Saudi passenger demands air hostess be removed from flight

Saudi Airline

By Katerina Nikolas 

A male Saudi passenger on a domestic Saudi flight demanded a female air hostess be removed from the plane as she was unaccompanied by a male relative.

Saudi Arabia may have taken a tentative step towards more rights for women by allowing female representation on the Kingdom's Shoura Council, but attitudes in the male dominated country remain entrenched in the past.

Emirates 247 reported one unenlightened Saudi man on a domestic flight turned on the stewardess who was about to serve him, shouting "why are you here without a related male companion?"

He then demanded the stewardess, along with all other unaccompanied women, be removed from the fight. After his outburst delayed the flight for two hours it was the male passenger who was removed from the flight.

The man's attitude was not unique. A Saudi Gazette reporter suggested to a male compatriot during a recent flight that Saudi air hostesses may be a good idea. He received the reply “You want our girls to work as air hostesses? How dare you!”

Saudi women are not allowed to travel abroad without the permission of a male relative. The Kingdom's strict segregation laws prevent Saudi women working in many fields, including as stewardesses.

Nelson Mandela still hospitalized

Mandela has made three hospital trips since December. | AP Photo

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former South African President Nelson Mandela remained in a hospital on Easter Sunday while receiving treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia, the government said.

South African presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said there are no updates on 94-year-old Mandela since an official statement Saturday on his condition. That statement reported the anti-apartheid leader was breathing without difficulty after having a procedure to clear fluid in his lung area.

Many South African congregations celebrating Easter included Mandela in their prayers.

“The whole world must come together and pray for him,” Zacheus Phakathi, a security guard, said at an outdoor service on a hill overlooking Johannesburg.

In Pretoria, the capital, Henry Hyar, a restaurant waiter, standing by a hospital where Mandela is believed to be, said it was unfortunate that Mandela could not be with his family at home during Easter.

“I’m not happy about it,” Hyar said. “We’re praying for him to get better as soon as possible.”

Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital near midnight Wednesday. It was his third trip to a hospital since December, when he was treated for a lung infection and also had a procedure to remove gallstones. Earlier in March, he spent a night in a hospital for what officials said was a scheduled medical test.

Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994 after elections were held, bringing an end to the system of white racist rule known as apartheid. After his release from prison in 1990, Mandela was widely credited with averting even greater bloodshed by helping the country in the transition to democratic rule.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in his country.

The elderly are especially vulnerable to pneumonia, which can be fatal. Its symptoms include fever, chills, a cough, chest pain and shortness of breath. Many germs cause pneumonia.

The office of South African President Jacob Zuma has said doctors were acting with extreme caution because of the Mandela’s advanced age..

Oh, the places you won't go! World's 25 least-visited countries

Using UN statistics, travel writer Gunnar Garfors found that top contenders for the least-visited award are often dangerous or remote. But some are just plain boring.

Somali men look out across Mogadishu's fishing harbor in the early morning as fishermen land their catch and transport their fish to the market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, March 16. Somalia is the second-least visited country in the world, according to a recent list compiled by travel writer Gunnar Garfors from UN statistics. Courtesy of Stuart Price/AU-UN IST PHOTO/Reuters

By Ryan Lenora Brown, Correspondent 

Somali men look out across Mogadishu's fishing harbor in the early morning as fishermen land their catch and transport their fish to the market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital, March 16. Somalia is the second-least visited country in the world, according to a recent list compiled by travel writer Gunnar Garfors from UN statistics.

Courtesy of Stuart Price/AU-UN IST PHOTO/Reuters

For some travelers, getting off the beaten path is a point of pride, a way to see the parts of the world that don’t make it into glossy guidebooks.

But how many of those same adventurous travelers would be willing to visit, say, Somalia?

About 500, it turns out.

At least, that’s how many tourists found their way to the wartorn east African nation last year. 

That makes Somalia the second-least visited country in the world, after the tiny pacific island nation Nauru, according to a recent list compiled by travel writer Gunnar Garfors from UN statistics.

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Little Nauru – 8.1 square miles in size, population 9,378 – got just 200 visitors last year, and it’s pretty clear why.

“There is almost nothing to see there,” writes Mr. Garfors, “as most of the island … is a large open phosphate mine.”

Indeed, most of the world’s least visited countries seem to fall in one of two categories. There are the Naurus, where you’ll puzzle over what to do, and the Somalias, where it’s simply too dangerous to do much of anything at all. (As Somalia’s Wikitravel page aptly notes, “the easiest method for staying safe in Somalia is not to go in the first place.”)

