Al Shabab ate my hamster!

OK not really, I don’t even own a hamster.

But every other evil you could think of and quite a few that would never cross your mind are getting thrown at the Somali Mujahideen by the Somali Fasiq news media which seeks to misinform the public whilst making a quick dollar selling ad’ space for music, dating and other haram activities.

Allah states in the Quran:

O you who believe! if a Fasiq (evil-doer) comes to you with news, look carefully into it, lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done.
Quran translation, Surah al Hujurat, 49:6

No believer with even a small understanding of the deen would fall for such news reporting, they would know that when someone openly engaged in evil acts is bringing you negative news you need to verify it.

This is especially true as it was shown last year by Somali bloggers that the Transitional Federal Government had bought the services of Hiiraan Online, one of the main news services for Somalis, publishing in both English and Somali to get maximum coverage (and sales for their adverts) to the exile community.

Link – The Islamic Standard – Is Hiiraan online sleeping with the TFG?

I am not saying al Shabab are perfect, but even the Sahabah made mistakes in their lives including in the field of Jihad so it would be manifestly unjust to expect brothers (and sisters) fighting fisabilillah today to live up to a standard even the Sahabah couldn’t manage.

But the stories coming out in the Fasiq Somali expat press are exaggerations, inventions quite frankly unreal and totally unbelievable.

So al Shabab setup Islamic courts in all areas they control and finally sisters are able to seek divorce when before the only option some of them had then was to go to often biased clan elders to ask for divorce if the husband wouldn’t give it.

Other sisters in areas under al Shabab control have sought divorce after husbands refused to go in the path of Allah, calling their former husbands cowards and sitters. Link – The Islamic Standard – Somali women divorcing their husbands for not joining the Jihad.

Divorce is a very serious matter but the justice shown by Al Shabab resulted in a wave of sisters waving goodbye to oppressive husbands and marriages they were unhappy in but the rumour mongers at Hiiraan online and other sites went into overdrive and came out with a story of al Shabab forcing families apart when they were only granting the rights to Muslim women long denied them when Southern Somalia was under the control of the various clan militias and warlords.

Al Shabab has become known for destroying the disgusting Khat industry, forbidding it in areas they control and removing this dangerous drug from the market places and in the process depriving a lot of Somali secularist businessmen of a handsome profit.

Khat is a stimulant widely used in Somalia and Yemen and you can see it freely available on the streets of the UK and has never been made illegal as it is seen as drug that only effects immigrants but it destroys families, both here in the UK as well as in Muslim countries.

But the actions of al-Shabab mean the only place Khat is able to legally enter southern Somalia is through Mogadishu airport, under the control of the TFG but this hasn’t stopped the Fasiq media making up reports of Al Shabab being the drug peddlers not the TFG of 2km Square President Sharif!

It seems the rule is whatever al Shabab do which is praiseworthy accuse them of the opposite, what ever happens exaggerate and lie to put the Mujahideen in the worse light possible.

The secularists, those that deny Allah’s exclusive right to legislate for mankind and those whose hearts are filled with the filthy disease of Asabiyyah, putting clan before Quran have united together to slander the soldiers of Allah at every opportunity they can.

…They plot and plan and Allah plans and Allah is the best of planners.
Quran translation, Surah an-Anfal, 8:30

It burns the Kuffar and Munafiqeen to see the successes of al-Shabab, so they seek to answer it with propaganda, a grubby little whispering campaign of lies and despite all their money and influence given to them by their Awliyah in the capitals of America, Ethiopia and Europe still they fall down and fail.

The sincere believers stride on, taking more and more land and putting it under Shariah, never fearing the blame of the blamers and have instead come up with slick information and recruitment videos of their own, advertising their success and the latest is one of best so far.

* Please note The Islamic Standard is showing this videos which are legally available through youtube for the purposes of reporting on current affairs and nothing else.

But what is more worrying for the Kuffar and their allies claiming Islam amongst the TFG is not the professional level of video editing shown but the professional level of soldiering, the training in FIBUA, heavy weapons, ambushes and assassinations.

The videos are also subtitled in various places in not only English to attract Muslims from the west but also in Swahili, a language spoken by mostly Muslim Peoples half the way down the coast of the African continent.

The video shows various Al-Shabab leaders who unlike their western counterparts or various ‘leaders’ in the Muslim nations fight from the front just like Rasoolullah (saws) and also shows Muslims praying using their weapons as a sutrah, as is the sunnah of the final messenger of Allah and reviving the Sunnah.

The al Shabab troops are also shown modestly dressed with a uniform of a light green Kamees, and using live ammunition including RPG’s and machine guns in their training where as journalists have shown videos of the government forces training with sticks instead of rifles!

No wonder so many are switching sides to join Al-Shabab who are better trained, better armed, gaining increasing support amongst the people and even the government of semiautonomous Puntland who are meant to be allies of Sharif and the TFG recently stopped cooperating due to the number of Al-Shabab recruits coming from government ranks.

Mr. Daud Mohamed Omar, Puntland’s Planning and International Cooperation Minister, told the BBC Somali Service during a Tuesday interview that the international community’s funding of military training for TFG soldiers in countries like Uganda and Djibouti is “ineffective”.

“More than 12,000 security forces have been trained for the TFG with international support. So the question is: Where are they today? Are they defending Mogadishu? No, because most of them have joined the insurgency,” Minister Daud told the BBC last month.

We ask all our readers to make Du’a, especially during the last third of the night when Du’as are more likely to accepted that Allah continues to grant success to the Mujahideen in Somalia and elsewhere and that He answers the Du’as of the oppressed and put down in Somalia with removing the corrupt warlords and businessmen who still rule large parts of Mid and North Somalia and brings Al-Shabab into rulership of all the Somali and other Muslim peoples of East Africa, ameen.

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