Kashafa Posted April 10, 2008 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..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacpher Posted April 10, 2008 I never knew Yoow-Malaku-Towba existed before you and I never knew they'd solicit towba online. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