Most of the “nothing to do” countries are the crumbs that dust a map of the Pacific Ocean: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. The latter shares with the Maldives the dubious distinction of having "highest elevation points" that are the lowest on earth – 15 feet above sea level. Visit while you can, as rising sea levels could make the island uninhabitable within a century.

As for the “too dangerous” countries, the list reads like a global primer in political conflict. For instance, despite its pristine national parks full of wild gorillas and elephants, the perpetually ungovernable Central African Republic (#23) is an unpopular destination for tourists. And its stock will likely continue to plummet – last week a rebel alliance seized the capital, Bangui, and the president fled to neighboring Cameroon. (For more on the tempestuous politics of the CAR, read about the rebel alliance that took power there Sunday)

Afghanistan (#10) also suffers from tourism-deflating instability, which keeps visitors away from its rugged peaks, ancient Buddhist monuments, and Islamic holy sites, including the 12th-century Minaret of Jam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

“The Taliban have a message for foreign tourists who come to Afghanistan, especially if they are from any of the 50 countries that are part of the NATO-led coalition supporting the government: Big mistake,” writes The New York Times.

Other countries on the list, like Guinea Bissau (#14), Libya (#15), and East Timor (#18), have seen their reputations – and infrastructure – hobbled by recent wars or uprisings.

But not every country on the list is too dangerous or boring to visit. A few are simply effectively sealed off to the outside world.

All foreign visitors to North Korea (#16) are limited to a state-curated itinerary and must have an official government “minder” by their side at all times. But for the few Western tourists who venture into the country, that’s part of the appeal. “You will rarely get to see propaganda done more explicitly,” Garfors writes.

Except, perhaps, in Turkmenistan (#7), where visitors who brave the onerous Soviet-esque visa application process are rewarded with sites like a 50-ft. golden statue of former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov in the capital Ashgabat, which rotates throughout the course of the day to face the sun. But the country’s most indisputably impressive site is a massive flaming crater deep in the Karakum Desert. Measuring 230 feet across and almost 70 feet deep, the so-called “Door to Hell” has been burning continuously since Soviet scientists lit it on fire in 1971. 

Obscure? Yes. But that's part of the charm.

Ryan Lenora Brown Correspondent

Ryan Brown edits the Africa Monitor blog and contributes to the national and international news desks of the Monitor. She is a former Fulbright fellow to South Africa and holds a degree in history from Duke University.

Western Money, African Boots: A Formula For Africa's Conflicts

Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia prepare to advance on the central Somali town of Buur-Hakba..

by Gregory Warner

For the past six years in Somalia, Western countries have been putting up the cash and African nations have been supplying the soldiers, a formula that has pushed back al-Qaida-linked militants and allowed Somalia to elect it's first democratic government in 20 years.

"We can fix our problems in Africa," says Brig. Michael Ondoga, a contingent commander with the African Union Mission in Somalia or AMISOM. "All we need is your support."

It's not at all hard to see why this plan is so agreeable to the American government.

AMISOM has driven al-Shabaab out of Somali cities and major towns, and it's done so at a low cost in terms of money.

America's contribution in weapons, wages and training for these troops is around $350 million. That is less than Washington spends on the war in Afghanistan in a day and a half.

And in a new development, the U.N. Security Council on Friday authorized sending 2,500 troops to eastern Congo and gave them the unprecedented mandate to launch offensive operations.

Burundian soldiers assist each other in putting on body armor in advance of their patrol in Somalia.

It's still a small force, and much larger U.N. contingents have been unable to deliver calm there over the past two decades.

The hope is that this new combat force will be successful by relying on African soldiers, led by African commanders, and steered by an African political organization.

There has also been talk of sending an African force into Mali in an attempt to restore order there.

Western Reluctance To Intervene

Americans have been reluctant to get involved in African conflicts since the disastrous battle in 1993 known as Black Hawk Down, when 19 U.S. Rangers, deployed to support U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia, were killed.

Less well known is that in 2011, the African troops had a similar experience, though they followed up in a very different manner.

Just like in Black Hawk Down, what was supposed to be a straightforward military strike fell victim to deadly ambush on the tight streets of Mogadishu.

"Taking over Gashandiga [an al-Shabab stronghold] was very critical," says Cmdr. Ondoga. "But to put the record straight, taking over Gashandiga was not a tough battle. It was holding it that became a problem."

