It was very civilized before radical Islam took it back to the dark ages......

Somalia 2019. Its back to the 1500s.

Those words you have used are synonymous to the lines brainwashing media uses all the time. Those pics are Western like. The traditional Somalia, from culture to dressing, to food is not what you are depicting. But anyway, Western style is your yardstick.

Surprisingly most Somalis appreciate Al shaabab for putting a leash on secularism.

This thread is reminiscent of the old Nairobi thread where people wax poetic about how orderly Nairobi was in the 1960s and 1970s before we were overwhelmed by Mwafrikas greed, corruption and lack of foresight. Ask Naija people and they will say the same about Lagos. In Zim they will talk about how their country used to be the bread basket of Africa. Mwafrika naye. We suffer from the same disease but it manifests itself differently.