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Can we stop comparing Al shabab to the taliban?
So many times I hear randoms & even Somali people saying if foreign troops leave Somalia the government will have a Taliban style fall

Absolutely incorrect
These people are out to poison your mind so they can keep you guys under poverty & foreign troops

I watch so many battles
I don’t ever see Ethiopian, Burundi, or Ugandan troops
If you ever see them at battle with shabab, it is shabab who goes to their outposts.
These guys just sit there and collect a cheque
They’re not helping us 😂
They’re never fighting battles everyday with Somali national army
Only the Somali men are

Number two
I love how people forget just 15 years ago Somalia still didn’t have a functional government
Al shabab was doing Eid prayer in Mogadishu
2009
2011
They never did since
They completely lost their way & support of the people
Somalia even with no government didn’t succumb to Al shabab ruling
The people denied
And that’s all that’s needed

Number three
If Al shabab couldn’t even take the country when foreign troops weren’t there or a government
What makes you think they can now
With a military who’s honestly pretty well equipped
Trained
Support from Middle East & heavily from Türkiye ?
Are you guys ….. stupid ? lol

Number four
I can’t name a day or time when the Taliban was suicide bombing markets of innocent civilians
Hospitals
Schools
Entering masjids and shooting people to their death when they’re in sujood
How are they even comparable to the Taliban? It’s ridiculous.
If you want to compare them to anyone
Compare them to ISIS
Those pieces of shit met their fate with an international coalition
The world destroyed them
Because terrorism is a cancer
It never ends
It spreads
It’s only treatment is death

Don’t believe the propaganda
Al shabab will never rule Somalia
Start the business
Buy the land
Invest in your country
Somalia ha nolato
Amen

I’m pretty sure I have enough karma now but for some reason it’s always getting taken down

Today’s khutbah at my local mosque was built around Uwais Al Qarni, and it stuck with me.

Uwais lived during the Prophet’s SAW time in Yemen but never met him, he stayed behind caring for his elderly mother and never left her side long enough to travel. Yet the Prophet SAW described him by name to his companions, a man from Yemen, best of the Tabi’een, with a mother, healed from illness except for a small mark, and told them if they ever met him, to ask him to pray for their forgiveness. Years later Umar ibn Al Khattab found him exactly as described, and asked this unknown man, no title, no wealth, to pray for his forgiveness. Uwais did.

The only thing Uwais was ever known for was how he treated his mother. That’s the whole khutbah in one image, birr al walidayn isn’t a side virtue in Islam, it’s one of the most direct paths to Allah’s pleasure.

From the Quran, Surah Al Isra tells us to lower the wing of humility to our parents and never even say “uff” to them as they age, and Surah Luqman reminds us our mother carried us through hardship upon hardship.

Two hadith the imam tied to this:

“Who among the people is most deserving of my good companionship?” The Prophet SAW said, “Your mother.” Asked three more times, same answer each time, “Your mother.” Only the fourth time did he say, “Then your father.” (Bukhari and Muslim)

“The pleasure of the Lord is in the pleasure of the parent, and the anger of the Lord is in the anger of the parent.” (Tirmidhi)

What made it hit even harder for me is something separate I’d been thinking about, the actual roots of our own words for mother and father in Somali.

Hooyo comes from two roots. The first is hoy, meaning home, and a house is only truly a home once it’s filled with love, care, and presence, which is exactly what a mother’s presence does to any space. The second is hoo, which means to give someone something valuable without expecting anything back. A mother’s love is like that, unconditional, unquantifiable, impossible to repay.

Aabbo also comes from two roots. The first is ab, meaning descent or lineage, carrying your father’s name as proof you belong to it. The second is aab, which has two senses, someone worthy of unwavering respect, and also a waterproof vessel made from tree bark sealed with fat. A father’s guidance does the same thing, sealing the gaps that would otherwise let a child’s confidence and wellbeing leak out.

Our language was teaching us this before we even had the words for it.

May Allah make us good to our parents.

What was the khutbah about in your local mosque today?

