Huda Barkhad, Her Homosexual Friends, and the Rise of Islamic Terrorism in Pseudo-State Somaliland

Huda Barkhad’s intimate contacts with gay journalists hired for propaganda purposes in the illegal, breakaway pseudo-state Somaliland have had an ominous impact on the Horn of Africa region, and recently created great animosity against her and her loathed husband, the local tyrant, who proved to be the ‘Ethiopian’ tyrant Melas Zenawi’s most docile puppet.

In fact, two years ago, the omnipresent and omnipotent mistress of Hargeysa’s ill-fated dictator Rayale expressed the ‘clever’ idea to hire world acclaimed gay activists to brand and market …. Somaliland.

A considerable part of the small and impoverished pseudo-state’s budget was allocated to Huda – the ‘villainous figure’ as they call her in Hargeysa –, and her secretaries and assistants cashed it to the visiting gays, who must have felt lucky and fluky.

As a matter of fact, a state (even a pseudo-state like Somaliland) is not a gay night club or an association of social activists; it could not possibly be the recipient of similar Marketing strategies.

Millions of dollars went lost in this fraudulent affair that became a matter of great loss for Huda Barkhad’s treasure and a strong reason of indignation for millions of patriotic Somalis engulfed in the pseudo-state’s territory who are starving and penniless, when such corrupt and utterly anti-Islamic practices take place.

The truculent and malignant persona of the otherwise coarse and analphabetic first mistress of Somaliland contributed greatly in radicalizing Muslims from Northern Somalia. Some of them have recently resumed contacts with Al Qaeda elements in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, demanding support in the fracas they promise to deliver to the renegade state’s tyrannical rulers and in their effort to launch an Islamic Republic of Somalia by overthrowing the ‘Ethiopian’ puppet, his thugs, his mistress, and her homosexual company.

The developments will draw further attention to the Somali North in the next few months as the prolongation of the existence of the calamitous pseudo-state has become a mere promise for an overwhelming and triumphal appearance of the Islamic Terrorism in the Horn of Africa region.

As much has been published on the issue, I selected and republish here an insightful article that sheds more light on the disastrous developments that triggered the wrath of all the Northern Somalis.

Somaliland Recognition & Western Gay Activists

By: Abdikarim Ali Xandule
Canberra, Australia

http://wardheernews.com/articles_07/June/16_Somaliland_Xandulle.html

For the past 16 years the wily and dedicated proponents of "Somaliland" recognition as a State recruited a wide array of people to help them achieve their illusory goal. They recruited academics from the US and South Africa, Washington-based Lobbyists, renegade African Parliamentarians, and foreign spouses of "Somaliland" women.

All these efforts came to a dead end when, on March 22, 2007, the British Government categorically rejected a mass appeal and a Petition that "Somaliland" be recognized as a separate State. The British were their last hope after a series of setbacks and humiliations in the African Union, the UN, the Arab League, and elsewhere in the international diplomatic arena.

But driven by blind pursuit for dismemberment of the country, Somalia’s secessionists will stop at nothing. It recently came to light that they recruited key leaders in the Gay community in the UK and Canada to wage a campaign in support of their project. This is in spite of the fact that homosexuality, the life style modus operandi of the international Gay movement, is against the basic tenet of Islam and equally against fundamental teachings of Somali culture.

A Somaliland advocate from the Toronto Gay Community

As the first salvo of this unholy joint campaign, a Mr. Tyler Stiem, writes a flattering warm article about the "Toronto Somalilander Community". In his profiling "the Toronto Somalilander community", which he treats as distinct from the "Toronto Somali Community" he interviews and quotes among others a local "Somalilander" psychiatrist: a Dr Abdishakur Jowhar, whom I was told by friends in Toronto is a Born-again Somalilander from a respectable religious Awdalite family, who since the election of Dahir Riyale, a fellow Gadabuursi, to the "Somaliland’ presidency, became a loud and sometimes embarrassing advocate of Somaliland recognition as a separate State.

As reported by Mr. Stiem, in the company of a young Somalilander he goes on a leisurely stroll in a Somali Mall, Suuqa Ceel-Gaab, and refers in the article to seeing "a mix of Somali and Somalilander-run shops". I wonder how one can distinguish between a "Somali" and a "Somalilander" businessman/woman who owns a unit in that Mall.

Through further cyber sifting it came to light that Mr. Stiem’s advocacy for Somaliland recognition is not confined to this article. Mr. Stiems was an honoured guest of SOPRI’s, a US-based Somaliland Think Thank, annual international conference held in Washington in September 2006.

On checking the background of Mr. Tyler Stiem I was astonished that he currently lives in Hargeisa. What a Canadian Gay Activists is doing in a relatively desolate Somali city? According to sources close to the secessionist movement he was recruited by Faisal Warrabe, a well-known Opposition Leader, while on a visit to Toronto in 2005. Upon further enquiry on what he does in Hargeisa, I was told he is a guest of Mr. Warrabe, who frequently alternates between Somaliland and Finland where his wife and children reside. Mr. Stiem, according to sources in Hargeisa, also advises Mr. Warrabe’s party, the Justice and Welfare Party (UCID), on the burning issue of Somaliland recognition as an independent State.

Another Gay Somaliland Recruit from the UK

Upon first coming across the above-mentioned subtle advocacy of Somaliland recognition by Mr. Tyler Stiem, my friends and I shrug it off as a one time anomaly that a Western journalist, who happen to be Gay, will lobby for the recognition of Somaliland. However, another jolt was in the wait for us. It seems there is a troubling pattern.

Few days later we read a blunt bipartisan Guardian article with the loaded title Africa’s Success Story, written by a Peter Tatchell, repeating verbatim, the usual secessionists’ trade-mark propaganda that Somaliland, unlike their neighbors in the South, is stable with thriving parliamentary democracy, Freedom of the Press, and an exemplary human rights record, and that the world should not ignore this unique African ‘success story’. Curious of the identity and background of this British Knight coming so strongly for Somaliland recognition, we checked the Internet for clues.

Mr. Peter Tatchell is a leading activist and lobbyists for Gay Rights worldwide. Check out his website and you will come across the variety of Gay and Lesbian causes he fervently defends: from the UK to Algeria.

Conclusion

From the main stream Somali Muslim perspective homosexuality is seen as immoral and a blunt contravention of Islam and traditional Somali culture. Having said that, an individual breach of moral teachings is between that individual and his Creator. However, when extremist groups within a Muslim Community recruits non-Muslims, who champion non-Islamic life styles, to promote a Somali constituency project (Somaliland Recognition) whose national symbols include a flag with Quranic verses, it is appropriate to raise the red flag on this affront and insult to the Somali people.

The people of Somaliland deserves to know the unIslamic UnSomali manner in which their name is used or misused by some diasporas-based fringe elements who are encouraged and coached by extremist clan chauvinist politicians, such as Faisal Warrabe of the UCID party. It seems this misguided group will do everything to promote a divisive pipedream project that sure, if realized, will bring conflict and mayhem for the long suffering people of the Somali Republic and in the process de-stabilize the relatively peaceful northern regions of the country.

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Picture: Huda with another type of friends