[h4]Boy, I bet Pat Robertson is wetting his pants. How dare their God tell them to go to war- that's Pat's exclusive territory![/h4]
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][h4]Somali Islamists say told by God to fight Ethiopia[/h4] [div class="timestamp"]Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:44 PM BST[img id="ArticleHeadline_IPSegment" title="148" src="vny!://i.today.reuters.co.uk/images/spacer.gif" alt="148" style="border-width: 0px; height: 10px; width: 4px;"]
By Guled Mohamed[/div] [input value="13" name="CurrentSize" id="CurrentSize" type="hidden"] MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamists whipped up religious fervour against Ethiopia on Monday, telling demonstrators God had commanded that they fight troops sent into the country by Addis Ababa to oppose their advance.[/p]"We are telling Ethiopia that we are ready to die," said Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a senior Islamist in charge of defence.[/p][div class="pullQuote"][a href="jvascript:commonPopup%28%27/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=worldNews&imageID=2006-07-24T144004Z_01_L24902902_RTRUKOP_0_PICTURE0.xml%27,%20560,%20535,%201%29"][img]vny!://i.today.reuters.co.uk/misc/genImage.aspx?uri=2006-07-24T144004Z_01_L24902902_RTRUKOP_2_PICTURE0.jpg&resize=w160" alt="" style="margin-bottom: 8px;" border="0" width="160"][/a][/div]"We've been commanded by God to fight you," he said at a rally of hundreds of mostly young men and a few veiled women at a football stadium in the Islamist-controlled capital. [/p] [/p]The demonstrators set fire to an Ethiopian flag to cries of "God is great!"
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Yeah, God is so great he's gonna start a war. Wonderful.