A large number of Somali parents act very religious and yet they are the biggest moriyaan. These people act as though they didn't destroy a whole country. Some of your father's a are rapist and murders. Some of your mother sang songs of support as these atrocities we're carried out. A great number of people fled Somali to the western world and they weren't all innocent. I know men in my community who are well know moriyaan, yet people still take their kids to them for dugsi. But why do they do it ? Why do Somali parents and the older generation insist on acting religious when neither their past nor present actions, with the exception of Salah, indicates any sense of Islamic morals? I believe Somali parents do so for two reasons ; 1. To establish a threshold for their children and 2. For Machiavellian reasons.
Some Somali parents act religious to establish a threshold for their children. All thresholds are intended to be surpassed. If you let your kids somke weed, they will use that bowl for crack. Likewise Somali parents indoctrinate their children with Islam. Islam has amazing morals and teachings which if properly taught will result in a wholesome and productive individual. Believe it or not what ever good characteristic traits you posses is because of Islam: good character isn't of Somali culture. Somali parents who are relaxed about the Deen often produce dilo girls operating in the open and gangista boys while those who are strict on the Deen produce decent offspring. And sincere begets sincere as with the example of reer xamar religious families who played no part in the moriyaanimo.
The second reason some Somali parents act religious when they are not is because some posess Machiavellian veiws on religion. Niccolo Machiavelli believe that religion was nothing a but a tool to keep a state in line so as to ensure morality is kept on a high ground. The Somali community has no morals without Islam. You often hear members of the community say things like "the country was destroyed because we forgot the religion", yes, yes it was. Because Somalis have no morals and without it( Islam and hence morals), they raped and pillaged one another. Go to youtube and watch the trail of the 10 men who raped the 12 year old girl in gaalkacyo. They were laughing the whole time. Even in the west the Somali communities have no moral high ground. Everyone is doing some f**k shit on the low. So to ensure that a moral high ground is in place, Islam must be in play. Terms like " ilaahay ka baq" and " war miyaan illaahay aqoonin?" Are used to instill shame. But once you remind the individual using these phrase of their sins, they are force to retreat because the moral high ground they established was demolished. And so to ensure that you never doubt their morals and to establish a moral high ground in the family, some Somali parents act religious with the intention of keeping the family in line. If this wasn't the case 12 year old abdis would be screaming " hoyo you Fu*kin bi**h you didn't make my cajeelo right".
PS. Somali perants' verbal and mental abuse is also a Machiavellian technique to maintain power.
Some Somali parents act religious to establish a threshold for their children. All thresholds are intended to be surpassed. If you let your kids somke weed, they will use that bowl for crack. Likewise Somali parents indoctrinate their children with Islam. Islam has amazing morals and teachings which if properly taught will result in a wholesome and productive individual. Believe it or not what ever good characteristic traits you posses is because of Islam: good character isn't of Somali culture. Somali parents who are relaxed about the Deen often produce dilo girls operating in the open and gangista boys while those who are strict on the Deen produce decent offspring. And sincere begets sincere as with the example of reer xamar religious families who played no part in the moriyaanimo.
The second reason some Somali parents act religious when they are not is because some posess Machiavellian veiws on religion. Niccolo Machiavelli believe that religion was nothing a but a tool to keep a state in line so as to ensure morality is kept on a high ground. The Somali community has no morals without Islam. You often hear members of the community say things like "the country was destroyed because we forgot the religion", yes, yes it was. Because Somalis have no morals and without it( Islam and hence morals), they raped and pillaged one another. Go to youtube and watch the trail of the 10 men who raped the 12 year old girl in gaalkacyo. They were laughing the whole time. Even in the west the Somali communities have no moral high ground. Everyone is doing some f**k shit on the low. So to ensure that a moral high ground is in place, Islam must be in play. Terms like " ilaahay ka baq" and " war miyaan illaahay aqoonin?" Are used to instill shame. But once you remind the individual using these phrase of their sins, they are force to retreat because the moral high ground they established was demolished. And so to ensure that you never doubt their morals and to establish a moral high ground in the family, some Somali parents act religious with the intention of keeping the family in line. If this wasn't the case 12 year old abdis would be screaming " hoyo you Fu*kin bi**h you didn't make my cajeelo right".
PS. Somali perants' verbal and mental abuse is also a Machiavellian technique to maintain power.