Mohamed Abdillahi Saad, an even worse plagiarist

[Riyaale Kahim]

Mohamed Abdillahi Saad, an even worse plagiarist

 

Barely a week after Jama Elmi was caught plagiarizing by Ahmed Dirie, an other "author", Abdillahi Mohamed Saad, who was bragging around recently about the quality of his English, has been using the same technique of copy and paste.To prove the case, let's examine the same strange similarities between the recents article of Mr Saad and the content of various websites

 

 

Table 1: Similarities between Abdillahi Mohamed Saad first article, Electoral injustice in Somaliland, http://www.somaliweyn.com/pages/poems/Nov_05/14Nov5.htm

and University of Toronto test case,

http://www.lawlib.utoronto.ca/testcase/gpbackground.htm

 

 

Electoral injustice in Somaliland University of Toronto test case

 

“Our current system of electoral injustice is not justified, as some would say, on the basis that it promotes stability, avoids political upheaval observed in many parts in Africaâ€

“Similarly, our current system of electoral injustice is not justified, as some would say,! on the basis that it promotes stability, and avoids the political upheaval observed in other countries like Israel and Italyâ€

 

“This alleged justification is embarrassingly vulnerable to the facts, which demo! nstrates that such instability is the result of factors in the political environment of these countries which are not duplicated in Somalilandâ€

“This alleged justification is embarrassingly vulnerable to the facts, which demonstrates that such instability is the result of factors in the political environment of the! se countries which are not duplicated in Canadaâ€

 

“In almost every democratic country in the world election laws are based on the principal of proportionality , in which the constituencies are represented in parliament in accordance with the percentage of! votes each receives.â€

“In almost every other democratic country, election laws are based on the principle of proportionality, in which parties are represented in Parliament in accordance with the percentage of votes each receives.â€

 

“The electoral system of Somaliland suffers a huge democratic deficit . it strikingly misrepresents the popular will of the people.â€

“Second, our electoral system, paradoxically, suffers a huge democratic deficit. It strikingly misrepresents the popular will in Parliamentâ€

 

 

 

Table 2: Similarities between Abdillahi Mohamed Saad first article, Electoral injustice in Somaliland, http://www.somaliweyn.com/pages/poems/Nov_05/14Nov5.htm and Women and politics in South Australia, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/spence2.htm

 

 

Electoral injustice in Somaliland Women and politics in South Australia

 

“A state in a pure democracy, draws no ... distinctions between man and man ... but conceives that all who form the community shall have a right to share in its representation...views every man as politically equal.

“But the State in a pure democracy, draws no ... distinctions between man and man ... but ... conceives that all who form the community shall have a right to share in its representation ... views every man as politically equalâ€

 

“Political equality I understand to be something very different from the common

views of it. It does not mean that if one man holds an opinion that is popular it shall be of use to him in obtaining a representative; while another man's which is unpopular, shall be of no use to him whatever. It means this--that every man's vote shall have it's weigh , wherever he may live, and whatever tribe or clan he may belong toâ€

'Political equality I understand to be something very different from the common views of it. It does not mean that if one man holds an opinion that is popular it shall be of use to him in obtaining a representative; while another man's, which is unpopular, shall be of no use to him whatever. It means this—that every man's vote shall have its weight, wherever he may live, and whatever majority or minority he may belong to

 

“Injustice rectifies nothing. it is an evil everywhere and always.â€

“Injustice rectifies nothing. It is an evil everywhere and alwaysâ€

 

“Majorities will always continue to rule; we only plead for more accurate system of recording votes, so that we may ascertain how great the majority ought to beâ€

“majorities always will con! tinue to rule; we only plead for a more accurate system of recording votes, so that we may ascertain how great the majority ought to be.â€

 

 

 

Table 3: Similarities between the website Rhetorica http://rhetorica.net/bias.htm

and Abdillahi Mohamed Saad second article, The Bannana republic and the media biais http://www.hiiraan.com/op/eng/2005/nov/Abdullaahi_Cunaaye131105.htm

 

 

The Bannana republic and the media biais Rhetorica

 

