Without further waqti-dhumis, I present to you the Towbad-keen(Repentance) of Toogane from being a self-admitted dhabo-dhilif khaa'in-ul-Deen-ta, Dad-ka, iyo Dalka, in his own words, titled A Candid Conversation It's basically a dialog between Toogane and the Somali-American activist and community organizer Abukar Arman. Abukar up first: Togane, I always considered you a Somali to the core a paradoxical being an equal opportunity offender with good intentions a relentlessly maddening gadfly whose aim was to awaken our collective conscience but, I will be less than honest if I were to pretend that profoundly that perception was not strained was not stained was not stabbed in the back I must confess I did not see it coming till I saw you among the dignitaries of delusion among the Long-live-Meles crowd among the cheerleaders of the Mogadishu massacre among the mercenaries among the 300 potential nominees for ambassadorship Then I realized what has always been our ubiquitously overt story regardless of how much we romantically fanaticize being free we are seldom immune from that malady of the masses from that cancerous clanism from that most insidious sort of Somali racism Now I would like to ask you the following questions -----What possessed you into believing That there were dancing unicorns In the streets of Mogadishu That Mercy & Truth were meeting In the streets of Mogadishu That righteousness & Peace were French kissing In the streets of Mogadishu? AbukarArman Toogane replies(it's a long one, and riddled with clan names, so I'mma haafta slice it up some. And add my own editorial comments. Here's the original ): [ This is how Anita Suleyman Gaal put the same question to me. -------Togane, Are you out of your f... mind?] Arman, ------TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION HONESTLY WITHOUT BEATING ABOUT THE PROVERBIAL SOMALI BUSH YES IN HONEST HINDSIGHT I HAVE TO CONCLUDE JUST LIKE YOU JUST LIKE ANITA THAT I WAS POSSESSED YES FORTUNATELY TEMPORARILY I WAS OUT OF MY F'G MIND ! AN AMERICAN JEW ONCE SAID MOST OF THE TIME I FEEL LIKE AN AMERICAN UNTIL A BIGOTED GOY REMINDS ME THAT I AM INDEED A KIKE! SOMALI POLITCS ARE ABOUT GOB & GUN ABOUT ‘OL & ABAAR ABOUT NIMAN BALAAYA ABOUT FISSION & FUSION ABOUT AGNATES COGNATES & AFFINES ABOUT BLOOD & BONE! ABOUT BLOOD & BELONGING THEY ARE ABOUT SUPPORTING MY XXXXX(clan name) KU KLAX KLAN RIGHT OR WRONG! THIS IS WHY I HAD SUPPORTED GHEDI (rageedi, clear, unambiguous confession, much respect, none of that cowardly Is-Qancis rationalizations) BECAUSE GHEDI IS XXXXX I AM XXXXX ERGO I AM FOR GHEDI IT IS THAT SIMPLE! IT IS THAT PRIMITIVE! IT IS THAT BACKWARD! IT IS THAT PERNICIOUS! IT IS THAT PERVERSE! IT IS THAT PERVERTED! IT IS THAT MINDLESS! IT IS THAT MEAN! IT IS THAT DEMENTED! IT IS THAT DEMEANING! THAT IS WHAT DROVE ME TO GO TO MOG TO EMBRACE MY XXXXX AGNAGTES GHEDI & ALI MAHDI THE CRAZY CLAIMS OF MY XXXXXX KU KLAX KLAN CONSTRAINED ME TO GO TO MOG TO ATTEND THAT BOGUS PEACE POWWOW IN MOGADISHU THAT IS THE HONEST-TO-GOD ANSWER TO ELABORATE MORE TO WAX LYRICAL MORE MOST OF THE TIME AS YOU HAVE ALL CONFIRMED I FEEL THAT I AM A SOMALI UNTIL A DIRTY XXXXX OR A XXXXX COON WITH KALASHNIKOV REMINDS ME THAT I AM INDEED AN XXXXX DONKEY DRIVER!( this part is B.S., he's trying to justify his dhabodhilifnimo, at least partially, based on that age-old excuse: The Devil made me do it. You are responsible for your own actions, Toogane. You're on the right track so don't back into into mud now.) -----Among the lessons learned, which one was the most valuable (and why)? The most valuable lesson I have learned is That there is not enough darkness in this cruel world in this sad Somalia to snuff out the light of one small little candle! Consider this lesson that Allah has taught me in Baidoa Consider this tableau in a teashop in Baidoa which was once dubbed Dis: the capital of Deaththe city of death A small bootblack boy no more than 12 years old shone my shoes for me and I gave him 2000 Somali shillings for his labor and then an old woman, a beggar, accosted me I looked the other way hoping that she will take the hint take a hike go away quit my sight go fly another kite you know that Somalia is BILAD WA ISSI Land of gimme-something! Land of princes beggars paupers poets Land of laird loons ladrones Land of beggary buggery skulduggery The whole country put its hand out for my meager Canadian mazuma The old woman beggar read me right That I was weary of giving That I was not simply in the giving vein She hobbled away from me but lo and behold when I saw the bootblack boy running after her giving her the 2000 shillings that he had just earned from me for shining my shoes! I could not help but run after the boy now --Son, Why did you do that? Why did you give your hard-earned money to that old beggar of a woman? ---Uncle, that old beggar woman reminded me of my own old mother! She looks so much like my own mother. My mother is lucky: she has me to support her by shining your shoes but that old beggar woman is not lucky like my mother she has no boy like me to support her in her old age that is why Allah moved me with compassion to share with her what I did earn from you. Son, how old are you? Ten. Son, what is your name? Mohamed. Son, I am old enough to be your grandfather but you are wiser a lot wiser than I am You had taught me a priceless lesson on compassion that I will never forget! You sure do know how to teach old fools like me how to suck eggs off their funny fat fugly faces! Allah is the best teacher! Who can teach like Allah? Son, take these 4000 shillings from me for teaching an old fat fool like me how to be human; how to be Ben Adam; how to be a Moslem; how to be a Somali how to give birth to Allah how to give To one of the least of these. . . Son, why is it that fools like me who have the most are the least willing to give while folks like you who have the least are most willing to give in the name of Allah? Uncle, Allah knows best He is the best leader! He always leads us to do what is right If we would only follow His prompting That make us give birth to Him That make our hearts beat! Son, Now I know why Jesus said, Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God! Son, now I know why I will never give up on Somalia as long as there are Somalis of your sort! If you could undo something, any thing, what would that be? I wish I could undo I wish I could "unwrite" With Ghedi in D.C. I wish I had met neither Ghedi nor Ali Mahdi nor Jarule nor the rest of the Jinn Jahiliin who are holding us Somalis hostages captives to our crazy clans(You're rising in stature with every stanza(mostly,I'm ignoring a few) Toogane. Brutal honesty, a unequivocal condemnation and rejection of not only Geedi, but the entire collection of warlords & war criminals that make up the TFG. Take some notes, dhabo-dhilifs(and their neutral sympathizers). THIS is how it's done.) Compared to the PRICKS named above MOHAMED that bootblack boy of Baidoa is a PRINCE! THE PRINCE OF OUR SOMALI SANITY! OUR SOMALI DIGNITY!(Amen to that. Mohamed is a Prince, and with his qualities of garasho, compassion, caqli, and initiative, he will inshallah grow up to a leader of men. In stark contrast, the morally depraved Garaads and Boqors who get on their knees and beg for alms and protection from Ethiopia. Disgusting. Mohamed, Grow up quickly, young brother. A dead nation awaits you, young brother.) …….As a war-fatigued and peace-starved nation, how, in your opinion, can we mend our fences? The whole country is now Supine Prostrate UNDER THE BOOT OF MERCILESS MELES IF YOU WANT THE TRUEST PICTURE OF SOMALIA(Are you taking notes my dhabo-dhilif countrymen ? Dukie ? Emperor ? Caamir ? Koora ? I would not want you to miss casharaha meeshaan laga meerinaayo.) RIGHT NOW IMAGINE AN ETHIOPIAN FOOT SPORTING AN AMERICAN BOOT STOMPING ON THE FACE OF SOMALIA---FOREVER(Yeah, try and imagine that. If you can look beyond your qabyaald as Toogane, finally did. It's not really hard.) To Paraphrase Chinua Achebe, The trouble with us Somalis is Simply & squarely A failure of leadership There is nothing basically wrong with the Somali character. There is nothing wrong with the Somali Earth or water or air or anything else. The Somali problem is The unwillingness or The Inability of our leaders To compromise To rise to the responsibility To the challenge of personal example Which are the hallmarks of true leadership. At home for leaders We have anointed Crooks & kleptocrats And abroad for leaders We have anointed Charlatans & hirelings At home & abroad The only way Out of our madness Out of our malaise Out of our misery In which we have been meandering For so long Is To unite on what binds us together So beautifully as a people To empower the inspired & inspiring Leadership We have been ignoring & holding in contempt Because of its fanatical & ferocious Insistence Upon Truth Upon Justice Upon Peace. "Readiness is all." I have no doubt that when we are ready Such a leadership will take charge I see it right now already ready waiting in the wings. Are we ready? If not now, when? Very briefly: It's pretty self-explanatory: You're fooling no one but yourself(and the jokes on u) with your Dawladnimo, Somaliweyn'nimo, Qaran'nimo, 'peace and stability', 'law and order' Load o'Crap. The only reason why you support the TFG = pure clan calculus aka qabyaalad. The only reason why you oppose the resistance, also pure clan calculus aka qabyaalad. You can deny from now till your Toogane's age, but you(and everybody else around including your kids) know whussup. Oh yeah, best believe they know it all: The way you get hot-under-the-collar when a two-bit no-good illiterate warlord who even death is too good for is mocked. Thats qabyaalad. The way you're in a uproar about your Tol tuulo getting invaded by another clan, while remaining either silent or directly complicit in the worst war crimes in Africa since Rwanda. That is qabyaalad. If you can admit to that tonight, we will have cleared a major hurdle: The Bullshit Barrier. No BS allowed here. Say it unadorned: I grew up singing the praises of Warlord hebel or Great-grand-pappy hebel. I'm not tryna pick on anybody. My role here in this thread is that of a therapist, not an executioner. My aim is to, believe it or not,help you. You see, that caffeine overdosage must have short-circuited my brain or somethin because, like, I don't wanna happy-slap you anymore Instead of seeing you as an enemy, I now see you as an addict who needs help. That doesn't absolve you of supporting the TFG/Tgray alliance, but then again, most of you are harmless odays. Tonight, I wanna help you and you and you and you over there kick that clan monkey off your back. So that you can feel proud about your achievements rather than investing your self-worth and self-respect in your Tol. This no self-help mumbo-jumbdo, this is your life. Example: Brother Horn has stated a couple of times that he was wrong in supporting Hiiraale against the Islamic Courts. He said it was wrong, no ifs or buts about it. That's great. Now if we can get him to denounce Hiraaale completely without any qualifications, waxay noqon lahay a good horseed for the rest of people that are attached to their warlords or their lil Tuulos, completely neglecting the bigger picture. Calling a brave big man to step up.....

