Thursday, October 30, 2008
Speaking during a press conference on Thursday, the spokesman of the non-militant group Sheik Abdulkadeer Sheik Mohamed Sheik Somow said the “attacks were not in accordance with Islamic religion.”
As old clerics of Somalia we condemn such unwanted and anti-Islam habits. Islam does allow the killing of innocents, he added.
One of the most well known Somali clerics urged all Somali people not to protect "those who want to deteriorate the already troubled situation in Somalia."
“Puntland and Somaliland were the only territories that have been peaceful compared to south-central Somalia. We are totally against what happened yesterday in Hargeysa (northwest) and Bossasso (northeast),” the non-militant cleric insisted.
Sheik Somow also accused Puntland Intelligence service of wounding and arresting Sheik Mohamed Ismail on Wednesday, hours after two suicide explosions hit two security compounds in Bossaso at about 1505km north west of Mogadishu. Sheik Mohamed Ismail is a non-militant preacher in Puntland.
“This is a very big mistake against Islam, so we are calling on the Puntland intelligence service to free Sheik Mohamed Ismail and compensate him” he said once again.
US under secretary of state for African affairs Jendayi Frazer accused Al Shabab, an extremist group fighting in Somalia, of being responsible for Wednesday’s suicides attacks.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Source: APA, Oct 30, 2008