Remember the Muslim cab drivers who don’t want to carry passengers who have alcohol with them? Turns out they’re mostly Somali, and that Somalis generally have no problem carrying such passengers. So who minds? The Muslim Brotherhood, for one, although they try to hide the fact that they’re behind it.
Omar Jamal, director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, thinks he knows why the society is promoting a “no-alcohol-carry” agenda with no basis in Somali culture. “MAS is an Arab group; we Somalis are African, not Arabs,” he said. “MAS wants to polarize the world, create two camps. I think they are trying to hijack the Somali community for their Middle East agenda. They look for issues they can capitalize on, like religion, to rally the community around. The majority of Somalis oppose this, but they are vulnerable because of their social and economic situation.”
