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LobsterSauce
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World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention
#12767647 - 06/19/10 04:06 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face detention and even death if caught watching World Cup soccer. A Somali insurgent group, Hizbul Islam, has detained dozens of fans for watching the tournament in recent days. Saturday Islamic militants stormed a house south of Mogadishu and executed two young men watching World Cup soccer on satellite television.
Reports claim gunmen from the Hizbul Islam group entered homes in the Afgoi district, 19 miles south of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday and Monday. The crackdown comes after Islamist groups banned Somalis from watching World Cup matches on TV.
Islamic clerics in Somalia say that watching football is "un-Islamic," and Islamic militants in Somali are threatening football (soccer) fans with public flogging, or worse, if they are caught watching the World Cup on TV.
Somali soccer fans, mindful of the insurgents’ threats, have been compelled to watch the games in a clandestine manner, using makeshift satellite dishes or tuning in to local FM televisions.
The Somali Information Ministry denounced the rebel restrictions, saying, “The Somali people must be allowed to watch the World Cup football.” Unlike in the rebel-held areas, a number of cinemas have been opened in government-controlled territory to show movies and the soccer games at a very low price.
Al Shabab, Somalia’s most powerful Islamist insurgent group, outlawed school bells in a southern town in April after deciding that they were reminiscent of church bells. Similarly, Hizb
This Islamic fundamentalist madness is not new to Somalia. Al Shabab and Hizbul Islam had already outlawed playing soccer games, bras and forms of entertainment like watching soccer games and movies. Al Shabab, Somalia’s most powerful Islamist insurgent group, even went so far as to outlaw school bells in a southern town in April after deciding that they were reminiscent of church bells. While Hizbul Islam recently warned radio stations to stop playing music or face “serious consequences.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-10853-Portland-Humanist-Examiner~y2010m6d16-World-Cup-Soccer-viewers-in-Somalia-face-death-detention
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samba_lightning
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: LobsterSauce]
#12767828 - 06/19/10 05:26 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Wow what a shit fucking existence for the actually normal people of Somalia. That is just damn insane, when people take religion to that level something is extremely wrong.
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FatChicksNcoke
And psychedelics :D
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: samba_lightning]
#12767840 - 06/19/10 05:36 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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how are people so... idk a word for this.... fucking dumb?!?!
-------------------- Shroomism said: biting into a juicy delicious piece of fruit while tripping balls is probably up there in my greatest life experiences. HappyTrippin said: I usually combat those kinds of negative statuses with a status of my own. Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - Buddha
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Mad_Larkin
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: FatChicksNcoke]
#12767928 - 06/19/10 06:37 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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This should make us all realise how much shit we take for granted.
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Bridgeburner
Not spiritual at all.
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: FatChicksNcoke]
#12767948 - 06/19/10 06:55 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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FatChicksNcoke said: how are people so... idk a word for this.... fucking dumb?!?!
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Robo
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: LobsterSauce]
#12767951 - 06/19/10 06:57 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just buncha extremist party poopers. And huge assholes in general.
"Watching football is un-islamic".
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DR. PRIME
Mental M.D.
Registered: 12/14/06
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Loc: Chicago
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: LobsterSauce]
#12768014 - 06/19/10 07:41 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Holy fucking bullshit!
Way to take faith to the next level, fucks. Why isn't the US trapping these fuckers and blowing their brains out? How hard can it be? The more angry someone is the better it is to control them and put them in a corner and do what you have to and rid them off the face of the Earth. Give them to their Allah and 30 virgins because I don't see him or them anywhere around here, so maybe they should stop fucking shit up for everybody.
How hard is it to realize faith is a personal thing and is not to be forced upon people? It's not that hard to understand, regardless of culture. It's simple: you either love or you hate.
Fuckin dirtbags. This is gang activity to the max and it pisses me off. They should kill themselves because there are gangs in the western world too.
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BiG_StroOnZ
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: Bridgeburner]
#12768081 - 06/19/10 08:11 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said:
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FatChicksNcoke said: how are people so... idk a word for this.... fucking dumb?!?!
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: LobsterSauce]
#12768162 - 06/19/10 08:54 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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killed for watching a fucking game? man.. that shit is depressing. the world sure can be a fucked up place.
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dusk
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: tiny_rabid_birds]
#12768173 - 06/19/10 08:56 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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wow
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mockingbird
It Goes Round And Round
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: dusk]
#12768291 - 06/19/10 09:33 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Somalian people smell bad
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blewmeanie
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: mockingbird]
#12768294 - 06/19/10 09:37 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sounds like some of the southern baptists I grew up around.
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mockingbird
It Goes Round And Round
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Re: World Cup Soccer viewers in Somalia face death, detention [Re: blewmeanie]
#12768315 - 06/19/10 09:44 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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im just saying when your at the point were your on the edge of puking drunk and you accidentally get a Somali taxi...your screwed
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