A decade or so ago, the local Imam of a mosque in the scandnavian periphery took his mom to Mecca/medina to perform Hajj.knowthyself wrote:^ You can tell the fake wadaads in the Horn are not Somali born and bred because they all have foreign names like Ibn Gaylord and Abu Saqajaan instead of Gurey Afxume and Samatr Cag Dheer.
When I think of the best mode of government I'm reminded of the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abdu's dictum:
When I travel to the West I see Islam without Muslims and when I come to the East I see Muslims without Islam.
He came back and held an ecumenical sermon; he started by saying that after visiting Saudi Arabia, he had come to the conclusion that the best muslim countries in the world were the scandnavian countries.
The fake wadaads are somali born but there intellectual and religious capital are Saudi born.
