I’ve been trying to stay away from the mess in Somalia unless it is directly related to our Somali refugees, but this story caught my eye. It’s a Reuters story entitled, ‘Somali Islamists order teenagers’ hands, legs amputated’ and demonstrates what Shariah law is all about. I wonder if our Minnesota-raised Somali teens who went off to fight with al-Shabaab fully understood what Shariah law means. One of those Minnesota teens we are are told was already executed, here.
MOGADISHU, June 22 (Reuters) – Somali’s al Shabaab insurgents sentenced four teenagers on Monday to each have a hand and a leg amputated as punishment for robbery in a show of power by the hardline Islamists in a Mogadishu stronghold.
It would be the first such double amputation carried out by the rebels, who follow strict sharia law in the parts of south Somalia that they control.
Al Shabaab — whose ranks are swelled by foreign jihadists and is seen by Western security services as a proxy for al Qaeda in Somalia — has carried out executions, floggings and single-limb amputations before, mainly in south Kismayu port.
It is battling the government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed for control of Mogadishu, and is also fighting a government-allied moderate Islamist militia in the provinces.
“Today, the Islamic court sentences these four men who carried out robberies to have their opposite hand and leg amputated,” said Sheikh Abdul Haq, judge of the sharia court in the al Shabaab-held Suqa Holaha area of the Somali capital.
“They robbed mobile phones and people’s belongings.”
Just a reminder, al-Shabaab says they want a worldwide caliphate where everyone lives under Shariah law. What are they going to do for a welfare system if they have a worldwide caliphate and they can’t send their double amputees off as refugees to live in Sweden, Great Britain, Canada or the US?
For new readers: The US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.