Al-Ittihaad al-Islami

AIAI

2/8/2007

Al-Ittihaad al-Islami, or Islamic Unity, is a fundamentalist religious organization trying to create an Islamic theocracy in northeastern Africa. They have been known to terrorize civilians in Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya.

AIAI was originally created to overthrow Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. But when his 22-year authoritarian regime was deposed in a 1991 coup, Islamic Unity terrorist operations expanded significantly, making them a barometer of what would happen in Iraq.

AIAI was particularly ruthless when it came to gaining control of the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, territory which borders on northern Somalia. This escalation in terror helped them impose Sharia Law on their victims and recruit substantially more jihadists. It was during this period that Islamic Unity gained the attention of al-Qaeda. Then in a show of Islamic unity, these Somali Muslims assisted the more recognizable Islamic club in their 1998 terrorist bombings of American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Those blasts left hundreds dead and thousands burned and mutilated, including many U.S. citizens.

Then, after having murdered a sufficient number of Americans, Africans, and Europeans to be elected onto Muhammad's All Star Team, AIAI changed their focus to the imposition of repressive Sharia Law in the region and similarly to eradicate all traces of competitive religious and political doctrines..

As is the case with most Islamic terrorist organizations, Islamic Unity was founded and led by an Islamic scholar. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who had directed the Islamic Courts Union, still serves as the spiritual leader of the AIAI. Also interesting is that after Sheikh Aweys changed his focus from deposing a Somali warlord to expanding the fiefdom of his successor, the Islamic Unity Group became the official militia of the Somalia state.

Today, Aweys is on the UN's list of al-Qaeda associates. Likewise, the always-ignorant and immoral United States State Department accuses Aweys of having ties to al-Qaeda as opposed to Islam.

In his religious duties, Aweys runs a number of mujahideen training camps in Somalia. On the political side, the Sheikh remains focused on establishing Islamic courts, making sure that all Somalis suffer the hardships of poverty, repression, ignorance, and totalitarian rule. He has done such a fine job, Aweys was appointed Secretary General of the Sharia Implementation Council, a group established to unify all of Somalia under Islamic law and rule.

In this capacity, Aweys declared jihad against all foreigners in Somalia in October 2005. With no infidels left to provoke jihadists hatred, Aweys keeps passions inflamed by insisting that Islam is under attack. Otherwise, how would he explain the fact that everything Islam has touched is destroyed?