Zakaryya Abdelhady on Sharia in Somalia

Video: Somalia’s religious police

 

 
 

Al-Shabab’s crackdown
called into question

 
 

The aim of the the armed group al-Shabab is to impose strict Islamic law across Somalia.

In the cities they already control, everything deemed un-Islamic has been quickly destroyed.

Zakaryya Abdelhady, a professor of Islamic thought and culture at Qatar University in Doha, discusses sharia and al-Shabab’s actions.