Al-Shabaab Research Paper

Throughout the 21st century Somali terrorists have terrorized the land and sea of the horn of Africa. Somalia is a country that has been plagued with civil war since 1986. In Somalia right now there are two major Islamic terrorist groups. Theses groups are known as Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. From what these terrorist groups have done, Somalia is ;left with close to nothing to build it back up. Somalia cannot overcome this issue of terrorism because of Al-Shabaab, terrorists taking over the nation, and whole lot of national violence.
Somalia has one of the most lethal terrorist groups in Africa. They are known all around the world as Al-Shabaab.. “Al-Shabaab is a Somali group that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in March 2008. It wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the Council on Foreign Relations” (Yang). Al-Shabaab is a Islamic terrorist group that impose strict Islamic laws, which is called Shariah. Somalia adopted the law of Shariah in 2009 in hope to reduce all violence in the Islamic terrorist groups. Al-Shabaab uses violence to control the southern region of Somalia. Al-Shabaab is a big terrorist group that have a estimated amount of 1,000 …show more content…
Al-Shabaab simply cannot be stopped, and if Al-Shabaab cannot be stopped they are going to grow much bigger. The only reason Al-Shabaab came to Somalia was because Somalia's government was weak. Since Somalia was so week Al-Shabaab took advantage of that and took over Somalia's major cities. Their are attacks almost every week involving terrorists, and the problem is, there is no one to stop all of these attacks.As of now Somalia has no where to go, and this issue of terrorism in Somalia is only going to get worse. Somalia needs to get a stop to this now, and if Somalia does not make a stop to this Somalia will be long