*Kaftan mode: on. Reason: Caffeine overdose. Vehicle: Mountain Dew. Kaftan level: semi-satirical.* Many of you are familiar with Toogane, the controversial self-proclaimed 'Somali MuslimMennonite Sufi' poet with a penchant for lampooning Somali tribes, his own most of all. Dude left Somalia in the '60s and never looked back, embarking on a journey through academia, religion, and the arts. Call it enlightenment, or call it brainwashing, whatever the heck it was, Toogane came out of his 40 literal years in the wilderness as a qurbo-joog, a thoroughly changed man, perhaps even to the level of mutation(ahem, the slight resemblance to a soccer-ball). The most UnSomali-like Somali, if you will. Except for one little detail: His dormant Qabyaalad'ism. You can take the Somali out of the Tol-ka jungle, teach him how to wear a fancy suit, and give him a Phd, but you can't take the Tol-ka out of the Somali. You see, Togane was supposed to be immune to any feeling of tribal pride, by virtue of his 40 year stay in North America and his Memmonite-Sufi-Kumbaya-New Age-y education. And in fact, for a long time he did appear to be an apolitical poet satirically blasting Somali tribes, reserving the choicest of insults for his own. He even managed to fool himself for all those years. Waxuu iska qanciyay that he, the great Togane, floats high above the riff-raff savages that put any stock in clan pride. No, Sir. Not him. Anyway, macalinka woo fashilmay . And the event that lit the fires of his clannist reawakening was none other than the handpicking by Meles Zenawi of Mudane Xaaji Sheep-Doctor Cali Gheedi as Baraym Minister, who coincidently just so happens to be his fellow Tol-ka member. In a moment of sheer euphoria, Macalinka forka uu tooray. We can only speculate, but we have strong cause to believe his thought process went along these lines: "My cousin is the boss-man of all of Somalia ? Chhhheaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, nigga, we runnin this shit now. Who got it like we do ? We da realest killaz, da hottest shiz-nit, da beastest looterz. All y'all my b!tches. Pick up yo face, , it's in the dirt. Somalia is XXXXX(clan name) Country, owned, signed, sealed, and thanks to them Eto-Boyz, f'ing delivered. XXXXX was here: I'mma tattoo dat anthem on yo bigass forehead. It's our turn to cash in, yo. Manz can't get rich just standin' at Isbaaro cornerz or slingin' charcoal. F that shit. We done hit the jackpot, nigga. We gon take half the Cabinet positions, we gon grab the best real estate in Moga-Dish. Dayum, I forgot, we already done took the best real estate. , we got it made, yo. XXXXX fo' life, till da day we die nigga. All y'all b!ches can eat dust and die. XXXXX in da house." Ok, so I exaggerated a little bit(still working off the caffeine high), but it's safe to assume that was the gist of it. Anyway, Togane pens a effusive love poem to Barayim Minister Ghedi and Tol-ka, the work of a man rediscovering his long-lost qabyaald(tears in my eyes, dawg, and I caint see). And before you can blink, Oday Toogane has become a enthusiastic convert(revert, I should say) to the Tol-ka cause, jumping on the Gheedi bandwagon promoting his Brayim Dhabo-dhilif cousin as Somalia's Savior with zealous fervor. , he is the speaker introducing Geedi at a gathering of our local Dhabodhilifs(heh). He then goes on a truly disgraceful streak of hateful 'poems', where for example, he whole-heartedly embraces the Ethiopian army, hails Meles as a liberating hero, calls the Islamic Courts cannibals(among other things), all the while praising his Barayim cousin. All this of course, is being done in the name of Dawlad-nimo, Somali-weynimo, and Qaran-nimo. Apparently, he too suffers from Irony Deficiency Syndrome. In the name of Tol-ka, our hero is chart'ing new territory in dhulinimo, a pioneer on how to act like a loyal well-proper(?) dhabodhilif. (patience ye sack of lazybones, we'll get to the subject manner in a minute, all this background exposition is kinda necessary. If ur tired just from reading, whattaboutme, typing it all up and doing all the searching and hyperlinking, bloggers get paid $1.25 per word, and I'm doing this half-assed pseudo-investigation pro bono, i've already wasted my whole morning, so shut up and read will ya) Duq Togane flies into Muqdisho(or was it Baido ? Both maybe) as a celebrity of sorts, to kinda give the TFG the stamp of approval from the 'artistic community'. Sorta like Nobel laureate Toni Morrison endorsing Obama(the other black heavyweight, Maya Angelou endorsed Clinton, i know, useless information). Somebody please find the photo where he looks a terrified chipmunk with his eyes buggin' out. Ninka waxaa ka muuqata cabsi on another level. As if in lagu bishaareeyay Jahanama. A photo is worth 1000 bajillion words, and this one is really telling. Deep down inside, the man is fully cognizant of his criminality. No judge has to try him nor any jury convict him. The verdict is in his eyes. The slump of his shoulder. The tepid waving of the baloog Somali flag. He's uneasy. His shoulders are practically cracking under the heavy burden of dhulinimo. He knows his actions, his words, his pathetic lobbying are all for a wretched cause, one that history will forever remember. (You over there, whatshername, find that doggone picture. Yes, it's an order. No, I'm not a chauvinist. Don't raise your voice at me, young lady. No, I don't think I'm better than you. You have to do it because I'm tired of googling and because I said so and that's that. Inyo ? Did you just say Inyo ? ) At this point, the trail runs cold. Nobody knows Toogane's next move or whereabouts. It's like he locked himself up in a cave somewhere in the frozen wastelands at the end of the Earth...... somewhere like Ottawa. Or Toronto. Matter of fact, anywhere in Canada would probably qualify as a frozen wasteland; but the where is not important so don't you worry your purty lil head about it, whats important is the why. After such a public and loudmouthed championing of the Dhabodhilif cause, why-maxaa dhacay-limaathaa did Toogane suddenly ....like shut up ? At a time his services were needed more than ever ? It just doesn't make sense. This is a man that makes Labo-Alifle Duke sound like a preschooler. Toogane is the Mack-Daddy of clannist rhetoric, a walking encyclopedia who could tell you that your great-grandfather was a thief who specialty was chicken-theft or (depending on how charitable he is) that he used to routinely fly to the Kacba to perform his 5 prayers. (Visitor: Aaway Aabo ? Children: Cirka uu ku jiraa, woo soo dhawyahay. He's about to touchdown soon.) Having the special powers of fictionalized Qabiil mythology in the shape of 'poems', why would he suddenly fall quiet ? Hint: Look at the subject line. (To all those ingrates who are not appreciating my investigative prowess and the Herculean efforts I am extending to bring the Togane Saga to the public eye, The New York Times will be my vindication: Writing can kill. But some of us are prepared to do whatever it takes, by any means unnecessary, to go above and beyond, the call of duty, and bring to the Netizens of the Internets, something to waste a few more minutes of their already wasted days. Get off the damn komputar, Talkin to you Jacaylbaro. Waraa kubad(who in the world says kubad in 2008 ? Banooooooni, mayn, it even rolls with the tongue, waa ergonomic xataa) so laadh(or is it laag ?) ama geel so liis or somethin. What do you guys do for recreation horta? I wish we had geel where I am. You don't know how good you got it, duqa. Another