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Damn guys, this turned into hardcore debate... I was just saying how annoying it was logging on everyday seeing "Alshabaab member dressed in abaayo caught", crazy headlines include: "Alshabaab dadkaani soomin beey dhulka la dhacaan". I mean damn, are you God? Let Allah deal with those whom refuse to fast and follow Sunnah lifestyle.

Twisted Logic I didn't mean it like that but hey, whatever floats your boat buddy!

2nd2none you are right, you understood exactly what I am saying.. Thank you for explaining it to the misinformed.

Voltage LOL good point, I can't even argue with that.

Loool@ Moguul @ Land of the free and home of the brave. Let them support whoever they want. I'll be laughing when they try to take a trip to Saudi or Somalia and they'll send binoculars after them.

You are one of my favourite members of this forum

Well thank you grandpa!

The forum is no longer familiar to old timers or is reflective of how it used to be "back in the day" because the demographics of its contributors has changed. It is not longer primarily populated by civil war babies but post-civil war babies.

Civil war babies were trying to forget Somalia and its politics and images and flashbacks of the civil war they clearly remembered and part of ignoring it was a way of acting out against it. They were also new to Western culture and were trying to be familiar with it. Concentrating on deviant sub-sections of Western culture which have foundation in "pop culture" was a way of undergoing that forced, although voluntary, acculturation.

Now on the other hand post-civil war babies are too young to remember or have never even saw the civil war. Somalia to them is the "other". As a result, this demographic has a huge interest in the land of their parents and the interest is enhanced by transnational issues that seem to have followed them from that far country in East Africa, primarily in the form of repercussions and/or fallout of a global security/terrorist related nature particularly following the 2006 political-Islamic resurgence in the nation. They also have grown up in Western societies meaning Western culture is their "primary culture" and not "adopted culture". They do not need to force themselves on flimsy issues which the civil war babies forced on themselves in order to acculturate to what they perceived is Western culture.

To test this theory we would have to look at the make-up of the contributors themselves. Most of these topics pining for the good ole days in the forum are almost always written by civil war babies, or people who can remember the civil war, such as yourself and elders such as Sir Lugooyo and etc. In that era the general forum was the home of a group of a handful of seniors of the forum and the post-civil war babies were ghettoized or segregated into the sub-sections designed for their particular host nations. The U.K section was the home of the U.K/European post-civil war babies, and "School talk" was the home of the North American post-civil-war babies. Nowadays this segregation has ceased to exist. Participation in the general forum has become a conglomeration of all the post-civil war babies and as a result ghettoized sections such as "U.K sections" have become obsolete.

The collective interest of the post-civil war babies has risen with their surgence and political discussions and attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding the "other" (Somalia) is a consequence of the post-civil war baby dominance of the forum.