Source / Courtesy: The Huffington Post from 2011
Somalia’s al-Shabaab group has banned samosas after ruling the popular snacks are ‘offensive’ and too Christian.
Al-Shabaab, the extremist Islamic group that effectively controls much of Somalia, has banned samosas in the famine-stricked, war-torn East African nation, according to the Kenyan Daily Nation. Apparently the ban, which was announced via loudspeaker, was instituted because Al-Shabaab leaders decided the samosa’s triangular shape was too closely associated with the Christian trinity. Locals face punishment for cooking, buying or eating the meat- or vegetable-filled pastries.
UPDATE: The BBC is now reporting, contrary to the early Kenyan Daily Nation report, that Al-Shabaab’s samosa ban may have been motivated by concern for public health rather than religious doctrine alone. The BBC explained that “traders were selling rotten meat from cattle that had died because of the famine. This was un-Islamic and threatened the health of people, al-Shabab said.”
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That is a challenge!!! Muslims FOR samosas!!!
They had nothing better to do!
May be they banned them because samosas are triangular, perhaps these could be made rectangular or squarish!!
Rather than banning samosas to diffuse Trinity they could have borrowed material from my Google-knols about Trinity and published them on a large scale:
http://knol.google.com/k/the-concept-of-trinity-has-no-legs-to-stand-on
If they were even smarter and understood biology, philosophy and theology, they could have used a different Google-knol, where I refute Trinity, from the biological observation that all life form share one and the same genetic code:
http://knol.google.com/k/zia-shah/is-god-the-father-the-creator-the/1qhnnhcumbuyp/301
Another couple of thoughts come to mind:
1. We are told that Taliban and Al Qaida are related. Could those on an intelligence
level of samosa haters have organised 9/11?
2. When can the silent majority start to see the difference between samosa haters
(Taliban) and those who have ‘love for all hatred for none’ as a motto?
Yes: study the ‘knols’ of brother Zia!
This is so funny, just change the shape and grow up SOMALIA
Regarding ‘The Diplomacy of Samosas’: Once upon a time my Diplomatic Car number plate got ‘missing’. Ramadan came up and my wife presented Samosas to my neighbor’s family for Iftar. All of a sudden my Diplomatic number plate ‘re-appeared’. (It seems a teenage son wanted to add it to his collection, but his heart ‘melted’ when tasting my wife’s Samosas… Long live Samosas.
Very impressed by ‘the Diplomacy of Samosas.’ I think we should mail frozen halal samosas to all Islamophobes, on Ramadan, Christmas and Yum Kippur! How about that?