Al-Shabab ban Samosas because i looks like some Christians symbol!! WHAT THE F***!???

[awan4ever]

[h=1]Al Shabaab sambusa ban linked to symbol[/h]By NATION CORRESPONDENT
Posted Monday, July 25 2011 at 21:37
Somali militant group al Shabaab may have banned the making and sale of samosa, a popular snack in the war-torn country, because of its shape, linking it to a Christian symbol.
The ban on samosa, a pastry often stuffed with minced meats and vegetables, comes amid a devastating famine that is sweeping across the country.
No reasons were given for the bizarre move, announced by militants in vehicles mounted with loudspeakers.
However, residents of a south Mogadishu settlement and Afgoye, a town 30 kms south of the capital where the ban was imposed speculated that the Islamists may have associated the triangle-shaped snack with a symbol of Christianity that is not compatible with their strict version of Islam.
In the past, the group, which is fighting to overthrow the Transitional Federal Government, has banned watching football on TV and playing music on radio.
It has also ordered men to grow beards and women not to wear bras.

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[Lodhi]

Bhai samosa ya uska symbol to paste kar dia hota... I mean where is the link to see this symbol?

 

[patriot]

Auzoo billahi minnash-shaitaan-nirrajeem.

 

[shamsheer]

Al Shahab is TTP of Somalia.

 

[Nawazish]

That is exactly what you call extremism

 

[pakiace]

Its their point of view so let them and the only resemblance it has to the christ's cross symbol is its triangular shape if you join the two ends of the cross symbol the horizontal and the vertical with the top end i.e. its peak it becomes triangle so this is an individuals own perception or the way they see it, if such is the case we should stop wearing ties too as 2 shoulders and your neck and down the tie resembles the same jesus cross

Nothing to worry its their matter - let them ban whatever they want to - all i know is ramadan is coming so IFTARI without SAMOSAS not happening and any mullah who stands up giving fatwa against the POORLY SAMOSAS SHOULD BE DECLARED A FITNA as under my self made tauheen-e-rizq law :P

 

[KhanHaripur]

yeh masla araam say haal ho sakta hay Samoosa CHAKOOOR yaa GOOOL bana do yaara

 

[waleedhussain]

That is exactly what you call extremism

That is exactly what you call 'blind belief' on whatever you are given to read through media ... instead of just reading it 'You believe it' !

 

[Mysticreed]

That is exactly what you call 'blind belief' on whatever you are given to read through media ... instead of just reading it 'You believe it' !

Do you mean to say this news is fake ??????????

 

[moazzamniaz]

So what is next......Oxygen cuz it was named by Yahood-o-Nasara. Water.....cuz its composition was discovered by them and it has a triangular molecular shape. Mathematics cuz it has triangles in it. These jokers and their shameless sympathizers are a curse on this world. Cave dwelling 6th century retards are invariably sworn enemies of knowledge, education, civility and peace, no matter from which Islamic country they belong. These psychotic killers have a problem with every thing.

 

[awan4ever]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14283502

Somalia famine: WFP delays airlift of food to Mogadishu

The UN World Food Programme says it is delaying airlifting food to Somalia's capital for administrative reasons.
It was to be the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two areas of Somalia last week.
Islamists, who control most of Somalia, have banned the WFP from their areas and thousands of people are fleeing towards the capital in search of food.
Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has warned more than 3.5 million people "may starve to death" in his country.
Al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaeda, has accused the groups it has banned from its territories of being political.
Before the postponement, WFP spokesman David Orr had told the AFP news agency that the flights were waiting only for clearance forms to be completed before taking off.
When the airlifts begin, the aid will be flown from Kenya to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where the weak interim government - backed by an African Union peace force - controls only parts of the city.
The 14 tonnes of Plumpy'nut, a peanut-based paste high in protein and energy primarily targeted at malnourished children, was flown from France to Kenya on Monday.
Similar flights are also due to take aid into the Ethiopian town of Dolo Ado, from where it can be moved across the border into Jubaland, a sliver of land held by Somalia's pro-government forces just west of famine-hit Bakool.
Tens of thousands of Somalis have been fleeing al-Shabab areas and heading to Mogadishu and neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia in search of food.
The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that some 100,000 people had arrived in Mogadishu and settlements around the city in search of food and water in the past two months.
WFP head Josette Sheeran announced the emergency aid flights on Monday at an East Africa drought crisis meeting in Rome - called by France, which chairs the G20 group of developed and emerging economies.
The UN estimates more than 1.5 million Somalis are internally displaced by hunger - most of them in central and southern Somalia, where 75% of the territory is controlled by al-Shabab.
In Rome, Mr Ibrahim highlighted UN estimates that "more than 3.5 million Somalis, the vast majority of them in the insurgent-held areas, may starve to death".
But the director of the international charity Goal, John O'Shea, told the BBC that the UN's response to Somalia's political crisis had worsened the crisis.
He said the UN Security Council should have authorised a sizeable force of peacekeepers to end years of conflict in Somalia.
"We wouldn't have four million Somalis starving if they sent in UN peacekeepers," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Somalia has 9,200 African Union peacekeepers out of a promised 20,000 - all of them based in Mogadishu.
In a separate development, al-Shabab has banned the sale of beef and samosas in the famine-hit Lower Shabelle region.
It said traders were selling rotten meat from cattle that had died because of the famine. This was un-Islamic and threatened the health of people, al-Shabab said.
The BBC's Mohamed Dore in Mogadishu says al-Shabab has extended the ban to samosas, a popular savoury often filled with mince - accusing traders of stuffing the snack with cat meat.
Somalia is thought to be worst-hit by the crisis, but Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti have also been affected.
More than 10 million people in the region are thought to be at risk of starvation.

