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West warns that Somalia is becoming a haven for international terrorists

Tristan McConnell
Posted: December 20, 2009.
Published: Dec. 21, 2009.

Print: The Times

Somalia has become a playground for an Islamist group known as al-Shabaab. It has banned bras, football, dancing and musical ringtones in the areas it controls. This weekend al-Shabaab decreed that men must grow beards and shave their moustaches. Its fighters have destroyed Sufi tombs and disinterred colonial-era Italian corpses. Its Sharia courts have ordered public floggings, the chopping off of hands and feet of thieves, the stoning to death of adulterers and beheadings of apostates and spies.

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This is your country on unfettered religion.

posted on December 20, 2009
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with this occuring in that country and the latest terrorist attack it is time to invade iran.

you can bet they are behind all of this terrorism.

and you can bet they have wmd,s now.


besides they have more oil than iraq.

god bless america with our industrial military complex and our 720 bases around the world and our two illegal wars we are indeed a christian nation based on christain principles of love and peace.

we are so christian we even know how to make mega profits off the sick and needy.
and thank god we can kick all those people off health care with pre existing conditions.

jesus was a capitalist and hated socialism.

jesus also said if you cannot afford health insurance then you dont deserve it.

jesus said the poor will always be with you and we americans are making sure we make that happen.

we are truly one nation under god.

now if we can just get rid of those atheists and gays they are such a drag on a moral christian nation.

just because we killed one million vietnamese many women and children does not make us an evil empire.

to call america a christain nation is the biggest lie every told by mankind.

as someone is given credit for saying a long time ago forgive them they know not what they do.

posted on December 27, 2009
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