ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the activity of Saudi charities and analyzes Saudi Arabia's policy. The roots of the Islamic faith in Horn of Africa and Somalia are over 1000 years old. Islamic faith in Somalia is one of the basic identities including class, race, and location of origin, which cut across clan lines. The differences between Somalia's Islamist movements were mainly doctrinal: Traditionalists, Reformists, Modernists, Salafis, Jihadists and others. Harakat Al-Islah has always been suspected by Somali and foreign security services of involvement in radicalism and association with Al-Itihad. Ahlu Sunna wal Jama'a is another modern Islamist group created in 1991 as an offshoot from Majma to counter the influence of the most radical Islamist trends. The Salafiyya Jadiida is best exemplified by Sheikh Ali Wajis, an example of a prominent Salafiideologue who has gone from supporting and briefly leading Al Itihad to opposing its violent dogmatic theology.