thought while I'm off-topic: Can I buy Somaliland ? How much ? No,no,no,no, I'm not talkin about the citizenship, I'm talkin about purchasing the whole damn country. Meeqo camal aa ku helaa ? Saaxib, no worries, I will be a far better owner and caretaker than Riyale. And unlike Riyale, I can and will deliver the Holy Grail, dearer and more important than breathing itself, the reason why when you wake up in the morning, you go to that hole you have dug in the ground, squat down, and take a dump, my friend, because it is so important to have bowel movement in the morning, I am speaking of a matter of similar grave importance, the Holy Grail: Recognition. I can turn the dream into a living reality. How ? This will be my sales pitch, I mean, my persuasion speech. You don't tell people, I'm buying your country, that's like crass and seriously uncouth. You just...nuff talk, check it out: "My Bruddas ! Brave Somalilanders ! We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a loooong life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Miiiiiiine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of Somaliland, the glory of the coming of recognition. Together, my bruddas, with me as your owner/buddy/CEO, we will rise up and when the conditions are ripe, and when the time is right, we will look unto yonder horizon annnnnnd be transported via laser beams to spaceships that will take us to Recognition." Our test runs of this speech with an audience, delivered at various decibel levels, showed that, at the end of the speech the majority of Somalilanders were in hysterics, a heightened state of what is known as Jidbo/jidbaysan. Nomads were seein chanting : SOMALILAND LIVES ! RECOGNITION REIGNS ! KASHAFA FOR BOSS-MAN OWNER !. Some demanded to "go to the Promised Land, RIGHT NOW.Hada baan ku niri". Others tried to make contact with the spaceships with the FM radios provided to them. There was one distinguished-looking gentle-man that acted in a different manner tho, to wit: With super-human discipline, he only allowed a single trail of tears to stream down his grizzled face down to his formidable jowls. No other movement or indication of emotion was observed. Only the tears which flowed steadily like the mighty river of De Nile. Truly, a remarkable study of stoicism. When we asked him what caused the tears. He inhaled a huge gust of air, stepped back 2 paces to give himself some room, and replied:" Dear Lad Firstly, thank you for a delivering such a stupendous speech , one which will surely lay claim to the top lineage in the annals of history, vis-a-vis speeches go, and in such context be ranked as the manliest of manly speeches ever to be given by Men. And a speech which, also consequently, could be said to give, in a roundabout subtle manner, a simultaneous trifecta of a whipping applied rather effectively in a expertly fashion by Your Eminence, Mr. Speechmaker, Sir. (ie, insomuch as we have not had the pleasure of acquiring your given name, ie, meaning what you prefer to be called amongst peers of your rank, bearing, and carriage, therein included without needing to explicitly state, of course is myself vis-a-vis a'la my belonging to the same position in life as Your Eminence so that we can converse as gentleman of our mutual deeply-rooted aristocracy are wont to do when in the company of those they find of similar background) , As I was saying before my brief elucidation on such issues of life-and-death importance as heritage and social position, lest we find ourselves in the awkward position as we sometimes do when we leave our government-subsided dwellings and head to the downtown of this Glorious World Capital , I speak, of course, of the City of London, and during such jaunts about the City(as we locals are fond of calling it),often undertaken after a lively chewing session, we are sometimes bound to meet up with lesser forms of humans, who occupy the lower rungs of the social ladder if you do indeed understand what I am alluding to(which I am sure you do). During such meetings, it is awkward and unseemly to stop and engage in small talk with persons who could never in a million years reach the exalted nobility of gentleman, such as us, who pick up our welfare checks with such awe-inspiring dignity, so that the even the clerk asks me as to whether I am an Zulu Chieftain, partially, I assume due to my slight resemblance to Kunta Kinte , and partially with how I carry myself. My Answer to her is of course nothing short of Magnificent: "We are The Ones In Whose Honoured Sacrifice In The Battlefield Of History, The Bells Of Victory Have Tolled The Most Times For....And To Whom The Destiny's Verdict Is Theirs To Rendered It.... " What all that resounding verbiage exactly means, I do not know, nor does any of my kith and kin, but I heard it once said being said by the 13th Earl of Dover as he was expounding upon British history to his friends from the Her Majesty's Commonwealth(which if I may add, and not to boast, but I am a member of, forsooth) when I had the honour to be serving him and his guests at the world-famous Le Foi Gra restaraunt as his Head-Chief Dishwasher during my earlier days in London, and I thought to myself: That is how the Nobility speak of themselves. And from that day on, it became my motto. So you can say I borrowed it, from one Gentleman(the Earl) to another(myself). As I was saying before my 2nd brief elucidation interrupted us, in giving your speech, you, Sir, have inflicted a splendid trifecta-of-a-whipping via the old Cat O' Nine Tails albeit in a rhetorical manner rather than any literal meaning of aforementioned whip, to the present day clannish wailers and the Defeated Lot of yesteryear, as well as to all those who suffer the misfortune of not having being born as Glorious Somalilanders, to be inflicted with such a terrible calamity is punishment enough, but sometimes, a crack-o'-the-whip rhetorically is very effective, as I often wield said whip and give it frequent application, in keeping them in their places. Secondly,..... We had to stop the jowled gentleman at Secondly, because we were still recovering from the Firstly. Jaca, you ok ? you look feverish, athiga-na ma jidbaysantahay ? Have you too seen the promised land, brother ? Duqa, athiga ciyaal-ka xaafada aa tahay nooh, thats why I put you in my scam. But I didn't expect a Beesaani like you to be swooning. What ? I know my words have touched your soul, that's why it's called a friggin swan-song ya fool. I'm peddlin' Snake-Oil and I'm tryna cash out, yo. So I can buy me a villa in Cairo ! Snap of it!. Aight, I shamelessly lifted the words , believe me now ? This topic was about Toogane and how in the world it made it's way to Jacayl-Baro and his offer(ok, our deal, if that makes u feel better) to sell me Somaliland, I do not know. I honestly started typing about Togane and next thing I know, I'm about to make a ton of cash-money simply by exploiting the deeply-rooted fears and hopes of average everyday people. Amazing what a shrewd study of the human psyche can earn ya, yeah ? It's bouta get me a entire friggin' COUNTRY. And all it cost me was one heckuva rousing speech that ain't even mine to begin with. Am I not the hotness ? I mean, people, for real, is this not true genius ? I guess this is also what happens when you start drinking too much Mountain Dew. Caffeine is no joke, I tell ya that. *Kaftan mode: Over. Reason: The Caffeine is out of my system. I'm back to normal now. I'm ok. I'm fine.Seriously.* Edit: Towbadkeen of Togane(Part 2), the serious part will be up later.

You seem to have good intentions, T. Laakin jah-wareer xun baa ku haayo. No worries, waa ku daawaynaynaa inshallah. But before that a quick fact-check on that conjecture-laden post of yours. On one hand they fight courageously against the Ethiopian occupation. On the other hand they indiscriminately attack civilians and other AU troops Evidence ? None ? I mean brah, if you're gonna indict the Resistance on murder counts, you probably should provide solid evidence to buttress your case. Let me reword it for you: You're accusing the Resistance of deliberately attacking civilians. Not only a clear falsehood and Zenawi, Inc's favorite talking point, but a ridiculous one at that. What does the Resistance gain from attacking civilians ?(remember, TFG officials do not count as civilians) How does it feel to unwittingly advance the Ethiopian agenda on the Internet ? Maybe what you were trying to say was: In the course of their operations and as the result of Ethiopian shelling, civilians do get hurt. Show me a war where civilians don't get hurt and I'll go back to hibernation. The other mistake you made: Since when is it a crime to attack the AU troops ? Who gave them authority to come to Somalia ? Were they not forewarned that if they did come to Somalia, they would be attacked, since they are supporting the genocidal occupation ? You could argue from a strategic point of view, that there isn't as much to be gained from attacking the Ugandans as there is to be gained from attacking the Tigrays. That's a solid argument(one I agree with). But it is no crime to attack any foreign troops who come to Somalia to support the Tigray/TFG alliance. If you are saying that the presence of the AU troops is legitimate and they are there 'to help the Somali people in their hour of need', please make that clear. They are not affiliated with Sheikh Sharif’s group and they do not have points or ideologies that one can negotiate with Another unsubstantiated wide-sweeping statement with nothing to back it up. a) They are a integral and most important part of the ARS(even if they say otherwise, it's called political jockeying). b) Their objectives can be summed up in 3 points: 1) Get the F out of my country. 2)Bring every treasonous dhabo-dhilif to trial. Hang them. 3) Build a Somalia that is wholly-owned and wholly run by Somali Muslims. Do you disagree with any of those 3 points ? Furthermore, what do you mean 'one can negotiate with' ? What do you want them to compromise on ? I believe Al Shabaab is and will be the next biggest (fitna) for Somalia If you really mean that, then you, brother, are as bright as the couch potatoes who believed that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. All it took to convince them was a fabricated performance by Colin Powell at the UN. They got a word for that in the English language: Gullible, the Somali equivalent would be: Suufi, I guess. A couple of other points: - The so-called rift between the Resistance leadership in Asmara and the ground forces in Somalia, is one of the myths that has developed over the past 15 months. There is a healthy disagreement and somewhat of a disconnect between the Asmara leadership and the throughbreds on the ground, but when push comes to shove, hal meel bay kasoo wada jeestaan. Anyhow, political figures(ARS) have no business telling military forces how to run a guerrilla campaign. It's like a shrink telling a surgeon how to excise a tumor from the brain of the patient. The shrink can advise the surgeon on how various surgical procedures may affect the patient, but he dares not tell the surgeon how to do the operation. Awkward analogy, but you get the point. -Gratitude is in order, abti. Without the heroic halgan of the Resistance over the past 15 months, you would be naught but a Ethiopian conquest living in the Diaspora. Another troubling sign for you: You seem to be more genuinely worried about an Islamically-run Somalia, rather than focusing on the most crucial issue facing the entirety of Somali-dom: Ethiopian hegemony. Tell me, brother. What horrific 'fitna' happened when Resistance members were and are being welcomed in town after town, some without a single shot being fired ? Both back in summer/fall of '06 and the present day ? The same caliber of men that were fighting then are fighting now. You judge a man by his past performance. Their track record is creating an oasis of peace, tolerance, and social equality in 70% percent of Somalia. In the miraculous time-frame of 6 months. What would they have done in 6 years ? My advice to you is to do a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the situation in Somalia. Dispense with preconceptions and Waxa-la-Yiri. Lay aside any objections you may have to methods used or ideology(much ado about nothing). Look at the cold hard unforgiving facts and the reality on the ground, and armed with that evidence, come to a conclusion about the way forward.

