Rebuttal of Clanish Wailers

[baalcade]

Rebuttal of Clanish Wailers

 

Africa, Unite 'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon and we're going to our father's land

 

How good and how pleasant it would be

Before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans, yeah

 

Bob-Marley and the Wailers

 

The word Wailer means "a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries". Today, in Somalia, we should all be wailers; not only the few individuals listed in the article that carries the misleading title " Clannish Wailers ".

 

 

 

We should all be Wailers, not the Wailers of Bob-Marley, because:

 

 

 

1. Those of us who write in these forums

and talk about the issues of Somalia are

refugees in foreign lands. Most of us have

not visited our country for the last 17

years. Most of us have no intention of ever

going back there. Most of us are on welfare

while many of us work in jobs that pay the

minimum wage. A large number of our PhD

holders drive taxis in dangerous

neighborhoods in the West.

 

2. Our kids speak all the languages of the world

but are unable to speak their mother tongue.

Many of them languish in jails as a result of

broken families supported mostly by single

mothers.

 

3. Most of our folks back home live on meager

remittances they receive from overseas

supplemented by meager incomes earned by

women who toil all day under the burning sun

unable to drink water to avoid the call of

nature and as a result suffer from all kinds

of urinary tract infections.

 

4. Most of our people are addicts of a drug

called Qat that drains our country of

millions of dollars needed to rebuild and

rehabilitate. These millions pour into the

coffers of our enemy,

 

5. Our passport is a worthless piece of paper

that prompts most of us to travel with

foreign passports that are met with raised

eyebrows at every airport we use.

 

6. We have become the laughing-stock of the

whole world, and those who do not despise us

pity us.

 

7. We watch the news indifferently when it

carries the now too-familiar pictures of

women and children who drown daily in the

high seas fleeing from all parts of Somalia

including Somaliland that is painted by some

of us as a paradise on earth.

 

8. We are ruled by an enemy who wants to divide

our country into pieces. Some of us welcome

him with open arms, open trade offices for

him and offer him our ports to import his

goods. Some of us die with him in the same

trenches killing our own people. Some of us

exploit the refugees the enemy displaces and

make them pay for the trees under which they

seek shelter.

 

9. We chase away Somali born journalists from

our cities, jail freedom fighters from the

****** and hand them over to our ruthless

enemy.

 

10. We use colonial tactics to divide and rule

each other. We turn brother against brother,

father against son and fight each other to

reach fictitious borders erected by a

departed imperialist with the help of money

supplied by oil companies and foreign spy

agencies

 

11. We hate each other, despise each other, wish

ill for each other ignoring all the

instructions of our Quran and Suna.

 

The reasons for becoming wailers are endless and cannot be covered in a short article like this one.

 

Unfortunately, nowadays, unionists who try to defend and lobby for the unity of their people are Wailers while secessionists who are bent on dividing them and erecting barriers among them, with the help of our enemies, are heroes.

 

The Wailer article fails to appreciate the gravity of the situation in Northern Somalia by downplaying the resolutions of the traditional leaders of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn to go to war, if necessary, to evict the Somaliland forces from their city. As we speak, they are mobilizing thousands of their young boys to prepare for a prolonged war that may eventually transform into a clan war. The writer of Wailers has been misled into believing that all Soolis support the occupation of Las Anod. He tries to promulgate that myth. The fact is that most Soolis are opposed to the Somaliland aggression. The mostly fiercely independent nomadic herdsmen have no loyalty to Administrations and their local collaborators. Their loyalty is to their traditional leaders and those leaders have spoken clearly.

 

To express our concern and expect a devastating civil-war in the North is not clan motivated as the writer would lead us to believe. Such concern is based on close knowledge of the area and its people. It is based on concern for the fathers and mothers who stand to lose their loved ones. It stems from our concern for the Nomads who stand to lose his herds and/or the right to graze and water them without let or hindrance. It stems from the potential reaction of the thousands of refugees who fled their city and are lurking around its outskirts bent on seeking revenge against those they hold responsible for their plight.

 

In this day and age, people cannot be forced to join a cause they do not believe in. That era is gone forever. Even if 50% of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn residents voluntarily elect to join Somaliland, who can force the other 50% to follow suit? This reminds me of the Quebecois who were split in the referendum to separate from Canada. The secessionists failed to attain the 51% required for the split just as Somaliland would most probably fail to obtain such a percentage in an internationally supervised referendum.

 

The arguments used in the Wailer article for dividing Somalia into cantons are not practical to say the least. Where do we stop and draw the line? The creation of cantons like Somaliland, Darwishland, Makhir Coast Land, Puntland, Hiiranland, BanaadirLand, JubaLand is not the answer. Even demarcating such borders would be a night mare. At the same time, old colonial borders will not solve the problem. They are history and fell with the departure of those who used them to divide Somalia and they can never come back.

 

Finally, Secessionists normally delegate mercenaries to lobby on their behalf to convince foreign countries to recognize and acknowledge their cause. The Wailer article is a welcome break from that trend. Unionists, unlike Secessionists, welcome healthy debate that is based on facts and common sense. Secessionists usually resort to nasty emails, name-calling and character assassination . Let us hope that this wailer article heralds a serious Somali debate between the proponents and opponents of breaking up the Somali Republic and desecrating the Blue Flag.

