Somali religious scholars have called the ongoing war against terrorism “righteous.”
They made this call on Thursday the last day of the Somali Religious Scholars Conference in Mogadishu.
The scholars agreed that Al-Shabaab and Daesh militants are Kharijites.
Furthermore, they added that the counterterrorism operations that the Somali government carries out jointly with local communities are a holy war or “jihad.”
The four-day conference ended on January 26.