Axmed Diirye is a toothless no-name. As long as the Resistance were attacking the TFG/Tigray alliance, he was happy. The minute they attacked and cleansed the moooriiyaan of his Tol town, he flipped the script and started cabaad'ing. He seemingly forgot that the Resistance does not drink from that putrid well of qabyaalad that he and his cohorts do. This attack on Cadaado is a testament to the impartiality and judiciousness of the Resistance, and a slap in the face of those who would cast doubt on it's makeup and motivations. They are Somali Muslims. End. of. Story. Any Dhabo-dhilif, any Mooriiyaan, and any troublesome Tol leader is fair game. As for Diriye, he's your typical spineless clan 'elder'. No principles, no values, no vision, not even remotely qualified to be a leader of any sort. Adeer, you're an embarrassment. Retire your behind. The sons of Somalia are handling business as only they can do.

^^ Irony is wasted on some folks: An Ethiopian dancing boy, Koora Aw-Dhabodhilif, is trying to jump on the moral high horse and gallop away at sanctimonious speed ? Saaxib, am I reading you wrong ? mase you, of all people, are actually using the words: humanity, morality, injustice, anger, and mayhem ? From whence this sudden conversion to piety and humanitarianism ? What happened to 'the drill' and destroying the Shayaatiin along with the 'oh-so-sad' 'oh-so-unfortunate' collateral damage ? I mean, damn yo, you just busted a quick U-turn at breakneck pace. Grandstanding iyo brobaganda marka la dheelaayo, xooga waala camiraa nooh, make it believable and authentic. Laakin bahasha oo qaawan hadaa lasoo shir-tagtid, you will become comic relief for the audience. Your inability to grasp irony is almost Borat-esque . Here you are, the textbook definition of an obedient dhabodhilif(fetch,boy, fetch) trying to invoke Ethiopian aggression as an argument ? Wonders never cease. Let Oodweyne and Baashi bang it out, senior citizens need inay xoogaa nafisaan by rehashing who-did-what-when circa 1653 A.D. in classical fadhi-ku-dirir style. Harmless runtii, they rehash and refight the past, while the thoroughbreds on the ground change the course of Somali history. Athiga we'll call you when the court jester is needed.

Ciidamo isagu jira Itoobiyaan iyo Soomaali (ain't that a cute sight) ayaa lasoo dhoobay xadka gobolada Mudug iyo Galgaduud kadib markii ciidamada Alshabaab looga baqayo (best believe that) inay weerar kusoo yihiin Gobolada Puntland. Al-Shabaab markay maqlaan, constipation aa ku dhaco. Hadootee markee sida Ari camal loo qowraco mid mid, cabaad-kooda iyo baroor-kooda adoonka dhan aa laga maqlaa. War yaa la taliyo dhabo-dhilif'ta ? War aaway dadkee dhabo-dhilif'ta uu naxi jiray markee jab gaarto ? Carabta waxay tiraahdaa: Lagad ac'thara man anthar, the equivalent of: Nin kuu dhigay kuma dhilin. But you know the funny thing, I wonder intay galaayaan dhabo-dhilif'ta when the Tigrays are forced out ? I mean, does Aadan Madoobe think that he can go back to Baidoba and plead protection from the Tol ? Does Cabdullahi Amxaar think that Garoowe will be his sanctuary ? Do they not know inaa laga dhaba galaayo god-kasta ay madaxa gaashtaan ? If Tol-ka was gonna save somebody's behind, it woulda saved Gheedi and he fled to Nairobo as soon as Ethiopian protection ran out. And even if the Tol did try to protect them(long shot), heh, their best battle performance consists of firing a few shots and then gallantly running away, 'cept this time, there is no Mother Ethiopia to run to. Exile, is what she wrote. Steal as much money you can get your hands on, just like His Excellency Xaaji Mudane Gheedi, and find yourself a foreign country willing to shelter war criminals.

^^ There is only side in this conflict that is pure evil, treachery, and adoon-nimo, never-before-seen in the history of Somali existence. They go by names like Gheedi, Yey, Nur Cade, Qaybdiid, Hiiraale, Shaatiguduud and their few clan cattle militia. The vast majority of Ummada Soomaaliyeed and Somalida Xalaasha ah see it like that. Only a misguided few try to muddy the waters with flawed moral relativism. Only a misguided few try to equate between time-honored resistance and the God-given right to Gobonimo and between dhulified dhabo-dhilifs, serving the cause of foreign imperial interests. Sidaas oo ogow, Xiin-ow. Where you see a zero-sum conflict, we see a battle for the very soul of Somalia, a battle where the stakes have never been higher.

^ Yup, He's recently been hailed as a 'mack daddy pimp'.

LG, feeri nooh, if the white kids can up and join the Peace Corps and spend 2 years building huts for the natives while wearing cool-looking bandanas as they 'save humanity' and 'find the purpose of life' right before they come back to grad school and that six-figure job, if they can do that, aniga maxaa ii diidayo to 'discover myself' in the urban dog-eat-dog jungles of the Ghetto ? . Ayaka they fly to Africa, aniga I catch the bus 3 stops down lee. Jokes aside, it was an eye-opening experience, you gotta live it, as they say. All that stuff you watch on the Wire was happening right outside my room. My brother(a suburbanite) came to visit me once and the ciyaal-ka xaafada threw a fire-cracker under his car, he thought a grenade went off, look on his face was pure gold, lol. Marka, relating to the Black experience has nothing to do with ethnic background or heritage. There are white people that are more in touch, more black if you will, than many black people. Sorry for the hijack folks, About Obama's speech today, this quote illustrates what I was saying all along: But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations – those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years . That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited (Feraro, Clinton, & LG, Inc) by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician’s own failings. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away , to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races. In short, there is anger that is real, justified, and all too relevant, even in 2008. It is not only healthy but an obligaton owed to the downtrodden blacks to speak out, vigorously and without ceremony. Mujaamala iyo shuck-and-jive meeshaan ma taalo. That post-racial utopia Stoic wishes was a reality ? Like I said, smart politics and a noble cause, but it does not reflect the systematic in-built injustices, compounded and aggravated by time, faced by minorities in this country. A bit of pragmatism is in order.

^^ I agree(in theory) with most of what ur saying, but it's still the typical immigrant-achiever outlook and your reaction is just what Mainstream America expects: being reactionary, not putting his words in the correct context, jumping to condemn him. It's not as cut-and-dry as you make it out to be. I had the same mind-set before spending two months in the ghettos of DC last summer, something I will inshallah write about when I get a chance.

^^ Why is it a problem if Abdullahi Yusuf got b!tch-slapped ? Why the rush to try to 'bury' this story ? Haa isku mash-qoolinin, there are far more important and relevant matters happening should you wish to comment on it. The dharbaaxo story may or may not be accurate, the only people that can confirm it or deny it are Yey, Gabre, and the people present in the room during the meeting. Every single last one of them being habitual liars oo run-sheeg laga sugaynin. Marka, consider the dharbaaxo incident as factual and let's move on. If he wasn't slapped, then he was scolded, which are one and the same. Nin la canaantay oo madax-wayne isko sheegaayo waa nin loo dhameeyay.

