TFSF Factor of the Week

From the Executive Director:

This is just my observation. I actually think Somalis abroad are less informed and aware of the principles of democracy. Most seem to be driven by their emotions than reason. The fact that they only react to the extreme action of the government is an evidence for their lack of commitment to build democracy in Somalia . It takes dedication, hard work and sacrifices to build a democratic society anywhere, let alone in Africa. If Somalia's are lacking the interest to participate in the building of democracy in somalia when it is relatively peaceful and only react when things are in chaos, it seems to me that somalia do not understand the basic steps in building democracy.

If you would like to know whether I know the answer to the political problem in Somalia , I don’t know. I also think no one knows the right answer to this question. But I know what would lead to the answer, an open dialog among all the stake holders. I also believe that this would not happen till all Somalis think they are Somalia first and however they want to describe themselves second. If one is only defined by by tribe or region, it is hard to compromise for the good of all. So, it is hard to believe that the Diaspora know the answer to somalia complex political problem when they can’t even see beyond their tribe association.

Clear-cut democratic issues like unity, individual freedom, individual rights and obligations, justice and equality for all are but bitter and sour pills for tribal political epistles and disciples. In the name of this or that liberation front, these misguided tribal political groups have already stained themselves with and washed their hands by the blood of innocent somolis, ICU Islamic Courts Union's , SDN (Somali Diaspora Network), WSC/USC, elders of the Hawiye clan and others who carry the trade marks of so-called liberation fronts (LFs) hate democratic language and democratic preconditions. They are not willing to forge the noble wisdom of unity that serves as a pillar for peace, prosperity; they forget that democratic tradition is the pathway that brings society towards the fulfillment of democratic rights, freedom of individuals and freedom of groups. those groups are undemines the development and prolongs our position as one of the poorest countries in the world. As long as we continue to hate one another within, how can we hope to compete globally?

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Opportunity in Somalia

Somalia has been a failed state since 1995, when the United Nations and the United States withdrew their humanitarian mission, leaving the warring clans to sort things out for themselves. For more than a decade, both Democratic and Republican administrations have written off Somalia, raising it only as a warning against U.S. military intervention in Africa. Is it any surprise then that this ungovernable and lawless state became the breeding ground for a conflict that pitted radical Islam against Ethiopia, and ultimately the WeThe overriding objective of the Supreme Islamic Courts Council since it seized Mogadishu six months ago has been to expand into neighboring Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. As the Islamists overran southern Somalia, they indoctrinated school children and pressed them into the militant "al Shebab," whose ruthless leaders were growing increasingly close to al Qaeda. Their end goal was to form a Muslim caliphate in Greater Somalia under whose banner their reach would extend throughout the Horn and into central and southern Africa. Some claimed that this was a proxy war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Others even claimed that it was a proxy war with the United States using Ethiopia as its pawn. To believe this is to ignore the fact that the Islamic Courts' objective was to replace Somalia's secular government in Baidoa so that they could claim to rule all of Somalia. Ethiopia, alone among Somalia's neighbors, responded to the Transitional Federal Government's appeal for help. While there were competing motives for this conflict, it is certainly not—as the Islamists claim—an instance of Ethiopian aggression with the tacit blessing of the United States. Ethiopia, along with the African Union and the international community, pressed both sides for dialogue. But the Islamic Courts—covertly funded and armed by Eritrea and supporters of a radical Islamic state in the Horn of Africa—declared a jihad on Ethiopia and attacked the Transitional Federal Government. Eritrea hoped to use the conflict in Somalia to destabilize its archenemy Ethiopia, while Islamists hoped to upset the delicate balance between Ethiopia's 75 million evenly divided Orthodox Christian and Muslims. ..more,,http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/0103africa_huddleston.aspx