Faysal Ali Warabe and his Hate Message Comes to Washington DC 
WardheerNews Editorial
September 08, 2006

“How can those who hail from the Mudug region preach to us Bin Hashimites about the teachings of Islam?”  Faysal Ali Waraabe

It is one thing to question the ICC’s heavy-headedness or the exclusive righteousness that ICC claims about who is a good Muslim and who is not and it is entirely another thing to debase others based on their birth origin and blood lineage, while extolling your own heritage as superior.  It is exactly the later that Faysal Ali Warabe’s comment stands for, and this is an expression of an extremist political belief system that is lately identified with many of the visionless leaders of the so called politicians in both northern and southern Somalia. 

Creating and fabricating blood affiliation with the lineage of the Prophet Mohammed (SAW) has so far remained a private matter, where even those who claim only talked behind closed doors.  In particular, the better- and correctly-educated Somalis most often tend to discredit such spurious claims of affinity with distant noble families. 
 
The superstitious claim, which Faysal Ali Waraabe is bent to politicize and bring up to the public domain, is rooted in black slave trade and its subsequent universal black self hate, which basically ascribed low values to anything that is African or African-related.  From the looks of our people to the heritage we collectively or separately claim, we tend to disassociate ourselves from Africaness.  In its place, we rather fabricate imagined lineages with offshore noble houses.  (Here it is important to cite also that the Darood clan claims to have descended from the Arabian Sur Ismail family, and many other clans who declare their roots to be from some mystical arabian families). Ironically, anyone who has encountered Faysal Ali Warabe to see his thick lips, Bantu-like features and dark skin (and this is true for millions of Somalis) would realize the fallacy of the “Bani Hashimite” claim, and the deep-rooted self hate that produces such a fantasy.  As to the fallacy of such a claim, even the late self-styled emperor Jean-Bedel Bukassa of the Central African Republic had claimed to be a descendent of the nobility of Greeks! Or the late Haile Selasse's asserted that he too descended from mythical queen Sheba and King Solomon, hence the Lion of Juda.

The late self-styled emperor Jean-Bedel Bukassa of the Central African Republic had claimed to have descended from the nobility of Greeks!

Faysal Ali Warabe and his like minded elk have decidedly embarked on a political course of using divisive and hate-based demagogy to drum up the ficticious “narrow clannish ” factor to galvanize their followers. 

But, why is this being used as a political tool this time is worth of our consideration.  One obvious answer is that armed groups, like the Somali National Movement (SNM) that had embarked three decades ago on a course of action to wage their war of resistance against the former dictatorial regime of Said Barre, had no broad vision to mobilize their society.  As a result, they opted to use clan purity and clan supremacy, lest this is a potent tool to mobilize a society faced with a real or perceived inequity.  The result of many years of visionless and radical mobilization of the community is now at a vortex to have produced many neo-fascists,like Faysal Ali Warabe. 

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.” Ku Klux Klan Wizard, David Duke,

Most of the participants at SOPRI convention, who may be listening to the hate message of Faysal Ali Warabe, may think of themselves as decent and reasonable citizens. However, by allowing and giving a forum to a hate messenger, especially when the rest of the world would pray and empathize with America and appreciate collectively the pain that hate can cause to the innocent is tantamount to collaboration and endorsement of the clannish and hate-based sectarian politics.

Washington DC is just simply the wrong venue for any hate messenger, especially after what we have witnessed in September 11, 2001 in New York, is still vivid in our memories. 

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