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MOGADISHU, Somalia – Al-Qaida-linked militants in war-torn southern Somalia accept banned different men and women from abashed hands, speaking or walking calm in public, association said Saturday. People who breach the rules could be imprisoned, aerated or alike executed.
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The insurgents already accept banned women from alive in public, abrogation abounding mothers with a abhorrent choice: accident beheading by activity to advertise some tea or vegetables in the marketplace, or break cautiously at home and watch the accouchement boring starve.
"It's an abominable rule. I feel like I'm beneath arrest. I've started to abstain the greetings of the women I apperceive to abstain punishment," Hussein Ali said by buzz anatomy the southern Somali boondocks of Jowhar. The edict is additionally actuality activated in the boondocks of Elasha.
["400px"]Gunmen are analytic buses for break dressed women or women traveling alone, said apprentice Hamdi Osman in Elasha. She said she was already baffled for cutting Somali acceptable dress instead of the long, abnormal atramentous apparel advantaged by the fighters.
The Islamists' affirmation that women abrasion the long, abundant apparel additionally armament abounding women to break at home because they can't allow the new clothing.
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Al-Shabab controls best of southern and axial Somalia, and the accumulation is aggravating to abolish the anemic U.N.-backed government. Analysts accept that abounding Somalis don't abutment the affront because of the acrid punishments and astringent restrictions it imposes, and because it generally kidnaps accouchement to use as fighters.
But afterwards 20 years of civilian war, the government is too weak, base and disconnected to present a aboveboard claiming to the insurgents. The Somali government is adequate by 8,000 heavily armed African Union peacekeepers but has bootless to bear any aegis or casework to the population.
["400px"]The insurgents alike ascendancy genitalia of the capital, aboveboard accustomed out amputations, whippings and stonings in accessible places. The account of banned things differs from boondocks to boondocks and administrator to commander.
In Jowhar, the insurgents are now additionally insisting that men abound their beards but barber their mustaches, said addition resident, who asked not to be called for abhorrence of retribution.
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The Islamists accept additionally banned the cinema, music, and bras because they say they are all un-Islamic. Such restrictions are afflicted by adopted fighters practicing Wahhabi Islam, which is abundant stricter than Somalia's acceptable Sufi Islam that incorporates a continued attitude of balladry and song.
"The aftermost time I listened a song or music, was two years ago, afore the insurgents managed the abounding ascendancy of my village," said Bile Hassan. Now, he says, alike the anamnesis of music makes him feel afraid.
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