Anti-Somali & Anti-Ogadeni Racism, and Anti-Islamic Hysteria in the Illegal State Somaliland

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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[ Posted On: 2008-11-09 ]

Somalia’s breakaway northern province failed to organize itself as an independent state under the fake and colonial name ‘Somaliland’; the real masters of the attempt were not the local Somalis, who all patriotic wish Somalia’s pacification and reunification, but the evil, anti-Somali, racist Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic (Tewahedo) Abyssinians of the Zenawi totalitarian and cruel regime.

Somaliland’s local elite are the unrepresentative pawns of the murderous tyrant Zenawi, and as they are reviled by local Somalis, they have no other resort to stay in power than to apply the same tyrannical methods the Monophysitic Abyssinians impose on the Oromos, the Ogadenis, the Afars, the Sidamas, and all the other subjugated nations of Abyssinia, who want to secede from that hell.

To exploit negative feelings and bad memories, the tyrannical gangsters around the pseudo-president Rayaale and his grotesque wife Huda Barkhad persistently refer to the mistreatment the Isaaq tribe members had at the hands of the former Somali President Siad Barre, and bring to surface differences between the Isaaq and the Ogadenis.

However, the collapse of the Somaliland regime, and the decimation of the Abyssinian army in the Somali South create the conditions that will allow a free, independent and united Somalia to rise soon.

This will terminate the mistreatment of the Southern Somali IDPs in Northern Somalia, while at the same time it will put a dead end to the shameful literature of Anti-Somali, Anti-Ogadeni and Anti-Islamic contents.

I republish here an insightful report of the IRIN on the mistreatment of the Southern Somali IDPs in Somaliland, and a sample of ridiculous and shameful Anti-Ogadeni and Anti-Islamic literature which was published under the comical title ‘Somaliland is the second closest to a democracy in the world’.

The reference of Somaliland’s otherwise Muslim authorities to biased Christian extremist circles and their websites and ‘reports’ bears witness to their perfidy and deviation; the Islamic world should treat Somaliland’s illegal authorities as traitors of Islam and outcasts of the Muslim world.

The shameful editorial posted in the website www.tvsomalilandeurope.net, which has been developed due to monies stolen from the poor and tyrannized northern Somalis, refers to the Open Doors’ 2008 World Watch List, a fake ‘report’ that serves extremist Christians’ anti-Islamic (and not only) purposes.

The pseudo-report makes state of paranoid factoids, namely the "persecution" of a Christian family in Jigjiga, capital of occupied Ogaden in Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized ‘Ethiopia’); this is ridiculous because there are no Christians in Ogaden.

The ‘house of a Christian family’ belonged to a Monophysitic Abyssinian terrorist who was sent by the tyrannical Abyssinian government to Ogaden in order to ensure the prolongation of the tyranny imposed on Ogaden since 1955, when the departing English colonials turned the Somali province over to the Abyssinian murderous and barbaric ruler Haile Selassie. Too bad for the shameful report, the Monophysitic Abyssinians are not Christians but heretics who killed in the past a great number of Catholic and Protestant missionaries.

Of course this does not matter much for the Anti-Islamic agenda of the Open Doors organization, but it remains questionable how Muslims dare credibly refer this Anti-Islamic biased document.

The otherwise ‘objective’ report (Open Doors’ 2008 World Watch List) does not mention anything about the lack of religious freedom, the cruel persecution, and the cultural genocide perpetrated against numerous subjugated nations (either Muslims or followers of traditional African religions) by the inhuman, cruel and barbaric, heretic Monophysitic Abyssinian terrorists.

The fact that Muslims attempted to use this viciously Anti-Islamic paper of lies and falsehood in order to defame other Muslims has to be condemned in the most categorical terms by the World’s Muslim League.

Somalia: Displaced and neglected in Somaliland
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80952

Hargeisa, 16 October 2008 (IRIN) - More than 26,000 people displaced from southern Somalia to Somaliland are not receiving adequate assistance because officials in the region, which regards itself as an independent country, give priority to those displaced within Somaliland.

