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Islamists imposed Sharia law in Jowhar on June 19, after they routed United States-backed warlords from the capital and large swathes of southern Somalia.

HUH????  The USA was backing the Somali warlords?  This is news to me.

On Wednesday, a senior cleric announced that any Somali Muslim who failed to perform daily prayers would be killed.

The Religion Of Peace strikes again.

1 posted on 07/08/2006 9:17:03 PM PDT by Stoat
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"un-Islamic behaviour", including smoking marijuana, pretending to be Islamic militia, violence and looting."

could this be a precendent to condemining Islamic militants as un-islamic? *puts down bong* and looks up at the starred sky..


2 posted on 07/08/2006 9:21:35 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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punished 11 teenagers with 40 lashes

They are lucky. Had they been watching the World Cup game on a television, they might have been executed.


2 Somalis killed for watching World Cup (nightmare of Taliban regime revives in Somalia)
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On News/Activism 07/05/2006 12:53:06 PM CDT · 36 replies · 992+ views


Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2006 Jul 6 | Salad Duhul
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Radical Islamic militia fighters in Somalia shot and killed two people who were watching a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, a radio station reported Wednesday. The hard-line Muslim fighters, who have banned watching television, opened fire after a crowd of teenagers defied their orders to leave a hall where a businessman was showing Tuesday's Germany-Italy match on satellite television, according to Shabelle Radio, an independent local station. It said the businessman and a teenage girl were killed. Hard-line Muslim fighters, who wrested control of the Somali capital from warlords in June, have forbidden people from watching television...

3 posted on 07/08/2006 9:26:15 PM PDT by TomGuy
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punished 11 teenagers with 40 lashes in public

Muffled-sigh-.

5 posted on 07/08/2006 9:38:59 PM PDT by Calusa (Looks like all we got for Fitzmas was a beat-up scooter)
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Better call the ACLU.


7 posted on 07/08/2006 9:43:32 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Not a part of virtual reality)
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For the life of me I can't understand how people can still be living in the 12th century. Or more questioning....how can the people they "rule" allow it to happen?


8 posted on 07/08/2006 9:45:07 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid - Kierkegaard)
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Ban Kat, I triple deaddog dare them!
13 posted on 07/08/2006 10:32:28 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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Be careful what you wish for ...


14 posted on 07/08/2006 10:35:27 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (NUTS!)
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Well....I can understand flogging for Pot smoking....


15 posted on 07/08/2006 10:44:14 PM PDT by Dallas59
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On Wednesday, a senior cleric announced that any Somali Muslim who failed to perform daily prayers would be killed.

Any religion that mandates this kind of thing is pure evil.
19 posted on 07/08/2006 10:53:41 PM PDT by NinoFan
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