The number of dead was almost identical. And again, as in 1993, Somali TV broadcast the bodies of dead Burundian soldiers being dragged through the streets by Somali children.

But after Black Hawk Down, President Clinton made the decision to withdraw American troops from Somalia.

As Somalia's War Ebbs, Mogadishu Dares To Rebuild

In 2011, the Burundian army did not withdraw from the war. In fact, it dispatched more troops.

Six months later Ondoga says that AMISOM had pushed al-Shabab out of the capital.

"For us we know that if we don't stop this spirit of terrorism from spreading in the region," he says, "it will catch up with us and already it has affected our economy, you know? So it's a question of will. The will of the people."

Secrecy Over Casualties

For America, keeping troops in Somalia was politically unpalatable in the U.S. AMISOM takes a different tack by declining to disclose the death tolls of its soldiers. There's actually a gag order on releasing casualty figures inscribed by the African Union into the AMISOM charter. Only contributing troop countries reserve the right to make that information public.

Out of the 17,000 soldiers deployed as part of AMISOM, the number of dead is believed to be around 500. That's according to some official reported estimates from Uganda's former top commander. Some top officials have said it's more than 1,000. No one at AMISOM will confirm any figures at all.

Ondoga says this secrecy is to avoid emboldening the enemy. But also avoids questions about the cost of the war.

"You'd start asking yourself those questions, why should we die here? After all, we have no vital interest here," he grins knowingly. "My brothers the Americans started asking themselves those questions, 'What is our vital interest in Somalia?' "

African Leaders Outline Roots of Stability, Economic Growth

By Viola Gienger, USIP.

One president expressed support for reducing the term of his office to five years from seven. Another said she was determined to continue unpopular but necessary reforms even if it costs her re-election. A third has pulled his police and military forces through security sector reform. And a prime minister has eight women among his 15 government ministers.

The four top leaders of countries in sub-Saharan Africa stand in repudiation of the worst stereotypes – and some of the poorer records — of governments on the continent. They spoke at the U.S. Institute of Peace March 29 as part of a visit to Washington for talks with President Barack Obama at the White House and with others on the link between good governance and prosperity in Africa.

President Obama a day earlier cited Presidents Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, Macky Sall of Senegal, Joyce Banda of Malawi, and Prime Minister José Maria Neves of Cape Verde as examples of what it takes to strengthen democratic institutions on the continent to spur economic development and regional stability. African nations often have struggled in the decades since their colonial days with dictatorships, corruption, natural disasters, arms and narcotics trafficking and various insurgencies.

In contrast, the four leaders’ decisions “have contributed to significant economic development and security gains in their countries and also in their respective regions,” Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson told the audience at USIP. He moderated a discussion among the four leaders that was televised live, with questions from the audience on site and through Twitter. “All of these leaders are focusing on tackling the most significant impediments to development in their countries,” Carson said.

The West African nation of Sierra Leone held free, fair and credible elections last year in which almost 90 percent of registered voters participated peacefully and 58 percent awarded Koroma a second term, he said. It was the country’s third election since the end of its decade-long civil war in 2002, and its economy is expanding rapidly.

Koroma established institutions to shepherd democratic change, including a National Commission for Democracy and an Independent Media Commission. He drove through reforms in security forces to improve their adherence to human rights standards, and has worked to bolster the agriculture and mining sectors to strengthen the economy.

“When there is democracy and stability, it will open investment opportunities,” Koroma said at USIP. “That is why we now believe that Sierra Leone is no longer a country of blood diamonds ... I believe that Sierra Leone is on the move.”

Senegal, also in West Africa and on Mali’s eastern border, just a year ago faced instability and economic contraction, Carson said. With the help of Sall’s political and economic reforms, the economy is expected to grow by almost 5 percent this year, Carson said. Last year’s election increased the proportion of women in the parliament to 44 percent, and the government now is making a push to end a long-simmering conflict in the southern Casamance region.

“We have understood that democracy is everybody’s business,” Sall said, noting that Senegal hasn’t experience coups as have so many other nations on the continent. He also said he’s seeking to solidify the rule of law in Senegal and reduce corruption to “a level that will be almost insignificant.”

He drew laughs when he said he’s putting one of his country’s two presidential jets up for sale because he only needs one. “No one seems to be interested in buying it. It might have to be given to a museum,” he said.

“I am in favor of a reduction of the term of office of the president from seven years to five years,” Sall said, adding that Africa today in general is far from the “clichés” that focus only on civil wars and coups. “Africa today is a continent on the march.”

