Memory Hole: Somali Slander

(Updated: Originally posted November 4, 2006)

There was a small piece by the AP from the Nov. 2 Globe about US proxy Ethiopia's concerns about Somalia.

In it, the Ethiopian PM said that the Islamists controlling parts of Somalia "are a threat to... the wider world.... represent a direct threat... to Somalia and the Somali people... to the region and Ethiopia, and... to the international community."

I wondered: what kind of threat is this? So I start digging:

The Islamists defeated warlords backed by the US in June of '06.

"Ted Dagne, Africa research analyst at the Congressional Research Service:

"The so-called Islamists provided a sense of stability in Somalia, education, and other social services, while the warlords maimed and killed innocent civilians. Somalis are secular Muslims, and the presence of so-called Islamists is not an introduction of new ideology or religion (New York Times June 6, 2006)."

[That's a weird day: 6/6/06. George's Day]

"Backing the Islamists have been business leaders eager to end the arbitrary rule of the warlords."

[Yeah, those EXTREME BUSINESS GROUPS!!!

We all know how radical business is!!

The citizens of Somalia had this to say]:

Ali Mohammed, a 32-year-old school teacher: "The people of Mogadishu have finally gotten some peace today. We've had war for so long, and we're tired of it (New York Times June 6, 2006)."

Fahran Gure: "We feel there is a big change, peace is in the air, no gunshots can be heard. It is calm, businesses are fully operational. People are now moving freely everywhere (Boston Gl;obe June 7, 2006)."

[Islamists must be terrorists!!!

BRINGING PEACE TO THE CITY BY DEFEATING OUR MURDEROUS WARLORDS!

How dare the Islamists DELIVER FREEDOM!!]

Want to know another terror group in Somalia? Women!

That's right, women!!!

A June 19, 2006 report in the Washington Post (via the Boston Globe) illuminates the situation.]

OUR warlords' gunmen would "slice open the tin shacks of poor families and snatch their daughters. [The girls would] return -- if they returned -- in the morning, sobbing and marked permanently as castoffs.

Anab Mohammed Isaaq, 35, a solemn, long-faced widow: "Four-year-old girls, 5-year old girls were raped."

[By THOSE AMERIKA SUPPORTED, people!]

Therefore, Somali women "embraced [the Islamists] as keepers of the public order... strong enough and pious enough to keep Mogadishu's daughters safe. [Militias won the support of] Mogadishu's increasingly influential women, who in recent years had joined the job market en masse to support their families... they sold vegetables, plastic jugs of gasoline, and khat, [a popular leafy drug].

Shariff Osman, 45, dean of faculty at Mogadishu University: "Women are doing what men used to do here. They were paying bills."

Khadija O. Ali, 47, and founder of a women's group here and a graduate student in conflict resolution at George Mason University: "Somalia was saved because of the Somali women. I think it is even something that the men acknowledge now. Finally."

[Those Somali women really are a bunch of extremist gals, huh?

Terrorists by defiant example!

These reports must have been all lies!

I've been trained to believe that all Muslims thrash and beat their wives to a pulp before they drink their blood.

So it is just inconceivable that an Islamic society could behave as the one described above.

Indeed, Somalia was a virus that had to be destroyed, lest it DESTROY OUR LIES about Islamists and become a "good example" for other African or Islamist nations to emulate.

So the women saved Somali, and the U.S. (with its Ethiopian proxy) wrecked it again!

That's where we are today!