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Alshabaab and its Misinterpretation of Islam

Firs of all I would like to say my Allah have mercy on all of us Iinsha Allah. While doing some more research on the brutal death of 13yr old Asha in Kismayo , I have read that Asho was raped prior to her death . I believe that we as human beings have to stand up for the children of the world. It sickens me knowing my religion is being hijacked by these extremest ,who know nothing about the Holly Quran and if they did they would not have done what they did to innocent child who also had medical issue's.

There have been many cases of Alshabaab raping the elderly , young girls, and in one case a story that my mother heard was beyond comprehension. An individual or individuals not sure if they might have been more than one person who did this , but this individual came across a new mother with her baby in her arms. He than threw the child in the air , than stabbed the infant in front of its mother.

When it comes to Somalia since the civil war nothing surprises  me, but allot of things have not only upset me but have sickened me to the core. At times I just want to forget about it all and pay no attention to the genocide that is occurring to my people.


My goal is to use my blog to expose the savagery that is occurring on daily basis in Mogadishu.While holding our leaders accountable , but also looking into how as people we can solve some of these issue's.

As person who strongly believes in justice of all forms , One of my goals in life will be to hunt down the individuals who have been involved in war crimes around the globe. This will go higher than Qabil , it will be Islam justice for all the Muslims who had died for any apparent reason other the fact they could not leave Mogadishu.

STORY OF ASHO: GIRL WHO WAS STONED TO DEATH

DADAAB, KENYA–No one seems to remember the exact date when 13-year-old Asho Duhulow disappeared, but it was sometime in August. Days have a tendency of blending one into another and years drag on in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, where Asho was born and raised.
As a little girl Asho had heard stories about relatives in Kismayo, a southern Somali port city on the Indian Ocean. It sounded magical compared to where she lived, crammed in with a dozen people, sharing two rooms and a dirty mattress, and relying on twice monthly handouts of food.
She had always talked about leaving, telling friends that one day she would reach Somalia, a country she had never seen.
Asho had never known any life other than the refugee camp, about 80 kilometres west of Somalia's border. Spread across a vast swath of desert, Dadaab was created by the UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency 17 years ago to provide temporary refuge for Somalis fleeing the chaos of Mogadishu. Today, it is the world's largest refugee camp, home to 230,000 people living in three areas called Hagadera, Ifo and Dagahaley, but collectively known as Dadaab.
In a camp where a constant influx of refugees fleeing Somalia brings hundreds of new faces daily, it would have been easy for a 13-year-old girl to leave unnoticed. Just as her dreams went unnoticed and her sickness was misunderstood.
The only thing that didn't go unnoticed was how Asho died.
Asho was born at the Hagadera hospital sometime in 1995, but her birth record was lost when bandits ransacked the family home and her mother cannot recall the month, let alone the day, when Asho entered the world.
Abdulle Abdi, who was working at the hospital, probably remembers best. He has seen many births, but he knows the family and remembers Asho because she was born a few months before his own daughter, who arrived on July 2. Now a Canadian citizen and living in Ottawa, where he resettled a decade ago, Abdi returned to Dadaab in July and saw Asho and her family. She was 13, like his daughter, and he says he can't recall anything remarkable in her behaviour.
On the day she disappeared, Asho spent the morning at Hagadera's Central Primary School. Students were on a break, but Asho had been going for extra help, since she had never been a strong student. School marks neatly recorded on dirty, lined paper show that in 2007 Asho rated 57th out 65 students in her grade. She had failed four of her six subjects, with math and science her worst. In social studies and a Somali language course, she squeaked by with 50 per cent.
The school's deputy headmaster, Abdurahman Abdullahi, remembers her as "very obedient and respectful," but others say she had a rebellious streak and had trouble sitting still.
How Asho left Dadaab is far from clear. Friends say she made good on her plan to find relatives in Somalia, and one neighbour told the family she had left Hagadera for Ifo, the nearest refugee camp, which is about a 30-minute drive across the sandy desert. The walk would have taken about half a day.
Her father searched for her in Ifo but was told that she had already crossed into Somalia, which meant she had somehow traveled more than 80 kilometres to the border.
Dadaab is rife with rumours, so there are many versions of what happened that are relayed as fact. Some say Asho was taken against her will, while many believe she got married.
Her family is convinced she ran away. "She used to say, `I want to see my grandmother,' and unfortunately one day she did," says her father, 55-year-old Ibrahim Duhulow. "She had told the kids she wanted to go. One of the neighbours in the block told us Asho left with a man, but we don't know who."
Her mother, Fatima Jinow Ahmed, says, "I sent her to school in the morning, and she did not come back."
ON THE MORNING OF Oct. 27, Ibrahim Duhulow's cellphone rang.
It was Asho, making contact with her family for the first time since her disappearance. She was crying. Uncontrollably. She didn't have much time but managed to tell her father that she was about to be killed and was concerned about a debt of 100 Kenyan shillings (about $1.50 Canadian) that she owed people in the Hagadera market. She asked her father if he could repay the men – 50 shillings each.
"She was taken from the phone before she could say goodbye," her father says.
A man who identified himself as a jail guard came on the line. But he did not say much, and would not tell Asho's father why they were holding her. Then the line went dead.
Asho was in Kismayo, more than 250 kilometres away. What happened hours later would make headlines around the world.
At about 4 p.m. that same day, armed guards dragged Asho before a crowd of hundreds. Her legs were partially buried so she could not escape, witnesses told local media. Then, a small group of men were given large rocks. Before the stoning began, some onlookers tried to intervene, running forward in protest. Militia, members of a radical Islamic group known as al Shabaab (The Youth), fired, and a young boy was reportedly killed.
Rock after rock struck Asho's head and chest. The breaks came when someone, reportedly a nurse, stepped forward to see if she was dead. Asho had a pulse; the stoning resumed.
Reuters later quoted a witness named Abdullahi Aden who described the scene when Asho was brought "screaming, as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands." Pictures, surreptitiously taken with a cellphone camera and posted on the Internet, reportedly record the gruesome aftermath. One blurry shot shows the bloodied face of a girl wearing a soiled pink sweater.

Somalia Since The Civil War

SOMALI PM: I WANT TO BE THE NEW PRESIDENT

Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein will run for the country's presidency, he announced Thursday.I served the nation as premier and I want to be elected president and promote peace and harmony,".


One of the greatest failures has been the lack of effort by our elders to not only to communicate in civil matter but also the lack of co-operation in working with others in order to bring peace. Here is an individual who is 70yrs young and at time in his life where he can be remember for something great but for what ever reason could only think of one thing and that is being president .

Here he had the opportunity to work with the current leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed in restoring peace to the people but instead would rather think like all the others. This peace process is going to take more than one man or woman to bring about it , that is why with his support the current president could have achieved peace in Somalia.

I also wonder why does Nur Hassan Hussein thinks he can bring peace where so many others have failed. After all if he wants peace he could have supported Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed , Or the current leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.

In conclusion to this article I leave you with this famous saying "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight"