Ahmed Abdi Godane, Audio message, June 24, 2010

Author

Ahmed Abdi Godane

Date

Jun. 24, 2010

Name of Author

Ahmed Abdi Godane AKA Mukhtar Abu Zubair

Quote URL

http://af.reuters.com/article/idAFJOE65N0TX20100624

Body

"The reality is that democracy is something Allah made unlawful, and someone else cannot make it lawful...If people who are Muslims, who declare the name of Allah, argue that they are real Muslims but forget Allah's message, hang or arrest them, kill them by using ammunition...If people fight ... till everyone is killed, that is much easier than legalising the devil's principles such as constitutions or making a ruler who governs against Allah's laws." (Audio message) Ali Noor, Hussein. "Somali Rebel Leader Urges Fight against Democracy." Reuters, June 24, 2010, http://af.reuters.com/article/idAFJOE65N0TX20100624.

Rhetoric Category

Pro-Islamism

Pro-Violence

Threat

Al-Shabaab

Location: Eisenhower Theater

Tuesday January 27, 2026 7:30p.m.

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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.

Ahmed Abdi Godane, Audio message, June 24, 2010

Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust