
Somalia's council of ministers is expected to be meeting
Somali Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke today to discuss ways of implementing Sharia law. The move is expected to weaken Islamic hard-liner insurgent groups, including
Al-Shabaab. Described by Washington as a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has refused to recognize the new unity government, threatening to take control of the country and fully implement Sharia. President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed recently agreed to institute Sharia in response to rebel demands. The fundamentalist code generally demands a separation of unrelated men and women, bans music, requires women to envelop themselves in public and demands that men wear beards. Council of ministers member Abdirashid Irro Mohammed tells reporter Peter Clottey that the application of Sharia will take the country a long way toward ending ongoing bloodshed.
"Today we have a meeting with the prime minister as council of ministers, and I think the agenda will be the performance of the 90 days of our government. And we will also discuss how we will apply the sharia law," Mohammed pointed out.
He said discussing the implementation of Sharia law is new to most of the members of the council of ministers...more..
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