Somalia: Ahlu Sunna Clerics Order People in Central Region Not to Watch Films

The Islamic clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a have ordered the people in Abudwaq district in central Somalia not to watch films, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.

The clerics said publicly that they totally banned watching films through the district saying that the films could lead the people in wrong and evil deeds asserting that all men and the women will be taken a right step if they did not abide by the Islamic clerics' order in Abudwaq district in central Somalia.

The clerics also refused drivers to drive the trucks with very high speed through the district while traveling.

It is the first time the Islamist clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics issue like this orders against the people in the town to watch movie and also to drive very high speed thought the town which meant the people to follow the right way that Allah has ordered his slaves to follow.

Tagged: East Africa, Somalia

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