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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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If you read his books, you know it.

Tallking about, that wearing Hijab wasn't a Somali culture, and was introduce by Arabs, talking about men beating up their wives and women force into marriage, all these propaganda, against men.
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Twisted_Logic wrote:Goljano Lion,

We ought to have discussions of substance every once in a while. The quality of SNET is fast eroding as Al-Qaida apologists and undeveloped minds pollute this forum. Discussions like this, will remind us what has attracted us to SNET :up:
you have a valid point, that is why i said so far so good, We all know there are Snet vultures who hijacked threads for no reason cos they are brain dead and cant debate
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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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Twisted_Logic wrote:
RuralMan08 wrote:The most important living Somali? I think that itself is a bit too much of an exaggeration. There are higher qualified intellectuals than him who generally care about the Somali people.
Care to name names?
Hadraawi comes to mind
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IRONm@N wrote:If you read his books, you know it.

Tallking about, that wearing Hijab wasn't a Somali culture, and was introduce by Arabs, talking about men beating up their wives and women force into marriage, all these propaganda, against men.
:lol:

Isn't this true? That our women are victims of society and that they face obstacles and challenges simply because of their gender? I think his portrayal of the courage of Somali women is what really makes Nurradin Farah not only a great writer but also a champion of the little guys.
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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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Goljano Lion wrote:
Twisted_Logic wrote:
RuralMan08 wrote:The most important living Somali? I think that itself is a bit too much of an exaggeration. There are higher qualified intellectuals than him who generally care about the Somali people.
Care to name names?
Hadraawi comes to mind
Hadarawi is a poet and Nurradin Farah is a dramatist/novelist. But they both fight the same wars and both deserve our respect and admiration. But to the Somali youth, Nurradin Farah speaks their language and he can offer insightful ideas about the problems our society faces in a way very very few people can.
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The Most Important Living Somali wa my dear hoyo :up:
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IRONm@N wrote:If you read his books, you know it.

Tallking about, that wearing Hijab wasn't a Somali culture, and was introduce by Arabs, talking about men beating up their wives and women force into marriage, all these propaganda, against men.
None of these things are propaganda. They are all true. :lol: The only stretch of the truth is "Arabs" bringing the Hijab when it was learned Somali men who just happened to have learned the religion correctly in the Hejaz. But the reality is only after post-1991 did Somalis truly embrace correct Islamic doctrine. Prior to that Sufism and deviant spiritual malignment of the correct Islam was rife. :lol:

Nuriddin is right even though he prefers the Jahiliyah and I do not. :lol:
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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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Twisted_Logic wrote:
IRONm@N wrote:If you read his books, you know it.

Tallking about, that wearing Hijab wasn't a Somali culture, and was introduce by Arabs, talking about men beating up their wives and women force into marriage, all these propaganda, against men.
:lol:

Isn't this true? That our women are victims of society and that they face obstacles and challenges simply because of their gender? I think his portrayal of the courage of Somali women is what really makes Nurradin Farah not only a great writer but also a champion of the little guys.
I agree wallahi I believe the future of Somalia is with the women not the men. :up:
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Twisted_Logic wrote:
RuralMan08 wrote:The most important living Somali? I think that itself is a bit too much of an exaggeration. There are higher qualified intellectuals than him who generally care about the Somali people.
Care to name names?
There are many even though i generally dislike them all. The samatar brothers from somaliland, said sheikh samatar from ogadenia. There are too many too name all of them.
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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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Twisted_Logic wrote:Nurradin Farah-The man who gave us From a Crooked Rib and the trilogy Variations on the Theme of an African Dictator . Somalia needs more Nurradin Farahs

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i dont know this guy and this is the first i heard, but i will read (Crooked rib)
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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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RuralMan08 wrote:
Twisted_Logic wrote:
RuralMan08 wrote:The most important living Somali? I think that itself is a bit too much of an exaggeration. There are higher qualified intellectuals than him who generally care about the Somali people.
Care to name names?
There are many even though i generally dislike them all. The samatar brothers from somaliland, said sheikh samatar from ogadenia. There are too many too name all of them.
The Samatar brothers are great scholars, but there is no way they can stack up against the work of Nurradin Farah. 1000 years laters, much after the Samatar brothers are forgotten, people will still read Nurradin Farah's novels and teach it to their children.

Somalia is really lucky to have Nurradin Farah.
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A tad over exaggerated my friend. I mean Nuruddin Farax is great, I dont want to take anything away from him however he writes novels, I would put him in the list of great Somali artisitic individuals like hadraawi, Abdi sinimo etc.
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Re: The Most Important Living Somali

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RuralMan08 wrote:A tad over exaggerated my friend. I mean Nuruddin Farax is great, I dont want to take anything away from him however he writes novels, I would put him in the list of great Somali artisitic individuals like hadraawi, Abdi sinimo etc.
Have you read him?
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Twisted_Logic wrote:
RuralMan08 wrote:A tad over exaggerated my friend. I mean Nuruddin Farax is great, I dont want to take anything away from him however he writes novels, I would put him in the list of great Somali artisitic individuals like hadraawi, Abdi sinimo etc.
Have you read him?
A couple of his synopsis', he is very talented MashAllah, unfortunately illiterate qaxootis will not be affected or touched by his work
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RuralMan08 wrote:
Twisted_Logic wrote:
RuralMan08 wrote:A tad over exaggerated my friend. I mean Nuruddin Farax is great, I dont want to take anything away from him however he writes novels, I would put him in the list of great Somali artisitic individuals like hadraawi, Abdi sinimo etc.
Have you read him?
A couple of his synopsis', he is very talented MashAllah, unfortunately illiterate qaxootis will not be affected or touched by his work
Please do read From a Crooked Rib and A Naked Needle and then pass your judgment.

And it is such a pity that our children are not being taught about the work of Nurradin Farah. The obscure role such an intellectual giant occupies in our society compared to the elevation and admiration reserved for the petty mullahs, tells us a whole deal about the priorities of our people and why we continue to remain such a backward race. I say this with the utmost regret.
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