SOMALI ISLAMISTS EXECUTE CHRISTIAN CONVERT
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
WASHINGTON D.C. (ANS) July 18, 2010 — A human rights organization has learned that members of the Al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, publicly executed a Christian convert from Islam.
The execution occurred in Hudur district, Somalia on July 1.
Family of 17-Year-Old Somali Girl Abuses Her for Leaving Islam
Young Christian beaten and shackled to tree.
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 15 (CDN) — The Muslim parents of a 17-year-old Somali girl who converted to Christianity severely beat her for leaving Islam and have regularly shackled her to a tree at their home for more than a month, Christian sources said.
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NAIROBI, 8 April 2010 (IRIN) - Ahmed, a 35-year-old pastoralist, was watching over a herd of cows on the outskirts of Hagar town in Somalia's southern Juba valley when militiamen from Al-Shabab, the Islamist insurgent group that controls the area, demanded a "zaka", or tithe. His refusal led to a violent confrontation that left him crippled for life. Ahmed, now in a refugee camp in Kenya, recounted his ordeal by telephone, as his sister, who described him as depressed and traumatized, held the handset:
Islamic extremists in somalia kill church leader, torch home
Al Shabaab militants execute pastor; government-aligned Islamists burn house containing Bible.
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 24 (CDN) Islamic militants in Somalia tracked down an underground church leader who had previously escaped a kidnapping attempt and killed him last week, Christian sources said.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Christian Science Monitor
Inside Al Shabab: How the Somalia militant group rules through fear
As the Somalia government fends off militant group Al Shabab, the Al Qaeda-linked insurgency shows its power through intimidation of a whistle-blower.
PUSH FOR ISLAMIC COURTS IN KENYA ALARMS CHRISTIANS
Emergence of Somali-related Islamic extremists puts authorities on high alert.
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 11 (CDN) — A constitutional battle to expand the scope of Islamic courts in Kenya threatens to ignite religious tensions at a time when authorities are on high alert against Muslim extremists with ties to Somalia.
Somali Islamists al-Shabab 'join al-Qaeda fight'
BBC news, Monday, 1 February 2010
Somali Islamist rebel group al-Shabab has confirmed for the first time that its fighters are aligned with al-Qaeda's global militant campaign.
Islamic Militants in Somalia Murder Christian Leader
Al Shabaab extremists threaten widow of slain pastor of underground church.
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 26 (CDN) — Islamic extremists shot the leader of an underground church to death outside the capital city of Somalia this month and have threatened to kill his wife, his tearful widow told Compass.
UK STUDENTS RECRUITED FOR SOMALI JIHAD
YOUNG BRITISH MUSLIMS ARE JOINING A TERROR GROUP LINKED TO AL-QAEDA THAT IS BLAMED FOR HUNDREDS OF DEATHS IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY
From The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010
Richard Kerbaj
STUDENTS from some of Britain’s top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.
Almost a dozen young British Muslims, including a female medical researcher, are said recently to have joined Al-Shabaab, an extremist rebel organisation blamed for hundreds of deaths in the east African state.
Somali man accused of trying to kill Kurt
Westergaard linked to Clinton murder plot
The Times, January 4, 2010.
Tim Reid
A Somali man accused of trying to kill a Danish cartoonist whose images of the Prophet Muhammad enraged Muslims in 2005 was charged with two counts of attempted murder.
Danish police shot and wounded the 28-year-old man after he broke into Kurt Westergaard’s home in Aarhus armed with an axe and a knife.
COPTIC PRIEST FEARLESSLY SPREADING GOD'S WORD
By Gary Lane
CBN News Senior International Correspondent
Friday, December 11, 2009
Egyptian evangelist Father Zakaria Botros is one of the most controversial figures in the Middle East. He's a born again Coptic priest who's led thousands of Muslims to Christ via the Internet and television-- and militant Muslims want him dead because of that.