Somalia: Christian in Somalia Who Refused to Wear Veil is Killed

— COMPASS Direct News reports:

— “Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Christian source in Somalia.”

— “Members of the comparatively ‘moderate’ Suna Waljameca group killed Amina Muse Ali, 45, on Oct. 19 at 9:30 p.m. in her home in Galkayo, in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland region, said the source who requested anonymity for security reasons.”

— “Ali had told Christian leaders that she had received several threats from members of Suna Waljameca for not wearing a veil, symbolic of adherence to Islam. She had said members of the group had long monitored her movements because they suspected she was a Christian.”

— “The source said Ali had called him on Oct. 4 saying, ‘My life is in danger. I am warned of dire consequences if I continue to live without putting on the veil. I need prayers from the fellowship.'”

— “‘I was shocked beyond words when I received the news that she had been shot dead,” the source in Somalia told Compass by telephone. ‘I wished I could have recalled her to my location. We have lost a long-serving Christian.'”

— “Ali had come to Galkayo from Jilib, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Kismayo, in 2007. She arrived in Puntland at the invitation of a close friend, Saynab Warsame of the Darod clan, when the extremist group al Shabaab invaded Kismayo, the source said. Warsame was born in Kismayo and had lived in Jilib but moved to Puntland when war broke out in 1991.”