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  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Paraguay's Enrique Vera, top, fights for the ball with Italy's Domenico Criscito during the World Cup group F soccer match between Italy and Paraguay in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, June 14, 2010.

    EDITORIAL: It's called soccer. Deal with it.

    Islamist militants in Mogadishu last weekend killed two people and arrested 10 others for watching World Cup soccer, which is banned in Somalia. Islamist leader Sheik Abu Yahya Al-Iraqi said that soccer "descended from the old Christian cultures, and our Islamic administration will never allow" watching the World Cup.


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