"We have a different definition of IDPs [internally displaced persons] compared with the international community because the international community regards the displaced from southern Somalia as IDPs but we regard them as refugees," Ali Ibrahim, Somaliland's minister for planning and national coordination, told IRIN.

By definition, a refugee has to have crossed an international border.

There are estimated to be 4,370 families, or some 26,200 people, from southern Somalia living in Somaliland. Since Somaliland's independence is unrecognised internationally, UN agencies and NGOs classify these people as IDPs and therefore the responsibility of the Somaliland government.

Zainab Mohamoud, who chairs Gashan Women's Organization, which works solely with those displaced from southern Somalia, said these families were often without support, apart from the occasional food distribution by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

"These families also face legal problems and often have run-ins with the police and ordinary citizens. We try to help them by providing protection," Mohamoud said.

"Somaliland IDPs receive a piece of land from the authorities as well as health facilities, education and other services in the areas they are relocated to, but IDPs from southern Somalia who are in Hargeysa [Somaliland's capital] do not receive aid because they are regarded as refugees by the government of Somaliland."

Ibrahim told IRIN that the government's policy was changing.

"We are now exploring ways of recognising all the people who live in the temporary centres throughout the country as IDPs," he said.

He explained that a standing committee had been established in the Ministry of Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Returnees to handle IDP affairs in conjunction with international and local NGOs.

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Somaliland is the second closest to a democracy in the world
http://www.tvsomalilandeurope.net/

According to Open Doors’ 2008 World Watch List, Somalia and Ethiopia are two of the countries that improved human rights for Christians.

The annual Christian persecution list moved Somalia from 4th of the bottom up to the 12th place, an improvement mainly related to the recent establishment of a secular government.

Despite the improvement, persecution of Somali Christians is still widespread in the country and wherever overt harassment is absent, Christians are often ostracized by the Somali community.

Citizens of Somalia are almost entirely Sunni Muslims, with only a few hundred Christians.

As an indication to severity of the religious persecution, many Christians have left Somalia during the civil wars while the Archbishop of the country’s cathedral left almost two decades ago.

In contrast, the northern region of Somaliland has been a noticeable exception for years, with its better religious freedom in particular and a progress towards democracy in general.

According to figures from the 2008 report of Freedom House, after the northern Turkish region of Cyprus, Somaliland is the second closest to a democracy in the world compared to various "disputed territories" seeking UN recognition.

Concerns of religious persecution exist in some southern parts of neighboring Ethiopia, particularly in the Somali speaking region of Ethiopia, where a house of a Christian family in the regional capital of Jijiga was targeted by religious fundamentalists in January.

But both neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia improved in their world rankings on religious freedom, 49th and 43rd respectively, while conditions in Eritrea (11th worst) and Libya (23rd worst) reportedly declined last year.

Worsening conditions for US allies

North Korea took first place in the ranking of the most Christian persecuting nations, becoming the worst country for Christians in the world for the sixth year in a row.

Human rights groups around the globe have condemned the institutionalized persecution of Christians in many of these top persecuting countries. One of the top American allies, Saudi Arabia, was ranked the second worst country for Christians, triggering more criticism on America’s foreign policy.

In addition to Eritrea and Libya, Saudi Arabia was also one of the countries listed by the UN Security Council’s 2006 report about the source of support for the Al-Qaeda linked Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fighting the Somalia government in Mogadishu.

However, Saudi Arabia is the largest U.S. export market in the Middle East and the world’s leading petroleum exporter, including around 20 percent of the total American imports of crude oil. Similarly, big Oil deals followed the restoration of American relations with Libya despite the religious and political conditions inside Libya, while US-Eritrea relations severely deteriorated.

The annual report by the rights watchdog, Open Doors, relates to the sentiment of observers about the capability of the struggling Somalia government.

Many believe there is a potential for positive changes towards religious tolerance in Somalia under the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein.

In addition to building a secular government, the TFG has the potential to attract investment from the secular Somali Diaspora, which relates more with the secular elements of the TFG than with ICU’s radical interpretations of Islam.

But parts of Mogadishu suffer under near-daily attacks from the radical Islamist insurgency which has increasingly benefited from its Somali nationalism rhetoric to enhance its support base.

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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