 

[Unicorn]

O man the Talabans are way too liberal in comparison to this dude.

 

[awan4ever]

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/inpictures/2011/07/2011727134147853102.html

[TD="class: DetailedSummary"]Resilience is hardly the word for the refugees that have trekked across the desert from deep in Somalia to Dolo Ado just over the Ethiopian border. There is a stoicism - an inner toughness - that hides the traumas that all have experienced and continue to endure.

1) Dolo Ado is tucked in the southeast corner of Ethiopia, about 40 kilometres north of the border with Kenya, and about five kilometres from Somalia. It would laughably be called a 'refuge' if it weren't such a vision of hell [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

2) It is brutally hot - more than 40 degrees centigrade in the shade - if one can find it - with a constant wind that drives the gritty red dust into your eyes, up your nostrils, and between your teeth [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

3) At the Dolo Ado transit centre, refugees should - in theory - be given hot meals, tents, ground sheets and a few cooking pots as well as a chance to rest and recover from the punishing walk across the desert. From there, they are moved to more established camps dotted along the rutted road to Addis Ababa [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

4) The UN acknowledges that it has a huge backlog to deal with. The transit area alone has 14,000 people, crammed into a space originally intended for one-tenth that number, and although the flow of new arrivals has slowed from its peak of more than 2,000 a day a few weeks ago, the lack of food remains chronic [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

5) Shabby makeshift shelters built out of rags stretched across thorn-bush frames are squeezed alongside the comparatively spacious UN tents. The constant press of humanity, of people absolutely everywhere all the time, feels utterly overwhelming [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

6) The UN admits it was caught unprepared for the vast influx of refugees when this crisis erupted. But the logistical problems with supplying a camp like Dolo Ado are colossal [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

7) Food has to come from Addis Ababa, more than a thousand punishing kilometres away. It takes trucks more than three days to make the journey. And they need to establish an aid pipeline for about 120,000 people across all of Dolo Ado's four sub-camps [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

8) All the talk of aid hides the deeper paradox of this crisis [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

9) The pictures emerging from the Horn of Africa seem to show helpless hoards of Somalis. They suggest an entire nation on its knees, begging bowl meekly pushed forward, entirely dependent on others for all their most basic needs. The image of a helpless, emaciated baby might well be a metaphor for all of Somalia [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

10) Except that these people are anything but helpless. They live in a place that would kill most of us in a matter of days, and the fiercely proud Somali culture emphasises gritty self-reliance and independence [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

11) Those who have fled to the refugee camps came here when their last animal died, or when they ate their last bag of maize; when they had absolutely no other choice [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera

12) For Somalis, drought is a normal part of existence, and they have a well-developed set of coping strategies that would help millions of them survive this latest disaster if only the war and its belligerents would get out of the way. To somehow regard Somalis as a people who can't take care of themselves is to radically underestimate their resourcefulness [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

13) They are a nation of goat and camel herders, but they also have a reputation as consummate traders. Within days - sometimes even hours - of arriving in Dolo Ado, enterprising refugees had established small businesses. Women neatly arranged piles of firewood collected from the surrounding bush to sell [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

14) A tailor who had brought his precious pedal-powered sewing machine on the back of a donkey set up a stall fixing ragged clothes. He needed no advertising apart from the whir of his machine [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