^^ I don't know that's the case for sure. But I do know that historically, white plantation owners raped black slaves or forced them to become mistreses, a process of racial bleaching that resulted in generations of light-skinned blacks. Marka, you can tell that Pastor Wright's ethnic heritage isn't quite as romantic as Barack's "Black farmer from Kenya meets white teenager from Kansas" background. You can also relate to his anger(it's not hate, it's anger) and his speaking out against white tyranny(past and present) in this country.

Pujah, In order to understand Pastor Wright's fiery rhetoric, you have to understand the African-American psyche and the African-American narrative, something most white people(and most immigrants) do not understand. Example: Pastor Wright is very light-skinned. Do you think inoo uu dashay cadaan-ta like some of us Somalis ? Nope. That light shade of skin is the result of a rape done to one of his great-grandmothers by a white slavemaster who crawls into her cabin in the darkness of the night, filthy and drunk, and forces himself on this wife, this mother, this daughter, this sister. All the while, her husband, her father, and her brother have to sit there and listen to her cries as she is violated. Welcome to America. This is is the mental image Pastor Wright and millions of blacks wake up to in the morning when they look into that mirror and see that white blood reflected in their features. It's like somebody branding a V for victim on your forehead and having to walk around with it for the rest of your life. One of my good black friends(whose light-skinned) told me that his family tells people they have a Puerto Rican ancestor rather than the Irish ******* they know of. When Pastor Wright talks about how the white government introduced the HIV virus to destroy the Black race, you and others, insulated from the African-American narrative, might think of it as the lunatic ravings of a racist. But then, you probably didn't hear about the Tuskegee study and how the 'gummint' injected syphilis into hundreds of black men, told them they had 'bad blood', refused them treatment, all in an effort to track and study the stages of syphilis. Again, Welcome to America. The one you don't hear about too often. You might venture to say(the classical immigrant response): This all in the past. Let bygones be bygones. If I came to this country with only the clothes on my back, and now am a multi-millionaire, then the blacks need to stop whining and stop blaming the white man for all their misfortunes. Look at me, I made it. So should they. Running on a post-racial platform is a brilliant political move, one that will most likely propel Obama to the White House. That doesn't mean tho that racial dulmi has stopped or that past racial wounds that have festered all this while have been properly addressed, let alone rectified(reparations). America needs Pastor Wright for it's own redemption. As my black friend likes to remind me, the White House was built on the backs of slaves....brick by brick by brick.

It's over. It's been over since February and 11-0 when he built up a mathematically insurmountable lead. Only way Hillary can become the Democratic nominee is by daylight roberry'ing this thing, outright stealing it. And with that, comes Civil War and the destruction of the modern Democratic Party. Blacks and the under-30s will never vote Dem again. She put up a good fight, now's the time to concede gracefully. Pujah, What was so objectionable, let alone disgusting, about Pastor Wright's remarks ? The man is a former Marine, has he not earned the right to speak his mind freely ? Everything he says when condemning US foreign policy is factual(Wiki check it). Keep in mind that he's not condemning the American people, but the American foreign policy that has caused misery, death, and suffering for millions around the globe and the domestic policy that has kept it's heel on the black man's head. Pastor Wright is one of the few brave men speaking out today. He represents the true meaning of America, compassion, and freedom, not the empty suits tripping over themselves to call him a racist. He deserves respect, not censure.

^^ Aight, Jaca, let us know yaa ka dambeeyay the beheading of a peaceful, loving, and respected Hyena. Once the perp is apprehended/found out, could you, like, initiate a investigation of war crimes conducted against hyenas ? Thanks.

^^ Mainly satire, but I thought it said so in the Hiiraan article. Yeah, witchcraft is what says.

Xaafado ka mid ah magaalada Hargeysa ayaa, markale lagu arkay meydka Waraabe qoorta laga jaray oo lagu tuuray xaafad ka mid ah magaalada dhexdeeda, taas oo dadweynaha xaafaddaas argagax iyo baqdin gelisey. Sacre Bleu !!! This is the death of humanity in Hargeysa. What savagery ! What monstrous act of pure barbarity ! Wherefore the Peta's and the RSPCA's of the world ? Why the shameful silence in the face of this heinous beheading of a poor hyena minding his own business ? Confound it ! The people behind this crime are worser than animals, I say ! Worser than Hitler who fried 6 million Jews in his ovens. Worser than Pol Pot who built mountains made out of human skulls. Why, calling these sub-human organisms animals is a insult to animals themselves ! It is an insult to the mouse who calls my kitchen home ! It is an insult to the cockroach who unexpectedly crawled out of my Econ textbook one day in class(while I was sharing it with a classmate. Ouch.). Even animals are above this mindless savageness ! Hargeysans ! Will you let this stand, I ask you ? Picture the poor thing: A poor cuddly hyena, loved, respected, and honored, by man and beast alike; Big velvet eyes, fangs the size of fargeeto, hair the texture of sandpaper, didn't hurt nobody in his whole life(except maybe that infant he snatched while his mom slept). What has this over-grown rodent done to deserve such an injustice ? Who will take care of the baby hyenas he left behind ? Who will bring a carcass home ? Who will teach them how to scavenge ? How to slink around during darkness and prey on weak, the injured, and the wounded ? Oh the cruelty ! Oh the mindless violence ! Yet, the Satanic monsters who beheaded this nameless beautiful hyena didn't think about all that, they grabbed him and wiigwiigwiig, sawed his head off. That not being sufficient savagery for one day's work, they then desecrated his corpse , tossing it out in the middle of the street. This is wrong. This is not Islam. You simply do not kill animals, even if they are predators, even if they are attacking villages in packs. What you do is capture them, feed them, bathe them, give them a manicure, maybe even some of what Borat would call sexy-time, and just hold them prisoner, um, indefinitely,um, on your dime. Yes indeedy, thats the humane way to deal with rampaging hyenas. Beheading them, let alone touching a single coarse hair on their head is a evil crime against humanity. ___________________________________________________ Hope the satire is watered down enough for the sanctimonious 'La Barabarity!' mob to comprehend. Lemme know if it's too thick and I'll try to make it even more obvious, even at the risk of giving a lecture on decency & morality(funny that). Lol, Man, some folks never cease to amaze. If you wanna rail against the Resistance, if seeing them operating at free will in 70% of Somalia, 15 months after they were supposedly dealt a death blow, makes you want to jump online and fire off a few low-brow missives(feel better now ?), then do it with a little bit of sophistication, just a tad bit of style. I mean, do you wanna be Mark Penn, the laughingstock of Hillaryland mase you wanna be David Axelrod the genius behind the Obama Campaign ? Don't get me wrong: I don't mean to discourage you from being shameless twits with no scruples. That is who you are and you need to stay true to thyself. By all means, continue to laugh, mock, and gloat(master-play: ignore with a cynical blind eye, not my business) about the 2 million refugees stranded in the barren countryside, courtesy of a puppet government and its hegemonic masters. Whenever a Somali is murdered by the Tigray/TFG alliance, make sure you blame it on Al-Quwayda and the wadaads per the Golden Rule: Always blame Satan and the wadaads with the Red Cimaamads. Basically, consider this free political advice. I'm just propping y'all up for the inevitable day when Xabashis are kicked out and the TFG leadership are being hunted and hung from the tallest Qurac tree, one by one. If you're screaming like banshees on fire now, over the execution of 3 road bandits, how will you react when Cabdullahi "B!tch-slap" Yusuf is dangling from a rope, tongue all out, eyes bulging, yelling out his last words: "Zeeeenaaaaawiiiiii, you promised me this wouldn't haaaapppppppp....*goes limp*" Think about it, yo. Giving us pretentious lectures on 'humanity & decency'(as if ur the f'ing arbitrator) is counter-productive: It sheds light on the spectacular hypocrisy that makes you a moral sniveling midget when civilians are under under attack from a genocidal scorched-earth campaign, yet then amazingly morphs you into Mother Teresa when Road Hyenas receive their deserved street justice. I mean that is the type of awesome hypocrisy that is worthy of recognition. All in all, buckle ur seat belts, shit ain't even start poppin' off right yet, which is why you need to reserve some of that bubbly moral indignation for when, say, the Resistance shuts down pornographic cinemas(as it did in 2006). ^^ Chorus(one time now, all together): Sacre Blea !!! La Barbaric !! La Inhuman !! La Human rights violation !!

