Somalia: Sheikh Sharif’s Failure is a Matter of Erroneous Perceptions

Many readers reacted in diverse ways to my recent article – criticism of Sheikh Sharif’s policies. Some argued that the new TFG president has not had until now enough time to act. Others pretended that he is the only Islamist who could be accepted by the UN, the US and the major world players. Finally, others prophesied that it is early for the support he got from several parts to be shown, activated, and effectuated – let alone capitalized. I read several other points, but I don’t feel the need to mention them here, because they are mere repetitions of earlier known approaches to the subject.

I want to also thank all those who wholeheartedly supported my criticism. In fact, one does not need either to fully support the Shebaab or to believe in the establishment of an Islamic state in order to see the truth face to face, and thus denounce the instrumentalization of Sheikh Sharif by the colonial powers.

In the present article, I will make my position clearer. I will start with the minor points, namely inactivity, lack of political volition, absence from the major fronts or issues that concern the Somali Nation.

Somali Piracy. The case of MV MEARSK ALABAMA is not a simple and customary piracy affair; with Hillary Clinton speaking of ‘scourge’ and with the US navy present off the Somali coast, a responsible, real, and existent president of Somalia would certainly have something to say. But Sheikh Sharif is silent; his country risks becoming the target of a US attack (that may spare him – that’s true!) and the TFG puppet president has nothing to say. Not a single press release that would cost nothing.

Somaliland. In Somalia’s most problematic part, the Upper House (Guurti) gets bribed by the dictator Rayaale and agrees to illegally postpone the date of the otherwise illegitimate elections, the local opposition leaders denounce the provocative move that had been sponsored by the European Union, but still Sheikh Sharif has nothing to say. This automatically means that the TFG president has tacitly accepted not to exert authority in that part of Somalia; but this automatically means that he is not the President of Somalia.

Puntland. The newly elected president of the breakaway state announced that the termination of the piracy phenomenon would be his top concern. However, over the past few weeks, Puntland’s territory became again the epicenter of the piracy phenomenon which has been revitalized, but still Sheikh Sharif has nothing to say, and finds no reason to launch a reunification debate with the administrations at Garowe and Galkayo.

Ogaden. Battles are raging throughout Occupied Ogaden, Somalia’s western territories that have been illegally and colonially transferred to the Abyssinian tyranny by the departing English colonials in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. The leading Human Rights NGO Human Rights Watch published last year a lengthy and devastating Report that bears witness to unprecedented practices of genocide carried out by the tyrannical, racist, tribal regime of Abyssinia against the Somalis of Ogaden. The TFG president has nothing to say! And in striking difference with what a real President of Somalia said and did - before just 32 years. This says it all! Siad Barre undertook a great military expedition against the cruel tyranny of Abyssinia in order to liberate Occupied Ogaden. In doing so, he dared to oppose almost the entire world, getting no help from anyone. Contrarily to the President of Somalia, the president of TFG travels to the fake capital of the criminal colonial fossil Abyssinia, because he was ordered to do so by his boss, the French Freemason, Mauritanian diplomat Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, who carries out the most evil anti-Somali colonial plans of England and France.

The aforementioned cases of ostensible inactivity are not necessarily the worst deeds of the TFG puppets. What is certainly worse is their incredible misperception of the World affairs, the African context, and the Somalis’ needs.

To demonstrate the wrong perceptions that characterize the TFG structure, and are expected to incapacitate it forever (except in case of dramatic change of policy), I have to first refer to their expressed ideas and beliefs. It is customary for puppets to keep their mouths closed, but at times foreign ministers are called to speak across-the-board and this was the case with the TFG foreign minister Muhammad Abdullahi Omar.

In a interview accorded to Asharq Al-Awsat, the UK-based international Arabic newspaper that represents the best efforts of English Freemasonic infiltration among, and manipulation of, the Muslims at a global level, the TFG foreign minister Muhammad Abdullahi Omar gave an overview of what the current TFG administration believes, and how they think. This offers a solid documentation to comment and interpret. I therefore republish integrally the interview, and then expand on the commentary. Numbers added in the interview text refer to my subsequent comments.

Q & A with Somali Foreign Minister Muhammad Abdullahi Omar
Asharq Al-Awsat UK-based international Arabic newspaper

With Khalid Muhammad

March 30, 2009

http://www.eastafricaforum.net/2009/04/01/q-a-with-somali-foreign-minister-muhammad-abdullahi-omar/

Q) How do you view the Somali government’s priorities?

