Comments on: Somalia Sufi forces organize to fight th… http://talkislam.info/2009/11/05/somalia-sufi-forces-organize-to-fight-th/ a crescent waxing eloquent Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:56:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AA http://talkislam.info/2009/11/05/somalia-sufi-forces-organize-to-fight-th/#comment-17731 AA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:49 +0000 http://talkislam.info/2009/11/05/somalia-sufi-forces-organize-to-fight-th/#comment-17731 Something to think about when group calling itself Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa are Sufis! Something to think about when group calling itself Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa are Sufis!

]]> By: Willow http://talkislam.info/2009/11/05/somalia-sufi-forces-organize-to-fight-th/#comment-17717 Willow Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:02:01 +0000 http://talkislam.info/2009/11/05/somalia-sufi-forces-organize-to-fight-th/#comment-17717 Which is great and all, but I can't help observing that Somalia was not renowned for its treatment of women *before* the Shabab took over either. (All the articles posted about Somalia lately have focused on the Shabab's outrageous/lewd demands on women's dress.) Assuming this article is correct in saying most Somalis are Sufi, then there were Sufis practicing extreme forms of FGM and marrying off prepubescent girls/preventing girls from being educated long before the Shabab came along. Again, ontological differences, not practical ones. The first man interviewed in this article sounds much more concerned about the desecration of shrines than about social issues. Which is great and all, but I can’t help observing that Somalia was not renowned for its treatment of women *before* the Shabab took over either. (All the articles posted about Somalia lately have focused on the Shabab’s outrageous/lewd demands on women’s dress.) Assuming this article is correct in saying most Somalis are Sufi, then there were Sufis practicing extreme forms of FGM and marrying off prepubescent girls/preventing girls from being educated long before the Shabab came along.

Again, ontological differences, not practical ones. The first man interviewed in this article sounds much more concerned about the desecration of shrines than about social issues.

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