Mowlid Macaane, Faysal Haji Elmi, Said Mugambe, Mohamed I.Yabarow(Wiish) : RIP From left: Mowlid Macaane, Faysal Haji Elmi, Said Mugambe, Mohamed I.Yabarow(Wiish) By Abdurahman Hosh Jibril Sunday, April 08, 2012 It is with a sense of sadness and rage that I write this piece. It is sad and outrageous that we have lost Mowlid Macaane, MP, Faysal Haji Elmi, Said Mugambe, Mohamed I.Yabarow(Wiish), dedicated men of service and peace to the actions of members of a murderous homegrown, foreign inspired and foreign imposed Al-qaida outfit, that now must be understood clearly seeks a macabre thrill in the snuffing out of innocent lives. It is also tragic that the Alshabab, an out and out national and international outlaw group is still coating its rhetoric in Islamic theological justifications when all its actions are anti-life, anti-peace and hence anti-Islam. The latter could only happen because we failed to brand it as an international criminal anarchist organization, no different if not worse than the Mafia, international drug cartels or pirates who are all enemies of humanity. I had met MP Mowliid Macaane as soon as I joined the TFG last July. Abukar Osman Balle, former chief of staff to PM Farmajo informed me that like him and I, Mowlid was also from Jowhar, a fact that piqued my interest. We met a few times and on those rare occasions we met in Mogadishu, he had one topic that he wanted to register in my mind: that the 4.5 formula is inherently unfair and also racist. Mowlid belonged to the Jareer (Bantu) clan that straddle along the banks of the two rivers, Shabelle and Juba; yet the MP always referred to his clan as Jareer Weyne (Greater Jareer clan) to emphasize the fact that his clan was not actually a minority, numerically speaking, and the fact that the status quo with respect to the place of his community in Somali society was no longer tenable and some change needed to be made for the better. He did have a point. The Jareer community has had its full share of civil strife and violence within the calumny that befell the Somali public in the last 20 years; but it also bore the brunt of the civil war, more than any other group, as unarmed group that has historically been discriminated and denigrated as less than second class citizens. Yet on the 4.5 power sharing formula, the Jareer Weyne and all the other constituent communities within the so-called point-five clan or "other", the numbers game does not add up. In the absence of any census clearly mapping out clan demography, a good guestimate would be that the cumulative population of the constituent communities within the point-five clan may well be bigger than the main charter clans, individually or separately taken. He also had a knack for cleverly delivering his political messages with a nod to dramaturgy. I was told that he once stood up in parliament and asked the rhetorical question as to whether people see in him standing as a full man or a half a man or point five man!. True to his human rights defender form: RIP Faysal Haji Elmi, may Allah bless his soul, despite our age difference, was a close friend of mine. I had met him in June 2011 at the home of MP, Khadija Mohamed Dirie, another Jowhar hometown buddy and a fierce gender equity activist. Almost instantly we connected and it turned out I already knew many of his siblings, such as Asha, Amina and Faahim. After I joined the TFG, Faysal began work at the office of the PM Abdiwali as a community outreach director but he also closely worked with me and my Ministry because he cared about reconciliation and communal understanding. He spoke, breathed and dreamt about peace and he had such exuberance for life and unlimited capacity for accommodating people and building bridges. Moreover, Faysal had friends all over and made new friends by the day and if you knew him you would, as I have, become part of a vast network of great people from all clans and communities. When I heard the news last night, I literally cried and then reflected on why we are killing off our best, our most dedicated people to the cause of life and peace; why Faysal who preached peace.RIP Of the remaining martyrs Said Mungambe and Wiish, I had only known Said Mungambe. Yet both of them were sports icons who also contributed to sports development in the service of peace during the civil war. If you were connected and had your ears close to the ground, you would realize that the deceased pair organized one sports event or tournament, training etc after another and together they were fixtures in a field that has become an orphan as a result of the statelessness and lack of governance structures during the civil war. The two of them fit the bill of the Somali sports community where you will find the greatest pool of peace mongers, more than any other segment in our community. I have come to know Said Mungambe through his brother Ali Biit, a friend since my teen years. I last ran into him at a restaurant in Mogadishu about three weeks ago and after we exchanged pleasantries and greetings, Mungambe and I began to talk about an issue we discussed before: peace themed sports tournaments throughout Somalia, and then we parted and promised to reconnect. I hope others within the sports community would take up on that promise and hope. RIP As I attended the funeral of Mowlid and Faysal today, I made a mental note of a surge of hope because I could tell among the people attending the funeral a sense of outrage and disgust with the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. I also could not help but remember Redemption Songs: "How long Shall they Kill Our Prophets................." I conclude by extending my heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the deceased martyrs and pray that Allah bestow them with patience and forbearance. Amen! Abdirahman Hosh Jibril is the Somali Minister of Constitution and Reconciliation. Mr. Hosh can be reached at abdihosh1@gmail.com

Showqi....This was vibrant peaceful town before the occupiers come! AUN intii dhimatay.

