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Somali Islamists urge boycott of independence anniversary
2010-07-01
A leading Somali insurgent Islamist group asked citizens on the eve of the country's 50th independence anniversary to boycott celebrations and warned of reprisals if they attended.

"We call on the Muslim people to avoid commemorating what they call the national day as it was inherited from the infidels", Moalim Hashi Mohamed Farah, senior Hezb Al-Islam official said in Mogadishu. "We warn the local media and journalist against attending the ceremonies. Anyone found covering the national day events will face bad consequences", he said.

Farah also said events such as International Tuberculosis Day should not be observed as they were un-Islamic. "Marking and celebrating for the events like Health Day and Tuberculosis Day is not also mentioned in the holy Koran and so that partying for those days is totally banned in Islam," he added.
They celebrate tuberculosis over there? One hopes there is a translation difficulty.
Strict Islamic Sharia rules are being implemented in some parts of the capital Mogadishu and other regions of Somalia by the Shebab group, which has a dedicated religious police branch known as "Jaysh al-Hisbah" (Army of morality). Units from the movement's "social mobilisation brigades" can often be seen criss-crossing busy areas on pick-up trucks and blaring instructions through loudspeakers to join the jihad and respect a pure Islamic clothing style.
Posted by:ryuge

#1  al shabaab would be toast if only the UN would recognise Somaliland and Puntland as the independent states they are.

They don't want al shabaab in the north. that would make a stable launch pad to wipe it out in the south

but the UN is tooo UNintelligent for that.

They'd rather keep paying the Transitional Federal Government whose chief role is warming seats at Java House Nairobi with their buttocks, sipping aid-money lattes.
Posted by: anon1   2010-07-01 23:50  

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