Mohamood Abdulahi Wehliye, Somali Tobacco Company manager
Posted on 11/20/2006 7:12:36 PM PST by Leisler
Mogadishu Somalia
Smoking cigarette and chewing Khad (narcotic leaves) or trading them were banned in Somalia’s Lower Jubba province, southern Somalia, by the Union of Islamic Courts, Somali Tobacco Company based in the capital Mogadishu, has become the first tobacco company to announce it would burn its cigarette products if Islamists demanded so.
Mohamood Abdulahi Wehliye, Somali Tobacco Company manager, has told reporters Wednesday that he was determined to burn Super Match cigarettes that his company trades in, adding that he was abiding by the Islamic Courts orders.
“If the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu order all companies trading in cigarettes to set a blaze on their products, I would be the first to do so”, Wehliye said, adding that he had up to 7 tone of packs of cigarettes in his possession.
Mohamood Abdulahi Wehliye, Somali Tobacco Company manager
He said there were talks ongoing between the Islamic Courts and his cigarette trading company over the expected ban on cigarette smoking to be introduced in the capital, indicating tranquility and peace introduced into the capital by the Courts were more important than his cigarette trade.
More than 20 persons nabbed with smoking and chewing Khad are for the third day in the jails of the port city of Kisamayu under the Islamist administration since the ban was enforced on 13 November this year.
Somalia Union of Islamic Courts had captured the capital Mogadishu entirely early June this year.
Earlier Djibouti has declared that many foreign nations were involved in Somalia’s political divisions between the interim government based in Baidoa and the Union of Islamic Courts that is now in control of central and southernmost of the country including the capital Mogadishu.
Yusuf points out that Djibouti has the political capability of putting together Somalia’s vying parties, considering the long prevailing relations with Somalia.
Djibouti has also promised to open negotiations between the Islamic Courts and the regional body of IGAD to cement the relations between IGAD and Islamists as UIC has accused members of IGAD of deploying troops in Somalia where the interim fragile government and Islamists could not come to a common ground over bringing foreign peacekeepers to the country.
On 30 October, peace talks between Islamists and the government had ended in breakdown after Islamist delegation demanded that Kenya be removed from talks arbitrators and the government insisted it would quit the talks if Kenya representing IGAD was removed.
Djibouti, a neighboring country to Somalia, had taken great roles in forming former transitional national government led by president Abdikasim Salad Hassan in Djibouti where all Somalia’s educated, foresighted and political individuals including civil societies had taken part in the formation of that government with the exception of warlords who entirely opposed the government.
The news came, as there are reports, whose sources are not clear, pointing out that Djibouti was member of nations suspected of providing Somalia’s Islamists with various types of arms.
Is this the great Somali smoke out?
We will soon have people on this thread saying that the same thing should happen here.
Another point that liberals and islamofascists are agreed upon. Hitler agreed too!
In other news, Mike Bloomberg's approval rating has skyrocketed among unstarved and yet-unmurdered Somalis. A source at city hall said, "We told you that lots of people think the mayor is conservative."
The Islamists appetite to rule over people's lives seems insatiable. The totalitarian tyrants of the 20th Century were barely able to scratch the surface compared to these people. No wonder so many Liberals seem in awe and admiration of these folks and unable to bring themselves to feel the same animus for them as they feel for Bush.
I never dreamed that Somalia and Arizona had so much in common. Now where did I put that khat?
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty . . .
More specifically, they're going to recruit millions of volunteers to help them burn their cigarettes one at a time.
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