Al-Shabaab has issued a stern warning to Kenya; in a 37-minute long audio message recorded by Al-Shabaab’s leader and released by Al-Shabaab’s media wing. The leaders send scary threats to Kenya and offered his condolences to Kenyan Muslims who have been affected by recent crackdown against Kenyan Muslims and Somalis in particular.
Abu Zubayr, leader of the Al-Qaeda linked group said in the recording, “Do not simply tolerate the deaths of your scholars, violation of your mosques sanctity & the plundering of your wealth. Do not stand by idly so that the historical massacres that were perpetrated against you do not return.”
After outlining what he deemed as “oppression against Muslims”, the militant leader urged Kenyan Muslims to carry arms and to shun courts and parliaments, indicating that only the mighty are respected. “Don’t waste your time in front of their courts and pleading to their parliaments, for they do not respect except the powerful ones, and they do not comprehend any language except that of the gun” said Abu Zubayr in the message who accompanied the request for armed struggle with a chilling reminder & threat of Westgate-like attacks saying: “And the Westgate operation if not far off from you!”.
The audio glamorizes and eulogizes Muslim clerics who were believed to be assassinated by Kenyan anti-terror units, including the late clerics Abubakr “Makaburi” Sharif and Aboud Rogo who were assassinated in Mombasa.
The video features a clip where Makaburi predicts that he’ll be killed at the hands of Kenyan forces. “Follow the path of your Mujahideen scholars who openly claimed the truth & who were murdered by the Kenyan Special Forces” says Abu Zubayr directing his message towards Kenyan Muslim youth.
Information from ~ Harar24 News
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