Clerics 'ban' New Year in Somalia - Democratic Underground

emad

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Tue Dec-28-04 10:26 AM
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Clerics 'ban' New Year in Somalia

BBC News

Islamic clerics have banned residents in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from celebrating New Year.

The Supreme Council of the Islamic Courts said anyone celebrating New Year in Mogadishu would be clearly violating Islamic teachings and punished.

In a news conference, Council Chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed criticised the owners of hotels planning parties.

Somalia is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, but has been without a national government for 13 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4130365.stm

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THUNDER HANDS

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Tue Dec-28-04 10:28 AM
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1. aww man

just when i was planning on ringing in the new year there too. :(

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Tue Dec-28-04 10:28 AM
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2. Secularism is under attack!

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