Al shabab recruits 150 Women fighters in Kismaayo

[Saalax]

Hundreds of Somali women are recruited and trained in the southern port city of Kismayo by the al-Shabaab, a Somali insurgent faction embracing a radical form of Islam similar to the harsh, conservative brand practiced by Afghanistan's Taliban regime, Radio Garowe Reports.

 

Garowe Online received reports that indicate the trainers which were approximately 150 soldiers were matching in the street of Kismayo with AK47 on Saturday.

 

“The recruiters were teenagers who need to be trained more, so that they participate fighting against our enemies [AMISOM] because every Muslim is must join the jihad [holy war],” said Al-Shabaab leader in Kismayo, Sheikh Hassan Yaqub.

 

Al-Shabbab has increased its territorial control to much of central and southern Somalia and is stepping up recruitment of foreign jihadists.

 

The UN reported that the extremist Islamist group generally doesn't recruit girls for combat roles, but does use them to carry out tasks like cooking, cleaning, transporting detonators, and collecting intelligence. The report identified an al-Shabaab training camp near the southern city of Kismayo, where about 120 girls learned intelligence-gathering techniques and how to transport explosives and drive. Some of the girls were also recruited to marry the male fighters.

 

The Horn of Africa nation is turning out to be an al-Qaeda safe haven, with terrorist-linked groups like al-Shabaab controlling large swaths of southern and central regions and waging deadly insurgency against the UN-backed Somali government. Along with other insurgent groups such as Hisbul Islam, al-Shabaab has trapped the country's UN- and U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government into a small part of Mogadishu, the Somali capital.

[Qodax Qorax]

Self exploding Somali women. that is new to me.

 

wonder what Al Shabaab supporter Che thinks of this news?

[Ismalura]

I thought women we supposed to stay at home since they are 'naaqusaatul caqli wa diin'... ****** people !

[Jacpher]

^lol@naaqusaatul caqli wa diin'... ****** people !

 

LOL. Ismalura: women staying at home has nothing to do with naaqisaatul-caqli wa diin. By the way, it's hadeeth not AS thing. Nothing to do with AS or the status of women in Islam either. I don't want to say the obvious, but women and men are equal Alle diintiisa and AS have little regard for diinta.

 

If this piece is genuine, it shows the distance AS goes to satisfy their thirst for blood and hunger for power and control. AS brought many horrible things to Somalia and recruiting young girls to a never ending dagaal-sokeeye.

[Ismalura]

I know it is part of a hadith that is usually taken out of context by people like al shabaab and misused to explain that women are of less value than men. And women staying at home according to Alshabaab and the like has everything to do with 'naqusatul cilmi wa diin' and 'arijalu qawamuuna' both of which are taken out context.

I said this because it is funny to see how flexible their principles are and how they can't even stand by one of their most conservative views.

These people are nothing but a curse ilaahey dadka ha ka qabtee.