Heroes, Terrorists and Osama

The Somalia people are a homogenous people having the same culture, same language, same religion, same sect also. The only system they can accept to choose is Islam, no one can force them to take another.

Everyone in Somalia agrees they want an Islamic government, but does that mean a severe interpretation of Islam, where movies, music, even football are outlawed? Is that the future you see here?

First we are Muslims. We have to choose the way our people want to go or to learn. America knows how to teach its people the way they want, and we have to know the way we want to tell our people how to learn something. So television, for instance, misleads the people and teaches them bad character, and a culture from some other countries that we don't share culture with. And we know what leads our people astray, as the Americans know what leads their people astray. But I want to tell you that America has a phobia of Islam.

But surely, it's a bit extreme by anyone's view, outlawing watching the World Cup and even killing two people in Dusamareb who were protesting when broadcasts of the event were shut down.

That incident was accidental, it was not intentional. At the time we still didn't have a government system in place, in place of police there is militia. And where the police would have a stick, the militia has a gun. When the people crowded him, he had to defend himself with what was in his hand, so the accident happened like that. But it wasn't a decision from me or any other person in the Courts to do that.

Are you hopeful that the Transitional Federal Government will meet your representatives in Khartoum for peace talks?