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What to believe? Somalis are by default massive, attention seeking liars but when I went to Somalia twice, there was warnings of local youth who would rape women after dark.

Warnings about safety after dark are common in many countries, including Western ones like Canada where you live. Many major cities around the world, from New York to London to Toronto, have areas where it's advised to be cautious at night

You don't have to go to Somalia to receive the same messaging. Crime is a global issue, not unique to any one place. There is no evidence that Somalia is uniquely dangerous at night. Many Somalis who visit or live there move around just fine, just like in any other country where people take common-sense precautions.
 

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Warnings about safety after dark are common in many countries, including Western ones like Canada where you live. Many major cities around the world, from New York to London to Toronto, have areas where it's advised to be cautious at night

You don't have to go to Somalia to receive the same messaging. Crime is a global issue, not unique to any one place. There is no evidence that Somalia is uniquely dangerous at night. Many Somalis who visit or live there move around just fine, just like in any other country where people take common-sense precautions.

I heard of one young woman who was raped by multiple young men many times over many months and how the youth in the community ostracized her. This was in Hargeisa, the "safe" part of Somali lands.
 
You are correct, western groups will only use this as an excuse to demonise Somali people whether male or female.

Issues can only be resolved in a more permanent way internally. This is the case with most things in life. We all have more control over our lives than most assume. Outsourcing and projecting towards an external enemy is not the long term solution.
Thank you. It seems a lot of people are blindly assuming that everyone is as sympathetic towards victims of sexual violence and fgm in Somalia as we are. But that isn’t the case. They’ll use these cases to insult our culture, religion and country.

I understand being angered by what happened but we seriously need to report on these things in our language. With Somalis, things like this will always be turned into into a religious or Somali problem when it’s a global issue.
 
I heard of one young woman who was raped by multiple young men many times over many months and how the youth in the community ostracized her. This was in Hargeisa, the "safe" part of Somali lands.

The fact that you’ve heard about this incident actually proves that Somali society condemns such acts. If it were accepted, no one would talk about it, and efforts would be made to hide it. Instead, cases like these are exposed and discussed because people reject them and want justice.

Also, shocking incidents like this tend to get attention, making it seem like they happen more often than they actually do. That doesn't mean they are the norm , just that Somali communities don’t turn a blind eye when they do happen.
 
I’m not embarrassed nor did I say I was. I feel bad for the victim. I’m also just thinking critically here and whether these complaints will actually make a difference or are you just further tarnishing the image of Somalis with no actual change for Somali girls.

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How long have Somali feminists been complaining about fgm? Globally Somalis are known for this issue because of these complaints despite it being a practice done to girls all over Africa and parts of Asia. Have fgm rates gone down and have laws been changed to protect young girls due to international shame or has this practice been used as a tool to insult Somalis and Islam?

It’s like you feminists don’t think at all. Somali women aren’t white. We won’t be met with sympathy in the same way. We’ll be met with racism and islamophobia. I want change but complaining to the white man doesn’t bring about change.
The whole ”raising awareness” to shisheeye thing never made sense, there is very little help that could come from outside of Somalia. It’s not the job of foreign people/states to build an effective state & legalsystem
 
The whole ”raising awareness” to shisheeye thing never made sense, there is very little help that could come from outside of Somalia. It’s not the job of foreign people/states to build an effective state & legalsystem
Exactly. Sometimes it feels like they want the attention and clout and don’t actually care about helping.
 

Taintedlove

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Why do we care what ajnabis think of us tho? That's where I'm confused. They already know fgm is big problem here. I say we actually get rid of the issue first. The biggest ceeb is not women talking about it but the problem existing the first place. Subhanallah, we're in the 21st century, let's act like it.
 
Why do we care what ajnabis think of us tho? That's where I'm confused. They already know fgm is big problem here. I say we actually get rid of the issue first. The biggest ceeb is not women talking about it but the problem existing the first place. Subhanallah, we're in the 21st century, let's act like it.
It has nothing to do with sexism or religion or whatever. It is because of the traditional customs that these murtards supposedly love so much supposedly that the pharaonic act is practiced, and Muslim organizations have eliminated it in so much of the country.
 
Why do we care what ajnabis think of us tho? That's where I'm confused. They already know fgm is big problem here. I say we actually get rid of the issue first. The biggest ceeb is not women talking about it but the problem existing the first place. Subhanallah, we're in the 21st century, let's act like it.
we have a massive diaspora that will be impacted by this nonsense. Making yourself the face of fgm or even worse rape is stupid no matter how you put it.

Our country is located in a geopolitical hotspot, dehumanization of somalis can (and has) been used to justify military intervention
 

Taintedlove

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It has nothing to do with sexism or religion or whatever. It is because of the traditional customs that these murtards supposedly love so much supposedly that the pharaonic act is practiced, and Muslim organizations have eliminated it in so much of the country.
No? Somalis did it because they believed it was sunnah and part of cleanliness. Malaysians, kurds etc did it too. There was a norwegian documentary that exposed imams advising young mothers to do fgm. Murtads associate fgm with islam. And those dumb somali sheikhs have done nothing to stop it.
 
No? Somalis did it because they believed it was sunnah and part of cleanliness. Malaysians, kurds etc did it too. There was a norwegian documentary that exposed imams advising young mothers to do fgm. Murtads associate fgm with islam. And those dumb somali sheikhs have done nothing to stop it.
No, it’s a pre-islam pagan practise. All of our neighbours did it, the pagans & the christians alike

I suspect it started out as an initiation ritual
 

Taintedlove

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we have a massive diaspora that will be impacted by this nonsense. Making yourself the face of fgm or even worse rape is stupid no matter how you put it.

Our country is located in a geopolitical hotspot, dehumanization of somalis can (and has) been used to justify military intervention
We are already the face of FGM. That ship has sailed. India still holds number 1 for rape. There are still uneducated somali parents who have inflicted their diaspora kids with FGM. How about we fix the issue at hand instead of worrying about our "image". We might be "massive" but we are still a relatively unknown diaspora compared to other immigrant groups.
 
No? Somalis did it because they believed it was sunnah and part of cleanliness. Malaysians, kurds etc did it too. There was a norwegian documentary that exposed imams advising young mothers to do fgm. Murtads associate fgm with islam. And those dumb somali sheikhs have done nothing to stop it.
People say every cultural custom is part of sunnah. If you asked an afghan why they grow long beards they will say it was sunnah.
“Norwegian Documentary” isn’t a good Source. Look at professor Sadia Mires work
 

Taintedlove

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People say every cultural custom is part of sunnah. If you asked an afghan why they grow long beards they will say it was sunnah.
“Norwegian Documentary” isn’t a good Source. Look at professor Sadia Mires work
Exactly. I didn't say it was true that FGM was sunnah, but attributing fgm to murtads like somalia isn't a hyper-muslim country is dumb. Murtads are in the diaspora.
 
No, it’s a pre-islam pagan practise. All of our neighbours did it, the pagans & the christians alike

I suspect it started out as an initiation ritual
There is a huge amount of work done by groups like Ictisam and even some sufi groups to eliminate these pagan and satanic acts, but you would never know that talking to these deracinated murtard hooyo maatalos. Even in the Afar region a sheikh eliminated the pharaonic custom
 
Exactly. I didn't say it was true that FGM was sunnah, but attributing fgm to murtads like somalia isn't a hyper-muslim country is dumb. Murtads are in the diaspora.
Rural half pagan shoemaking wadaads aren’t sheikhs, and traditionally female “mysteries” like the pharaonic custom or ay-sitar or whatever were banned from men knowing about it.
 

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