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Can a Somali live without a clan identity???

If you were born again as an adult, would you get yourself only a name instead of Abtirsimo.
the benefits are many among'em

your opinion will always be your opinion.

yes you can live without it.
just as arabs, we had/have clan system.
but now since people are civilized and live in cities and their is law and order.
people dont need clan protection any more.
arabs use today to know one another or as a family name.

ps what's Garac?

Garac is someone who's begotten,

yes it's easy in outside somalia, but hyper when u go back u'll be disturbed u wont live in somalia as in the west

Garac is b*stard...


There is nothing wrong with clans..or knowing your fathers and his father and so on..i am actually proud to know such info..i think we need to find a way to stop having qabyaalad, which is the misuse of qabiil, in our society. And this can really take place with a more better economic/political scenario. If you look at America racism was in the form of law and part of the everyday life, and that has diminished, and this is not because they blinded themselves from the existence of race and different races, but by eradicating the injection of race where it does not belong. Is American perfect example of how to get rid of societies negative social attributes? No, but a good example of how change can come about!

sadobio inader, somalida waha isaga qasan between clan[one's forfathers]and qabyalad.
or qabaliya jahiliya.
who doesnt know prophet's qabiil and his abtisi? is thata ny thing wrong? no ofcourse.
marka somalida need 101 qabiil teaching, so they know 3qsabiya qabaliya is haram and qabiil is what Allah create us.

bile i was sent one back home and where only my kins live
means badiya.
wah qabiil ka hadlaya ma maqlin.
it's only people wjo live out side somalia talk about qabiil.,
back home teeda aya heysata.

s'one with no clan identity will have a democratic choice in somalia. can say

he can critisize the TFG
he-----------al shabaab
he----------- somaliland
he------------puntland


and yet it will seen as clan feud

Mr Bile wrote:s'one with no clan identity will have a democratic choice in somalia. can say

he can critisize the TFG
he-----------al shabaab
he----------- somaliland
he------------puntland


and yet it will seen as clan feud

why not?
i hate tfg and didnt make up my mind regarding alshabab
i do support them or any one else fighting agains ethiopian accupations.

i dont care what others think of me.
God known what in my heart and cannot hide it from him.
do the right thing and leave rest for Allah.

Mr Bile wrote:Can a Somali live without a clan identity???

If you were born again as an adult, would you get yourself only a name instead of Abtirsimo.
the benefits are many among'em

your opinion will always be your opinion.

Just like cawar wa caadii he just says his mum is ogaden aabihii wuu daffiray

wallah kan wa moseeba.lol
ninka maha ko daba digay.
let him be what he wants.