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Thoughts on Somali Expatriation Abroad

Omar Alansari-Kreger

A crisis of identity arrives as a natural complication to an expatriate. That
individual must decide who and what they should identify with; this inevitably transforms
into a crisis of identity and youths are much more susceptible. The irony is that the
same person doesnt immediately realize that such a stance of choice is nothing but a
culturally manufactured extremity sanctioned by the mainstream. Any person is quite
capable of reaching an epiphany; it can occur at random during normal circumstances,
but can also occur during periods of great pain and suffering. Each person eventually
stumbles on a wakeup call and that can change a person for better or worse, but
ultimately the primary driving force behind that epiphany is caught up in a process that
is trying to discover a specified course of purposeful meaning.
There arent nearly enough politically correct stances, explanations, and
condemnations that can credibly undermine the idea of the caliphate. Since there is a
bigger picture, the calling of that cause can be treated as greater than identities of clan,
tribe, and nationality simply because it is sustained by an oath of equality which
presents any observer with an idea that is received as larger than life. In all honesty is it
really possible for identities of clan, tribe, and nationality to compete with such a cause
once the spell of blind faith wears off? Perhaps it wouldnt be too rash to suggest that
Somali immigrants in the United States could assemble a communal initiative where
they could provide alienated youths with an opportunity to find purposeful meaning that
assists the human condition as it relates to the caliphate?
Imagine the possibilities! The greater Somali community could assemble an
organization that resembles the likes of the Peace Corp in addition to the Red Cross;
the only difference is that the community will feature its own expats to serve in those
humanitarian capacities abroad. The question of the caliphate is obviously greater than
a single nations plight even though it is part of its big picture context. There is so much
potential behind all of that radicalized energy which is also the main reason why these
volunteers are used as expendable fodder to those that engineer and design these
fringe causes. Imagine the creation of the following organization: The Assembly of
Expatriated Somali Communities; it would work to assist the human condition as it
relates to the needy while providing a remedy to curb radicalized fringes within their own
greater community. Isnt that a more desirable platform for jihad?

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Youths of the nave and sheltered variety are quite vulnerable because they can
become radicalized simply because they dont know any better; that is usually due to a
general lacking of education. Ushering in a new societal order for Somalis in addition to
the whole of the developing world is achieved much more substantially when it is clearly
defined through the lens of the human condition as opposed to one that glamorizes the
sacrifice of self for the sole purpose of sacrificing without any substantiating precedent.