I did a double take when I saw one of Yahoo's news headlines which read:
2 Somalis killed for watching World Cup
How tragic. I didn't know that it's even possible to "ban" watching tv, and what's even more horrifying, that you could get killed for it. It's like a scenario from one of those perverse comedies starring Ben Stiller with the only difference being that I don't feel like laughing at all because, heck -- this is real life!
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Radical Islamic militia fighters in Somalia shot and killed two people who were watching a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, a radio station reported Wednesday.
The hard-line Muslim fighters, who have banned watching television, opened fire after a crowd of teenagers defied their orders to leave a hall where a businessman was showing Tuesday's Germany-Italy match on satellite television, according to Shabelle Radio, an independent local station. It said the businessman and a teenage girl were killed.
Hard-line Muslim fighters, who wrested control of the Somali capital from warlords in June, have forbidden people from watching television or movies in line with their strict interpretation of Islam...
