Other people giving interviews, which is also bad, doesn’t mean you should also decide to take it upon yourself to appeal to the sensibilities people of who don’t want you in their country, and worst all, appoint yourself as the spokesperson for literally everyone else in the hotel. It takes a special kind of brazenness which is unique to Somalis to do this, hence why I said many of us lack discernment. This is just one admittedly crude example, but the broader point is generally true - we’re just not serious people.
This also doesn’t we’re against him. It also doesn’t make you a hypocrite to be a 2nd gen immigrant likely born in the West and have a slightly different opinion regarding this. Many of our parents fled active wars and migrated to the West under entirely different social and economic circumstances, both back home and in their host countries. You can’t just map one onto the other and then fire off blanket statements about it being hypocritical as if nothing has changed. You could even argue it gives you a more critical perspective. We can see there are both pros and some serious cons.
Also, how exactly does living in public housing disqualify someone from having a different viewpoint, or that it makes them a hypocrite in any way? It’s not some kind of moral failing that many first and second generation Somalis living in the West live in social housing, given we are the only community en masse that initially rejected buying homes because of it being seen as haram, when other Muslim communities didn’t give a damn. Also, are you trying to say that they should simply accept their position as a permanent underclass, and not have a position that obviously aligns with the national interest in regards to immigration? You can’t have it both ways, either Somalis that were born and raised in the West and are full citizens should critically assess these issues with their own, and the national interest in mind, or they should instead not fool themselves into thinking they’re the same as cadaans in which case they accept their position as essentially not real citizens, essentially an underclass, and therefore where else can they live but in social housing and work the jobs that the native population do not work. And, most importantly, never have a different opinion because ‘they’re Somalis who are fleeing to the West just like your parents’ and you must therefore be the domestic advocate for others like you.
This is before we get into whether risking your life unless in exceptional circumstances is even halal. There are even cases of parents of young people doing tahriib thinking their kids were taking proper ships with actual rooms and not rubber dinghys being exposed to the elements. Then there’s the countless videos of people saying Europe/America isn’t what it seems and that they regret their decision etc etc. Then after all this, there’s the logical question that still remains which is if all the young people, especially young men, leave in search of a better life, then who actually does the work of building a nation out of its ruins? I don’t think you can ignore this and say people are being hypocrites for having a different view point. But of course I do agree that there shouldn’t be any vitriol towards the young man or others that decide to migrate in any case.
2. No offense my fam never did asylum or welfare atleast my dad was honourable about getting a job and working to support the family SORRYY???
