This document summarizes and comments on a response article by Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse titled "The Somali Irredentism and Regional Politics". The author refutes many of Sabeyse's claims and arguments. Key points include: - Sabeyse's use of the term "misnomer" to describe Somalia shows disrespect for his own country's name and history. - Comparisons of Somalia to the Arab League are invalid, as the criteria and characteristics of a nation should not be compared to a group of nations. - Sabeyse provides no evidence that the union between Somalia and Somaliland was "ill-fated" or that some undefined "epide

1. 4000 Years of Illustrious History of
Somalia, and a Somali Renegade

2. In four earlier articles, titled
‘The Nile, Egypt, Abyssinia, Somalia, and Somaliland’
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/57815 / republished in 2021
here:
https://www.academia.edu/54525765/The_Nile_Egypt_Abyssinia_Somalia_
and_Somaliland_2008_),
‘Nile Politics, Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, and the Horn of Africa’
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/58054 / republished in 2021
here:
https://www.academia.edu/54530133/Nile_Politics_Egypt_Sudan_Abyssini
a_and_the_Horn_of_Africa_2008_),
‘Futureless Somaliland, Somalia, Abyssinia, and Egypt’
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/58173 / republished in 2021
here:
https://www.academia.edu/54547350/Futureless_Somaliland_Somalia_Aby
ssinia_and_Egypt_2008_), and
‘Somalia, Renegade Somaliland, and the Abyssinian Fear of Egypt’
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/58297 / republished in 2021
here:
https://www.academia.edu/54559628/Somalia_Renegade_Somaliland_and_
the_Abyssinian_Fear_of_Egypt_2008_),
I refuted Mr. Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse´s response to my earlier article
‘Kosova and Somaliland: the Impossible Equation’
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/53122 / republished in 2021
here:
https://www.academia.edu/43318785/Kosova_and_Somaliland_the_Imposs
ible_Equation_2008).
Mr. Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse's response seems to be a series of articles.
Following his first response (titled ‘Kosovo and Somaliland: the Impossible
Equation – The Egyptian Position ‘), he came back with a second part, which
like the first was published in several East African portals; it seems he will go
on, and I must admit that I find this juxtaposition as a very good opportunity
for many East African readers (and not only) to seriously mull over the
subject discussed.
Mr. Sabeyse´s second article, titled ‘The Somali Irredentism and Regional
Politics’ (http://www.somalilandtalk.com/node/3229), consists in an effort
to present what was not delivered in the first diatribe, and more specifically to
demonstrate that Egypt’s position against a formal recognition of the
breakaway state of Somaliland is due to an Egyptian – Abyssinian rivalry. In
this regard, Mr. Sabeyse fails again to provide any solid proof for his
assumptions that resonate Abyssinian racist aberrations, historical forgery,
and political trickery.

3. In the present article, I will complete my criticism of, and comments on, Mr.
Sabeyse’s second article; I will first re-publish the uncommented part, and
then comment extensively. Numbers encrusted in the text refer to my
comments.
The Somali Irredentism and Regional Politics
By Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse
…………………………………………………..
The Somali creed is culturally, socially, ethnically, linguistically, and
religiously a homogeneous society is a misnomer that no is longer applicable.
31 The same thing applies to the outdated misconception that "the unity, the
sovereignty, the territorial integrity, and the national independence of
Somalia is sacrosanct." 32 May I draw to the attention of the distinguished
professor that the nations of the Arab League are homogeneous if culture,
religion, language, and ethnicity 33 are the only criteria determining the
characteristics of a unitary state? 34 The Somalis do not fit into that category.
35
The withdrawal of Somaliland from an ill-fated union 36 with Somalia is one
of the latent symptoms of a much deadlier epidemic that fragmented and
eventually consumed the Somali polity. 37 As a minimum, the Somali crisis
merits an objective analysis of the causes in order to postulate a realistic
conflict resolution programme. 38 The Egyptian government views 39 the
unity of the old Somali Republic as a bulwark against any Ethiopian efforts 40
to divert the waters of the River Nile. This adds an unsettling new dimension
41 to an already volatile region. 42
For the benefit of the professor, the chronicles of the unitary Somali State will
shed some light on this issue.
To be continued...
Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse
Comments
31. As misnomer is meant the national name of Mr. Sabeyse’s country! To
carry out the disreputable work demanded by his Abyssinian boss, Mr.
Sabeyse insults the name of his own country! What a brilliant achievement!
And what an inane exploit! Mr. Sabeyse forgets that what is important in (the
temporary state of) Somaliland’s name is Somalia itself. The second
component or part added (-land) helps only differentiate the name of the
unlawful state from the authentic name of the historical mainland of the Horn

