World Cup sparks trouble in Mogadishu....WHY?

[General Duke]

SOMALIA: Islamist militias raid private homes

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• MOGADISHU, Somalia June 26 (Garowe Online)

 

 

MILITIAS LOYAL to the Islamic Courts that now control Mogadishu and surrounding regions have intensified their campaign to ban the watching of the 2006 World Cup and foreign films.

 

The Islamist militias entered private homes yesterday that they suspected of showing the international soccer tournement currently underway in Germany as well as foreign films without permission. Witnesses said the Islamist militias destoyed some viewing equipment in the private homes they raided in the Hamar-Jadid neighborhood of Mogadishu.

 

The Islamic Courts banned the World Cup less than a week after they took over Mogadishu and cut off electricity into the cinemas showing the international matches. The Islamist leadership in Mogadishu believes that the cinemas and private homes also secretly show Western and Indian movies, including pornographic films.

 

This moves comes a day after the Islamic Courts Union changed its official name to the Somali Council of the Islamic Courts (SCIC) and elected Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, whom the U.S. suspects of having ties to al-Qaeda, as chairman

[General Duke]

Somalia: Protest against ban on watching world cup match held in Somalia capital

Sun. June 25, 2006 11:10 pm.

 

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Mohamed Abdi Farah

 

(SomaliNet) Hundreds of young people in Somalia capital marched on Saturday against the ban of Islamic courts on watching the world cup tournament in Germany, Somalinet correspondent reports.

 

Young men, in angry mood took the streets of Isse Abdi and Gubta villages of northwest of the capital Mogadishu and they were protesting against the closure of several cinemas in which people were watching enthusiastically the world cup soccer that now enters its quarter final.

 

They were shouting anti Islamic courts slogans, with some say that Islamic militiamen opened live bullets on them last night while they were watching match shutting the cinema. Some reports say the Islamic gunmen arrested young men and shaved their hairs.

 

The youth who blocked roads called on Islamic courts in the capital to stop the animosity on the sport and lift their ban on watching the world cup match.

 

Earlier the leader of Islamic courts union denied they have banned seeing the world cup soccer saying it was a kind of anti Islamists propaganda.

[Reality Check]

Originally posted by General Duke:

 

Earlier the leader of Islamic courts union denied they have banned seeing the world cup soccer saying it was a kind of anti Islamists

propaganda.

lol.

[N.O.R.F]

Propaganda against the courts i say, and there is no better 'go-between' than our very own Duke

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

propaganda? When did the truth become propagenda? just because don't lke the truth does not make it propagenda.

[Resistance]

^^Propaganda is not telling lies rather is involves the art of manipulating the facts to ahcieve ur own objectives..

 

we lucky here since Duke is rather bad at manupulating the truth so usually his allegiance is very clear to us all,

[ElPunto]

^It seems to me that it is not difficult to determine whether in fact they have banned ppl from watching the World Cup. If they have, then they are nasty, narrow minded tyrants wholly undeserving of the title Islamic.

[Resistance]

^^^ What just because they close down cinemas, com'n deep down we all know footy etc are a waste of time and disract us from doing worthy actions.

[General Duke]

^^^First lets not get personel here. This is an open forum, my contribution here can be taken in any way one likes.

 

Second if the courts want to help the people of Mogadishu they should not try to ban the world cup while they watch people poison themselves chewing QAD. Start with that devil before attacking Cinemas other visual entertainment.

 

These courts should also dismantle the occupation of lower Shabbele.

 

So far its all hot air, they just headless chickens.

[Qandalawi]

Im all for it, ban the world cup, Its an Isreali program orchestrated to brainwash and mislead the Muslims, watching it, what is in it for us, anyway we never won and not gonna win, better yet is liked and idolised in the Muslim lands than anywhere in the Universe.

 

But rumors say Sheik Sharif Ahmed Supports Brazil, any one heard ?

[Allamagan]

^^^^ looooool Tukaale, I dont see it as a problem if Sh. Sharif is a fan of Brazil. After all it is about the sport itself and not the one who plays and his beliefs.

 

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