15) Another man organised small bags of sugar, salt and fresh limes under the shade of some rags stretched across a few sticks [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

16) Collectively the drought has knocked this country down; a mix of conflict, politics and inflation has confounded traditional ways of dealing with a prolonged dry spell [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

17) Somalis are doing the best they can to survive without resorting to a begging bowl. Nobody enjoys the indignity of a dusty, overcrowded and fly-blown refugee camp. They are not helpless, but that doesn't mean help is not needed [Peter Greste/Al Jazeera]

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[Lodhi]

Somali Militants believe triangular SAMOSA 'resembles Christian Holy Trinity'

Few days ago a friend posted a news here about Somali banning Samosa but he did not write the reason or any link to read the detail, Here is the detail about that news.

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Somalia's al-Shabaab group has banned samosas after ruling the popular snacks are 'offensive' and too Christian.​

Militant Islamist fighters last week used vehicles mounted with loudspeakers to announce the bizarre ruling across the regions of the war-torn country it controls.​

The extremist group has offered no official explanation for the ban on the triangular snacks, which are commonly cooked up and served across the Horn of Africa.​

'Offensive': The samosa is said upset militant Islamists due to a supposed resemblance to the Christian Holy Trinity​

The bizarre ban comes just days after militants linked to Al-Qaida in Somalia refused to let some aid workers into the country as tens of thousands suffered in the nation's massive famine.​

Aid groups including the UN Food Programme say they were not given permission by militants to provide aid in the country, where it has been warned that 800,000 children could die from starvation.​

It is now thought islamist militants have taken offence at the three-sided samosa's supposed resemblance to symbol of the Christian Holy Trinity.​

Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper today reported that residents of the Somali town of Afgoye, 20 miles south of the capital Mogadishu, had confirmed the samosa ban had been imposed.​

The fried snacks, usually filled with spicy meat or vegetables, have been served for centuries in the East African country.​

But the newspaper said locals believed al-Shabaab leaders had decided the triangular shape was not compatible with their strict version of Islam.​

The unexpected move means Somalis could now expect to be punished if caught cooking, buying or eating samosas, known locally as sambusas.​

The ban is the latest in a string of authoritarian rulings introduced by al-Shabaab, a violent Islamist organisation linked to al-Qaeda and classified by several countries as a terrorist group.​

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HISTORY OF THE SAMOSA
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The word 'samosa' derives from the Persian 'sanbosag'. It is referred to as 'sambusak' or a similar variation in most parts of the Arabic-speaking world.
The snack is thought to have originated in Central Asia before the 10th century and was introduced to the Indian subcontinent around 1300 by traders in the region.
Records from the 14th century describe a 'small pie stuffed with minced meat, almonds, pistachio, walnuts and spices', served before the third course.
The snack, popular in South Asia for centuries, then gained popularity when bought to India by Muslim traders and soldiers.
The crispy meat-filled samosa made today was then made around campfires and saved by travelers as snacks for long journeys.

The extremist army has taken command of several provinces of Somalia and is fighting the country's official government for total control.​

However it has been widely criticised for its strict enforcement of Shariah law and unmerciful treatment of the population.​

Resemblance: Islamic militants say samosas look like the Christian Holy Trinity​

At the weekend the organisation sparked outrage after saying it would refuse to allow overseas aid agencies into drought-hit parts of Somalia.​

The UN last week declared a famine in two parts of the country and warned millions face death from starvation.​

Al-Shabaab had previously suggested it would allow foreign agencies to bring in vital food aid to prevent its people from dying.​

But on Friday the group denied the famine even existed and accused Western governments of inventing the crisis as a propaganda tool.​

The organisation also warned foreign agencies were still banned in the regions of Somalia it controlled.​

Experts have warned the group's refusal to acknowledge the food crisis could cause millions of unnecessary deaths as people struggle to find food amid a devastating drought.​

The reported ban on samosas is the latest in a string of bizarre rulings from the organisation, which has been likened to the Afghan Taliban.​

Earlier this year the group introduced a blanket ban on the playing or watching of football.​

It has also previously ordered men to grow beards and warned it will take action against anyone caught wearing tight-fitting clothes.​

Not allowed: Samosas have been banned in many
small towns near the Somali capital of Mogadishu​

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[adnan_younus]

Re: Somali Militants believe triangular SAMOSA 'resembles Christian Holy Trinity'

jahalat ke patorey... shouting muslims....