^^ Even more ludicrous than that. First the people -the rebels- must denounce violence and agree to join in on any peaceful resolution talks without silly conditions that cannot be met for whatever reasons. This is what he calls 'silly conditions'. Silly Condition #1: Stop killing us. Silly Condition #2: Stop raping us. Silly Condition #3: Stop blockading the food and medicine, charity from the Aid organisations. We want to live. Silly Condition #4: Get out of our cities, our farms, our villages. Get out of Somalia. Silly Condition #5: Stop destroying our buildings. Stop poisoning our waters. Stop burying nuclear waste in our soil. The sheer jaahil-nimo and epic, truly epic doqon-nimo spewed on these boards makes one wonder: Miyeey meer leeyaheen kuwaan ? or are their writings the product of a marqaan-high jaat-infested brain ?

^^ I stand by my every word. Matter of fact, I've probably been too understated and subtle. Feel free to call me on any part. You, on the other hand, have questioned my Islam and my character, all the while not making one single relevant point except blubbering about 'traitorous war criminals'. I urged you to apply as Zenawis foot-washer because you clearly stated that Ethiopia is 'our better choice'. Your words, u gotta accept the ridicule that comes with it. My argument in it's entirety is there for you to refute or challenge, if you think you are equipped to do so. If not, I'd happily debate a surrogate if you're not in the state of mind to put together a paragraph without flying off a tangent cursing and railing. I don't mind you calling me names, or cursing Shaykh Roobow(horteesa ma ka dahthid ? ) just come up with a tangible premise while you're blowing off steam. Multi-tasking aa la dahaa, abti. Uptill now, your argument boils down to: They shouldn't have been beheaded because a) they said the Shahaada(so did Pharaoh) b) they were peace-loving , respectful, honourable men(gag, wheezing cough, snicker) c) they were my cousins and I am steamin' mad. Not the most strongest of arguments, don'cha think ? Anyway, no worries, I'm not done with you yet, Consider yourself birito's quraac. All of your greatest hits on this thread waala kala dhig-dhigaa, not to score points, but to show you the depths that your grief has sunken you. You'll read it a few weeks/months down the line and thank me. Habeen wanaagsan.

^^ Sxb, I can't reason nor debate with you until you get a grip of your emotions. You're tryna make this personal. It's not. I don't have the time to engage in a "you are this and this" tit for tat sheeko ciyaaleed. Maybe on a lazy weekend, not tonight. Last chance before I hit the sack, what is your question sans emotions this time.

Man Friday, You are the captive of your misplaced grief, mourning, and anger. Sidaas darteeda, hathal-kaatha kasoo qaad malahan. Waa Rufical Qalam camal. In retrospect, Ilaahay sabir iyo Iimaan ha ku seeyo. That still doesn't change the fact that the road bandits richly deserved their just fate. You shouldn't take it personal tho. There's a scene in the show, The Wire, where Omar Little, a Robin Hood figure who robs drug dealers, is a witness for the prosecution against a drug-dealer. Goes like this: Defense lawyer for the drug-dealer: How many times have you been arrested as an adult, Mr. Little ? Omar: Shoot, I done lost count....*pauses*......enough to know not to take it personal. See, Man Friday, Omar gets it. Shit ain't personal. He steps on the streets every day knowing he can get shot, murdered, injured, or arrested and go to jail. Yet he's out there every day fully cognizant of the consequences of his career: robbing drug-dealers. And when he is decisions catch up to him, he doesn't b!tch and moan about barbarity and how life is unfair. As he puts it: It's all in the game, yo. That's what you and the rest of your dhabo-dhilif ilk need to understand. When y'all are getting harvested like corn, it ain't personal. When y'all are getting splattered with your eyes open, it ain't personal. When you see that light at the end of the tunnel, when you feel the death-rattle in your throat and your life flashes before your eyes, when you start begging to go back in life, for a chance, just one chance to do it all over again, to not be a murderin' dhabo-dhilif, to not be a traitorous war criminal, just remember one thing: It ain't personal. Ask this guy

^ No doubt, why waste bullets when you got a tooraay ? Sheeka ciyaaleed meesha ma taalo, wa gob dagaal, stand with the Xabashi enemy at your own peril is the clear message.

My thoughts are... Originally posted by Libaax-Sankataabte: To behead a soldier you must "capture" him first ( the capture makes him your prisoner ), take him somewhere safe, hold him by the head, get the knife while the captive waits .... and .... wiigwiigwiig ..... prisoner is dead. My thoughts are .... 1. You should not kill soldiers after you capture them. 2. Beheading is a cruel act. 1-Perhaps in a perfect world where armies face each other in a pitched battle of equal strength. Until then, let's dispense with the romantic view of warfare, especially guerrilla warfare. 2- Yes, indeedy. It is also cruel for the goats and sheep we slaughter and behead for Eid every year. Peta would have all such monsters prosecuted and thrown in jail for animal cruelty.