Juxa..Alpha gabar uraadi lol

Wadani;816108 wrote: Whats so funny? Ofcourse im looking for love, im a heterosexual male. Ma kuwa teamka kale u ciyaaraad tahay taloo? .you have insecurity issues or overcompendating. The sister didn't say anything about the other team.

I am goin next year

Norf-for those who know to navigate, Xamar is full of opportunities now granted things continue to improve.

Alla ha unaxariisto

Somali territories is Somalia.

An act of necessity or political maturity, either way welcomed change.

lol@blessed

Tfg supporters at each other's throats:-)

Bob...Maya duqa Nuune asoo wax hubin iskama dhaho ama afka kama soo xado. lool@Nuune...war meesha inaa booqdo waaya marka. I am assuming these were Westerners not Maryooley from Kenya.

Xaa tiri Nuune, Bikinis and Somali girls waa kow. I need tan:D

Guurso

Hogwash, lets be brave to say what you mean peace.

I am guessing about by society, you mean Qabiil. And no Amiir didn't hit back at any Qabiil. He's only mocking politicians and their actions.

loool....I guess they had little more imagination.

^That actually made laugh LOL

^Reer Marka will hang you for calling him Al-Markaawi.

Waa Guul

Naxar Nugaaleed;815074 wrote: am certain there are other ways for woman to go about it. There's certainly but many big deals in industry are made behind scenes in the good old boy's club. Considering the number of powerful men in the club, many decisions made in this informal settings have tremendous effect on the economy and politics. It's more than mere networking.

Couldn't resist:D

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CEO revives Augusta no-women membership debate (CBS/AP) As a club that prides itself on tradition, Augusta National has unwittingly wound up in the middle of a membership debate it thought it was done with nearly a decade ago. Just seven days before the Masters, no less. The last four chief executives of IBM — a longtime corporate sponsor of the Masters — have been members of the exclusive golf club in Augusta, Ga. The latest CEO of the computer giant happens to be a woman. Virginia Rometty was appointed this year. One problem — a woman has never worn a member's green jacket since Augusta National opened in 1933. "I think they're both in a bind," Martha Burk said Thursday evening. Masters: Burk among top 10 most influential people Burk spearheaded a campaign 10 years ago for the club to admit a female member, applying pressure on just about everyone connected with the club and with the Masters, the major championship that garners the highest TV ratings. She demanded that four companies drop their television sponsorship because of discrimination. She lobbied PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem not to recognize the Masters as part of the tour schedule. But it didn't work. Hootie Johnson, chairman of the club back then, said Augusta might one day have a female member, but it would be on the club's timetable, and "not at the point of a bayonet." The protest fizzled in a parking lot down the street during the third round of the 2003 tournament. Now it's back, and this time it has a face — Rometty, a 31-year veteran of IBM who has been ranked among the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune magazine the last seven years. Rometty was No. 7 last year. What's the next step? Augusta National declined to comment, keeping with its policy of not discussing membership issues. IBM has not commented publicly, and did not return a phone call Thursday night. "IBM is in a bigger bind than the club," Burk said. "The club trashed their image years ago. IBM is a corporation. They ought to care about the brand, and they ought to care about what people think. And if they're not careful, they might undermine their new CEO." Augusta has a new chairman in Billy Payne, who ran the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. When he replaced Johnson as chairman of the club and of the Masters tournament in 2006, he said there was "no specific timetable" for admitting women. The question was raised at the 2007 and 2010 Masters. Both times, Payne said membership issues were private. CBSports.com senior golf columnist Steve Elling says Rometty provides Augusta National the perfect opportunity to end its policy for good. He predicts that Payne offers Rometty a membership -- a few days after the Masters ends next week. "She shows up at the tournament in 2013 in green, after the gender issue has died down," Elling writes. "That way, the club avoids the appearance that Payne has been backed into a corner or forced into making an accommodation." Elling: Augusta National faces potential double whammy with membership policy Rometty succeeds Sam Palmissano at IBM, which runs the Masters' website from the bottom floor of the media center. According to a list published by USA Today in 2002, the previous three CEOs also were members — Louis Gertsner, John Akers and John Open. As the corporate sponsors became the target, Johnson wound up doing away with TV sponsorship for two years at the Masters to keep the corporate partners — IBM, Coca-Cola and Citigroup — out of the fray. Only IBM returned as a TV sponsor for the 2005 Masters. The others were SBC Communications and ExxonMobil. Continue

Naxar...She will be invited if not already. IBM is sponsoring the Masters and CEO of the Sponsor is automatically invited since it's their purse paying for the Masters. And traditionally, all industry titans are invited even if the CEO is not member. Blessed....Members of the club are CEOs of every industry and other influential figures. This is where the deals are made. It's really about access to power and money not so much chatting with bunch of old white guys.