Somalia Bans Christmas!

Somalia Bans Christmas!

There might be no Christmas or New 12 months celebrations in Somalia for worry that sports may want to rouse Islamist attacks, according to the Muslim-majority America’s government.

Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow, director favored of the spiritual affairs ministry, stated on Tuesday to reporters that Christmas and New yr celebrations "must damage the faith of the Muslim network," AFP reviews. Protection devices have been given the order to break up any festivities related to the holidays.

Superb non secular Council of Somalia's Sheikh Nur Barud Gurhan stated that celebrations can also moreover provoke al-Shabab militants, the Somalia Islamist extremist corporation, "to carry out attacks," regular with AFP. The organization is allied with Al-Qaeda.

In 2014, the militant organization's warring parties carried out an assault on Christmas Day on the African Union's headquarters in Mogadishu.

"Christmas will not be celebrated in Somalia for 2 reasons; all Somalis are Muslims and there is no Christian network here. The alternative purpose is for safety," Abdifatah Halane, spokesman for Mogadishu mayor, informed Reuters. "Christmas is for Christians. Now not for Muslims."

Al-Shabab received manage of virtually all of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in 2006, until a United international locations-backed stress from the African Union driven the militants out of the metropolis in 2011 and out of the port of Kismayo in 2012.

The government of Brunei announced a comparable ban on Christmas earlier this December, threatening five years in jail for violations, in step with Al Jazeera.

Imams in Brunei stated that the usage of spiritual symbols like crosses or creating a track religious songs are in opposition to Islamic faith, Al Jazeera critiques.