"They will sign the agreement on the first week of march"

[Talo alle udaa]

Talk about preplanning, I knew somalians weren't this good


Somali government, Sufi group agree to jointly fight extremism Module body

Sat Feb 20, 2:11 PM


ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Somalia's transitional government and a recently-armed Sufi group will sign an agreement in March to join hands in "fighting extremism", Ethiopia's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

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Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister Sherif Hassan Sheik Aden and Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa's spiritual leader Sheikh Mahamoud Sheikh Ahmed met in Addis Ababa for more than a week to thrash out a deal in response to the rise of the militant Islamic Shebab.


"Both parties have agreed to mobilise Somalis inside and outside the country to fight jointly against the onslaught of extremism, to preserve Somali tradition and custom," the Ethiopian ministry said in a statement.


"Both sides will now take the agreement back to their respective constituencies and carry out extensive discussions. The final agreement will be signed during the first week of March," it added.
Under the agreement, a national panel of ulemas, or Muslim scholars, will be formed to come up with a framework to "protect and preserve the traditional Somali Islamic faith", the statement said.


Sufism emphasises the mystical dimension of Islam and includes practices considered as idolatry by the strict Wahhabi sect followed by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab.


Sufism is still dominant in clannish Somalia, where clan founders were often also Muslim saints, but its leading clerics have voiced concern that hardline Islamist groups such as Shebab were slowly eradicating it.


Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa ('The Companions of the Prophet') took up arms in 2008 after Shebab started hunting down Sufi faithful and desecrating their holy sites, notably in and around the southern Somali city of Kismayo.


The usually quiet group held its inaugural "war council" in Nairobi in November.


Shebab controls around 80 percent of southern and central Somalia, and since his election a year ago President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his administration have been pinned down in a small area of the capital.


The conflict-wracked country's shaky government is planning a nationwide offensive against insurgents, which Shebab says will be met with all-out war. Related article: Sparing civilians key to Somali offensive

[ModerateMuslim]

a framework to "protect and preserve the traditional Somali Islamic faith", the statement said.

preservation of shirk and the interests of ethiopia... hmmm. how can any muslim, or even a patriotic somali, support these sufi mushriks and traitors? other than jahilnimo, what can possibly be their excuse?

Sufism is still dominant in clannish Somalia, where clan founders were often also Muslim saints, but its leading clerics have voiced concern that hardline Islamist groups such as Shebab were slowly eradicating it.

so the destruction and eradication of sufism somalia = the end of the primitive tribal era in somalia? hmmm, no wonder then that all the biggest qabilists on this dump tend to be very pro-sufism (e.g. emperior5, hutuking, AW, hanqadh).

[Dionysus]

I have never seen people more extreme than these so called Somali sufis. There was a story of some sufis having a con man arrive in their town. The con man told the sufis that he was a saint sent from above like an angel and when the ladies of the town volunteered to wash his clothes for him, some were reported to have drank the water they used to wash his clothes.

[LobsterUnit]

I hope the "Salafis" will pay allegiance to new walis and emirs, the Ahlul Sum Wal Zenawi militia. I also hope they will join the "council of national Ulema of grave worshipers"