Fanatics

Where is the fine line between patriotism and racism. Is it even a line, perhaps it’s a gray swamp inbetween, a diffuse land owned by none? Sometimes the -isms surprise me. It is incredibly easy to cross one -ism and move into another.  Normally, a shift of -ism also leads to a change in lifestyle. From conservatism to liberalism, moderatism to radicalism, patriotism to racism.

I see, in the Somali communities around me, Somalis leaving the patriotist-wagon and slowly, almost soundlessly, moving into the racist-cave.

“Free Somalia from oppressers!”- Immediately changes to – “Fuck Ethiopia, may the tigray burn in hell!”

Infact, around here, things have taken a horrible turn. A couple of weeks ago a group of women went to the local masjid. They brought with them a young, ill, girl. Coincidentally, the women were of the same tribe as the current president of Somalia. The women asked the people, especially the shuyukh, whether they could recite Qur’aan on the sick girl.

“We do not recite Qur’aan on Tigray”

Just because a fellow tribesman cooperates with the Ethiopian army.  What if the woman had been a tigray, would they have turned down, first and foremost, a muslim in need?

It is the end of the world, especially when the masjid turns racist.

The Human Being

O mankind! If you are in doubt about the Resurrection, then verily! We have created you (i.e. Adam) from dust

then from a Nutfah (mixed drops of male and female sexual discharge i.e. offspring of Adam)

…then from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood)

……then from a little lump of flesh,— some formed and some unformed (as in the case of miscarriage)

(…) And We cause whom We will to remain in the wombs for an appointed term

then We bring you out as infants

…then (give you growth) that you may reach your age of full strength

…And among you there is he who dies (young)

….and among you there is he who is brought back to the miserable old age, so that he knows nothing after having known

And you see the earth barren

….but when We send down water (rain) on it, it is stirred (to life)

….it swells and puts forth every lovely kind (of growth)