Somalia official issues beheading threat - Yahoo! News:
"MOGADISHU, Somalia - Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.
Public places such as shops and tea houses in Bulo Burto, about 124 miles northeast of the capital, Mogadishu, should be closed during prayer time and no one should be on the streets, said Sheik Hussein Barre Rage, the chairman of the town's Islamic court.
Those who do not follow this edict 'will definitely be beheaded according to Islamic law,' Rage told The Associated Press by phone. 'As Muslims, we should practice Islam fully, not in part, and that is what our religion enjoins us to do.'
He said that the courts are announcing the edict over loudspeakers in the town.
The decision is not binding on courts in other towns.
Somalia's Islamic courts have made varying interpretations of Quranic law, some applying a more strict and radical version of Islamic law than others.
As a result of such disparate variations, residents in the capital of Mogadishu complained, forcing the Council of Islamic Courts officials in October to set up an appeals court with better-educated judges.
The Council of Islamic Courts have swept through most of southern Somalia since taking over Mogadishu in June.
Their sometimes strict and often severe interpretation of Islam has raised the specter of
Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime, and contrasts with the moderate Islam that has dominated Somali culture for centuries.
Some of the courts have introduced public executions, floggings of convicts, bans on women swimming at Mogadishu's public beaches, and the sale and chewing of khat, a leafy stimulant consumed across the Horn of Africa and in the Middle East."
Oh, and what does CAIR, the "muslim civil rights group" in the US, that the press quotes favorably all the time have to say about this?
Guess it would also be a "positive change" if the US was forced to submit to islam or have everyone's heads cut off. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. This is a war for the survival of Western Civilization, and most Westerners are too stupid or too lazy or too cynical to realize that our civilization is worth saving.
"MOGADISHU, Somalia - Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.
Public places such as shops and tea houses in Bulo Burto, about 124 miles northeast of the capital, Mogadishu, should be closed during prayer time and no one should be on the streets, said Sheik Hussein Barre Rage, the chairman of the town's Islamic court.
Those who do not follow this edict 'will definitely be beheaded according to Islamic law,' Rage told The Associated Press by phone. 'As Muslims, we should practice Islam fully, not in part, and that is what our religion enjoins us to do.'
He said that the courts are announcing the edict over loudspeakers in the town.
The decision is not binding on courts in other towns.
Somalia's Islamic courts have made varying interpretations of Quranic law, some applying a more strict and radical version of Islamic law than others.
As a result of such disparate variations, residents in the capital of Mogadishu complained, forcing the Council of Islamic Courts officials in October to set up an appeals court with better-educated judges.
The Council of Islamic Courts have swept through most of southern Somalia since taking over Mogadishu in June.
Their sometimes strict and often severe interpretation of Islam has raised the specter of
Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime, and contrasts with the moderate Islam that has dominated Somali culture for centuries.
Some of the courts have introduced public executions, floggings of convicts, bans on women swimming at Mogadishu's public beaches, and the sale and chewing of khat, a leafy stimulant consumed across the Horn of Africa and in the Middle East."
Oh, and what does CAIR, the "muslim civil rights group" in the US, that the press quotes favorably all the time have to say about this?
What has happened in Somalia, for the majority of Somalis inside and those who are abroad, is a positive change. I truly suggest that we should not prejudge this change, or any change for that matter, based on the religious affiliation of those in power.
Guess it would also be a "positive change" if the US was forced to submit to islam or have everyone's heads cut off. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. This is a war for the survival of Western Civilization, and most Westerners are too stupid or too lazy or too cynical to realize that our civilization is worth saving.
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