''It is said that Somalis have no fear of fighting: British journalist Richard Dowden stated, ''One abiding, horrifying but typical image of Somalis' bravery stays in mind: a young Somali dressed in T-shirt, flip-flops and macawiis, the traditional skirt-like wrap, running at an American armored Humvee, firing an AK-47 from the hip. Bravery, ten points. Stupidity, also ten points. He was cut to shreds.'' Another British writer, Gerald Hanley, embraced the war-prone nature of Somalis as a reckless pride, a warrior-like mentality. In his book Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis, he stated, ''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.''
[Somalis in Minnesota
Book by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf]
[Somalis in Minnesota
Book by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf]