     Riduan | Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 10:33 am
You people are not learning anything from what has happened to Somalia because of the tribal division that is nothing but a tool used by the European colonizers to facilitate seamless rule over Africa. Even today, the minority christian ethnic group called TIGRE(Agame) are using that old principle of divide and conqour in east Africa including Somalia. I am not more qualified than you are to tell you that you people are one in everything from culture to religion. The only division that exists among you is the imaginary and intangible thing called tribe. It is enough to take everyone beyond your first cousin simply as a Somali. If you love each other enough as Somalis, then you love each other as relatives, tribes, muslims and as brothers and sisters because all these things are the elements of the Somali nation. What do I care? you may ask. I am your distant cousin and I don't like what I see. Even we, the Oromos are trying our best to come together as oromos despite our regional and religious differences. So, we try not ask what region the person from or what religion he/she follows because we know that our enemies try to take advantage of our differences as they have for centuries. Please those of you who try to hung on to tribalism, come to your senses and think for your nation not for your tribe. |
| Mursal | Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 11:24 am
Thank you very much for reminding us (Somalis) about our lack of nationalism and dependency of our tribalism. I have been trying for number of years to talk to Somalis about this very issue, and I don't think my people are ready to finally put tribalism to rest. |
| axmed_yare | Monday, January 22, 2001 - 10:56 pm
•••• ridwaan |
| anisa | Tuesday, January 23, 2001 - 03:20 pm
HI my dear brothers Riduan and Murasal i like all your opion iam one of somalis belive samething you do and the most broplem our community have is lack of education becouse if they have enough education cover that they will relize what is the fact of tribe is and i like how my brother Ridauan describe that,that is the root of triblizem. also the other think i suprised is why my people get benift of this moderen world and change their bad cultural they had i would say we need alot to drop off rathen then keeping in mind.
iam sorry the young ones behaving like old days,look the lives of our socity today they are busy noneprofit issues instead manging their time and make a plan, i wish i saw one day our community change to be honest with you brothers iam unmaried girl woried alot to get the man i want choose from my community becouse i don't get someone matching or don't have good philosaphy.
so my people needs to wake up and aware what is going ? by readers have great time. |
| Riduan | Wednesday, January 31, 2001 - 05:06 am
Ahmad(Indian, Pakistani, Bengali, American, Arab etc)
Ahmet(Indian)
Aammat(afgan, oromo)
ahmadi(Irani)
Amadov(Chech)
Axmed, Axmad(Somali)
yare, yere, yaree, yeree
Riduan, Ridwan, Ridwaan, Riduwan, Riduaan
Rid-uan
uan = wan |
