Defining Freedom in a Somali Style

The Difference between a sinner in our country and the one in the west is that the former has a deep regret even while sinning while the latter enjoys the sins.

If social problem arises among a community , the road to a better soution is a solid research on the causes of the problem , analysing the factors that contribute to the problem and prescribing a package of treatments.on a tour of five European capitals , I encountered several Somali individuals that wore lifestyles that are totally deviant according to the Somali Islamic cultural values but normal or may be civilized according to western so called advanced culture. A cigarette in between her fingers and a stylish cup of vodka in another hand , an educated Somali lady told me that she found her previous life style a backward , another married woman lived with a non somali in a compound while her legal husband is waiting for her in Somalia , kids are used to finding in the refrigerators in their kitchen bitter tasting drinks that were a shame among even the adults in our communities, mothers who dont find problem when her teenage daughters live with their boy friends, teenage girls wear half naked revealing clothes,put ring clips on the nose , lips and eye gowns and other more deviant characteristics that gave me a heart attack were some of my encounters .Most of these behaviours were and are still a shame in the somali cultural values . On trying to contribute a solution to above and other social problems that plagued the somali communities in Europe and USA, I first considered these problems as phenomena that fall in line with the cases life that has cause & effect features. There are two main approaches , international and national , in my package of defining and pinpointing the roots of the problem first . Both approaches have a common denominator that is FREEDOM as the catalyst and big motivator of all social deviations.

Internationally, there is strong and combined effort by all countries to fight against old cultural values and traditions that emanate from a religion. what is considered as tradition , however has become an unavoidable necessity that should not be gotten rid of.it is wrongly believed that God.s creation and set up of the universe should be challenged as it is mostly considered as natural happening that has occurred accidently. It is believed that if the set up is dismantled , civilisations would erupt from it , infact the belief arose from the fact that Man.s search for better living led to some positive discoveries and progress that took human being to higher stage of being a better creature. But not all attempts do lead successful results .
IT is always trivial to remember that there are areas that should be left intact otherwise it would lead to a total destruction.Religion and its role in man.s life was always wrongly considered as interferring thorns that should be removed and the result is a clash between those who want to see God's words are the upper and final factor in every day life and those want to keep God only in the churches , mosques and temples.I was encouraged with my dream to reform not only the third world societies but also the developed societies in the West when I learnt that some parts in that region , specially in the Scandinivian countries , people started to feel that the current day western lifestyle is not even according to good christianity as preached by prophet Issa (Pbuh).
The tendency to fail the godmen took the west to choose to live a lifestyle that is morally not different from the other creatures in the world, how ever few good men from the West exist but these men could not prevent the continuous rupture of all spiritual and moral values of the West and the characteristics of the young men and women from the West that start at the age of 12 below puberty.Thanks to the civil war in our country , the somali children born and brought up in the west are no exception.Nationally speaking , the somali individual in the West is faced with the tragedy of being in equiliprium state between two cultures that are far different and apart from each other .he was thrown from the somali culture based on a package of Islamic teaching , rural traditional values, urban slow step movement towards civilization but with some impurities & into a western culture that has more impurities and glitters than benefits . The Two have more differences than similarities.An old and wise man walks on the string balancing his weight between the two sides - sucking the vitamins of the good prospects of the western life and dumping the waste in the dustpin - but an imature teenager is in for a big fall.The fact is that there are many advantages that the somali new comer in the West can draw but the problem is that there is always the dangerous task of picking the gold from the sand.Most deviant somal ladies in the west lodge their justification that they lacked the mere freedom entitled to any human being while they lived in Somalia but íf that is true , the struggle of the somalli iron lady should be to get that freedom through reform and education and not breaking glasses so that people will hear the sound. The glasses of the heart and spirit as somali moslem lady has got great values that can not be compensated.Freedom , in essence , has limits . without this limitation , it will lose its brand name and quality . The somali expatriate in the west must realize that He or She should not change his life stlye just because there is the freedom to do so but there should be the valid cause to adopt new culture if it is from negative to positive, from bad to good or from dirty to hygienic.The New Somalia group will undertake the heavy task of social reform among the somali communities in the west through debates, sharing of ideologies , brainwashing the somali new comers etc and we humbly need the ideas , cooperation and advise of the somali intellectuals in the world. We feel that what is at stake is not only the security and peace in Somalia but also the cultural calues, religion , rationality,way of thinking and the pride of being a Somali .
Let us hit the iron while it is still hot for some where in the snowy hillsides of Europe and USA , the iron never gets hot again .

Awes A.Osman
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