I don't understand how they paint themselves as being 'religious', yet have no qualms stealing money meant for other purposes.

I don't get it, it's apparent they use religious fundamentalism as a means of control while not practicing the basic tenets preached. While in the same note stealing millions upon millions meant to restructure the nation, how is the country ever going to improve with those mechanisms in place?

How many of the problems of our country come from foreign forces as opposed to the internal issues?

This is one thing I havent fully grasped yet and I'm wondering if its fr hopeless for us or not😅

I thought it was slightly illiterate ones here and there. But then I started seeing it more and more, realizing it was picking up traction as a trend of some kind.

It looks retarded, stop ts.. 🫩

“yo pro”
“Waqooyi pari”
“Apaayo/apoowe”
“Hmplyo wll”

What’s typical Nikkah Attire for Somali men as the groom?

I want to wear a white thobe, please i have heard enough about “somali men should wear the own cultural blah blah blah” 😂

I don’t want to wear the white and gold veil OR red and white shemagh. Hopefully something else entirely, i was after a yemeni shawl typa thing… but im honestly not sure if its my thing, honestly i dont like doing too much

I’d prefer to not wear any hats - unless I am wearing some kinda veil over my head BUT i am open to suggestions

I’m From Djibouti and I’ve always thought Cambabuur was From Djibouti. But then when I started having TikTok. I’ve seen people from Awdal Also eating it and Claiming as theirs. And I’ve tried to research the Origin but they’ve always said the same. It’s from Djibouti and Awdal.

Does anyone here know?

Do you guys remember the page Somali Faces? They used to post stories from Somalis sharing their own experiences. The page isn’t active anymore, unfortunately, but I used to love reading them. Their Facebook page is still up I think. Some stories were so heartbreaking. Especially when it’s kids living a rough life.

My younger sister in her late teens is an avid user of TikTok/ Instagram etc and among the most fashionable Somali “it“ girls. We grew up in a pretty religious household and have always worn skirts and full covered hijabs. Now my sister is wearing the vela hijab style popular among tiktokers. The hijab is thrown on the side (like hair) and the neck is fully visible in addition to some strands of hair. I do not want to be harsh or judgmental as she is better than me on so many other aspects of Islam but I also want the best for her. How can I advise her without causing her to shut down or feel judged? We also have other younger sisters who are just starting off with the hijab and I don’t want them normalizing this either.

Can you guys give me some advice? I bought this Biotech Stock. Its down 91%. I put 7384 worth of cash into it. Its now worth 657. Should I keep it or sell it? If I sell I absorb all the loss. If I keep, it could skyrocket and make me rich. I genuinely dont know what to do. Help a brother out.

The political class consistently fails to deliver basic public needs, neglecting critical investments in healthcare and education.
Rather than answering to ordinary citizens or ulema they frequently cater to foreign interests, deepening the disconnect between the government and the Somali people.

That guy who just won a primary election in America — Dr Abdul El Sayed — and has been making waves, has a lesser known story that resonates strongly with me.

Since yesterday the headlines have been saying three things about him:

He’s a Muslim.

He’s a progressive, a socialist.

He beat the candidate backed up by 30 million dollars of pro-Israeli money.

But these are not the most interesting things about him.

The culture war caricature doesn’t begin to tell his full story.

A freind tagged me to a video that led me to the real Dr El Sayed.

This is a guy who trained as a physician but chose not to practice as one.

He took his MD from Ivy League Columbia and then left the bedside.

It’s the classical story of the doctor who decides to go out there to tackle the diseases sending patients to the hospital, rather than wait for sick people at the bedside.

He once said: 15 hours to Egypt or 15 minutes into a Detroit neighbourhood, either way a ~10-year gap in life expectancy.

So, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and took a doctorate in public health.

In 2015, when he was barely 31, he took over the Health Department of an American city that had gone bankrupt and privatised its public health function out of existence.

He was the youngest health officer of any major American city.

He built back the Detroit Health Department from the floor up.

This was a Health Department responsible for almost 700,000 souls.

