February 19, 2009
Islamic clerics issue prominent articles in Mogadishu
MOGADSHU (Sh. M. Network)-Islamic clerics who have been meeting in Mogadishu issued Thursday articles relating to the situation of the country. The clerics built an Islamic Council in their meeting and elected Sheik Bashir Ahmed Salad as the chairman of the Somali Clerics Council.
They issued these articles.
- It is forbidden to kill deliberately to a Muslim person.
- It is forbidden to judge someone that he/she is an apostate with out religious verdicts.
- The Islamic clerics suggested to the government to practice Shari law and the Somali parliament has to officially announce with in 90 days from the first of March 2009 that the country would be ruled under the Sharia.
- After the clerics read the charter of the transitional government, the council saw Articles against Islamic Sharia law, as article 8 reads, so it is compulsory to the government to change that article or remove it from the charter.
- The clerics said the government has to tell the foreign troops in the country to leave with in 120 days from the first of March 2009. Extra troops must not be sent to Somalia and the foreign troops can not be attacked with in the period mentioned above.
- Islamist oppositions, who are against the government, have to create an environment to fulfill the above mentioned articles and fighting can not be launched.
- If these articles could not be fulfilled, the Somali Clerics Council would decide what to






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