Skeletons In A Somali Closet: The National Curse

[Nur]

From The 2003 e-Nuri Archives

 

 

e-Nuri PRESENTS:

 

 

Skeletons In A Somali Closet:

Our Collectively Earned National Curse

 

A sensitive topic, please do not read under the influence of Qaat, jaad, or under its effect known as Mirqaan( in the evening) or Qaadiro ( in the Morning) if you can tell the difference.

 

 

Nurtel News Release.

 

 

Scientist studying the social evils in the former Somali Republic's splinter tribal reservations are on the verge of deciphering the first and most important code of a chain of causes that resulted in the fragmentation of the nation state.

 

Nurtel Social Engineering Department Chief Dr. Talosame, has postulated that:

 

1. Somalia was made up of three Social Classes

 

a. The Religious Class ( similar to the Brahmas in India)

 

b. The Warrior Class ( like the Sikhs in India)

 

c. Technocrats Class( Like the outcasts in India)

 

 

The prosperity of any society depends in the proper interfaces and relationships of its citizens. The better the relationship, the better their progress, stronger their defenses and happier.

 

The Somali religious class were like planners and lawmakers in the modern world, the religious class motivated society to do good and help stop evil and crime. When this class did its job well, other social groups follow suit.

 

The Warrior class were like the military in modern world, their job started and ended with hostilities, Before politics was invented in Somalia, the Religious Class represented by a wadaad with a cane helped reconcile hostilities or blessed wars depending on his conviction and at time for his tribe's interest. So, the wadaad served as a fuse or a control mechanism for the warrior class who were trained only to kill effiveiently, but had no other intellectual capabilities beyond spilling blood.

 

The Technocrats Class, the skillful artisans and tradesmen who produced all consumable goods and services, everything from shoes to building materials used to be the backbone of the Somali society. This class represented the economical engine of our society, if we allowed them to function properly, gave them the same respect technocrats enjoy in Silicone Valley Tecnology corridor, the Somali nation would have prospered.

 

 

The Present

 

 

Today, in Somalia, the Religious scholars are busy fighting to protect themselves, the warriors class are busy in politics and the skillfull technocrats left their trade after being despised for working with metallurgy and leatherworks. To insult the artisan class, Somalis invented some folklore stories that the the technocrats used to eat non halaal products, which was supposed to have made them inferior(I know Somalis who would eat anything haraam, One Of The The Bad 9 Warlords in Somalia has a name to the effect Xaaraan Ku Naax, correction sought from active anarchists who can read this post ) .

 

In Doofaarrey, Kenya, the Noble Somali tribes are convening a national salvation meeting in a town named after the Pig, a befitting name for the warrior class who subjugated their brethern Technocrats. In Doofaarrey, the Noble Warriors are humbled by the Kikuuyu as their masters, and the pigs as their room mates, ugly pigs who intermingle with the noble chief warriors and sleep with them at night. I find it an irony here, how Allah SWT demeaned those who despised the technocrats of our society. Allah SWT says:

 

" Wa man yuhinillaahu famaa lahu min mukrim" "

 

Qofkuu Allah dulli ka dhigo, qof sharfikartaa ma jiro"

 

This thread opens the door for thoughts on the issue of the abominable unjust cast system in our country. We need to come in terms with our evils.

 

 

Are there a permanently shitty people?

 

Are there a permanently Noble people?

 

Are we Somalis a racist nation?

 

Are we prepared For A National Reconciliation And An Apology For The Oppressed Social Outcasts?

 

 

Nur

 

2003 Nurtel Social Re-Engineering Research Institute

Identifying Natioal Wounds is an eNuri Objective

[Nur]

Nomads

 

This thread stayed dormant for six months, no Nomad would comment, is it that bad?

 

Before we point fingers at others, speaking of tribalism, how bad are we? Is tribalism our real religion?

 

 

Nur

[Alle-ubaahne]

Nurteeloow, Ilaahey waxaan ka baryay inuu Janadiisa fardowsa qeybta ugu sareysa kaa geeyo, sida kartida iyo diinta ku dheehan aad arintaan uga hadashay.

 

I would like to sincerely agree with you that such great people among us were really disdained for nothing but their skillful and social activeness by those Somalis who really are ignorant about the richness of our Islamic religion.

 

Islam encourages work, decency, humbleness and all such attributions are available in the technocrat Somali man, but those warriors that you have mentioned are the ones defined the opposite of the technocrats, begging, looting, arrogance, obbsinity and all the bad that follows.

 

Now, Islam had come, as Sh. Shariif said recently, 'Somalis become successfull when they practise their religion, but when they practise tribalism, they fail, become the worest of all people' And that is right indeed, since our generation has apparently experienced such equation in our time.

 

We are going to sweep all such ignorant practises from our culture by using Islam and overcoming such cancerous fabric in our society.

 

Insha-Allah, I am campaigning wholeheartedly with you on that, Sh. Nur, and please help me find the mother of my future children from those respectable family of technocrats.

[me]

Nur you are right. You got a point here. The warrior class has taken over and is uncontrolabble. They should be put back to their place. About the Somali artisans its a sad story. I heard this story that they used to rule Somalia and were the elite and that a war broke out and that they lost and where subjugated ever since. Does anyone know more about this?

 

The three classes should have a balance between them.

[Nur]

me

 

The new generation techies from Toronto or California should stand up for the traditional Artisans. The day a public march by Somali tecnologists, Engineers, Builders, shoe makers etc takes place, there will be the day of hope for Somalia, till then, we have to wait for a deliverer.

 

 

Positive

 

 

I reposted this old topic after reading your Qabiil post, hope it sheds light on a different angle.

 

 

Nur