We told you the other day that Islamists had stoned to death a 13-year-old girl in Somalia who had been gang-raped. Now comes a related story that the Muslim terrorist group involved is being funded by Somali refugees living in Great Britain.
Sums thought to be totalling tens of thousands of pounds a week are being sent to the Shabaab militia, a fundamentalist Islamic group blamed for sentencing a 13-year-old girl to be stoned to death in the southern city of Kismayo.
The article in the Telegraph yesterday goes on:
The brutal punishment was part of the Taliban-style Islamic regime imposed on the city by the Shabaab, who are designated as a terrorist group by the United States and whose leadership was the target of American missile strikes earlier this year.
A London-based Somali community leader has claimed that much of their funding is coming from the country’s diaspora in Britain, many of whom support the groups’ fierce guerrilla war against Somalia’s long-time enemy Ethiopia, which invaded in January 2007.
None of this surprised me. I had read recently, but didn’t save the link that US Somalis have little money because so much of it (possibly up to a billion US dollars) has left the US in the form of remittances to Somalia.