If Somaliland doesn't take certain measure then things might go to shit if Ethiopia falls or splits due to the uprising because a destabilized Ethiopia will probably lead to a flood of refugees coupled with easy access to military grade weaponry.
These groups always try the peaceful way at first but if things don't go their way, they don't tend to shy away from the use of force and might even go as far as create their own local group of al shabab if that isn't their plan already; here's hoping it doesn't come to that because you can bribe or beat militias but suicide bombing fanatics is like herpes.
Exactly.
Even if you support active community islamic encouragement schemes (or whatever the hell), you should have the good sense to know what they're really up to, because it's happened too many times for you to plead ignorance.
I hope journalist (who are usually on their long list of enemies eventually) should be exposing them like mad for all of their hypocrisies and illegalities while they still have a chance. You know some of them are adulterers, some of them are gay, some of them use prostitutes, some of them have shady business deals, some of them are not truly loyal to the country etc etc. Expose them and delegitimize them. Even if the politicians are stupid enough to give them power, if the people don't like them it will mean nothing. They live off the everyday population venerating them for their religiosity, whilst all the while they're thinking up ways to brutalize them. I've seen this movie before.