Sheikh Fu'ad Mohamed Khalaf Shongole, the chief of awareness raising of al-Shabaab, the radical Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, has insisted that unmarried girls should join the Jihad (holy war) against the pro-government forces.
Addressing a congregation at the weekend at a mosque at Eelasha Biyaha, a large settlement south of Mogadishu where thousands of people who fled the wars in Mogadishu found refuge, Sheikh Shongole ordered parents to inspire the girls to fight for the Islamist movement.
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