The Somalia government has banned the celebration of Christmas adding that Christian festivities could threaten the nation’s Muslim faith.
“Those celebrations are not in any way related to Islam,” an official at the religious affairs ministry said. Security agencies have been directed to stay alert to stop any gatherings.
Foreigners are free to mark the Christian holiday in
their own homes, but hotels and other public places
have been prohibited from marking the day.
“Having Muslims celebrate Christmas in Somalia is
not the right thing, such things are akin to the
abandonment,” local media quote Mohamed
Kheyrow, a top official at Somalia’s Justice and
Religious Affairs Ministry, as saying.
Correspondents say as the country recovers from
years of civil war, a growing number of Somalis who
grew up in the diaspora are returning home, some of them bringing Western customs with them.
Christmas is not widely celebrated in Somalia, which officially adopted Sharia in 2009, but the odd event was held – especially as an excuse to hold a party. Mogadishu’s mayor, Yusuf Hussein Jimale, told the BBC that such gatherings might also be a target for the Islamist al-Shabab group that has targeted hotels in the city in the past.

It is well wt d Christians in Somalia. God kip dem

Smh for Humanity... So people still remain for that country..Endtime Somalia

This will make alshabab happy. They seems to be winning the fight mentally as well with this kind of thoughtless policy coming from a government that is barely surviving from the irrational threats of fundamentalists.

Christianity celebration will threaten's muslim's faith?..... Fattest excuse ever stated!.....

Lemme not say much before this people ban me.... I've got pending ban that's yet to expire from islamic section....