No iidoor or harti has anything to say about Jubaland, the dumb ass Cagdheers like Cawlyahan who were at war with the British should read up on their history, and realise this Kablalax nonsense is fake ! Isaq and Harti are not only enemies of Jubaland but enemies of Somalia. This is why both Somaliland and Puntland are trying to secede, we should treat them as what they are, and never allow them any position of power in Somalia.This article investigates the relationship between different phases of Somali political activity in Kenya. A clear contrast emerges between the focus, the aims and the methods adopted by the Somali pastoralists along the northern frontier and those adopted by the Isaq and Herti Somali traders in Nairobi and Isiolo. The attitude of the former towards the Colonial Government was essentially negative. Yet, while they tended to be resisters par excellence and fought against the Government on a large number of occasions between 1893 and 1916, this article shows that their resistance was much more limited than has generally been supposed and that they were never united on a clan basis in their resistance. In fact intra-clan rivalries seriously undermined the effectiveness of their activities Moreover, certain weaker Somali segments actively cooperated with the Government in order to obtain military and political support for their positions which were threatened by stronger groups. On the other hand, Isaq and Herti traders attempted to manipulate the political institution in order to obtain additional privileges within the system. Their agitation had positive goals, for they campaigned to gain Asiatic status. They put pressure on the central organs of Government and hired lawyers to plead their case. They wrote numerous petitions and memorials to governors of the colony, to Secretaries of State and even to two British kings. They formed well-organized political associations and had contacts in British Somaliland and England. Yet, by a curious irony, it seems that the Somali Exemption Ordinance of 1919, which represented the closest they came to achieving non-native status, was not passed as a result of their campaigns. In fact, their later agitation achieved nothing; it seems to have represented a futile effort to counter the gradual erosion of privileges obtained at an earlier date. One of the main characteristics of the Isaq and Herti agitation was its essentially sectarian character. In fighting to obtain Asiatic status they emphasized traits that isolated them from other Somali groups, and they even ended by denying that they were Somali. As such, there was a considerable disparity between their aims and those of the Somali Youth League which emerged in 1946 as the main vehicle of mass Somali nationalism, uniting the Somali pastoralists and traders in one group.
The Journal of African History © 1972 Cambridge University Press
FACTS.
by the way, the asiatic status they were fighting for, did give them privileges to live in urban areas without too much harrasment, but it also made them true subjects of the british empire which entails forced Taxation at a much higher rate than the native Kikuyu subjects, whereas the Marehan and Cawlyahan had zero to none tax levied on them. Not all Somalis were colonized, know your history people.
Today their descendants are practically Bantu and do not speak much somali, HAHAHAHAHA