A) Our priority is to rebuild the state institutions 1 and restore our positive role in the Arab world 2 and as a state with responsibilities in the African Horn. 3

Q) And what is your agenda to achieve this?

A) As a government, we have to achieve security and stability. 4 We have a plan to impose order in the capital Mogadishu and the regions that suffered because of the war. And there are the two statelets -Somaliland and Puntland, both of which are enjoying a reasonable level of security and stability and we do not intend to interfere with them at the present stage. 5 We shall work at consolidating peace and helping displaced people from the capital to return to their homes. We are talking here of about two million people who need help to return to their houses. And we have to build the administrative system of the state 6, including everything relating to state institutions, which have been destroyed and ruined during the years of the civil war. We have to announce to the world our agenda and programs. 7

Q) What about peace with the opposition?

A) Our doors are open for peace at all times and they will remain so. There is no minimum or maximum; we are a government of peace and dialogue and we are ready for talks with anyone without any preconditions. 8

Q) What about your mission as foreign minister?

A) My mission as foreign minister is to convince the world of the need to support these endeavors; 9 without which this country will never have stability. 10 We know that the world and especially those concerned about the region, have to intervene and the Arab world 11 should help us in this.

Q) But there are some who doubt the legitimacy of your government.

A) No, this is no longer acceptable 12; we are a government with full legitimacy and the way the president, government and parliament came about is evidence that the Somali people are determined to put an end to their sufferings. The people are fed up with the situation and are looking for change. 13 There is clear, popular support for our government and the rule of law should be respected.

Q) Nevertheless Arab diplomatic representation in Mogadishu is very limited?

A) Some states such as Sudan, Libya and Yemen 14 do have ambassadors in Mogadishu. I have met with them and actually we carried out our obligations towards them within a week. The government has started to exercise its powers in Mogadishu despite all difficulties and all government members there are actually practicing their powers. The parliament also has been restored, and the President, Sheikh Sharif, was the first to return. The government is there in the capital and is actually exercising its powers. Thus, we have shown 15 the people that we are with them in the capital, but as I said, the presence of the administration is fundamental for government work, and therefore building the state institutions is our primary mission.

Q) Do you think that the presence of Barack Obama at the helm of the US administration serves your outlook?

A) Obama represents the new generation, as we do, and this is very important. 16 We are trying to convince the US administration to cooperate with us and I think the US, as a great power, is interested in Somalia in the same way as it is interested in the Arab world. 17 I am not one of those who believe that the US is against the Somali people. No, I do not think they are.

Q) Are you talking of arrangements for an imminent visit to Washington by President Sheikh Sharif?

A) It is still too early to talk about a visit; may be sometime later. But I can tell you I have met with US and EU officials and I have no doubt about their real intentions. 18

Q) Did they give you any specific promises?

A) Yes they did and they said they will help the Somali government politically and financially. But I believe the major powers in the UN Security Council 19 have to work in the same way as Ahmad Oueld-Abdallah, the UN special envoy for Somalia.

Q) Why is that?

A) Because he is a man of peace; 20 he has been trying to achieve peace for the past two years, and now we have an opportunity to cooperate with him. He is playing an important role and thanks to his efforts, the Security Council and the EU are openly supporting Somalia. 21

Q) What about the relations between Somalia and Eritrea?

A) I believe the positions of the two countries in the past were influenced by the absence of government in Somalia; 22 but that is past, we have a state and government now, although we have groups opposing the government. It should be remembered that the majority of the people have decided they do not want anymore war. 23

Q) Does Ethiopia fear the extremists?

A) We pose no threat to Ethiopia and we have no intention of threatening them. 24 What threatens Ethiopia threatens us, 25 whether we speak of extremists or anybody else. Therefore, everyone should know that the extremists 26 are not issues of importance for anyone. 27 Look for instance, how the issue of piracy was transformed into a regional and international crisis affecting the world economy.

We are therefore prepared to cooperate with the international society. Piracy must stop, 28 but this could not be achieved without security and stability in Somalia. This is also what we are telling the Ethiopians. 29

Q) Are you going to demand that Eritrea expel the Somali opposition?

A) Eritrea is a neighbor and a sister state and we have had long historical relations with each other. As such our relations are not new. We both have a fundamental things in common, regional stability and security, which have been suffering from war for half a century.

We are urging our Eritrean brothers to understand that we are in a new situation and that we want peace and security for the region. We are not interested in conflict or in extremists, inside or outside. Development should be our main concern instead of political and military confrontations. But there are international rules for understanding and cooperation and intervention in internal affairs is unacceptable. What I mean to say is that what happened in Somalia lately was a result of the absence of effective government, 30 but there is no reason for anyone to say now that there is no government or legitimacy in Somalia. 31

Q) Does that mean you intend to talk to the coalition in Eritrea?

A) With regard to those present in Eritrea, our doors are open; we demand, and we are calling on them to live by international rules of non-intervention. If they have any problems with us then we have to sit and talk. It is wrong to look at Somalia as it was two years ago.

Q) Any messages you would like to send to Asmara [Eritrea]?

A) We are ready for discussions; if they have certain points of view we have to sit and discuss them face to face -not from a distance.

Q) But Eritrea does not recognize your government to begin with?

A) That is wrong; if they have any complaints our doors are open. 31 I am saying this once again through you, hoping they would read it and respond positively. We are still at the negotiating table. We are prepared to discuss each and every issue, because peace is our aim.

Q) Do you think it would be possible to reconcile the opposition leader Sheikh Aweys with [President] Sheikh Sharif?

A) I am certain that the two men, who worked together in the past and understand each other, would have no difficulty talking to each other sometime in the future; otherwise they would not have worked together to serve the interests of the Somali people.

Q) I understand that you are trying to remove the names of ‘wanted’ people from terrorist lists.

A) Yes, there are people whose names appear on the ‘wanted’ lists of the US and the UN. This issue has been raised before and the government is taking a stand on it; we shall do whatever we can to help those people, including the opposition groups, provided there is peace and they join in the reconciliation process. Peace should come first and they should prove to the world that they are for peace. 32 After that we move to remove their names from UN and US wanted lists.

Q) As the newest Arab foreign minister, 33 what is your view of the current situation?

A) If you are referring to past differences, you have to remember that there are also differences among EU members. You only need to remember the two world wars to realize that no regional organization or group is without differences. Luckily, unlike Europe, the Arab League was not born out of bloody wars. 34 It was born as a result of common will to support common interests. Therefore we should not exaggerate the differences between Arab states. 35

Commentary

1. It starts with an interesting point! Whose state institutions are those that the TFG government wants to "rebuild"? If they mean Somalia, which is the only state they are expected to work for, they don’t control its territory, so they have to specify their plans. Do they want to establish first a certain political stability on the territory they control and then expand their rule over the secessionist and breakaway pseudo-states? If this is what the TFG want, they should make peace with the Shebaab and ask their help in forming an army that would eliminate the illegal structures of the rest.

If they want to avoid warlike acts against Puntland and Somaliland, and thus arrange a pacification and reunification project through negotiations – which is quite logical of course –, then they should start negotiations right now, and get strengthened through their cooperation with Puntland at least. But they do nothing, hoping to pacify their territory first. This is an illusion, because the colonial powers will not let them mark a success in this regard. On the contrary, they will engulf them in a situation that will mark the end of Somalia, and the TFG administration’s limitation in a tiny territory of the country they now comically imagine as theirs!

2. Somalia never had any role, positive or negative, in the Arab world (if any) or within the context of the Arab League to say the least. Somalia is not an "Arab" state, and Somalia’s past was greatly different from, and incomparably superior to, that of Arabia. Yemen’s past was also far more important than that of Arabia. In fact, there is no "Arab world" whatsoever; this fallacy is an absolutely colonial fabrication geared to help France and England destroy the Islamic world that belonged mainly to three states, namely the Ottoman Empire, the imperial state of Iran, and the Mughal Sultanate of India.

The fallaciously called "Arab" states have no relationship and no connection with Arabia other than Islam. Their past, their History, their culture, their identity, and their ethnic background are totally different from Arabia’s. Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya are inhabited by purely Hamitic populations, the Berbers who are totally unrelated to the Arabs of Hedjaz (the area between Yemen and Jordan in the western part of today’s fake kingdom of Saudi Arabia).

Egypt is another purely Hamitic country with a Nilo-Saharan minority, the Nubians. Either Christian or Muslim, today’s Egyptians are totally unrelated to the Semitic group of peoples. Sudan is Ancient Ethiopia, an absolutely Hamitic country where the Kushites, the branch of the Hamites of Eastern Africa, developed a great civilization without having any exchange with Arabs. Ethiopia (which means Sudan) accepted successively Christianity and Islam without a single Arab invading the country.

Today’s Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized Ethiopia) is inhabited in its greatest part by descendants of the Kushites and the Nilo-Saharans of Ancient Egypt and Ethiopia (Sudan). Somalis, living in the Horn of Africa (historically known as Punt, Other Berberia, Azania or Somalia) since times immemorial, are also part of the Hamitic group of nations, and closely affiliated with the other Kushites.

In the Asiatic part of the Middle East, the indigenous populations are the Yemenites in Yemen, Oman and parts of the South-western Saudi Arabia (Najran), and the Aramaeans in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, South-western Iran, South-eastern Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Emirates, and Palestine.

All these territories were inhabited by the aforementioned ethnic groups who outnumbered almost 100 to 1 (or more) the population of Arabia of the times of the Prophet. The phenomenon of the Islamic invasions cannot be attributed to Arabs but mainly to non Arabs who few years earlier had adhered to Islam. Under any circumstances, the various settlers were a marginal portion (less than 1% of the indigenous population), and the arabization was only linguistic, not ethnic, not cultural. At the cultural level, the Arabs themselves by accepting Islam had de-arabized themselves and adhered to the average Aramaean culture of the Eastern Christians.

In fact, only Saudi Arabia is an Arab state, but the formation of the Arab League represents merely a part of the vicious, Satanic hatred of the Western, Freemasonic regimes of France and England against the Ottoman Empire that represented the true Islamic political authority which was the main target of the aforementioned European colonial regimes.

Pushing Somalia into the Arab League was a monumental mistake for the Somali governments after the country’s independence; to a certain extent, the troubles of Somalia after 1989 – 90 are due to Somalia’s participation in that disgustingly corrupt and absolutely criminal organization that always promoted the interests of France, England and America against all the Muslims and the Christians of the Middle East.

3. What will be the state "with responsibilities in the African Horn" that the TFG want to build? Somalia as a national, sovereign state or the Mogadishu – Baidoa enclave? It is essential to specify.

4. Security and stability where? Throughout Somalia or in the little territory between the southern limits of the Puntland authority and the Kenyan borders?

5. This sentence represents almost an indirect recognition for Puntland and Somaliland. Anyone who says "we do not intend to interfere with them at the present stage" cannot possibly represent a national Somali government. In fact, this sentence can be extended throughout time, according to the orders of the colonial masters of the TFG puppets. This does not mean formal recognition of Puntland and Somaliland; if this happened, it could lead to a theoretical merge of the three states at any possible moment in the future. This is not part of the colonial machination against Somalia; even if peace prevails among Hargeisa, Garowe and Mogadishu, it is certain that the colonial powers will not allow a ‘window’ open to Somalia’s possible reunification in the future; which in turn means that, in order to prevent the development, they keep the southern part of Somalia in condition of permanent explosion and unrest.

6. Administrative system of the state? What state? The Mogadishu enclave or Somalia? If the aforementioned is meant as referring to Somalia, it certainly implies a con-federal system. This may a colonial target, but not a singe Somali would accept a "reunification through a multi-division" of Somalia.

7. Well, it is already a question why this did not happen over the past few months…..

8. If TFG is a "government" and they "are ready for talks with anyone without any preconditions", why don’t they start their talks with Puntland and Somaliland? Or has their boss, Freemason Ahmedou, prohibited this option to them once forever?

9. This automatically means that the TFG foreign minister Muhammad Abdullahi Omar already knows that they will get no support (and this will happen because they don’t bother to get any). Why? Because support would be given under condition of clarity of purpose. The aforementioned does not involve any degree of clarity. Who is going to help someone who does not know what state he represents, the Mogadishu enclave or Somalia in its entirety? Apparently, all that the renegades of the TFG care about is the support of the US – UK – French colonials and their UN puppets. This is what Freemason Ahmedou ordered them to do, and this is what they are now doing. This however signifies full conscience of the anti-Somali nature of their deeds. It’s a shame.

10. This is a nice joke! In fact, TFG foreign minister Muhammad Abdullahi Omar tells us that "it has been decided" that the overall situation will go on and on and on! His sentence means "no stability, no support". As he already did his ingenious best to let us know – through the lines of course, not explicitly – that there will be no support, we can simply deduce now the reverse "no support, no stability". Superb! These guys, without understanding it, confess that all they do is to continue the work of Abdillahi Yusuf. "The Islamists who have been bought up so fact", this is the comedy played these days in Mogadishu. But for the Somali Nation, this is a tragedy.

In a forthcoming article, I will complete my commentary.

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Picture: Toward a multi-divided Somalia?