The islamic courts included every islamic sect from Al-sunnah wajamah to say the more radical al-shbaab. It also included businman, lawyers, civil servants, doctors, lecturers, the average somali from all sorts of clans. It worked, it was accepte by the majority and even in Mogadishu. Village after village and tow after town joined the islamic courts by opening their own court in their own village and declaring to be part of the Org.
The problem we hve today is that khawrij Al-shabaab after realising that their voice was not that strong within the courts decided to break away. Killing other islamist and even murdering islamic court sheikhs and commaders. They hve declared jihad on their own people, they people they were meant to honour and protect, they now Murder