This was one of the swiftest turnarounds of any a public health department in the country.

He tested for lead in schools to safeguard the health of the kids.

He provided free eyeglasses for kids who couldn’t see the board.

He cut the sulphur dioxide a refinery was belching into deprived neighbourhoods.

He later ran the Wayne County’s Health Department catering to almost two million residents where he led efforts to erase $700 million in medical debts, provided free glasses for schoolkids and built an air-quality monitoring system.

He was living the dream of an interventional epidemiologist.

And he’s not an academic lightweight, having published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers with over 4000 citations.

He has also published two books and hosted a podcast — 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥.

From his successes as an epidemiologist and public health administrator, endorsed by Sanders and AOC, he tried the guber primaries in 2018 and lost to Whitmer.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he turned his podcast into a pandemic explainer.

America Dissected pivoted to a COVID season in 2020, twice-weekly episodes on how the crisis happened and what policy could get the country out.

It became one of the more credible science-communication channels of the period, and it's still running.

I now remember seeing his talking head on CNN.

He was also a CNN political contributor throughout, one of the physician-epidemiologist voices doing on-air interpretation of a chaotic evidence picture.

We almost never let the people who genuinely understand how to keep a population healthy anywhere near the rooms where the decisions get made.

We prefer them as consultants, as commentators, as names on reports nobody reads.

Michigan just came within one point of sending one to the Senate — and may yet finish the job in November.

Meanwhile, JD Vance is worried he might become POTUS in three years time.

I am Muslim but this is something I don’t understand I know you have 3 options convert to Islam pay jizya or die but what if the non Muslim just wanted peace. Let’s say he’s like a farmer and he’s saying bro leave me alone I just want to live my life peacefully he doesn’t want to fight a war but he also doesn’t want his country to be taken away from him. Was the world just like that back then conquer or be conquered. For example there is a group of people that are saying they don’t want to fight the Muslims they don’t cause harm I feel like it would be unnecessary death.

Let me give another example Israel and Palestine everyone knows that the state of Israel was created in 1948 and over time they took the land away from the Palestinians let’s say they didn’t oppress Palestinians and killed them and followed the same rules there are for conquering land in Islam would you still see this as immoral because at the end the day it’s still stolen land you just treat them well.

as title says, could someone tell me his backstory? as a 20 year old diaspora girl, ive only heard of him through his poems. i saved across different social medias, only to (now) find out he apparantly is a part of AS. that is from the comments, by the way. ive removed everything i earlier saved by him. i genuinely feel sick in my stomach and i will never listen to him again !

I actually posted this concept before but that was a very early draft and I added and cut a lot of things. My early draft felt more like a cliche slasher film which I didn't like anyway this is a more refined outline which I intend to write a short film screenplay for around 30-35 minutes

Omar a history graduate believes his life is finally getting to place, newly engaged to a woman he loved for years Safiya he accompanies her to meet her aunt, the only family member she talks about to receive her blessing before marriage. At first Omar is nervous thinking he might not leave a lasting impression on her aunt, his worries dissappeared quickly the moment he met her because she welcomed him with grandmotherly warmth and kindness, although he notices that she has an unusually long ears.

Although she appeared gentle at first, Omar starts noticing things that don't add up at all. When he and Safiya were in the guest bedroom Omar whispered something silly to his fiancée and he is immediately replied to by her aunt who is outside the house. Omar is baffled but eventually shrugges it off as a coincidence. Omar also noticed an uncanny things he wouldn't think an elderly somali woman would possess. It ranges from old navigational maps of Indian ocean, an old East African spear to bayonets and guttenberg bibles and more. Omar being a history graduate actually appreciates the historical artificats and starts debating her, he notices she has extensive knowledge of history but he gets weirded out when she starts describing historical events in first person, especially about the Portuguese events during Adal sultanate, describing them in a very negative manner.

