Black hawk down; the step to great Somali invasion

As all of you know, Hollywood is the US tool to adopt the civil society to a specific issue, especially those related to stereotypes. People will not mind to watch an action movie about the adventure of US great army in Somalia. In the movie you can see several US soldiers being shot by Somali militants, each one of this military soldiers have his own history, the camera focuses on them while they are looking to pictures of their relatives, wives, children or parents. While the Somali people are like animals, they have to die and slaughtered. Around 1000 somalis are being shot by the US armies but no body cares, all of the spectators are keen and sympathetic with those few US soldiers dieing.

Black hawk is the name of US war Helicopter, known to kill people in masses. So why do a movie of this issue called after some helicopters. From here you can infer that 1000 Somalis died during this are worthless, they are just like the sheep slaughtered during the Eid.

When the US invaded Vietnam the American society went mad and demonstrations can be seen every where, but is this true for Somalia. Do the American media and public be agitated if US invaded Somalia. Of course not, Somalia is a Muslim state, so terrorism jumps to the mind, Somalia also murdered 18 US soldiers during 1992, but haven’t the US army killed with cold blood 1000 Somalis.

Its disgracing that we Somalis enjoy watching this movie, are those people in the movie really representing us, are we bloodthirsty, are we savages, are we merely some animals that have no soul. The answer is obvious.

This is stereotypic behaiviour is not confined to movies, its present in every aspect of our daily life in books, news, academic studies and even in our internal believes.

With such widespread stereotypic beliefs the western governments become capable of adjusting society to certain beliefs such as that Islam is Terror, Africans are savages and Arabs are western hating blood thirsty camel men.

On the other hand we Muslims have not the slightest idea of what is happening around us, we are blindfolded by ethnic and religious clashes, no one caring about the other.

Today no body cares about the war torn Islamic countries which all of them destroyed by the west beginning from Afghanistan to Somalia.

In Somalia World is illusioned that they are fighting between each other in tribes, in Iraq it is religious and ethnic clash, in Lebanon between Sunnis, Shia's and Christians. So has the muslim world gone mad or the story have something not right "sheekada far baa ku godan"...