Banda moved into the presidency of Malawi almost a year ago after the sudden death of her predecessor and a power struggle with his supporters who reportedly had long been scheming with him to install his brother in his place. She became Africa’s second female head of state after Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. As of last year, a woman also heads the African Union’s secretariat.

“I want to thank all African men for creating space for women of Africa to participate in leadership,” said Banda, a longtime grassroots and women’s rights activist.

Immediately after she took office, she “moved to implement tough but necessary political and economic reforms,” Carson said. She devalued the currency, removed price controls for fuel and cut government expenses. “In her first 100 days in office, President Banda has turned Malawi around. As a result, the country’s economy is expected to grow twice as fast this year as in the previous year.”

The island nation of Cape Verde off Africa’s west coast has risen from the bottom of many development indicators under the leadership of Nevesis left) (seen in photo with President Koroma of Sierra Leone on h, Carson said. The country has one of Africa’s highest literacy rates, consistently high economic growth and one of the best foreign investment environments, he said.

Governments in Africa need to focus more on political plurality, the environment and developing their burgeoning populations of young people, Neves said. He and others emphasized the need to stick to legitimate rules of the game rather than changing the rules when they’re no longer convenient. “There is no development without stability; there is no development without democracy,” Neves said.

New U.S. efforts to bolster African nations include a policy directive last year from President Obama on strengthening democratic institutions and spurring economic growth, and the Young African Leaders Initiative that was started in 2010 to promote democratic governance and a culture of human rights among the continent’s youth.

Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency that is investing $9 billion for economic growth in low-income countries that practice good governance and allow economic freedom, has compacts with Malawi, Senegal and Cape Verde. The agency has designated Sierra Leone as eligible to develop a compact, and Cape Verde became the first to reach a second agreement after having successfully completed its first, Carson said.

The U.S. Institute of Peace conducts extensive programs in Africa on areas including rule of law, security sector reforms, electoral violence prevention and strengthening the role of women and girls in societies.

“I think the most important thing that we can do for Africa is to build capable governments, capable states, states that can guarantee democracy and stability,” Neves said.

Ecuador raises Julian Assange case with Labour

Diplomat brings up subject of WikiLeaks founder taking refuge in embassy at meeting with Kerry McCarthy MP

Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy since June 2012. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Ben Quinn - The Guardian,

Ecuadorean diplomats have raised the case of Julian Assange with the Labour party as part of attempts to lay the groundwork for a resolution of the diplomatic standoff between Britain and the South American state over the WikiLeaks' founder.

As part of its continuing search for an end to the impasse, Ecuador has been seeking a commitment from the coalition that it would not support Assange's onward extradition to the US should he choose to go to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault.

In an indication that the Ecuadoreans are now also setting their sights on a possible change of government after the 2015 election, Ecuador's ambassador, Ana Alban, raised Assange's case during a meeting with the shadow foreign minister, Kerry McCarthy.

The meeting had been requested by Ecuador to discuss environmental issues and bilateral trade, and the Labour side were taken by surprise when the Australian's case was raised by the Ecuadoreans towards the end of the meeting.

A Labour source was eager to distance the party from the issue, saying: "The meeting was on the basis of a discussion about other issues and was one part of a series of regular contact meetings with foreign governments in London.

"This [Assange] is not a policy issue for the Labour party."

The WikiLeaks founder has been living in the embassy in central London since June in order to avoid arrest and extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual offences. There is a permanent police guard and he will be arrested if he leaves the premises.

Ecuadorean diplomats have been in discussions with the Swedish and UK governments since Assange unexpectedly sought refuge at the embassy.

Discussions last year focused on what was likely to happen to him once legal proceedings in Sweden were completed, according to the Ecuadoreans.

A senior legal adviser to the embassy has said that the home secretary, Theresa May, would need to waive specialty – a legal concept that ensures an individual can only be extradited to one country – under section 58 of the Extradition Act 2003 before Assange could be extradited from Sweden to the US.

The Foreign Office has stated that the UK has a binding legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden to face questioning over the allegations.

Swedish prosecutors have dismissed claims that their case is part of a political move to see Assange stand trial in the US over his work with WikiLeaks.