4. of Africa, i.e. Somalia. At the colonial times, the British introduced the term in
order to distinguish their colonial territory, and make the name more familiar
at the international level. As term, Somaliland has no historicity, except the
British colonial occupation; nothing more!
It would be preferable to name the country Awdal, as this would reflect a far
greater historicity.
However, if the intention is to renounce and forget History, then this proves
by itself that the Somaliland dictatorial regime is an unlawful fabrication that
must be eliminated from Somalia’s territory.
The effort to build a non-Somali state on Somali territory is an inimical act
against the entire Somali Nation, and demonstrates clearly that the
treacherous Hargeysa regime consists in an illegal occupation of Somali
territory.
However, if Mr. Sabeyse seems to represent a case of extreme modernism and
wants just to obliterate the past, I have for him an easier task; considering that
he is Somali native, I would like to suggest him to consider how to obliterate
the Amhara / Tigray Abyssinian past first. With the Abyssinians forced to
renounce their past and the racist and discriminatory ideas that they retrace
back to the forgery of Kebra Negast, the Somalis would be also free to forget
their past too!
32. The unity, the sovereignty, the territorial integrity, and the national
independence of every nation, not Somalia’s only, is ‘sacrosanct’; as long as a
nation forms a state without comprising in its territory inhabitants belonging
to another nation, the national unity is sacrosanct. However, Mr. Sabeyse, in
his Abyssinian method of utter paranoia, says that all the aforementioned is
an "outdated misconception". If it is so, then Abyssinia should be broken
down first, so that the oppressed nations and ethno-religious groups get
liberated. Then, Somaliland should also be decomposed so that various ethno-
religious groups cease to be oppressed and terrorized.
If Mr. Sabeyse imagines that the oppressed religious minorities of Somaliland
will not take their case to the international bodies, he must be daydreaming.
33. Mr. Sabeyse’s parallel is totally irrelevant; no one can compare a group of
nations with just one nation; the pertinent way of comparing is a nation with
a nation, an organization with an organization, an international body with an
international body, and a group of nations with a group of nations. Not only
Somalia but any single, independent country cannot be compared with an
organization!
Worse than this, it is completely erroneous to assume that the member-states

5. of the Arab League are homogeneous; I already expanded on this in an earlier
refutation of Mr. Sabeyse’s erroneous assumptions, namely in my article titled
‘Futureless Somaliland, Somalia, Abyssinia, and Egypt’
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/58173). There, I published the
links of several articles of mine whereby I refuted Pan-Arabism; Mr. Sabeyse
has to study them extensively before attempting to portray me as Pan-Arabist.
All the states of the Arab League are not Arab, but Arabic-speaking; Pan-
Arabism has been instrumental in viciously transforming the Hamitic –
Berber face of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, the Hamitic –
Egyptian and Cushitic face of Egypt and Sudan, the Yemenite face of Yemen
and Oman, and the Aramaean face of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan,
Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and the Emirates to a confused pseudo-Arab appearance.
Berber, Coptic, Mehri & Soqotri, and Aramaic are the authentic languages for
the aforementioned countries, Contrarily, Quranic Arabic is only the religious
language that gradually turned out to be a dead language with the creation of
various mixed idioms, which were all oppressed since the rise of the Pan-
Arabist, colonial elites. These ignorant and dictatorial regimes implemented
disastrous Arabization policies, which were made in France and England.
Finally, a fabricated version of pseudo-Arabic was imposed on all these
nations, which are very different from one another.
For Mr. Sabeyse and readers who may have an interest, I mention here the
links again:
- The Secret Reasons of the Darfur Genocide: fake Arabic imposed on Non-
Arabs (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/17560);
(currently:
https://www.academia.edu/35045597/The_Secret_Reasons_of_the_Darfur_
Genocide_fake_Arabic_imposed_on_Non_Arabs_2006_)
- End the Darfur Genocide – 21st Century’s Most Outrageous Crime Against
Mankind / http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/17925
(currently:
https://www.academia.edu/54089527/End_the_Darfur_Genocide_21st_cent
ury_s_most_outrageous_crime_against_the_Mankind_)
- Modern Arabic: the Anglo-French Tool of Islamic Terrorism Promotion
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/17075);
(currently:
https://www.academia.edu/35195555/Modern_Arabic_the_Anglo_French_
Tool_of_Islamic_Terrorism_Promotion_2006_)
- Yemen and the fabrication of a bogus-Arabic nation
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/24981
(currently:

