kulmiye party leadership has segregated Somaliland society into two castes, super caste and lower caste or untouchable
kulmiye party leadership party has segregated Somali land clans into two castes, super caste and lower caste by treating two treating two clans as super caste and the rest of the clans as lower caste or the untouchables. The super caste enjoys all the privilege with regard the top positions of the party and the biggest number of delegates and the rest of the clans are rule out for the top positions of the country and reserved the minimum number of delegates. Considering the case system, kulmiye party has allocated 50 % of the delegates to be invited for the party conference to be held for the next few days in favor of the two super caste clans and the rest of the clans that exceeds over ten clans as lower caste allocated 50% of the party delegates. That means half of the delegates for two clans and the rest half over ten c;ans. Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution. According to united nation and human rights watch, caste discrimination affects an estimated 250 million people worldwide. Caste systems still many parts in the world mainly in Asia. The practices about case system associated with caste varied through time and across India, but they had some common features. The three key areas of life dominated by caste were marriage, meals and religious worship. Marriage across caste lines was strictly forbidden; most people even married within their own sub-caste.
At meal times, anyone could accept food from the hands of a Brahmin, but a Brahmin would be polluted if he or she took certain types of food from a lower caste person. At the other extreme, if an untouchable dared to draw water from a public well, he or she polluted the water and nobody else could use it. In terms of religion, as the priestly class, Brahmins were supposed to conduct religious rituals and services. If the shadow of an untouchable touched a Brahmin, he/she would be polluted, so untouchables had to lay face-down at a distance when a Brahmin passed. When the British Raj began to take power in India in 1757, they exploited the caste system as a means of social.
With respect to South Africa, in 1652 Dutch settlers arrived at the Cape and set up a refreshment post for the journey to the Dutch East Indies. With minimal impact on the local peoples (Bantu speaking groups and Bushmen) the Dutch started to move inland and colonize. The arrival of the British in the eighteenth century accelerated the process of case system. The case system has a similarity of case system with the Apartheid system. Apartheid (word meaning “the state of being apart”, literally apart hood was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the national party (NP) governments, the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants were curtailed and Afrikaner minority rule was until it gained independence.
By extension, the term is nowadays currently used for every kind of segregation, established by the state authority in a country, against the social and civil rights of a minority of citizens, due to ethnic prejudices. Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch rule. Apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election in 1948. Legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups, black, white and coloured, and “Indian”, with Indian and coloured divided into several sub-classifications, and residential areas were segregated from 1960 to 1983. Taken into account the manner in which kulmiye party leadership allotted delegates alike the Indian caste system and the south Africa Racial segregation system and both system are anti social and UN-Islamic.
Ismail yousuf