• The standfirst of this article was amended at 12.55 on 30 March 2013 to reflect the fact that the Ecuadorean diplomat's meeting was with Kerry McCarthy MP, not the shadow foreign secretary as originally stated

 

Somalia – PRESS RELEASE Front Line Defenders: Assassination attempt on staff of Khalif Huudow Human Rights Organisation

On 25 March 2013, an assassination attempt was carried out on human rights defenders Mr Yusuf Osman Mohamed and Ms Hawa Omar Ahmed, as they were conducting a field investigation into the killing of a radio journalist a day prior. Yusuf Osman Mohamed is Head of Monitoring and Hawa Omar Ahmed a field monitor at Khalif Huudow Human Rights Organisation (KAHRO), a human rights organisation founded in 2003 in Mogadishu. Named after the founder of the Somali Youth League, the organisation is active in the areas of Merka, Afgoye, Mogadishu and Benadir.

 On 25 March 2013, Yusuf Osman Mohamed and Hawa Omar Ahmed were conducting a fact finding mission in Towfiiq village, located in the Yaqshiid district of Mogadishu, into the killing of radio journalist Ms Rahmo Abdulkadir, who was shot dead in the area a day prior by two unidentified gunmen. Rahmo Abdulkadir worked for local radio station Abudwaq Radio in the district of Abudwaq in Galgaduud region. At 1.10pm, as the human rights defenders were interviewing local people, they were confronted by four unidentified individuals carrying guns. The assailants attempted to shoot Yusuf Osman Mohamed and Hawa Omar Ahmed but the human rights defenders managed to escape. Hawa Omar Ahmed was reportedly driven away to safety by individuals that had gathered in the area, while Yusuf Osman Mohamed subsequently escaped by taxi. Both human rights defenders were placed in a safe location but are in fear for their lives.

 Front Line Defenders condemns the assassination attempt perpetrated against Yusuf Osman Mohamed and Hawa Omar Ahmed, which it believes to be directly motivated by their legitimate and peaceful work in investigating human rights violations in Somalia, and expresses serious concern for their security and physical and psychological integrity, as well as the security of other staff members of Khalif Huudow Human Rights Organisation.

Front Line Defenders urges the authorities in Somalia to:

 1. Carry out an immediate, thorough and impartial investigation into the assassination attempt on Yusuf Osman Mohamed and Hawa Omar Ahmed, with a view to publishing the results and bringing those responsible to justice in accordance with international standards;

 2. Take all necessary measures to guarantee the security and physical and psychological integrity of the above-mentioned human rights defenders, as well as other staff members of KAHRO, with a view to effectively meeting their protection needs;

 3. Guarantee in all circumstances that all human rights defenders and journalists in Somalia are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions.

Shirkadda Dahabshiil oo ka mid Noqotay Muslimiinta Ingiriiska ee lagu Abaalmariyo Horumarka ay Sameeyeen

London (The Muslim News)- Shirkadda Dahabshiil ayaa ku guulaysatay inay ka mid noqoto muslimiinta horumarka ballaadhan ka sameeyey dalka Ingiriiska oo la siiyo abaalmarin caalami ah oo ay ku mutaysteen waxtarkooda muuqda.

Abaalmarinahan oo ahayd tii 11-aad ee muslimiinta horumarka ka sameeyey dalka Ingiriiska, taas oo ah abaalmarinta ugu da’da wayn la xidhiidha muslimka Ingiriiska, ayaa munaasibad ballaadhan oo lagu qabtay Insiintii toddobaadkan ee 25-ka bishan March 2013 Aqalka Grosvenor ee magaalada London, taas oo dabbaaldegeeda ay goob-joog ahaayeen 500 qof, waxa lagaga dhawaaqay abaalmarinta cidda loo aqoonsaday muslimiinta ka qaybqaatay horumarinta bulshada dalka Britain oo ay ku jirto shirkadda Dahabshiil Group.
Abaalmarintaas oo la kala siiyey 16 qof oo kala matayey shirkado, hay’ado, ururro iyo shakhsiyaad mid walba dhinac gaar ah oo ka mid ah adeegyada bulshada horumar ka sameeyey, ayaa shirkadda Dahabshiil waxa lagu abaalmariyey dhinaca ganacsi oo ay hawlkarnimo iyo dadaal waxtar keenay ka muujisay.

