I stumbled across this wikipedia page.
How accurate is this?
How accurate is this?
To the historians of sspot where there somali jews?
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There were Yemeni jews in Mogadishu until the 1970s when somalia joined the arab league in which they were pissed about and had to leave
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Were there any ethnic somalis who were jews?
mohammdov
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The only thing I know about these Yibir They used to take two lambs from us for every male Isaaq born, because we believed that we had killed their grandfather and that they were witches. If we did not give them the two lambs, we would be cursed They have been fooled for ages Even when my father was born, my grandfather gave them two sheep 
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Nah not one I know of, but there is a tradition that yibir were jews that became muslims
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Passive incomeThe only thing I know about these Yibir They used to take two lambs from us for every male Isaaq born, because we believed that we had killed their grandfather and that they were witches. If we did not give them the two lambs, we would be cursed They have been fooled for ages Even when my father was born, my grandfather gave them two sheep
mohammdov
Nabadshe
Maybe they are actually Jews, so they deceived us and made a fortune easilyPassive income
Historical evidence suggests there were once Somali Jewish and Christian communities in pre Islamic Somalia, judging by the ruins theyโve seen. Considering where we were located in the world, it shouldnโt be surprising we did have such communities. We also used to have Yemeni Jews join their Yemeni kinsmen in our country until the mid twentieth century.
Somali_patriotic
Everything unuka leh
Except for yemeni jews there were no other "somali" jews in the era
Also what ruins? Somalis were never Christians.
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Emir of Zayla
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Outside of Yibirs, there were some Yemeni Jews living in coastal towns
Emir of Zayla
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Tho interestingly I once read that the word yibir had smth to do with the aramaic word for Jews
prove it
Yibir are probably related to the Beta Israeli but we won't know until we get more genetic evidence.
Most of them weren't ethnic Somalis probably Yemeni or Ethiopian refugees/immigrants or something. Ethnic Somali Jews are probably only like 50 throughout history.
No, yibir is related to the Rendiile word Iibere, Suugo Etymology isnโt real. They were the pre-Islamic priests of the pre-Somali people.
they donโt claim to be Jewish and are ethnically Somali.
Somali_patriotic
Everything unuka leh
Priests of waaq?
Not waaq (which means heaven in Somali and not god) but they were wizards/magicians who were believed to have power over different aspects/elements depending on their family.
BTW itโs another suugo science myth that waaq means God in proto-Somali. It means heaven. Oromo Waaqism was actually invented in the 1500โs, itโs not at all an ancient religion.
See Gunther Schleeโs the Social Belief system of the Rendille
See Gunther Schleeโs the Social Belief system of the Rendille
