Gulf Arabs fabricating Somali history for political reasons, fight back.

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That just shows much of it boils down to ignorance really.

Study how the Swahili language came into existence, and that will point you in the direction of what this ignorance entails. Shows that the sentiments in the video I posted has been marinating a long time.

 

[Hotchick12]

That's not true, most believe we speak Arabic and pester us about it, a lot of the times they lump us with Sudanese.

If anything the slavery conflations would probably have to do with Ethiopians because there was a large oromo/ethiopian slave population in the Gulf. So i doubt there is any deep rooted agenda towards us. It's just ignorance of historical knowledge

dont you think those afro arabs that have gulf citizenship say their ancestry is somalia or sudan to mask their slave origins

 

[DivineMartial]

Everyone in the comments is calling him out for his lies

 

[Idilinaa]

dont you think those afro arabs that have gulf citizenship say their ancestry is somalia or sudan to mask their slave origins

Probably that too, but most often it's actually Ethiopians who arrive in Gulf countries and take on the ''Somali' name to dignify themselves

@Galool knows more about this than me

As for the former, I remember a news article of a scandal in a Gulf country where they discovered a bunch of ethiopian women were pretending to be Somalis to get work as house maids with better pay and better prospects as Somalis have a good reputation and are not known to be or are available as maids like ethiopian and kenyan women are known for.

@Idilinaa


The frequent incidents involving some Ethiopian workers in the Kingdom have led citizens to refrain from accepting Ethiopian female workers, which has led them to assume Somali nationality.

Most Ethiopian maids who have run away from their sponsors have resorted to assuming Somali nationality, hoping to find a job opportunity and escaping the security campaigns that pursue violators of labor regulations. Meanwhile, some housewives are forced to hire them despite their violation of the system, and to ignore scrutiny of their nationalities and backgrounds, and sometimes accept their conditions, including some of them taking their children to work, not spending the night at home, and returning to their homes after work by taxi so that employers cannot find out their addresses.

When contacting one of the maids, the maid justified her assumption of Somali nationality by fearing that she would not find a job opportunity, stressing that she was not worried about violating the labor law, considering that her presence in the home of a Saudi family would provide her with security. As for her wages during Ramadan, she said that they reached 2,800 riyals, according to Asharq. On

the other hand, the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom and Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Sheikh, warned against those who trade in domestic workers and turn them into a commodity for sale and purchase during the holy month of Ramadan.

It is worth noting that many Ethiopians gathered in Saudi Arabia and rioted and caused chaos in protest against the campaign to correct the status of illegal workers late last year.

انتحال الجنسية الصومالية للعمالة الأثيوبية

أدت كثرة الحوادث التي تقع من بعض العمال الإثيوبيين في المملكة إلى عزوف المواطنين عن قبول العاملات الإثيوبيات مما جعل الأخيرات ينتحلن الجنسية الصومالية.

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I know for a fact that Swahili slave descendants attached themselves to the Jabarti name, to dignify themselves but then through their association it became a degraded name.

Before this, the name Jabarti which was like a nationality for Somalis during the middle ages was seen as a ''blessed'' or ''Saintly' and ''prestigious'' name throughout the middle east.

Did you know that there was a mosque in Damascus that only Somalis could be the Imam of?

".. Our friend the scholar Abd al-Samad al-Jabarti al-Hanafi took the imam position then he died and Ibn Ma’ruf al-Jabarti took his place.. then its a condition that the imam be from the blessed Jabarti race and he be a Hanafi and have 10 students of his own kind to teach them Qur’an.. If there...

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It's understandable since we arrived in the middle east/gulf countries as mostly just scholars and merchants in the past and not as slaves or labourers/domestic servants etc. So they associated us with wealth and piety.

So it wouldn't be suprising if they masked themselves Somalis in recent times as well.

 

[The Oponian Guild]

dont you think those afro arabs that have gulf citizenship say their ancestry is somalia or sudan to mask their slave origins

They used to do that in Saudi Arabia back in the old days but stopped the gimmick when Somalis started arriving in large numbers.

 

[CABDULWALI XASAN.]

They were enslaved themselves by the Turks for 500 years, including around the time they are talking about lol

how were they enslaved?

 

[TheLand]

how were they enslaved?

There was a Saudi state before the current one in the 1800s, they tried to build it by rebelling against the Ottoman Turks. Their ruler at the time was captured, sent to Constantinople and publicly behead along with his sons after being forced to listen to music. That was the end of the first Saudi State. This is just one example, you can call it slavery, gumaysi, subjugation, whatever you like. I see no real difference.

 

[Araabi]

The longer we deny it, the more silly it is. I think it's about time we reflect and be proud in spite of tragedy.

For how long can we deny that Somalis were enslaved by Arabs? We need to come to terms with it sooner or later.