Somali Islamists issue blanket ban on movies

[AbuUsama]

Somali Islamists issue blanket ban on movies

Sun, Jun 14, 2009
AFP

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Islamists controlling southern Somalia on Saturday banned watching DVDs or movies on television and said raids would be conducted to catch offenders, who would then be severely punished.

"Watching films is totally banned, even indoors," Sheikh Mowlid Ahmed, a security forces commander in the port city of Kismayo said in a statement.

"People are allowed to use their home televisions only to watch news on such channels such as Al-Jazeera," he added.


The Islamists have already shut down cinemas in 2006 in areas under their control.

"Raids will be carried out on homes of people suspected of illegally watching films and if found guilty, they will face punishment," Ahmed said.

Islamist fighters wrested control of the key port city in October, more than a year after they were driven out by Ethiopian troops backing the government.

Residents say Islamist security forces in the town recently started inspecting mobile phones to prevent them from being used for watching movies.

"Security forces nowadays check our mobile phones and if you have a movie in memory you get punished," said a resident Mohamed Adan.

The punishment normally meted out on offenders is flogging.

Somalia's Islamists want to oust the moderate and western-backed transitional administration in Mogadishu so they can impose a tough form of Sharia law.

Ethiopian troops rolled into the country in late 2006 at the request of the embattled transitional government.

The country has had no effective government since the 1991 ouster of Siad Barre touched off a bloody power struggle that has defied numerous attempts to restore stability.

--AFP

Source :

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20090614-148333.html

[Abu Bakar]

They are true in thier claims.. & they by The Help of ALLAH ,will impose the Shariah in Somalia...
May Allah protect & help them....
AAAAAmeen

[Abu Abdallah al-Bulghari]

Inasmuch as I agree with all the banning that going on, I disagree on entering homes and checking phones. That is not correct methodology.

[AbuJunayd]

Inasmuch as I agree with all the banning that going on, I disagree on entering homes and checking phones. That is not correct methodology.

True, they should be advised this is not right.
If a person even drinks khamr in their home away from the public the Khalif has no jurisdiction.

[anam]

aggreed

i mean c'mon its only a movie...we have much bigger things to worry about

[anam]

and since when does watching a film amount to major sin?

[Yasir]

On what basis is al-Jazeera excluded from this "ban"?

[Abu Ma'mar]

because its a Jihadi channel that airs al-qa'ida video's

I don't even believe they said this. The media has proven time and time again that they have an agenda to make brothers like these look as bad as possible.

The telegraph said that al-qa'ida in Iraq baned women from buying cucumbers and men from buying tomato's, as cucumbers are males and tomato's are female lol

They also said that al-qa'ida baned ice cream because it didnt exist at the time of the prophet (saw).

Al-Qa'eda in Iraq alienated by cucumber laws and brutality - Telegraph

No one can sue them, so they can get away with anything.

[AbuMansoor]

Saalam Alaaykom

This is another lie from the western media,Shaaykh Hassan Ya3oub confirmed that they have not ban tvs inside homes and that they will check mobilephones thats all lie.

[Talib21]

Alsamu Alaikum


According to Shariah, no one can entering homes and check what people doing, simply because it is a kind of spying and it is against Shariah,

حَدِيثُ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ : أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِيَّاكُمْ وَالظَّنَّ فَإِنَّ الظَّنَّ أَكْذَبُ الْحَدِيثِ وَلَا تَحَسَّسُوا وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا وَلَا تَنَافَسُوا وَلَا تَحَاسَدُوا وَلَا تَبَاغَضُوا وَلَا تَدَابَرُوا وَكُونُوا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ إِخْوَانًا

Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Avoid suspicion, for suspicion is the gravest lie in talk and do not be inquisitive about one another and do not spy upon one another and do not feel envy with the other, and nurse no malice, and nurse no aversion and hostility against one another. And be fellow-brothers and servants of Allah.