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SOMALIA: Abu Mansur asks Islamic scholars to correct Al Shabaab
7 Dec 7, 2011 - 1:36:55 PM
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BAIDOA Somalia Dec, 8 2011 (Garowe Online)- Sheikh Mukhtar Ali (Abu Mansur), a senior Al-Shabaab leader is urging Islamic scholars in Somalia, to correct Al Shabaab whenever they committed errors. He said this would be vital in ending problems in Southern Somalia.
Abu Mansur said that the role of Islamic scholars is to guide the society to correctness, adding that the Al Shabaab always stands to be corrected whenever at fault.
“We are all humans we make mistakes” Abu Mansur said. “We are requesting the Islamic scholars to correct us when we go wrong and support us when we are right”.
In the same statement made at Baidoa (Bay and Bakol region) , the former Al Shabaab Spokesman asked the scholars not to be afraid of the Al Shabaab. He beseeched Al Shabaab members to heed the advice from the religious scholars, saying that the duty of the scholars was to advise society and speak out on any wrongs inflicted upon their societies.
The statement comes at a time when Islamic scholars are increasingly becoming targets of what most people and analysts believe to be “terrorist related assassination”. Last Sunday Dr. Ahmed Hajji Abdirahman - a prominent Islamic scholar- was killed as he left a mosque in Bossaso, the commercial capital of Puntland.
Similarly, the statement from Abu Mansur coincides with a seven day meeting held in Baidoa, resulting in the renaming of Al Shabaab.
GAROWEONLINE
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