 

Statements like "Somaliland is forever" will not get us anywhere. We need to work towards win-win situations that guarantee all Somalis a stable future that helps them come back from the Cold and raise their children to speak their native tongue.

 

Ali H. Abdulla

 

Source: http://www.awdalnews.com/wmview.php?ArtID=9723

[General Duke]

Not bad at all. Secessionist talk way too much.

[RedSea]

This article doesnt even compare to the one which is replying to. The author oo qoray waxba iskuma hayo. The original article kicked butt big time.

[General Duke]

^^^Obviously a secessionist is talking about clan wailing when they whole region is but one clan who have a complex and inferiority complex against a multi clan Somalia.

 

lol

[RedSea]

You don't see me protest against any qabiil, so why are you?

 

I think it shows who really is suffering from such complex that you mentioned.

[General Duke]

^^^lool. I am not protesting against anything, the title of your article was "clan wailers" hence my remarks. A secessionist movement built around one clan should not complain about wailing.. Kapish

[RedSea]

You are jelous that you are unable to do what Somaliland has done. You can't even save Puntland from itself.

 

Somaliland is holding multi clans together and are co existing peacefully.

 

In Puntland you have 1 clan( 1 sub clan kinda) and yet they can't get along. One of which just recently declared Maakhirland.

 

ps. I challenge Puntland to change hands peacefully without violence and I challenge them to appoint someone from Arab S. clan. That is what Somaliland has done.

[General Duke]

^^What nonsence, Puntland over the past 17 years has been more peaceful than Somaliland.

We had our Jama Vs Yeye, but it was less bloody than your Tuur Vs Egaal. Adeer I was not born yesterday I remmeber when there were battles inside Hargaysa and the airport was cloosed down and a major clan was chased out of Burco to Yarowe. I remmeber that war and Egaal's bloody and costly victory and how your founding father Tuur went to Mogadishu and renounced Somaliland and ended up working for Aydeed.

 

Adeer Puntland is part of Somalia and yet managed to face off major threats from USC Aydeed, Egaals secessionists and from Al-Itixad.

Even when we fought it was small and decisive since our troops were led by Yey and Jama/cade were reasonable men.

 

Puntland is made up many clans but it's core value is Somaliweyn.

 

again tell the history to someone else, democracy lool.

[RedSea]

I like how you avoid the real issue at steak.

 

 

Somaliland has managed to unite AFTER those bloody and cosly battles. They have chosen to rally behind Igal and still voted him in as their President. Pretty incredible thing isn't it?

 

Now for Puntland and how it has failed to function as hoped. The state of Maakhirland was declared because they had enough with you folks.

 

The folks in Sool had enough thus Xaabsade switched sides just to kick Cadde muse militia out of Las Anod.

 

Somaliland not only managed to unite all of its clans but has even won support from those you considered 'reer Puntland' which is funny.

 

It's like you coming to Burco to win support from Burcawis. You can never pull that off.

 

Faan faan aside, Puntland needs to be saved TODAY. Their are human smugglin going on, kidnapping of journalists etc...

 

It's choatic.

[General Duke]

Red Sea, as long as you do not claim "Somaliland has been safer in terms of wars"

 

As for Makhir, thats the beauty of our system, Puntland is not a country but part of Somalia and hence Makir, Sool and others can go their own way as long as they are part of the Somali republic. Puntland itself might be dissolved in the future and changed.

 

Our aim has always been to unite the Somali state and thats what is happening now. Puntland iS secure enough and its founder is today the head of the TFG bringing order to the south.

 

Today the whole of the North East is united with Mogadishu, Baidoa and the south. ONE FLAG, ONE NATIONAL LEADER ONE CAPITAL

 

Even Makhir which might want to move away from cade is movuing towards Yey and the TFG.

 

The SSC is pro Somaliweyn, even Xabsade is just making money he is anti secessionist so are all those people of his clan in Hargaysa.

If Tuur never belived in Somaliland who will

 

All these people are watching Mogadishu and when its calmed they will rush there. There is no Somaliland and only fools belive in such nonsence.

 

Thus Makhir, SSC, Puntland = TFG which is my whole point. Kapish.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

8. We are ruled by an enemy who wants to divide our country into pieces. Some of us welcome

him with open arms, open trade offices for

him and offer him our ports to import his

goods. Some of us die with him in the same

trenches killing our own people. Some of us

exploit the refugees the enemy displaces and

make them pay for the trees under which they

seek shelter.

Soomaali walba should read this paragraph again and again.

[xiinfaniin]

^^Qaar baan laqi karin oo u baahan in lagu dul aqriyo!

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Quraansaar miyaa. Tahliisha adiga kasoo biloow dhankaaga hee, aan aniga xaaqo tuf ah ugu daree.

[General Duke]

lool. Somalia is not occupied, thats a redundent argument. Ethiopia, Uganda and Burundi are not occupaying, much like those looters and IndaCade are not liberating.

 

But hey those who like vision will stik to the layman's argument.

[RedSea]

^Somalia isn't occupied.

 

Duke,

 

You do know that Somalia is a country which has international borders correct? You do realize that a country like Ethiopia cannot simply send in military personal to another country without the consent of

 

1. AU

2. EU

3. UN

4. most importantly, the somali people.

 

Ethiopia had none of that, so it's invasion. If not what else is it? peace keeping mission, oh pleasse!