Somali's and their hypocrisy with religious law

[The Oponian Guild]

This will not change this century. Somalis are not secular and no future government will be one. Our society is conservative with one major flaw.

The weakness of institutional power due to clannism. Governments are powerless at controlling clans, not being able to punish their members as that will be interpreted as an act of war or prefential treatment. Kacaan government came close but they fücked up horrendously in the end. ICU also came close but were not allowed to rule for long. AS has subdued clans underneath it bar few and its the only somali led organisation in the HoA that has been successful in this.

The khawariji dogs have been successfull due to somali society being conservative. They showed their true colors after gaining power, being extremely ruthless. Thats how they have been able to maintain their power but its not the reason why they gained it. They will in the end lose their power due to harshness.

There is only 2 ways to govern somalis on a large scale. Clan confederations or Islam based organisations. PL and SL came into existence after local clans banded together. As we have seen in the war in Sool, clans trying to subdue each other ends up in disaster. PL has been peaceful due to practically being one clan state and having close blood relations with the other clans that live there. SL has also been peaceful outside of Sool and Sanaag, once again because of being one clan state and being blood relative of the other clans.


So how can we govern somalis across clan borders? Islam. Only answer we have. Kacaan failed. We are not secular. Only thing that matters is if the people have food in their bellies and they can become rich. That will only happen if somalis learn to work and respect each other, which will happen of we implement sharia correctly.
Somalis will not care if hudud punishments will be carried, they will cheer for them. We seriously underestimate how conservative we are and especially how big of a percentage of our population is conservative. Few ilbax folks have distorted our view of somalis.


@reer You had a similar post way back, @Burqad you too if I remember.

Even Islamic institutions are not safe from qabyalad, ICU got involved in clan politics and pitted clans and subclans against each other in order to sow division and make sure there was no viable alternative or coalition that could challenge them in the future, this was their thinking. Truth of the matter is, there is no way to unify, nothing is free from Qabyalad. Every man has his own patch to defend and look after, he has his own interests and priorities.

That’s why one must accept its existence and work within it to balance it with progress and advancement. Somalis must embrace confederation. It will pave the way to eventual thawing of clan frictions and the emergence of unity in the future.