Somalia Problems Occasioned By Absence ‎Of Islamic Shari'ah - Islamic Body‎

Mogadishu, Sept 30, 2005 (BBC Monitoring/Shabeelle) – The [Muslim] National Union and Salvation Council of Somalia today pledged to hold a reconciliation conference inside the country, aimed at setting up an Islamic state.

During a five-day conference in Mogadishu, where the council had invited people from all walks of life and various Somali regions, the organizers issued a communiqué containing 14 points: they include holding of a Somali reconciliation conference inside the country while focusing on problems caused by foreign-sponsored conferences, urging people to take a leaf out of the successful reconciliation results produced by [previous] internal conferences such as those held in Boorame [Somaliland], Garoowe [Puntland] and other places.

The council urged Somalis living in and outside the country not to lose hope in getting a solution to the Somali problems, and wherever they lived, should put concerted efforts to realize that, one day, Somalia would get an Islamic government.

The conference, which is the first to be held by the Union and Salvation Council of Somalia, appealed to the international community, particularly the Arab states, to play a crucial role in restoring peace and stability in Somalia, arguing that the country's 14 year-old problems have been occasioned by the absence of Islamic shari'ah. It called upon the public to resort to the book of Allah in order to find a lasting solution.

Concluding the conference, the council officials said they were planning to set up an Islamic state, without which they said peace would not be realized in Somalia . [Passage omitted]

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