إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ فَأَصْلِحُوا بَيْنَ أَخَوَيْكُمْ ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ
The believers are but brothers, so make settlement between your brothers. And fear Allah that you may receive mercy.
In my opinion, many Somalis take this verse way more seriously than many other ethnicities, which creates a huge imbalance in the reciprocal dynamics and benefits Muslim-ajnabis greatly.
If I’m not mistaken, old Somali poets would not shy away from highlighting their negative traits (carabta) in times when there was less contact compared to now. People from those times had a lot of pride and never put them on a pedestal. Somalis were very wary of them and aware of who they were as people.
I genuinely think that people who bend over backward for them are ignorant about the religion, focusing on one aspect while ignoring other important parts. It’s a dangerous combination, and many people fall into this trap.
I also think that when other ethnicities become religious, they remain very protective of their people and are careful about revealing too much when socializing. I still haven’t come to the same conclusion about whether it’s the same for Somalis.
Parents should teach their kids from a very young age about their origins and history so that when they grow up, they won’t be changed by others' perceptions of them. It's so important to make sure your kids have a strong self-identity that cannot be altered. When this is not instilled in them from a young age, they grow up to be meek adults with very low self-esteem and might sometimes cling to religion to find a new identity.
New identity often comes with constant nacmalays.
It's the Wahhabi/Salafi ideology that has created this extremely foreign and inorganic hierarchy of races. They propagate Arab superiority. I even saw a Somali kid named Sudais. I wanted to slap the family who named their child after a tribal confederation thinking it was a normal name you give to children.
Somali wadaads who are Wahhabi have abandoned the traditional Somali turban and now wear the red terrorist shimagh. They assault every culture they come near to in their attempts to Arabize.