Is there anyone who is not standing in line?
I know the title sounds cynical, but really people, when does it stop? I mean, when does the whole ‘killing Jews’ thingie ever get too old? Apparently never. Ynet News is reporting that an extremist Somalian group is threatening to carry out attacks against the Israelis for the imaginary attacks commited against the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
A militant Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda has for the first time threatened to attack Israel, on the backdrop of reports that the Jewish state is carrying out excavations in east Jerusalem, the CNN network reported Sunday.
According to the report, the al-Shabab rebel group, which is fighting to control the east African country, accused Israel of “starting to destroy” the al-Aqsa Mosque. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” said Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, a prominent al-Shabab commander.
Abu Mansur’s threat was part of a series of fiery sermons delivered after Friday prayers in Baidoa in southwest Somalia, CNN said. Other leaders of the group also threatened Israel, the first time the group is known to have done so. “We will transfer and expand our fighting in the Middle East so we can defend al-Aqsa Mosque from the Israelis,” al-Shabab commander Abdifatah Aweys Abu Hamza said in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
According to the report, it is not clear whether al-Shabab has the capacity to carry out its threats against Israel, but international organizations have already warned that the group should be taken seriously. We should not underestimate the capacity of Al-Shabab,” said Rashid Abdi of the International Crisis Group. “This is a deadly organization, a formidable foe.”
It may be a deadly organization and a formibable foe but I say – get in line and make it orderly.
