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What An Ill Joke
Now...those young'uns, in todays historical land of Somalia they want the juice afore the first join is set, afore the barrel holds water, afore the...ah, what's the use? A mature person railing 'gainst a former nationalistic land once called Somalia and the Muslim world that are nationalists one and all. A world that doesn't know where it's going, doesn't recall where it came from. The truth that can be told is not the deepest truth, eh? And i had fallen so deep! Courage, you say? Ha, they are simpletons and weak! Can they ever break free from the hellhole that they have made for themselves with every nail they have pounded? From the very chains that they have forged to make themselves slaves? So. So. Knowing this, they would cloak their slave souls in royal robes and seek to conquer others. But, the truly free can never be conquered, eh? At least not conquered in their souls. These lackeys they had been to places and are thought to know a thing or two. And yet this had not rendered them any more receptive to the matters of the world beyond their shores. They gloried in their ingnorance and you lot have glorified in it. Ha, redeem myself you say? Ha, what an ill joke! They are the ones that should restore their honor, worth and reputation if they are truly muslims. I shall leave u with exegesis of the column report by Charles Robinson who is a writer for Yahoo. And this particular original peace and pic there that he used which is of imprtance here was called-Somalia’s runners provide inspiration. I shall leave this here so u may reflect on it if u are people of sense and reason.
Each one is of importance of shame and abasement to us as muslims first and somalians second i may add.
Exegesis
-Samia Yusuf Omar headed back to Somalia Sunday, returning to the small two-room house in Mogadishu shared by seven family members
-Her mother lives there, selling fruits and vegetables. Her father is buried there, the victim of a wayward artillery shell that hit their home and also killed Samia’s aunt and uncle.
-This is the Olympic story we never heard.
-It’s about a girl whose Beijing moment lasted a mere 32 seconds – the slowest 200-meter dash time out of the 46 women who competed in the event.
-Thirty-two seconds that almost nobody saw but that she carries home with her, swelled with joy and wonderment.
-Back to a decades-long civil war that has flattened much of her city.
-Back to an Olympic program with few Olympians and no facilities.
-“I have my pride,” she said through a translator before leaving China.
-“This is the highest thing any athlete can hope for.
-It has been a very happy experience for me.
-I am proud to bring the Somali flag to fly with all of these countries, and to stand with the best athletes in the world.”
-There are many life stories that collide in each Olympics – many intriguing tales of glory and tragedy.
-She looked so odd and out of place among her competitors, with her white headband and a baggy, untucked T-shirt.
-The legs on her wiry frame were thin and spindly, and her arms poked out of her sleeves like the twigs of a sapling.
-The country of Somalia sent two athletes to the Beijing Games – Samia and distance runner Abdi Said Ibrahim, who competed in the men’s 5,000-meter event. Like Samia, Abdi finished last in his event.
-When the gun went off in Samia’s 200-meter heat, seven women blasted from their starting blocks, registering as little as 16 one-hundredths of a second of reaction time. Samia’s start was slow enough that the computer didn’t read it, leaving her reaction time blank on the heat’s statistical printout.
-Within seconds, seven competitors were thundering around the curve in Beijing’s Bird’s Nest, struggling to separate themselves from one another. Samia was just entering the curve when her opponents were nearing the finish line. A local television feed had lost her entirely by the time Veronica Campbell-Brown crossed the finish line in a trotting 23.04 seconds.
-As the athletes came to a halt and knelt, stretching and sucking deep breaths, a camera moved to ground level. In the background of the picture, a white dot wearing a headband could be seen coming down the stretch.
-Until this month, Samia had been to two countries outside of her own – Djibouti and Ethiopia. Asked how she will describe Beijing, her eyes get big and she snickers from under a blue and white Olympic baseball cap.“The stadiums, I never thought something like this existed in the world,” she said. “The buildings in the city, it was all very surprising. It will probably take days to finish all the stories we have to tell.”
-Asked about Beijing’s otherworldly Water Cube, she lets out a sigh: “Ahhhhhhh.”
-Before she can answer, Abdi cuts her off. “I didn’t know what it was when I saw it,” he said. “Is it plastic? Is it magic?”
-“The Olympic fire in the stadium, everywhere I am, it is always up there,” Samia said. “It’s like the moon. I look up wherever I go, it is there.”
-These are the stories they will relish when they return to Somalia, which they believe has, for one brief moment, united the country’s warring tribes.
-“People stayed awake to see it,” Farah said. “The good thing, sports is the one thing which unites all of Somalia.”
-As Samia came down the stretch in her 200-meter heat, she realized that the Somalian Olympic federation had chosen to place her in the wrong event.
-The 200 wasn’t nearly the best event for a middle distance runner. But the federation believed the dash would serve as a “good experience” for her. Now she was coming down the stretch alone, pumping her arms and tilting her head to the side with a look of despair.
-“We know that we are different from the other athletes,” Samia said. “But we don’t want to show it. We try our best to look like all the rest. We understand we are not anywhere near the level of the other competitors here. We understand that very, very well. But more than anything else, we would like to show the dignity of ourselves and our country.”
-They came and went from Beijing largely unnoticed, but may have been the most dignified example these Olympics could offer.
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