“No matter how much we try to ignore it, human communications always takes place in a context through a medium. In addition, among individuals and groups who are situated historically, politically and economically. This state of affairs is neither good nor badâ€

"No matter how much we may try to ignore it, human communication always takes place in a context, through a medium, and among individuals and groups who are situated historically, politically, economically, and socially.This state of affairs is neither good nor bad"

 

“The media, too speak from political positionsâ€

"Journalists, too, speak from political positions"

 

“A professssional journalist attempts to be objective by two methods:

1) Fairness to those concerned with the news, and; 2) a professional process of information gathering that seeks fairness, completeness, and accuracy"

"Instead, a journalist attempts to be objective by two methods: 1) fairness to those concerned with the news and 2) a professional process of information gathering that seeks fairness, completeness, and accuracy"

 

 

"Politicians are certainly biased and overtly so. They belong to parties and espouse policies and ideologies"

"Politicians are certainly biased and overtly so. They belong to parties and espouse policies and ideologies."

 

“Bias is a small word that identifies the collective influences"

“Bias is a small word that identifies the collective influences"

 

The journalistic ethics of objectivity and fairness

“The journalistic ethics of objectivity and fairness:â€

 

 

 

 

 

Table 4: Simila! rities between the website Attacking the demi-puppets, (http://kingwenclas.blogspot.com/2005/05/arguments-of-our-critics.html) and Abdillahi Mohamed Saad third article, A Rebuttal to Faysal Dirie's Response to Bannana Republic,

http://www.hiiraan.com/op/eng/2005/nov/Abdillahi_Mohamed_Saad291105.htm

 

 

A Rebuttal to Faysal Dirie's Response to Bannana Republic ! Attacking the demi-puppets

 

"but instead an obscure group of writers without resources at the edge of a far away galaxy"

"but instead an obscure group of writers without resources at the edge of a far away galaxy"

 

â€perhaps is not the ferocity of your anger but the narrowness of your focus that causes so much angst among those who disagree with youâ€

“Perhaps it is not the ferocity of your anger but the narrowness of your focus that causes so much angst among those who disagree with you.â€

 

"an army of lit-establishment flunkies"

"an army of lit-establishment flunkies"

 

"who sit at the center of literary universe, holding the levels of power"

"who sit at the center of literary universe, holding the levels of power"

 

"army of insane demi-puppets"

"army of insane demi-puppets"

 

"! I'm portrayed as having'

"I'm portrayed as having'

 

“We are not postmodernists who seek to live among a blanket of lies. Literature will renew itself only if it re-offers its greatest asset: the truth. This concept has been lost in Somalilandâ€

“We're not postmodernists who seek to live among a blanket of lies. Literature will renew itself only if it re-offers its greatest asset: the truth. This concept has been lostâ€

 

 

 

Now I understand why Saad reacted with anger about his poor command of the English language. Saad has just peppered his first article (The banana republic and the media biais) with so many borrowed sentenced to toughen up his English and yet the weakness of the text could be easily detected.

Saad,author, a well known promoter of tribal hatred in Ottawa, was so eager to sho! w that he cut and pasted entire paragraphs in order to show off. I understand now why the point of the author could not be understand, Saad was only trying to impress people with borrowed sentences and stolen expressions with no regard to the overall signification.

 

Furthermore there is Abdillahi Mohamed Saad inability to convey faithfully his opinions. Usually late learners of English like Mr Saad who is primarily a Francophone,can master the art of spelling but are often inadequately equipped to provide the appropriate syntax to their contentions. For example, the author is casting himself as a die-hard Somailander and will still side with ! people denying the very existence of Somaliland like Said Samatar. At the same time, the author is whining about the shifting allegiance of his clansmen (Awdalites as he call them) but without specifying what DEFINING ISSUE should lead the Awdalites to be against Somaliland. Moreover, the author contends that "he will never call himself a Somalilander", further contradicting the "die-hard Somalilander" of the previous article. Bottom line, Mr Saad is a die-hard Somalilander who will never call himself a Somalilander, who used to support Somaliland in 2000 but subsequently reversed hiss stance because his fellow awdalites decided to do so. Either this man is mentally sick or betrayed by the quality of his English.

 

 

Mohamed Sougal

Ottawa, Canada