Yet another fruitless polemic without neither definitions nor starting point, only revealing the extent of our acculturation by Western inconsistencies Those bolded words by Abu Salman would explain away all the high-pitched screeching heard on this thread about the execution of 3 traitorous war criminals. Leave it to the liberal yuppie'fied refuges to leap from their chairs in contrived moral indignation and yell: "Barbarism ! Terrorism ! Anarchy ! Animals !" every time their newly-found Western sensibilities are offended. Wherefore all of that bubbling morality when Mogadisho was being razed to the ground ? Deafening silence. When hospitals were being bombarded by artillery because they dared treat members of the Resistance ? Sniveling quiet, only to be expected from moral midgets. When food and medicine was banned at gunpoint to reach the terrified refugees huddling under trees ? More of the same malaise. Meh. Bah. Hah. But let a Ethiopian soldier be dragged down the street by a traumatized crowd or a dhabo-dhilif moooriyaan get his just deserts and watch them race to fetch their soap-boxes and high horses. They will out-do themselves, each screeching at a higher pitch, to denounce this barbarity, this savageness, this...this..this(they're sputtering now). Simple question: Why ? Why the duplicity, the double-standards, the cherry-picking, the moral selectivity, the elastic disingenuous'ness. I thought it about it hard today and the answer lies in Abu Salman's quote: Acculturation by Western inconsistencies(keyword). They froth at the mouth simply because that is what their Western teachers would view as barbaric. In a bid to escape their qaxooti'ness, they have fully acclimatised themselves to Western mores and values. Beheading is barbaric, but carpet-bombing is the civilized way. Check. Female Genital Mutilation is barbaric but abortion is the civilized way. Check. Stoning is barbaric but STDs are civilized(and sexy). Check and Check. And so on and so forth. At every juncture and at every crossroads, they take their pointers on what's hot and what's not, what's cool and what's played out, what's civilized and what's barbaric, not from common sense, not from humanitarian perspective, not from any stretch of logical reasoning, but from Western (pop) culture. That is their trump card. That makes up their mind for them. I don't really blame them. They came their as qaxootis, refugees with little or nothing to their names, and got a home, education, and a new(superior) culture to appreciate. So la yaab malahan, when somebody like Ngonge tries to give us a lecture on decency & morality even as he turns a blind cynical eye to the horrors of the Ethiopian occupation. La yaab malahan, when he defends the Iraqi war& occupation as just and right(as anybody who knows the search button can find out). Their ignorance, malaise, and hypocrisy has more to do with the environment and culture they aspire to become part of rather than any willful malice or ill-will on their end. Originally posted by -Lily-: I don't think you have to loose your humanity to make a point, and beheding the enemy, even if he does it on a daily basis, makes you a little less human. It is barbaric. Beautiful. No rationale, no warrants, no supporting evidence. It is barbaric simply because Lily said so. Beheading the enemy that has come to kill you, occupy you, terrorize you, and ethnically cleanse you is barbaric. And it makes you less of a human. Thus spake Lily ! Marka Lily, you gave us your opinion, right ? Beheading is barbaric. Jameel. Is there anything I can tell you that will change your mind ? Nothing ? Is that your final answer ? What if I tell you that in the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush administration and top CIA officials routinely asked for "Bin-Ladens head in an ice-box". Matter of fact, in Ron Suskinds latest book, he writes that a head was decapitated from it's body and sent to Washington because they thought it was Zawahari's. Not so barbaric after all, is it ? Now that the paragon of virtue(Western morality and media) has condoned it and accepted it ? Have you ever stopped to think why in the Western world, something like beheading a war criminal would be considered barbaric, but something even more horrendous is considered a woman's right ? How does executing a war criminal after you've given him fair and repeated warnings compare to sticking a sharp metal instrument up a woman's reproductive tract and piercing the skull of a 9 month baby ? You may disagree with that(or not), but dare you call it barbaric...at school ? at work ? at the shopping mall ? Excuse me if I come across sarcastic or sardonic, but the hubris and tortured rationalizations put forth on this thread are a bit too thick for my liking. Here is why the execution by decapitation of the 3 road bandits is just, deserved, and commendable: a) After the Somali shacab in the Hiiraan, Bay, and Bakool areas suffered tremendously over the past 15 months of occupation at the hands of the road-block manning thugs, who would terrorize, rape, and extort the civilians passing by those areas, the Resistance mounted a series of mopping up operations that cleansed the roads from these moooriyaaan. In the latest operation, they liberated Diinsoor, dismantled the road-blocks and left town. A few days later, the TFG thugs were back, this time under the protection of Etho armour, and they set-up their road-blocks, again. b) Seeing that see-saw back and forth(liberate a town, TFG comes slinking back under Etho protection), about two weeks ago, Shaykh Rooboow announced that any Tigray/TFG soldier found manning a Isbaaro(road-block) would be beheaded. "Waa qowrac" in his own words. This was a brilliant move, a deterrence factor that would make any TFG war criminal think twice before continuing their reign of terror on the public. The Resistance gave repeated warnings to that effect. c)They came, they saw, and sho' nuff', these mooriiyaan were chilling at their road-blocks waiting for the next hapless civillian to pass by to feast on. Well, they got had, executed via beheading, 3 guilty war criminals manning a illegal road-block used for extortion and rape.(Go ahead, ask me for 'proof' that they were war criminals, they were just tryna feed their families, right ?) d)The 'rules of war' do not apply to road bandits masquerading as soldiers, that kill, rape, pillage, and plunder for fun. The Geneva Conventions are a moot point here. e) Historical Precedent: Salaah-el-Deen, famed Muslim warrior and King personally beheaded Raynald of Chatillon a man who, just like our TFG road bandits, preyed on the caravans of the weak and innocent. But I guess he was just barbaric per Lillian logic. The West would like to disagree with you this time. They view Saladin as courageous, noble, and magnanimous. You see, Saladin, being that thoroughbred that he is, knew that you afforded mercy, respect, and compassion to those who were worthy of it, be they friend or foe. But when you are dealing with scum of the earth that go after civilians, all bets are off, you put them down as harshly as possible, to set an example and to act as an deterrent. It worked. No more Raynald monsters dared attacked any caravans after that. d) I could go on and on, but I believe I made my case. Nothing barbaric or evil or inhumane about beheading road bandits. Let it be a sign to every aspiring dhabo-dhilif who wishes to earn a quick buck at the expense of the Somali people. Your head will say salaam to your shoulders.

Point taken, Farax-ow, but all of Somalia has lost and suffered and is still suffering dearly. Much more than Jimcaale ever will. What I strongly object to was the level of hypocrisy and ignorance in his posts on this thread. Which came as a complete suprise because Jimcaale/Ducaqabe in all his other posts was firmly on the side of the Xaq and Justice. So what made him do a complete 180 degree turnaround ? The death of his cousin(s) ? Men who at best were mercenaries trying to feed their families by being willful tools in the hand of the enemy, and at worst(and this is more likely) being active partakers in the xasooq, the rape, the pillage of the weak and the innocent. They stand guilty in both cases. No amount of is-qancis and argumentative gymnastics can justify standing shoulder to shoulder with subjugating enemy. EVEN IF IT IS TO FEED YOUR FAMILY. Will you feed your kids by putting bullets in the fathers and mothers of other kids ? He then clearly went into cuckoo-land when he called Ethiopia 'the better choice' for Somalia. The victims of Xabashi bombardment and xasooq lie writhing in pain because of their wounds and lack of medicine in the hospitals of Mogadisho as we speak, and Man Friday here just converted to the Tigray/TFG cult philosophy.......because his Moooriiyaan cousin got whacked. What was he doing when he got whacked ? Manning a Isbaaro used to rape women passing by and extort money from the impoverished shacab. These are the men he calls 'peace-loving, honourable, and respectful'. Qof-ka hadoo marba xishood-ka ka tago, malaga qaleeyo, waloo dhameeyaa. Grief and mourning can never be an excuse for speaking like that. It wouldn't fly on the ground, it won't fly on cyber-space. More on this and the rest of crap(can't call it reasoning) Jimcaale dropped on this thread later...