PAGAN 9JA:
As a Somali, what is your opinion on African Traditional Religion?

Many Nigerians practice it.

PAGAN 9JA:
As a Somali, what is your opinion on African Traditional Religion?

Many Nigerians practice it.

Vessi: Damn such a touching story and picture.
Tuale!
#raises his AK#

Somali King:

I am a muslim but i do respect traditional religions
Somalis before islam used to worship Waaq a sky god similar to the egyptian god Horus....however in somali religion Waaq was the only god it was a monotheistic religion

Anyway i respect traditional religion...

PAGAN 9JA:


Ok That is nice.

I created a thread on Somali Traditional Religion before: https://www.nairaland.com/1541715/somali-religion-mythology#19972874


Im a Pagan, though Im from the largely Muslim North. islam was spread to my homeland and many of my fellow tribesmen by force, under the islamic jihad of Usuman Dan Fodio.
My aim is to spread Traditional Religion back across Nigeria. We have already gained a few
reverts. It is a growing religion in some parts
of Nigeria today.

Somali King:

Well i think that is important for africans to learn about their history and their traditions

PAGAN 9JA:


and practice it.

Somali King:


Well as a muslim i think that islam is the true religion for the whole world

Fulaman198: I think often people mistake religion for culture and tradition. They are different.

Does an Ethiopian Christian have the same culture as an American Christian? No. Does a Nigerian/Senegalese Muslim have the same culture as an Arab Muslim in Saudi Arabia? No.

Culture<>Religion

Fulaman198: I think often people mistake religion for culture and tradition. They are different.

Does an Ethiopian Christian have the same culture as an American Christian? No. Does a Nigerian/Senegalese Muslim have the same culture as an Arab Muslim in Saudi Arabia? No.

Culture<>Religion

Fulaman198: I think often people mistake religion for culture and tradition. They are different.

Does an Ethiopian Christian have the same culture as an American Christian? No. Does a Nigerian/Senegalese Muslim have the same culture as an Arab Muslim in Saudi Arabia? No.

Culture<>Religion

Somali King:

Even somali muslims and arab muslim are different
There are many differences even within the arab world

Saudis are different from tunisians or moroccans

macof: Pagan 9ja always so active with the ministry.

@Somali king, Wats your reason for saying Nigeria and Somalia are brothers? Somalia is more Arab than anything from Nigeria

yousuf12: Boqorka, soo dhawow saxeeb midko Ajuran esku shegayo baa meeshan malin kasta dadkaan ku ceynayo.

If being African and having black skin = to being brothers then Nigerians are most certainly our brothers.

@PAGAN 9JA why do you want Somali people to go back to their old religion? Why can't you accept our religion and respect our decision to embrace Islam?
Don't tell me you respect Islam because I remember our previous encounter where you called Somali people Arabian slaves.
Also why do you feel the need to mention religion in this topic? Don't you think you
should ask him that in the religion section?

PAGAN 9JA:


True ofcourse.

Somali King:

We have a little arab admixture but we are mainly cushitic....for example also swahili speaking people in kenya are muslim and have some arab blood but they are still BLACK with bantu origin
the same for southern italians and spanish people some of them have little arab admixture but they ate still Whites

Anyway i know that somalia and nigeria have different cultures and languages but it does not mean that we have to hate each other

So we are african brothers and we should help our continent to develop

Africa is a very diverse continent even within cushiti people there are difference
Somalis can not undrestand Oromo language except for a few words
same for Afar language even though both these languages are cushitic

Oromo has many amharic words and Somali has many arabic words

Anyway WE ARE NOT ARAB we share some similarities with arabs because of religion but we are not arab

Somali King:

Saaxib mahadsanid waxaan arkay dad soomaali oo si xun u hadlaya oo cunsur ku ah dadka naijerianka
Wallahi wa wax aad looga xumaado
wadankeena waa burbursanyahay jareertuna wadankooda nabad baa ka jirta marka waaxa weye in waax aan ka barano

yousuf12:

@PAGAN 9JA why do you want Somali people to go back to their old religion? Why can't you accept our religion and respect our decision to embrace Islam?
Don't tell me you respect Islam because I remember our previous encounter where you called Somali people Arabian slaves.

Also why do you feel the need to mention religion in this topic? Don't you think you should ask him that in the religion section?

Somali King:

There are many somalis on the somali forums that want to return to the ancient monotheistic cushitic religion of Waaq
They feel like they are colonized by arab culture and they say they worship waaq just because they hate arabs and they do that for folklore

I mean it is just like neonazi germans who return to paganism or iranians who return to Zoroastrism

They do not really belive un those religion they just say "i am pagan" because they wabt to free themselves from jewish based religion like judaism christuanity and islam

ladionline: ^^Maybe paganism is 'backward movement to the Adamic nature of man' that these dudes clamour for or 'freedom of online religious expression'. @pagan9ja, what is the tenet of paganism? Is it all ado about error of conventional religions or leftist voice with(out) hope for man? Do you respect human sacred choices and when do you give people nicety of the religion you practise? All I kept seeing is activism and no definite creed than spite. Is ego and spite the philosophy of paganism?

Somali King:

We have a little arab admixture but we are mainly cushitic ....for example also swahili speaking people in kenya are muslim and have some arab blood but they are still BLACK with bantu origin
the same for southern italians and spanish people some of them have little arab admixture but they ate still Whites

Anyway i know that somalia and nigeria have different cultures and languages but it does not mean that we have to hate each other

So we are african brothers and we should help our continent to develop

Africa is a very diverse continent even within cushiti people there are difference
Somalis can not undrestand Oromo language except for a few words
same for Afar language even though both these languages are cushitic

Oromo has many amharic words and Somali has many arabic words

Anyway WE ARE NOT ARAB we share some similarities with arabs because of religion but we are not arab