Originally Posted by
Wadaad
al Shabaab's 'philosophy' is un-Somali. They are salafists with an ideology developed in a land full of shia and other sects...Somalis were always sunni Muslims under the shafi'ite madhab, like Yemen, Indonesia, Kurdistan, Upper Egypt, and the Hejaz before the wahabi saud took it.
Just like I dont like western imposed idealogies force-fed into our people (Mao had to kill 60 million chinese to 'force feed' western marxism into his people). Idealogies are liek clothes, if you are fat, dont put skinny jeans on. Shabaabism is a Saudi solution to a Saudi problem, it has no help for Somalia, it will be like a fat man putting skinny jeans.
Boko Haraam though salafist aswell, is a move by Nigerians for Nigerians, and the foundation principle is similar to mine..."Remove negative foreign/alien ideas". Yes they have alot of salafis in their rank, but Boko Haram are not saudi wannabes...while shabab are. And I never respect or admire lapdogs.