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Today, the Ministry of Justice/Supreme Court has been overtaken by the Union of Islamic Courts. The group, according to the US Department of States 2006 Religious Freedom Report "grew out of individual courts' efforts to establish a degree a degree of order in Mogadishu." The image of justice in modern Mogadishu is very different from what traveler Ibn Battuta noted in his travels centuries ago: "Every case that is concerned with the rulings of the Divine Law is decided by the qadi, and all cases other than those are decided by the members of the council...If any case calls for consultation of the sultan, they write to him about it, and he sends out the reply to them immediately on the reverse of the document..." (Travels of Ibn Battuta).