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Here’s the latest video from the series Muslims Gone Wild!

Somalia Town Threatens to Behead People Who Don’t Pray 5 Times Daily

Shops, tea houses and other public places in Bulo Burto, about 124 miles northeast of the capital, Mogadishu, should be closed during prayer time and no one should be on the streets, said Sheik Hussein Barre Rage, the chairman of the town’s Islamic court. His court is part of a network backed by armed militiamen that has taken control of much of southern Somalia in recent months, bringing a strict interpretation of Islam that is alien to many Somalis.

Those who do not follow the prayer edict after three days have elapsed, “will definitely be beheaded according to Islamic law,” Rage told The Associated Press by phone. “As Muslims we should practice Islam fully, not in part, and that is what our religion enjoins us to do.”

He said the edict, which covered only Bulo Burto, was being announced over loudspeakers throughout the town.

And, how ironic is the name of the head-chopper: Sheik Rage.

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