The Somali people in general were indifferent towards the killings of human beings, unless a member of the close family as well as the extended family is the victim. Even during the beginning of the civil wars in central Somalia and northern Somalia people in the other regions continued their day to day activities. There were no any outcries from the mass or in other words people showed no remorse or any sad feelings that the people killed in those regions were brothers and sisters from religious perspective or a member of the same family – belonging to the same nation. This indifference slowly developed as a result a nation without any common feelings or attributes towards violence. Violence has become one of our trade marks for Somalia. Violence has become normal. The fear of any consequence of an act of violence disappeared from our common humanly heritage – if there was one at all in the past - Killings became an act of normality.

But we are witnessing today another kind of violence. Violence generated from the outside but based and legitimised by using the faith of the common man and women of a Somali origin – Islam. The matter in discussion is not the faith itself and what it stands for. But the misinterpretation of it’s core elements and the justification of the killings of a follow brother and sister. We are witnessing today people stoned to death while at the same time killing the people who would have educated the stoned victim. These people, who are committing such atrocities have not yet even after 1400 years understood what is all about this wonderful religion of Islam.

This faith underlines the importance of compassion and enforces the believers to fulfil their duties in creating a just community, work towards the establishment of a civilized community. In doing so they would be living in accordance with their creator’s will. Furthermore in pursuit of the fundaments of this faith does not allow the killings of any other human being. Doing so is the negation of all what this religion stands for – peace and absolute respect towards all the members of the community – do no harm to your brethren. There is no one single verse in the Quran or the verifiable Hadiths that justifies the killing of an innocent people as well as violence in general. It is a lie and politically motivated ideology that is generating the violence conducted today by the groups such as the Shabaab or the other groups in Somalia. These groups are accomplishing missions which are Un-Islamic and evil but marketed as Islamic. The Russian writer said once, “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918 – Novelist)

What is happening today in many parts of the country are direct copies of the incidents occurring daily in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The method and ideology seems to originate from the same evil thinking individuals, manipulating the values that Islam stands for. These individuals are in everywhere following their basic interests to progress on the cost of human lives. These individuals have found easy preys, a society under social, political and economical stress. The Somali society is in a deep crisis. It makes no difference whether a member of that society lives inside his country or outside. We have all become an easy prey to those criminals, playing the cards of the good believers and injecting evil ideologies into the minds of our youth. Be ware on the devil on disguise – you will find them in the mosques, in the madarasas in Europe and in North America, in the money transfer companies (xawaalado) and so forth. Speaking to these people let me use the words of Abraham Lincoln, “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from VIOLENCE when built”. (1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA )

Brothers and sisters watch the changes occurring on your kids and get involved in making them understand the values of our faith, be a competitor against these evil thinking individuals in the midst of our communities. Let’s make clear to our children that disliking the Western decadence does not mean acquiring a licence to kill innocent people. Hate can always lead towards a false ideologies and violence. There are many ways of rebuilding our societies without the use of violence. Last but not least I would like to tell the present day Somali Politician no matter wherever she or he is living, should not be an excuse for these evil thinking monsters be an alternative to the solution of our social and political problems. God bless the Somali nation and save from the dark ages.

Ahmed F. Mohamed
E-Mail: Ahmed.mohamed@vtplc.com

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