RoP in Somalia Mandates Death for Missing Prayers
Charles Johnson
Thu Jul 6, 2006 at 1:50 pm PDT • Views: 501
In the new Islamic dystopia of Somalia, you’ll only miss saying your prayers once: Death for Somali Muslims who shirk prayers. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Somali Muslims who fail to perform daily prayers will be killed in accordance with Qur’anic law under a new edict issued by a leading cleric in the Islamic courts union that controls Mogadishu.
The requirement for Muslims to observe the five-times daily ritual under penalty of death was announced late on Wednesday and appears to confirm the hard-line nature of the increasingly powerful Sharia courts in the capital.
“He who does not perform prayers will be considered as infidel and Sharia law orders that that person be killed,” said Sheikh Abdalla Ali, a founder and high-ranking official in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia.
“Sharia law orders the killing of any Muslim person when he fails to perform prayers,” he said in an address at the opening of a new Islamic court in Mogadishu’s southern Gubta neighbourhood.
Frank says: