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2008-11-16 Africa Horn

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 Ah traditional dancing you say?

Posted by .5mt 2008-11-16 04:21|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-16 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 This reminds me of an article, can't say if I read it in english online (that's what I believe) or possibly translated in french in a mag, but this was quite a few years ago already, and the somali writer, a more or less westernized journalist, complained very bitterly about the rapid growth of salafi islam... and how this "new" brand of islam was deliberately aimed at erasing all traditional somali culture, dance, song, veiling wimmen in abaya, having enforcers of "morality" (familiar?),... all this lavishly funded by oil money from the Gulf.

Somai probably were sufis, a far cry from wahabism, though sufis has a very underserved rep for being an "enlightnened" islam, which it never was except in the minds of hip western apologists/sufi converts IIUC... and this pattern has been ongoing over and over, a traditional, folk, "peaceful" islam being forcibly replaced by militant salafism, in north africa, in bosnia, in chechnya,... with an attendant aculturation, all this funded by the money stolen by the arabian princes, in a general movement of an aggressive and imperialist islamic "renaissance" born in 19th century India (John Frum had great comments about that).

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-16 05:25|| 2008-11-16 05:25|| Front Page Top

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