What have Isaaq contributed to Somalia?

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What have Isaaq contributed to Somalia?

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This is an honest question and not meant to be provocative. :lol:

When I first started posting in this forum, everything was claimed by Isaaq kids. According to them Isaaq made the national anthem (they did not), Isaaq designed the Somali flag (they did not), Isaaq wrote the Somali script (they did not), print media of Somalia was based on Isaaq dialect (it was not), they flew first (they did not), Siad Barre's "english" interpreter was Isaaq (he spoke English), Xkeyse even claimed an Isaaq was the power behind the 1969 coup (he was not), etc etc etc.

Somaliland now says they want to leave. The question is what have you contributed in the first place? :? :lol:


p.s. The parents from this community must be incredibly ignorant and illiterate on Somali history to have put that stuff into your heads or they were trying to boost your egos. :lol:

Yes, I am well aware some of you will be incredibly mad.
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I look forward to this. :)

Add to this - there were 3 famous attempts at creating the Somali script - 1 was made by Darood (Osmaniya script, Majerteen), 1 was made by Dir (Borama script, Gadabursi), 1 was made by Hawiye (Kadarre script, Abgaal).

We can also add discovery and land expansion to this; Darood and Hawiye cleared out Oromos from southern Somalia, NFD, and southern Ethiopia, Ciisa and Gadabursi cleared out Oromo and Afar from Berbera to Tajdoura - but Isaaq just stayed in the triangle and still continue to leave deep and safely between other Somali clans rather than venturing out into no-man's land.
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They contributed in the khat trade. The multi billion khat industry is run by the Isaaq.

Be fair guys :mrgreen:
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Umar Arteh Ghalib, Pm
Mohamed Mooge Liibaan, Musician
Hadrawi: Somali wadaani poet
Abdullahi Qarshe, Somali musician, poet and playwright known as the "Father of Somali music".
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Monk-of-Wanking. It was Garhajis & Habar awal who drove out the Oromo's from berbera not Gadabursi.
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grandpakhalif wrote: Abdullahi Qarshe, Somali musician, poet and playwright known as the "Father of Somali music".
The Father of Somali Music who existed even before Abdullah Qarshe was Cabdi Sinimo.

Take your propaganda elsewhere.
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Siciid85 wrote:Monk-of-Wanking. It was Garhajis & Habar awal who drove out the Oromo's from berbera not Gadabursi.
Siciid lying is haram

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Re: What have Isaaq contributed to Somalia?

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Absolutely nothing, that's why we want to start fresh with somaliland.
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RuralMan08, sxb no offence but where does it say it is berbera? :lol: Cabdi Sinimo was not even in the Waaberi Popular Somali musical supergroup.
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Re: What have Isaaq contributed to Somalia?

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Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Absolutely nothing, that's why we want to start fresh with somaliland.
I respect that. God speed. :lol:
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Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Absolutely nothing, that's why we want to start fresh with somaliland.


:lol: :up:
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Siciid85 wrote:RuralMan08, sxb no offence but where does it say it is berbera? :lol: Cabdi Sinimo was not even in the Waaberi Popular Somali musical supergroup.
Siciid in regards to Cabdi Sinimo, do you know that Abdullahi Qarshe used to look up to him for inspiration?

mrsh: So what followed?
Abdullahi Qarshe : I arrived in Hargeisa and stayed with a family friend called Mahmud
Abdi Arale. Abdi Sinimo’s belwo was already making an impact
on the urban population. However, there were only a few musicians
and they were either Arabs or Indians inspired by the new Somali
genre of the belwo. There were two main characters: Ina Beenaale, an
Indian, and Abdo Yusuf, a Yemeni. They played basic instruments, the
most important being the violin. They invited me to join them, so I did,
but I was not yet really proficient in playing. We tried to create softer
lyrics than classical Somali poetry and accompany it with music. In the
beginning, it was not easy, and our band consisted of a mixture of
clapping, the tambourine, and drumming. For instance, we wanted to
inject some music into Elmi Bowdheri’s famous love poetry, and formulate
songs. Where the alliteration was not feasible, we added Arabic
or Hindi lyrics. At this stage, I wanted to earn some money and make
use of the educational skills I acquired in Aden. Thus, I applied for a
clerical post in the British colonial administration and succeeded. As a
result, I was transferred first to Burao and then later to Berbera. It was
in Berbera that I started to focus more on practicing my lute, after I met
an elderly man named Bakri whom I asked to teach me the basics of
the instrument.

In regards to Berbera we were always close by :mrgreen:

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Re: What have Isaaq contributed to Somalia?

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So now it came to we were close by? lol. Berbera is a Isaaq city liberated by Isaaq Gadabursi shuquul kuma laha sxb. :up:
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Siciid85 wrote:So now it came to we were close by? lol. Berbera is a Isaaq city liberated by Isaaq Gadabursi shuquul kuma laha sxb. :up:


Siciid Im only joking with yall, waa iska kaftan :mrgreen:

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I know Sxb. If anything though we was the ones who ruled Seylac a Dir territory. :mrgreen:

Even Richard Burton notes in his book the Habar Yoonis influence and exercise of power over Seylac a gadabursi/Cisse town.


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