compliant, the movement would not be enjoying the success it has were it not for the fact that al-Shabab’s vision is anathema to many, if not most, in this predominantly-Sufi country. "

70% of Somali population hada waa Salafis. My Issue with them is, There is no negotiation in Wahdaaniya or Worshipping one God. Suufis Associate so many people and places with Allah. Sheikh aljiilaani, Sheikh Aways Albaraawi, Sheikh Yusuf Direed, Sheikh Nuuraani, Sheikh etc. They consider all this sheikhs as having taken part in the creation of the world and its management.

[Hodan94]

salafi? since when did this practise exist...?
Somalis play bad when it gets to religion we all know deep down they don't believe in these groups.
at the end of the day...its all about tribalism.