Jangan sampai Ngikhwanul Musliminnya PKS punya kesempatan dan kekuatan untuk melakukan pemaksaan kehendak dengan kekuatannya di Indonesia seperti yang terjadi di Somalia dengan dalih menerapkan Islamic Court (Syariat Islam).
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=111907&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21 Ousted Somalia militia vows to retake port from Islamists Published: Monday, 9 October, 2006, 09:51 AM Doha Time *KISMAYO:* A militia faction that controlled Somalia's port of Kismayo until it was seized by Islamists last month vowed yesterday to recapture the city, encouraged by a series of protests against the new leadership. Abdullahi Ismail, the new commander of the Juba Valley Alliance, an independent authority which controlled Kismayo before the Islamists took it over on September 25, said the protests that have rocked the town showed the Islamists were not wanted. "We are going to soon recapture Kismayo," Ismail told Mogadishu's Simba FM radio station, adding that his forces would first target the smaller town of Buale, also controlled by the Islamists near Kismayo. Residents there said the town was tense. The Islamists have rapidly expanded their grip in Somalia since they captured the capital Mogadishu in June, leaving the interim government increasingly isolated in the small southern provincial town of Baidoa. But their capture last month of Kismayo, Somalia's third largest city, has been met with protests. The latest on Friday ended with the arrest of 100 people after Islamist forces shot in the air. The protesters said they were against a new administration set up by the Islamists, which they said had no fair representation of various clans. Demonstrators have also protested against the Islamists' ban on cinema and the popular leafy stimulant khat, usually traded by women and mostly chewed by men in Somalia. "The Islamists said that Kismayo residents had invited them," Ismail said. "If that is the case, why are people protesting every night?" There was no immediate comment from the Islamists, but they have in the past described organisers of the protests as political trouble-makers. Ismail is an ally of Colonel Abdikadir Adan Shire, also known as Barre Hiraale, now the defence minister in Somalia's fragile interim government. He said Hiraale, who was the leader of the Juba Valley Alliance until a split in the group when some fighters gave up weapons to the Islamists, backed the Kismayo recapture plan. Fears of renewed fighting around Kismayo has forced more than 2,000 Somalis to flee across the border to Kenya over the last few days, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. Some 30,000 people from Somalia have sought refuge in Kenya since the beginning of the year. The UN agency said their continued arrival could soon overwhelm refugee camps. The leader of the Islamists, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, yesterday returned to Mogadishu from a trip to Dubai and met the Italian envoy for Somalia Mario Raffaelli to discuss the next peace meeting with the government in Khartoum due on October 30. Ahmed, who said he had also met parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan in Dubai, said his movement had explained to the envoy the reasons behind its opposition to the deployment of peacekeepers into Somalia which the interim government wants. Reuters http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=111719&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21 Somalians protest against Islamists Published: Sunday, 8 October, 2006, 11:09 AM Doha Time *MOGADISHU:* Somalia's powerful Islamist movement ordered the partial closure yesterday of the border with neighbouring Ethiopia, accusing Ethiopian troops of invading, mining and shelling Somali territory. As tension soared anew, fuelling fears of large-scale conflict, the Islamists shut border crossings in Somalia's central Hiran region for "national security reasons" and put down a fresh protest against them in the south. "The border with Ethiopia is closed in the Hiran region for national security reasons," said deputy regional security chief Sheikh Hussein Mohamed Gagale. "Ethiopian soldiers are conducting military manoeuvres around Sarirale village, which is inside Somali territory," he told Mogadishu's Simba radio, noting that Sarirale is about 45km from the border. "They also planted landmines around the border areas," Gagale said. "The mines could kill our people and animals so we have taken the decision to block the border." As it has done in the past, most recently on Thursday when the Islamists accused Ethiopian forces of shelling the nearby border town of Beledweyne and sending in thousands of troops, Addis Ababa immediately denied the claims. "These are false allegations," foreign ministry spokesman Solomon Abebe said in Addis Ababa. "The extremists try to use Ethiopia as a cover to hide the real motives behind the curtain." He repeated denials that any Ethiopian troops were in or near Beledweyne. Beledweyne is about 90km from the Ethiopian border and 300km north of Mogadishu, which the Islamists seized from warlords in June and have used as a base for rapid expansion. Residents of Beledweyne urged Ethiopians to stay away from Somali affairs, but expressed fears that the Islamic militia cannot enforce the closure. "Ethiopians do not like Somalia to be peaceful, they either support a warlord in the area or create inter-clan tensions," said Hawa Aden, a mother of six. "Maybe Allah did not create Ethiopia and Somalia to live peacefully." "Before the Islamic courts came here, there were no border tensions," said Khalif Ahmed, apparently supporting the alleged Ethiopian incursions. "I really disagree with the courts." In the key southern port of Kismayo, residents and officials said Islamist gunmen had opened fire and arrested nearly 100 people in the early yesterday as they put down a new protest against their seizure of the town last month. Heavily armed gunmen fired into the air to disperse several hundred chanting demonstrators who burned tires and threw stones to show their opposition to the taking of the port by the Islamists on September 24, they said. "I was among the protestors when the Islamic gunmen shot at us," said organiser Farhan Ahmed. "Fortunately, no one was hurt, but everybody was shocked." Another organiser, Hassan Ahmed Abdullahi, said 97 people had been detained for "exercising their right to oppose an unwanted administration". Islamist officials confirmed they had broken up what they described as a "violent and unlicensed demonstration" but declined to say how many people had been arrested. The protest was the fourth against the Islamists since they seized the town, about 500km south of Mogadishu, after a local militia allied to the transitional government fled. Many Kismayo residents are chafing under new restrictions imposed by the Islamists who are enforcing a strict brand of Sharia law. UNHCR reported the flow of people crossing the border into Kenya had jumped from an average of 300 to 400 a day. The fall of Kismayo dealt a new blow to the government, based in Baidoa, and its hopes for deployment of the peacekeeping force to shore up its limited authority. The Islamists say they took Kismayo to prevent such a force from landing there. AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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