A sincere quest
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:47 pm
Assalamu calaykum somalinet users.
First and foremost this topic I am about to introduce has nothing with clanism. It is about an issue that is often discussed with some kind of clan feelings. In the process there is little rational employed; little breathtaking , mind boggling; little analysis.
I want us to break that trend, visible in discussion forums. My objective is to bring to the surface the advantages, disadvantages, the risks, the tribulations and the likelyhood of events.
The somali people (in almost every part of Africa, and the diaspora) have suffered during the last twenty years. We have shed the blood of our own. We have become our own enemies. We have used tribalism to crash innocent lives, to divide us and much more.
There is no where in somalia that has not tasted the killings, the murders, the rape and the bombardments. Some of these atrocities were committed in the name of a nation; others in a bid to rid an area of a dictator. But that is history.
Many somalis have never been to the "jamhuuriyada la magac baxday" somaliland. Yet many of us have some kind of collective guilt towards the people of somaliland. Somalilanders , appear to blame anybody but themselves. In fact with all due rights. But many of us never participated in the killings. Most somalis were victims by then or became victims shortly thereafter.
The debate in the somaliland media and intellectuals is one of divorce. The media outlets and the half intellectuals appear to have a medicine to somaliland's problems: independence. What is in independence? Somaliland , according to reports is already a viable democracy.
The problem with independence as I see and as has been proved by previous histories is that it causes mayhem. The cohesion that exists could be broken and before long it is clan against clan.
Many nations that have been divided in history have reunited. Taiwan is about to do that. Hong Kong is part of china; germany is united. Soon Moldavia would be part of Romania. Europe is united.
What ya say?
Thanks
First and foremost this topic I am about to introduce has nothing with clanism. It is about an issue that is often discussed with some kind of clan feelings. In the process there is little rational employed; little breathtaking , mind boggling; little analysis.
I want us to break that trend, visible in discussion forums. My objective is to bring to the surface the advantages, disadvantages, the risks, the tribulations and the likelyhood of events.
The somali people (in almost every part of Africa, and the diaspora) have suffered during the last twenty years. We have shed the blood of our own. We have become our own enemies. We have used tribalism to crash innocent lives, to divide us and much more.
There is no where in somalia that has not tasted the killings, the murders, the rape and the bombardments. Some of these atrocities were committed in the name of a nation; others in a bid to rid an area of a dictator. But that is history.
Many somalis have never been to the "jamhuuriyada la magac baxday" somaliland. Yet many of us have some kind of collective guilt towards the people of somaliland. Somalilanders , appear to blame anybody but themselves. In fact with all due rights. But many of us never participated in the killings. Most somalis were victims by then or became victims shortly thereafter.
The debate in the somaliland media and intellectuals is one of divorce. The media outlets and the half intellectuals appear to have a medicine to somaliland's problems: independence. What is in independence? Somaliland , according to reports is already a viable democracy.
The problem with independence as I see and as has been proved by previous histories is that it causes mayhem. The cohesion that exists could be broken and before long it is clan against clan.
Many nations that have been divided in history have reunited. Taiwan is about to do that. Hong Kong is part of china; germany is united. Soon Moldavia would be part of Romania. Europe is united.
What ya say?
Thanks