HISTORY Jews in Somalia?

[Vacelere]

I saw a thread in this website about how that the article in Wikipedia about Mogadishu was edited in a way to create a link between Judaism/Hebrew language to Mogadishu and few days I go I found out this video


So my question here is why these things start to come out and who could be the benefactor from this propaganda

 

[Ha Lima]

There were never Ethnic Somali Jews in Somalia. Before Islam we had our own distinct religion that looked more like other indigenous African reiligion. And with Israel and USA trying to forcibly mass immigrate palestinians to Somaliland Im not surprised that they’re suddenly pushing this kind of propaganda.

 

[Burqad]

There were never Ethnic Somali Jews in Somalia. Before Islam we had our own distinct religion that looked more like other indigenous African reiligion. And with Israel and USA trying to forcibly mass immigrate palestinians to Somaliland Im not surprised that they’re suddenly pushing this kind of propaganda.

1.
Before Islam we did not exist.

2.There are no such thing as an “African religion” because some African nations were cawaan worshipers while others were monotheistic.

3. that is fake and won’t happen

 

[Midas]

Before Islam we did not exist.

I hope your trolling when you say this because it's pretty clear that somali identity was already well defined in the preislamic period. The 2 biggest pieces of evidence we have for this is

1) the existence of a poetic tradition with no arabic influence and the clearly secular nature of the poetry and certain refrences in proverbs and sayings points to the preislamic roots still there

2) the fact there is this tradition of ancestral veneration which seems to have become syncretized with the visiting of saintly tombs in the Islamic tradition. Ive mentioned this before but you won't find anywhere else in the muskim world where people visit the tomb of clan ancestors

3) this is an extra one but the existence of a non-islamic somali calender


The reason none of this is obvious is that somalis basically have an extremely similar culutral context to the part of the Arabian penisula in which Islam arose. So some practiced where abandoned and others syncretized

 

[Burqad]

I hope your trolling when you say this because it's pretty clear that somali identity was already well defined in the preislamic period. The 2 biggest pieces of evidence we have for this is

1) the existence of a poetic tradition with no arabic influence and the clearly secular nature of the poetry and certain refrences in proverbs and sayings points to the preislamic roots still there

2) the fact there is this tradition of ancestral veneration which seems to have become syncretized with the visiting of saintly tombs in the Islamic tradition. Ive mentioned this before but you won't find anywhere else in the muskim world where people visit the tomb of clan ancestors

3) this is an extra one but the existence of a non-islamic somali calender


The reason none of this is obvious is that somalis basically have an extremely similar culutral context to the part of the Arabian penisula in which Islam arose. So some practiced where abandoned and others syncretized

The ethnogenisis of the Somali people does not mean the pre-existing people who were ancestral to the current inhabitants of the Somali peninsula, but rather similar to how Polonian or French ethnogensis came from conversion to Catholicism, the ethnogenisis of a common Somali people came from the faith of Islam. It is nonsensical to say that the wends or obodrites were polish.

Ethnogenesis - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Midas]

The ethnogenisis of the Somali people does not mean the pre-existing people who were ancestral to the current inhabitants of the Somali peninsula, but rather similar to how Polonian or French ethnogensis came from conversion to Catholicism, the ethnogenisis of a common Somali people came from the faith of Islam. It is nonsensical to say that the wends or obodrites were polish.

Ethnogenesis - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Are you being serious ?
I dont know how you can compare somalis to poles and French who clearly formed from a mix of several diffrent ethnic groups to somalis. The genetic divergence between us and our neighbors is massive and its very clear that somalis were nomadic pastoralists who owned camels in the preislamic period. So what exactly would have caused us to change our ethnic identity? Its not like we didnt have towns/urban centers before Islam and there wasn't any mass migration either ?

Your argument would make sense if there was some sort of new technology or social structure introduced that caused a massive change and forced multiple diverse groups into fusing. There isnt anything like this that happened in somalia.

Nobody would say that islam led to the ethnogenisis of turks or Persians and that before islam there was no such thing as turkic or persian identity

 

[Riftvalley]

More Hindus probably travelled to Somalia than al yahuud.