Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Somali Refugees in Kenya Already Have "The Right of Return" to Somalia. Problem Is They Don't Want to Return

Found an interesting factoid here:
Kenya is host to the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab - home to about half a million people - near the Somali border, while it is believed that more than 30,000 Somali refugees live in Nairobi alone.
Somalia is already slotted into the Dar al Islam category. That, along with the fact that it's a failed basket case of a state, is the reason these refugees don't want to go there. Whereas Palestinian refugees do want to "return" to Israel, which used to be part of Dar al Islam, but which has been yanked (temporarily, they believe) into the Harb division by lowly, thieving Jooos.

Why, Palestinian refugees even kept the keys to their pre-Naqba domiciles, something I doubt the Somalis would do (since it's clear they want to stay in Kenya, a country which, if Al Shabaab has its way, would slide into the "Islam" category).

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