As Salam Alaikum, people. The name is Farah Hussein and I'm a young Black Muslim woman of Somali descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I was born in the City of Mogadishu, Somalia, and raised in provincial Ontario. These days, I'm studying police foundations at Algonquin College, and life simply couldn't be better. I recently got out of a bad relationship. Actually, make that two bad relationships. Let me explain.
My Somali ex-boyfriend Rahman Sharif cheated on me with my gal pal Genevieve Charles, and I dumped them both. I cuckolded Rahman with my former professor Bilal, and taught him a lesson he won't soon forget. When it comes to punishing those who've wronged me, whether male or female, black or white, I tend to be creative in a most wicked way. Don't piss off us Somali sisters, folks. Our vengeance is usually swift, creative and terrible.
After my relationship with Rahman Sharif ended, I had a very low opinion of the male of the species, and basically shunned male company. Still, I felt lonely and as a highly sexual woman, it's not a pleasant feeling. I recently met a promising young man. You see, I was walking around Kanata, walking my cousin Yasmin's annoying poodle Marduk when a couple of young white dudes started harassing me, calling me a towel head and stuff. I cussed them out and they got pissed. The fools actually attacked me!
I honestly don't know what would have happened if a certain brother hadn't jumped in. Tall, dark and handsome, the brother furiously waded into my attackers and actually fought them off. The brother looked at me and asked me if I was alright. I looked my rescuer up and down. Tall, well-dressed and handsome, the guy looked good, but I could tell that he wasn't Somali. In a deep voice that was French-accented, he asked me if I was alright. I smiled and nodded, and thus I met Roger Duchene, the Haitian stud who stole my heart.
Ladies and gentlemen, I used to be one of those Somali Muslim sisters who swore that she would never date or have any dealings with men from outside the Somali community. Well, I was wrong. I thought that Rahman Sharif was the man for me, but he betrayed me with that fat white slut Genevieve Charles, and my faith in men basically vanished like ice in the sun. I honestly thought I would never open up to a man again, but Roger Duchene was different from just about every man I'd met up until that point.
Roger Duchene, the chivalrous Haitian guy walked me and that annoying dog Marduk to my cousin Yasmin's house and wished me a goodnight. I found it odd that this gorgeous, masculine man didn't ask for my number but figured he was shy or something. I left it at that, and when I told my cousin Yasmin what happened, she was stunned. Yasmin apparently thought that Kanata was a safe place. Fuck that, I've seen more weirdoes in Kanata than in the east end of Ottawa where I live. The creeps live in the suburbs, not the frigging hood!
I decided to creep Roger Duchene on Facebook, and easily found his profile. I found out quite a bit about Roger, and it was very surprising. Roger is twenty two years old, a civil engineering student at Carleton University and he was born and raised in the City of Montreal, Quebec, but moved to the City of Ottawa for school. Oh, and Roger Duchene had a rainbow flag as his wallpaper on his Facebook background, with the words "bisexual visibility" written below. I was stunned to see this. What the fuck is something like that doing on a young black man's Facebook profile?
Now, in Somali culture, the word for gay men is "qaniis" and the word for gay women or lesbians is "qaniisad". We have such elements within Somali society but it's not like in the West, where girly guys and masculine females go around parading on the streets and shit. In Somalia, men who sleep with men and females who are sexually attracted to other females keep it to themselves. We are an Islamic nation, thank you very much. If you're gay or lesbian and you're in Somalia, you'd better act normal while in public and keep your damn mouth shut. Otherwise you might get stoned and I don't mean the fun way.