Munaasibadda abaalmarintaasi oo ay ka qaybgaleen hoggaamiyayaasha axsaabta Ingiriiska iyo masuuliyiin ay ka mid yihiin Xoghayaha Caddaaladda Ingiriiska Mr. chris Grayling, Xoghayaha Maaliyadda ee qarsoonMr. Ed Balls, Xeer-ilaaliyaha Guud Mr. Dominic Grieve, ku-xigeenka Guddoomiyaha xisbiga Liberal-ka Mr. Simon Hughes iyo Xoghayaha qarsoon ee Caddaaladda Mr. Sadiq Khan, culimaa’udiin kala duwan, siyaasiyiin waddamo kala duwan oo aduunka ka socday iyo boqolaal dadweyne ah, waxa shirkadaha la abaalmariyey ka mid ah shirkaddaha Dahabshiil Group ku mutaysatay dadaalka ay ku gaadhay horumarinta ganacsiga ee uu hormoodka ka yahay Maareeyaheeda guud Mr. Cabdirashiid Maxamed Siciid.

Xoghayaha Caddaaladda Ingiriiska Mr. Chris Grayling oo isagu guddoominayey munaasibadda lagu abaalmarinayey muslimiinta ugu horeeya ee waxtar ku kordhiyey Ingiriiska, ayaa ammaanay muslimiinta ku guulaystay sannadkan oo uu ku tilmaamay inay horumar dalkiisa gaadhsiiyeen “Waxaan ku faraxsan nahay, sharafna ii ah inaan ka soo qeybgalo munaasibadda abaalmarinada Muslimiinta sannadkan, ee loogu dabaaldegayo dadka horumarka muuqda ku soo kordhiyey bulshadeena. Waa fursad qaali ah inaan qirno waxtarka muuqda ee dadkani sameeyeen,” ayuu yidhi Mr. Chris.

Ra’iisal-wasaaraha dalka Ingiriiska Mr. David Cameron oo fursad u waayey ka qaybgalka xafladdaasi ayaa fariin uu muuqaal cajalad ah ugu diray ku hambalyeeyey dadka abaalmarinada ku guulaystay, isagoo sheegay in dadka muslimiinta ahi kaalin wayn ka qaateen hore-u-socodka waddankiisa, waxaannu yidhi, “Waa sharaf inaan arko heerka horumarka iyo kalsoonida qeyb walba. Muslimiintu taageero weyn ayey Ingiriiska ka geystaan, hadday tahay dhinaca Diinta, ganacsiga, aqoonta, bulshada iyo dhinacyo kaloo tira badan.”

“Shaqsi kastoo la xulay wuxuu muujiyey dedaalkiisa, taasoo saamayn togan ku yeelanaysa horumarka guud ahaan Ingiriisku gaadhayo, rag iyo dumar, iyagoo ballaadhiyey qiimaha Islaamka ee nabadgelyada iyo wadajirka oo dhamaanteen ka faa’iidayno,” ayuu yidhi David Cameron.

Gudoomiayah xisbiga mucaaradka, Ed Miliband, ayaa isaguna fariin uu munaasibaddau soo diray ku hambaleeyey cid kasta oo qaybqaataday ama ku guulaystay abaalmarinaha 11-aad ee mulimiinta horumarka sameeyey oo uu ku tilmaamay mid heer sare maraysa.
“Waan ku faraxsanahay aragtida abaalmarinadan oo heerar sareysa gaadhaya. Waa qaab muuqda oo aan keliya lagu qirayn horumarka ay ka gaadheen ganacsiga, telnoolajiyada, balse si caam ah loo qiro kuwa wax-u-qabtay Muslimiinta iyo bulshada guud ahaan,” ayuu yidhi Mr. Ed Miliband.

Ku-xigeenka Ra’iisal-wasaaraha Ingiriiska, ahna Guddoomiyaha xisbiga Liberal Mr. Nick Clegg oo isna halkaas ka hadlay, waxa uu yidhi, “Dhamaan inta guulaysatay iyo kuwa la dooray waxay muujiyeen qisooyin ku dayasho mudan, keliyana, umay dhigin hadaf ku deyasho mudan bulshada Muslimiinta, balse guud ahaan bulshadeena Ingiriisk.”
Ugu dambayntii waxa munaasibaddaasi abaalmarino kala duwan lagu guddoonsiiyey 16 qof ee ka socday shirkadaha, hay’adaha iyo shakhsiyaadka ee Muslimiinta horumarka sameeyey, iyadoo Xoghayaha qarsoon ee Maaliyadda Ingiriiska Hon, Ed. Balls halkaas ku guddoonsiiyey shirkadda Dahabshiil Group abaalmarin loogu magac-daray ‘Ummul Mu’min Khadijah’ oo ka turjumaysa horumarka shirkaddu samaysay ganacsiga.