Saturday, May 2, 2009

Somalia: Opposition leader says world does not want Somali Islamic state

Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys , the leader of the Somali opposition said Saturday that the world does not want a Somali Islamic state.

Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys said that the world separated Somalia into many different parts adding that there had been an Islamic government of Somalia which was collapsed before hundred years ago.

“The world does not allow for Somalia to have an Islamic government at the current and there was no body who achieved that. Even if Somalia forms Islamic administration, it is collapsed and divided into different parts because there was an Islamic government of Somalia that was collapsed before 100 years ago,” Sheik Aweys said.

Sheik Aweys said that the United Islamic Courts were controlling parts of the country for six months and achieved to restore relative peace in the south and central Somali saying that they had reopened Mogadishu seaport and the international airport of Somalia adding that they were conducted a military steps and separated where they were expecting support.

The statement of the Islamist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys comes as the Somali transitional parliamentarians recently approved the Sharia law to be ruled in the country.


amsomalia@mareeg.com

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