= On the Occasion of Clear and Present Danger!
Mohamed Aboker Ahmed
: 26 June to 1 July have been designated as a Somalia week!
: This week has a central place in the history of
: the Somali people.
: 26 June, 1960 was the day in which our brothers and sisters in the
: North or former British Somaliland won their freedom from the British
: colonial impere. Four days later on 1 July, 1960 the Souther part of
: Somalia has won its freedom from the Italian imperialist.
: There is no need in my part to rehearse our current sad state of
: affairs. I only want to express my personal feeling towards my Somali
: brothers and sisters whether still living in Somalia or struggling somewhere
: in the diaspora.
: My beloved people, today you feel that peace will not come, because
: the soil is pregnant with the blood of the innocent; but peace must
: come both for the death and for the living.
: My beloved people, today you think that there has been so much hating
: among the people that you have forgotten how to love, but we we must
: choose love over hate, because without hope and love, we will embrace
: nihilism---a permanent death!
: My beloved people, remember other times, when you were endanger?
: It was your capacity for love, your strong faith, and your generosity
: that has saved you time and again from defeat and destruction.
: My beloved people, I know that you are suffering from broken souls nad
: fractured spirits, but despite of the genocide, the rape, and the
: pillaging, despite the vivid memory of the unbearable violence and
: horrors that you have experienced in the hands of the wicked and the
: evil doers, you must choose peace----for peace must come both for the death
: as well as the living.
: p.s. The word nihilism I am using it here in the sense used by
: Friedrick Nietzsche: (19th century German philosopher). In this
: context, nihilism results in the life of an epoch or a people when
: there is crisis of intellectual, political and moral nature in the
: history of the people or the epoch in question. If such people fail to
: quickly fill the void left behind by such crisis, then the people will
: inevitably vanquish (e.g. The fall of the Roman empire is a case in point)!
: Walaalyaalow waxaan dhamaantiinaba idiin rajaynayaa
: ciidwanagsan !
: Amina Mire
Walaal Amina,
Your article "On the ocassion of clear and present danger" is one of
the best I have ever read on the this newsgroup. It has moved me and
therefore I have decided to write to you a note of appreciation.
Keep up the good spirit.
May Allah bless us all.
Mohamed Amin.
Abdirisak Mohamed
> p.s. The word nihilism I am using it here in the sense used by
> Friedrick Nietzsche: (19th century German philosopher). In this
Nietzsche once wrote: " The thinking man is but a sick ape."
Let the somali express his emotions.
--
Abdirisak Mohamed
Amina Mire
: Amina Mire (am...@chass.utoronto.ca) wrote:
: --
: Abdirisak Mohamed
Please! My poem is not a crituqe on Nietzsche. If you read the
poem which I as assume you did, you saw that it was an expression of my own feeling, only I
happen to be a she not a he!
All the best
Amina