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Politics : The Truth About Islam

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To: Triffin who wrote (2107)10/8/2006 9:21:49 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) of 20106
 
I would take issue with the word "tamed" as it is as lawless now as ever......

Islam has tamed a lawless Somalia, but is it raising an African Taliban?
telegraph ^ | 08/10/2006 | Colin Freeman in Mogadishu

telegraph.co.uk

As a senior drill officer for Somalia's new Islamic army, Col Abukar Sheikh Mohamed is proud to have recruited some of the unholiest warriors ever to grace a parade ground.

Marching over the sandy strip in front of him are former members of Mogadishu's notorious warlord militias, the drug-crazed freelance killers, robbers and rapists who have brought anarchy to the capital for the past 16 years.

Mogadishu: Once named the Bermuda Triangle as so many vanished

Now, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a new religious movement which drove out the warlords two months ago, is "rehabilitating" them to defend the land that they so spectacularly destroyed.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ....
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