christian missionaries have been trying to convert Somalis to their religion for over a century now with no success.
When they had complete colonial control over Somalia all they managed to do was take in orphans and raise them as christian, they were not able to convert anyone.
Even those orphans would leave them or grow up to revert to Islam. They have not left a mark at all on Somalis.
I remember reading an account of a missionary who after raising some orphans returned to Somalia with them hoping they would also preach and start a community there and was shocked when the Somali kids just lined up and started immediately praying Salah when they returned.
All colonial accounts attest to this.
Who would leave the truth of Islam for a greco-roman pagan religion like modern christianity? Instead of focusing on Somalis they should try to preach to their people who have been apostatizing en-mass for decades now. christianity in the west has already collapsed, they need to worry about their own kids and neighbours.
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"Of all the desiccated, bitter, cruel, sunbeaten wildernesses which starve and thirst beyond the edges of Africa's luscious, jungled centre, there cannot be one more Christless than the one which begins at the northern foot of Mount Kenya and stretches to the foothills of Abyssinia, and from there to the dried-out glittering tip of Cape Gardafui where the hot karif winds blow in from where the long sharks race under the thin blue skin of the ocean. You can never think of those wildernesses without thinking of daggers and spears, rolling fierce eyes under mops of dusty black crinkly hair, of mad stubborn camels, rocks too hot to touch, and blood feuds whose origins cannot be remembered, only honoured in the stabbing. But of all the races of Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest; the Somalis."
"A Somali always felt himself to be twice as good as any white man, or any other kind of man at all, and still does, even when he is wrong. Islam does wonders for the self respect of non-white people and Christianity is right to worry about the spread of Islam in Africa, and must honestly face the question of why it has happened - "
"I knew an Italian priest who had spent over thirty years among the
Somalis and he made two converts, and it amazed me that he got even those
two. The Prophet has no more fervent, and ignorant, followers, but that
is not their fault that they are ignorant.Their natural intelligence is
second to none and when the education factories start work among them
they should surprise Africa, and themselves."
"....You get into that way of thinking in the Somali waste. You think that way because the Somalis bitterly resent the white man, and struggle continually, and admirably, by lies and intrigue, to fight off his influence which spells the end of their peculiar world. You cannot beat them. They have no inferiority complexes, no wide-eyed worship of the white man's ways, and no fear of him, of his guns or of his official anger. They are a race to be admired, if hard to love."