Why Toy guns is common in the Muslim world during Eid celebration

In the middleeast and entire Asia, when Eid celebration is approaching, the business booming is not only fashionable clothes but also toy guns which is supplied into different countries particularly Muslims countries.

Toy guns turned out to be the favourite thing for children to play with ,in Eid days.

Shopkeepers reported high sales of the replicas of weapons and said children spent most Eid, the cash given by elders on the festival, to purchase them.


They said the prices of pistols and rifles ranged between 50 kenya shillings and 200 each.

In a playful manner, children pressed triggers pointing barrel towards each other with its small size plastic bullets, while many preferred to shoot at targets.

In Eastleigh, the biggest market in Eastern Africa, one can get different types of toy guns , with different prices

The sellers said sale of toy guns is not a crime as it is not harmful but its not culture and its not islamically allow to celebrate it , but it seems norms nowadays.

A seller said wholesalers invested huge sums of money in the import of replicas of weapons from China on a large scale. A man said for the first time, he’d seen that one of his sons’ main demand on Eid was a toy gun.

“I asked him to get permission from his mother, who didn’t give the permission and sent him back for decision,” he said.


In Somalia, some parts where al shabab occupied, they use toy guns to train innocent children, this is inhumane and misguided innocent child, in a video I have seen years back someone said use of fake guns by children to such an extent showed their inclination towards militarisation.


As we prepare for Eid celebrations, I wish to urge our Somali parent to buy their kids something valuable and not a pistol . this is an item that symbolises bloodshed which has no role in both our faith and culture,I discourage the use of pistol with strongest term possible.

lastly I urge with the security agents to take this matter seriously since someone with ill intention can hide among our innocent charming children and cause havoc. please remind the sheikh in your respective mosques to address the matter.

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