Somalis establish their own Al-Azhar for religious education

[21CenturyAmir]

Al-Azhar is the Pinnacle university for religious jurisprudence in Sunni Islam. its opinion on issues is respected from Morocco to Indonesia however it is not a wholly independent institution. it started out as Ismaili university during the Fatimids and only became Sunni under the Ayyubid dynastry. as you can see the university follows the Islam of the current ruling elite. it has been under the muslim brotherhood for the last 80 years and might in the future become a Salafi Institution. The last 20 years should have shown somalis that when religion become politicized, with the proliferation of foreign ideologies like the muslim brother and the Salaf which spawned Al-shabab it can be used to oppress rather than lift the spirit and offer refuge to the most beaten down people on the planet. many somalis are disgusted by Al-Shabab and rightly so since they make a mockery of our religion but even when they are defeated their ideas and values endure and the next generation will be fighting the same battle of today generation. should we look to Turkey as a model and militantly secularize, purge islam from the public sphere and make the religion a puppet of the state. or should we institutionalize religion, lets face it the Sufism of our ancestors just can't compete with the organizational capabilities of the muslim brother or the Saudi Sponsored Salafiya. we must fight fire with fire, establish our own religious institutions like Al-Azhar where Fiqh, Tafseer, Al-Hadith, islamic history and civilization are discussed and real scholarly treatise are written and disseminate across the Somalia peninsula. all Iman and islam judges should be certified by the University, and all publication should be heavy scrutinized and approved by this islamic university. but it must be transparent and accessible to our people across our homeland and around the world so that we don't get swept up by every political and religious movement from the muslim world and that we don't get manipulated by ajnabi for their own agenda. hundreds of somalis have blown themselves up killing/maiming thousand of their country men for a global Caliphate/ jihad without end. now we know why we need our own Al-Azhar, the people will be loyal to their country because they will hear from the pulp exactly what they hear from official Sources without confusion they will be less likely to be brain washed by foreign ideologies.