if you think Al Shabab are not Salafis you're an idiot. Al Qaeda and Al Shabab were founded by Salafis
This is what I thought but this is far from the truth. All the major Salafi scholars Sh. Albani, Sh. Ibn Baz, Sh. Uthaymeen, Sh. Rabee Al Madkhali, Sh. Muqbil they have all warned against these jamaats and hizbis, they have clarified suicidebombing is haram. Sh. Muqbil in the 80s met Osama Bin Laden and Sh. Muqbil said about him that he is bloodthirsty. Sh Muqbil adviced him to build schools and teach in Yemen but instead he choose war and bloodshed. So who are financing Al shabaab?
Qatar and UAE. Qatar is the headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood(MB) and another headquarter of Muslim Brotherhood is Turkey. Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of Al Qaeda, Isis, Al Shabaab. Osama Bin Laden was part of Muslim Brotherhood, and Ayman Al Zahraawi was a prominent member of the militant section of the MB. The founders of MB Sayyid Qutb and Hassan Al Banna are the ideological fathers of the takfiri ideology. All the terrorist love Qutb and Banna. The only reason they dislike MB is because they parted ways with their militant section. All the prominent Somali shaykhs are all MB affliated. Ictisaam is a jamaat in Somalia that is part of MB.