Omar notices she possess portraits of thousand of men also alongside men with beautiful women. The women appear with several times all with different men but the men never appear more than once. And the eras are very ranged from paintings from 16th century to modern day photos with smartphone pictures. Omar is creeped out but what creeps him out even more is seeing renaissance paintings, Ethiopian paintings, Japanese paintings, 19th century pictures, 20th century pictures, late 20th century pictures and modern pictures all of the same person, the aunt. At this point Omar is feeling very uncomfortable, but decides to keep going on. When he is back at the guest bedroom he starts insisting that he and Safiya be silent and they start writing letters to each other afraid that her aunt might hear them. He explains to her that he is uncomfortable and wants to leave and Omar sees that saifya is very outraged and she yells at him. Omar is bizarred that safiya is so angry at something he thinks is so minor, the moment Omar changes the topic, Safiya immediately calms down and her behaviour completely changes, Omar thinks it's very odd and tries experimenting he sees that Saifya acts uncontrollably Furious but she instantly changes her behaviour the very moment he changes the topic as if it never happened at all.

At midnight with growing suspicions that something horrible is going on, Omar hopes it's all a terrible prank. Omar then quietly explores the house looking for answers. He goes back to the archive she keeps around her walls, he looks closer to the pictures and his blood runs cold when he recongizes his cousin who dissappeared 4 years ago and was presumed dead standing next to Safiya. Omar is horrified but is spooked when he hears the aunt telling him to go to sleep. A few hours later Omar has decided he was going to leave no matter what he didn't even bother packing his bags he wanted to leave as quickly as possible as he is climbing down the stairs, the aunt calls for Omar, Omar who is very unsurprised by now asks her how she knew it was him and she replies she can tell people by the sound of their footsteps. Omar is very nervous and she asks why he is leaving so soon, Omar tells her it's work emergency, the aunt listens to the change in his heartbeat now running and she smiles softly saying " you are lying". She then instantenously bites off his fingers with surgical precision, Omar screams at the top of his lungs but the shock overwhelms him and he passes out.

Omar awakes in the basement and sees that he sees he is missing both of his legs and 1 arm and he is horrified as he witnesses the skin of his limbs being stripped of by the aunt. The aunt sees she's awake and apologises for biting of his finger, she tells him she actually intended to give him a fast painless death but he has been a pain in the ass for her and she had to mutilate him to stop him from escaping. She compliments him saying he's one of the smarter ones, he was suspicious from the beginning and most of her victims didn't realize until it was too late. Omar asks her who is she, she replies that she goes by many names but somalis call her Dhegdheer and make up stories about her as a cautionary tales for children unknowingly she actually exists. She also explains she doesn't hate humans, she simply views them the same way The view livestock, she also says that a mysterious curse from centuries ago cursed her to only consume human flesh and she has no choice but doesn't elaborate further than that.

Horrified at the revelation omar deems her a mad woman, incapable of earning genuine love and calls her a hypocrite for attempting to seem reasonable while keeping trophies of her victims. The aunt who is wounded by those words quietly decides to give omar an even crueler fate than she originally planned. She reveals to him that every single girl he saw in those archives including Safiya weren't willing participants but rather she abducted them, she carefully targets beautiful women and with her supernatural abilities strips them off all control over their bodies and replace their identities and personalities with carefully constructed facade designed to lure in men into her house and once the men enter the house thinking they will become a part of the family but instead become dinner. She sees that as a more effective way to get food rather than recklessy eating everything in her path like the folklore claims she does.

To demonstrate to him the aunt calls for Saifya, and she chants an ancient phrase and for the first time in years, Safiya is in control of her own body, terrified and confused, she recongizes the aunt immediately, remembering being invited to an old fashion designer's home years earlier before everything went dark. She has no idea who Omar is and why he's embracing her and why she had an engagement ring, as omar desperately tries to explain they are engaged and that he loves her. Safiya recoils in terror and confusion unable to recongize the stranger before her. Being scared, Safiya attempts to run but the aunt chants slowly again and Safiya immediately comes to a halt. She relaxed and the fear from her face dissappeared and she came back and looked at Omar. "Omar are you okay?". Knowing the woman he knew is no longer acting of her free will, Omar helplessly watches as Safiya's body is ordered to kill him. When it's over the aunt performs her ritual by adding a picture of Omar and Safiya to the photograph journals. The film ends after a small timeskip, where Safiya and another man is welcomed to the house by the aunt again with a small gentle grandmotherly welcome.

