They are already telling their side of the story. They announced their rebellion, and they announced the government to be apostate because they don't apply the shariah, then when the government did they were the ones who announced that fighting must continue because they "voted" for Shariah instead of forcing it (!!!), then they were happily reporting the deaths of what they called "kafirs and murtaddeen" referring to soldiers, police officers, and civilians who are men, women and even children who simply did not provide immediate support and rebel with them, or just happened to be shot in the middle of fighting and then they came up with fabricated statements that collateral casualties are permissible in Islam.
What they themselves did and proudly announced by themselves are stated crimes in Islam:
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Hadith narrated by Ibn Yaman and authenticated in both Bukhary and Muslim: "I heard the prophet -pbuh- say "There will come rulers after me who will not guide by my guidance and will not apply my Sunnah and Shariah, yet men will rise against them with hearts of devils in bodies of human" I asked "What should I do o'prophet if I witness such a thing?" the prophet replied "Maintain obedience, if the ruler beats your back and takes your wealth maintain obedience to the ruler!"
In another hadith narrated by muslim: "Those who take their hand out of the sultan's rulership and die, die the death of Jahiliya (non-Islam)"
In a third: "The best of your rulers you will like them and they will like you, you will pray for them and they you, and the worst of your rulers you will dispise them and they you, and you will pray for calamities upon them and they you" companions asked "O'prophet shouldn't we revolt against them" and the prophet replied "NO! As long as they hold your prayer. No as long as they hold your prayer"
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The prophet said: "I was ordered (by Allah) to fight until people declared God is one, and held the prayers and paid the zakat, whomever does their blood and property is sealed and haram"
Sahih Al-Bukhary clearly shows that the statement and practice of the prophet and companions and Guided Kholafaa Rashidoon after him were that whomever does those is muslim and cannot be pronounced apostate even if he ignores other rulings or obligations: جُعِلَتْ غَايَة الْمُقَاتَلَة وُجُود مَا ذُكِرَ , فَمُقْتَضَاهُ أَنَّ مَنْ شَهِدَ وَأَقَامَ وَآتَى عُصِمَ دَمه وَلَوْ جَحَدَ بَاقِيَ الْأَحْكَام
And of course killing innocent civilians is the biggest of crimes, which goes against rules of even Jihad against self-declared hostile non-muslims.
This has been addressed in other posts on the forum previously and also is a settled consensus matter amongst proper scholars of all schools of methodology.
The beliefs of Ashabab are part of the Khawaarij deviant sect, they have faith and beliefs that are not on the Sunnah, such as that major sins wipe out all good deeds and take a person out of Islam, and that qital (fighting) is permissible without a ruler leading them.
For further reading, please check:
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I've heard of these hadith before but do they apply if the leader brings foreign troops into the country?
Would this apply in reference to the ethiopians who were in somalia before or the situation in afghanistan today?
Im no supporter of alshabab or their actions. I'm just asking from a theological standpoint.
salam