6. https://www.academia.edu/54178393/Yemen_and_the_fabrication_of_a_bo
gus_Arab_nation_2007_)
- Pan-Arabism: the Inhuman Progenitor of Islamic Terrorism
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/41610).
(currently: https://www.academia.edu/23699776/Pan-
Arabism_the_inhuman_progenitor_of_Islamic_Terrorism_by_Prof._Muhamm
ad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis)
Useless to add, I never considered Somalia as an Arab country, and I never
wrote anything of the sort.
34. Language, origin (historical heritage - ethnicity), culture and religion are
certainly the basic criteria to determine the identity of a nation. These criteria
are always valid, either they are accepted and therefore implemented (among
the Arab League member-states) or they are not. Of course, these criteria are
not known and considered, let alone respected, within the disreputable
Anglo-French colonial fabrication named Arab League; but this is irrelevant
and immaterial for our discussion. These criteria are accepted worldwide, and
certainly apply to Somalia as well.
Even worse, Mr. Sabeyse seems not to understand what consists in the
original fact. States do not matter; peoples do; nations do. The aforementioned
criteria apply to nations; they are the criteria that determine the characteristics
of an independent (and certainly unitary) nation. States come after; first one
people or ethnic group exists as such, and then this people or ethnic group is
organized into a state with a particular administration. States exist because
nations exist. And those nations that have not yet formed an organized state,
being oppressed by others, have the right to secede – like the Albanian
Kosovars from Serbia – and form an independent state. An entire nation is
entitled to a state, and on the contrary, there is no point in a group of people
from a certain nation seceding and forming a secessionist state. This is the
basic reason why Somaliland has no right to independence. Of course, the
Anti-Somali and Un-Somali character of the Hargeysa elite adds a lot to the
aforementioned.
35. Of course, the Somalis fit the aforementioned criteria and are considered
by all, academia and world political and diplomatic class, as one distinct and
undivided nation.
36. Another meaningless aberration; why the ‘union’ was ill-fated? Mr.
Sabeyse has nothing to say, and ultimately he says nothing, because simply
there is nothing to be said in support of this irrelevant statement! Except, we
make of the personal rancor and hatred that some failed politicians may feel
the focus and the reason of a political decision making. But this would be sick.

7. Even worse, there was never a ‘union’ between (inexistent before 1990)
Somaliland and Somalia; following the termination of the colonial rule, the
parts of Somalia that became free (Ogaden was not included) contributed to
the inception of Independent and Free Somalia.
No one can pretend that a colonized and divided nation becomes 'magically'
divided into two parts, just because the two colonizing powers divided it
among them. The nations are defined according to their historical heritage
that reveals their unity. There was no union of two parts in 1960; there was an
inception of a rightful and historically justified state - contrarily to the ailing
colonial relic of Abyssinia the existence of which is not historically justified,
and that's why it will soon be broken down to twenty pieces.
37. Another, unconvincing Abyssinian composition! No deadly epidemic
consumed the Somali polity. And because Mr. Sabeyse is unable to name the
‘epidemic’, he simply does not say anything, sticking to his unsubstantiated
and hollow rhetoric. In fact, at the origin of Somalia’s misfortunate troubles
there is only one reason: a heinous, rancorous and deeply inhuman enmity,
and an unprecedented case of venomous discrimination and intentional mass
extermination that emanated from the criminal minds of the Neo-Nazi
Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian elites, who made of their Anti-Somali hatred
the epicenter of their concern for survival. This is exactly what we have seen
implemented over the past 17 years in Somalia. There are certainly many
other, internal and external, factors, but the original fact is the revengeful anti-
Somali poison that fluctuates in the hearts of the Neo-Nazi Amhara and
Tigary Abyssinian elites.
38. I have no doubt about this, but it was not my topic. I was writing about
the incompatibility of the Kosova model with the Somaliland case.
39. Again one can notice at this point the double aberration, namely the
hypothetical association made between me and the Egyptian government,
and the misinterpretation of the Egyptian foreign policy’s targets. All this
nonsensical comment is said with no proof, justification, analysis or
explanation.
40. Abyssinian efforts to divert the waters of the River Nile? This suggests
automatically an intention to violate an international agreement. In other
words, Mr. Sabeyse suggests that Abyssinia becomes (or already is) a terrorist
state, which deliberately attempts to violate international agreements. His
Abyssinian boss will probably slap him in the face for this terrible oversight!
However, personally, I don’t agree with the idea that the Abyssinians deploy
efforts to divert the waters of the River Nile; I believe they don’t plan to do so
even in the wildest dreams!
When it comes to daylight reality, I must admit that the Abyssinians never

8. attempted to do so either; I actually never saw thousands of Amharas ready
to divert the waters of the River Nile … with their spoons!
Do they really have any other means for the job that it takes?
This is up to Mr. Sabeyse to answer!
41. This starts another erratic approach; if Egypt pursued always this policy,
why is this dimension 'new'? Again, it makes no sense.
42. ‘Volatile region’? Certainly when subjugated nations are incessantly
oppressed and persecuted like the tyrannized Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas,
Afars, Kambatas, Shekachos, Kaffas, Agaws, Anuak, Wolayitas and others,
when Somalia is exposed to genocidal practices carried out by the Abyssinian
thugs of Meles Zenawi, when Somaliland tries to betray 4000 years of Somali
History, then certainly the region is very volatile – but certainly not because of
the outright majority of Somalis who passionately want to find themselves in
a peaceful, free, re-united and rehabilitated Somalia.
Note
Picture: Ancient Egyptian descriptions of Punt highlight the four millennia
long History of Somalia
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Published: 4/13/2008