Fact 1. Regarding Inter-marriage. Do u know there was study taken by an english anthropologist in 1962 by I. M. Lewis. And according to his statistic that line of intermarriage is debunked. I will quote him...
55 (62 per cent) were with women of Dulbahante primary lineages other than those of their husbands; 30 (33.7 per cent.) with surrounding clans of other clan families (with the Habar Yuunis, 10; Habar Tol Jaelo, 18; and Hawiye, 3); and 3 (4.3 per cent.) with other clans of the Daarood clan-family (Majeerteen, 2; Ogaadeen, 1).
As you can see 62% of dhulbahante marriages are with other dhulbahante. So how can we say that isaaq and dhulbahante intermarriage at high-rate when the statistic says the other-wise. Now when it comes to other tribe families...62% dhulbahante,30% is isaaq, 4% hawiye and 4% darod.
Source: http://cilmiile.blogspot.com/2007/08/many-times-we-have-heard-that-northern.html
U should read all that article, it provides interesting facts regarding the dhulbahante who support sland are not necessarily the natives of sool,sanaag, and cayn but are really the dhulbahante who lived in the cities of isaaq and worked with isaaq ppl and stayed among them. These ppl are very small percentage because not all dhulbahante have just moved and lived in burco and hargeisa. Only the ones who went there for work-reasons and developed friendships with them.
Secondly do isaaq and dhulbahante share political idealogy? if u assess history that is impossible. The dhulbahante can't just ignore the history of dervish who fought for somali heritage and side with the devil who sold his ass to the west. Can u abadon your ancestor who died fighting the british and say "he fought for nothing" because now we will side with the british.
It is big difficult to say that and that is the main reason i believe dhulbahante don't support seccessionism. It will be direct insult to their ancestors who died and the historic buildings are still in talex and the saldhigs for all to see. So it's impossible for dhulbahante to say we share the same political aspirations as isaaq because taleex saldhigs are still viewable and the graves of dervish are still open for all to see. Therefore isaaq and dhulbahante do not share political idealogy not the majority of dhulbahante. Only the dhulbahante who lived in hargeisa and burco and worked there and developed friendship among them have the idealogy isaaq has, they have been brain-washed by snm propaganda which i have exposed many times with factual informations.
So conclusion is...dhulbahante and isaaq share not a political idealogy, nor do the dhulbahante intermarriage majority with isaaq but infact intermarry majority within themselves. And lastly Dhulbahante elders never signed a treaty with the british therefore historically speaking can not be considered sland without a treaty, they were fighting the invaders which indicates they didn't want any-part to do with the british. Sland ppl can only state a few dhulos in the major cities of hargeisa and burco and say "look dhulos were present" but those ppl they state went against their clan elders and majority population wishes. So that argument hold's no water. Infact the historical border argument holds no water either which can be soundly refuted but that is for another day.
This thread is for u to educate yourselves about this lie dhulbahante and isaaq share history, marriage, political idealogy nonsense the ppl try to spread. The truth shall set us all free..