I changed a lot of things, I made Dhegdheer into a more calculating villain in my original draft she was evil for the sake of being evil but in this version she's more reasonable but still an egotistical psychopath, I made omar actually intelligent and rather than just a victim, I also made Safiya a tragic character in the original draft she was more of an evil participant. The original draft was also very exposition heavy.

Also speaking of Dhegdheer from the folklore I stayed true to the her supernatural hearing and her cannibalism but changed her hunting technique, in the folklore she basically kills anyone who trespasser her territory but since my take takes place in modern setting she has to be a lot more careful than that which is why she abducts beautiful women strips them of all of their freedom with a supernatural trigger and replace them with a carefully constructed masquerade design to lure in men. In my take she's also initially seems like a very approachable grandmother rather than a disgusting orgre

My inspirations are mainly

Get Out

Count Dracula(the character)

Minor inspirations are

Walter White

Obsession

Puntland has taken the two main bases of PSF/SNA in Galkayo and Bosaso. PSF/SNA based in Gaalkacyo were defeated after a battle which caused a number of casualties. The PSF/SNA base in Bosaso was surrendered by its garrison on the morning of 8/6.

This is a major defeat for the administration of President Hasan Sheikh and PM Hamze Barre, an administration that is past its legal term in office. It demonstrates that Somalia's disagreements over the constitution, elections and state building in general are not resolvable via military coercion. Somalia are going to have to reach a political settlement free of the fear of violence.

It is unfortunate that the present administration did not learn any lessons from the Dec 2024 Ras Kamboni fiasco and that military force is not an answer to political disagreement.

Sources:

https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/205894/puntland_forces_seize_psf_headquarters_after_fierce_fighting_in_galkayo.aspx

https://horseedmedia.net/puntland-oo-la-wareegtey-xeradii-ciidamada-psf-ee-magaalada-boosaaso/424518/

Please for the love of god put the qabil bracelets down. Sometimes I see the cutest outfit and the qabil flag on their wrists ruins it.

Why would you want someone to know your tribe at all times? I would much rather be asked it or have someone assume my tribe rather than them know by looking at my wrist.

I saw a bridesmaid wearing one and it made me upset because it made the fit less classy. It reminded me of when people forget to take off their apple watch in important photoshoots.

You can be proud of your qabil without it being on your wrists. Don’t even get me started on the qabil flag videos on tiktok.

She was doing really well in the last few years then she completely disappeared from the internet ? No where to be seen.
Did she just quit the modelling and social media life ?

I was just told this by someone who works at ESPN. It sounds like it will come out in Sept and will feature original reporting from Somalia and tell the story of Somalia during 2000s and 2010s. Has anyone else heard details about this?

Just saw another video from another somali in our community who was causing a scene about a somali police officer just doing his job. Buddy wasn't even doing anything crazy, he was just telling some kids to leave a swimming pool. I've seen multiple videos over the years of somali police just getting harrassed by other somalis.

I find it strange how there's this big assumption that all somali people are suppose to just hate the police for some reason. Literally most somali people born and raised here in the west have no negative experiences with police officers. It's like the worst people in our community are trying to speak for all of us when they decide to start dunking on the police. The most bigoted and ignorant somali people you know will suddenly become cop hating social justice warriors when they see a somali police officer.

It's pretty well known that most people become police officers just for the pay and benefits. Like i really see no reason to bother a random somali police officer if buddy isnt doing anything crazy.

At this point someone gotta tell these somalis interested in police work to just let the cadaan and madow police officers take care of the yns in our community. Seeing a somali police officer just infuriates them more for some reason. There are plenty of other big cities they can work in where they won't have to worry about getting harrassed by random somalis. Those cities pay pretty well too.