Al-Shabab in Somalia bans three sided pastry! July 27, 2011
Posted by Chris Mark in Uncategorized.Tags: armed security, gulf of aden, InfoSec, maritime piracy, Maritime Security, Piracy & Maritime Security, security, somali pirates, Somalia
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Al-Shabab, a powerful muslim extremist group, which controls roughly one third of the entire country, banned a three sided pastry because it may remind people of the Christian Holy Trinity.
Al-Shabab recently boarded trucks with loud speakers and announced that the popular pastry often filled with meat and vegetables was banned. The ban comes at a time when the U.N. estimates that 11 million people are being affected by the worst drought in decades.
Somalia’s prolonged drought became a famine in part because the Somali government nor many aid agencies can fully operate in many areas controlled by Al-Qaeda linked militants, and the U.N. is set to declare all of southern Somalia a famine zone as of Aug. 1.
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