[quote="Solace*"]I hate it when non-muslims come here with thier af-bullshidh...
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who are the non-muslims? somali lamagodley nomads who worship qawiil=tribe? who is your god? darod, isak or hawiye?
angst what the hell are you talking about? somali nomad lamagodleys foked camels and married them at that time. they were like savages from the stone age. a bit of history. i will be back to explain to you.
Islam reached peacefully East Africa during the seventh century, and by the tenth century it became a dominant religion in Ethiopia, Somalia and the East African islands of Zanzibar, Pemba, Kilwa, Mafia, Pate, Lamu and Mombasa. During the later Middle Ages, i.e. in those crucial three hundred years that appear to have been the formative period of a number of towns and nations along the Indian Ocean shores, the Arabs and Persians spun a network of Moslem connection across the waters in all directions. Ibn Battuta during his visit in 1331 observes that Arabic was already the common literary and the commercial language spoken all over these coastal islands.
Ibn Battuta was extremely marveled at the splendor of Muqdisho. It is ruled by a Sultan. It undertakes much commerce of different merchandise and many ships arrive here from the big Kingdom of Cambaya, bringing large quantities of clothes of different types and different goods and spices. And again in the 18th century, Sultan Sayed bin – Said of Oman calls it "the most brilliant of all the princesses of Arabia". Muqdisho known as Hamar by the native founding Rer Hamar people, emerged through the centuries as the cultural and religious center of the Banaadiri Coast. This prosperous trade was rudely interrupted by the arrival of the Portuguese who came round from the other side of Africa, suddenly and unpredictably with bigger and faster ships and better guns. Within thirteen years, by 1511, the Portuguese had made themselves masters of the Indian Ocean. More than ever before, the Indian Ocean became a link, a unifier of cultures.
The Banaadirs (also spelled "Benadir") are people with their roots in ancient Arabia, Persia and South and Central Asia. Their name is derived from a Persian word "bandar" which means "harbor" or port, reflecting their origins as sea-faring traders who crossed the Indian Ocean to the easternmost part of Africa and established centers of commerce which linked that continent with Asia. The first Banaadir communities were established in what is today southern Soomaaliya about one thousand years ago. Their reputation as the settlements of a prosperous and peace loving people was set down in written accounts by foreign travelers to Afrika dating back to the 13th century.
"The Banaadir Coast" as proper name for coastal northeast Afrika was used well into 20th century, and as an informal designation for southern Somalia remains in use today. Being the first to live in this region – nomalid "Samale" (Somali) people from the African interior did not press south and east to the Indian Ocean until centuries later. The Banaadir port city of Hamar eventually became Muqdisho, Somalia's capital. The Banaadir continued to live their ancient stones homes of their forebears built in Mogadisho's old quarter. Although there has been intermarriage and influence from African peoples over the centuries, the Banaadir today very much remain a light and few dark skinned minority whose economic livelihood, unlike most of Somali people, is based on commerce and not agriculture.
