Boobe Yousuf Duale’s press statement of people from Awdal region being foreigners in their country is a discriminating slogan
Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual or group based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category, “in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated. It involves the group’s initial reaction or interaction, influencing the individual’s actual behaviour towards the group or the group leader, restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to another group, leading to the exclusion of the individual or entities based on logical or irrational decision making. Discriminatory traditions, policies, ideas, practices, and laws exist in many countries and insulting in every part of the world, even in ones where discrimination is generally looked down upon. In some places, controversial attempts such as quotas or affirmative have been used to benefit those believed to be current or past victims of discrimination, but have sometimes been called reverse discrimination is themselves.
Apart being discriminating slogan, it is also immoral message. When you say that someone is ‘immoral’ what you mean is that the person does a lot of things that are not morally acceptable; he does things that are positively wrong. When the word is used with people, it is always used to show disapproval. Perhaps the individual swindles people, has extramarital affairs, etc. What you are doing would be considered to be immoral by most people. A person who is ‘amoral’ does not know the difference between right and wrong, and he doesn’t really care whether what he does is morally right or wrong. He is not concerned with morals; he is outside the sphere of morality.
Furthermore, this is an insult of all us, as he described some of our honourable citizens who come to visit their own country to witness the fast transformation taking in place and described them as forefingers. An insult is an expression, statement or sometimes behaviour which is considered degrading, offensive and impolite. After he failed to win any supporters for his daily immoral messages, he started attempting encouraging the public to revolt against the government. Our society being fully aware the background of his unethical approach, the entire public abandoned and disregarded his daily desperate screaming. In addition to the above, we are wondering who give a mandate Boobe to speak on behalf of the public, since his voice is not welcome even the quarters near to his residences, let alone the other parts and places in Somali-land stretching from extreme west point of Zeila to extreme east point of Sool and Sanaag.
He denies the reality that, we have an elected government having the mandate to make important decisions; they have the authority to make the decisions because they have been elected by the people to do so. We are not putting in the picture that every decision be taken by the government is right, however, in the event that wrong decision by the government, then there is a firm and clear approach to be rectified the wrong decision taken by the government and that is through the court of law, which he did not yet attempted. The daily insulting slogans to the government will not produce any tangible benefits, but only failure and more failures as the time pass through.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation travelling fast. Reputation of a social entity is an opinion about that entity, typically a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria. It is important in business, education, politics and other human domains. Reputation may be considered as a component of identity as defined by others. Reputation is highly efficient mechanism of social control in natural societies. It is a subject of study in socialites influence ranges from competitive settings, like markets, to cooperative ones, like firms, organisations, institutions and communities. Furthermore, reputation acts on different levels of agency, individual and supra-individual. At the supra-individual level, it concerns groups, communities, collectives and abstract social entities such as firms, corporations, organizations, countries, cultures and even civilizations. It affects phenomena of different scales, from everyday life to relationships between societies and nations.
Ismail Yusuf