Kenyan Islamic group cracks down on soccer, films

Date: 26-04-2010 7:56 pm (14 years ago) | Author: Solomon Nsumei
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Monday, April 26, 2010; 11:31 AM

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A group of Islamic clerics in northeastern Kenya said on Monday it was cracking down on public broadcasts of soccer and films because it feared young Kenyan Muslims were shunning Islamic traditions.

The group based in the town of Mandera on the border with Somalia said it had also put pressure on local administrators to back their television bans in a soccer-mad nation eagerly awaiting the World Cup in South Africa.

"If we come to a place where movies or watching football goes on we simply take everything and destroy the disc and repay the owners. We have now succeeded in 10 places," Sheikh Daud Sheikh Mahmud, head of the group, told Reuters.

"We will not stop until we have destroyed totally all the cinemas showing movies and football in this area," he said by phone from Mandera.

Kenya said such bans could never be enforced legally.

"This is a secular country so our people have the freedom to do whatever they want within the law, which includes watching football," government spokesman Alfred Mutua told Reuters.
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- megafather1 at 26-04-2010 08:10 PM (14 years ago)
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- prince316 at 26-04-2010 11:59 PM (14 years ago)
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- solkings at 28-04-2010 09:17 AM (14 years ago)
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- Bazemaster at 29-04-2010 12:47 PM (14 years ago)
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- zolazola at 29-04-2010 02:19 PM (14 years ago)
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very soon they will begin to decide the type of food or air people eat or breath as the case may be
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- stranz at 29-04-2010 05:17 PM (14 years ago)
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- chudy1800 at 29-04-2010 09:45 PM (14 years ago)
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- solkings at 9-05-2010 08:07 PM (14 years ago)
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