Voltage wrote:
Khalid Ali wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:00 pm
Shirib is right the first article of the drafted constitution says Islam is the state religion. No other religion can be propogated and all laws should be based on Islamic values and tradition. So voltage you would never support an Islamic party to be part of the nation. I don't think people in Somalia like cilmaani secularism.. You will find allot of enemies. If you ever join politics or want to live in Somalia. Somalia is not the United States it can never be.
I am just being a radical. Even if Somalia is already a secular state (which it is), I would never advocate changing Islam is the state religion clause precisely for the reasons you outlined; namely we are very surface and highly emotional.
They can have a brothel in front of Villa Somalia and these people will wink and snicker but soon as they here a symbolic clause was changed about religion, Al Shabaab will take over the entire country based on all the people running to join them.
I don't find that to surface or highly emotional, that's actually a very good trait to have. You should always have and hold higher principles even if you're not able to live up to them.
And this is much bigger than this thread and don't really have the time to discuss it all in detail, but I know you're a really smart guy and challenge you to think outside of the box a little on this. Liberal secularism is dying, it's on it's last heals, and you can see it all around you. When it's dying in the west, where it was founded, why would you want to impose it on to a country like Somalia, that doesn't even have the economic resources to let that flourish.