Waxaaba iigu daranbo public washroomka lacagta lagu ridaayo… lol Kool kat when i was in sweden this summer, there was several times where I had to pay to go in the washroom, I had to pay like 5 kroners (even though that is close to nothing. the very idea to pay for a washroom was hilarious) and that was the first time aan arkay washroom lacag laga bixyo anba over all though I had a great time. Sweden is a great place for vacation. I haven't been to London yet, bt I am yet to hear anything nice abt it (from their small houses, and crowded streets), other than their many Somali social events. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

^^^ Warkooda oo dhan ha dhagaysan... Soomaaliba ha guursan...Carabta ayaa fiican baa la yiri! Zafir walaal if you are into Arab women by all means go for it. I was simply warning you....

Dahia, definitely your host were boooring, hadaadba tiri Toronto aa boring ah...Toronto and boring don't go together, you can't even you them in the same sentence...Next time you're here, let me know... Kool Kat lol u got that right sis...Next time, she comes to Toronto, we will show her around markasay dhahasa naa london maba ku labanayo, guri iga kireeya mesha hahaha

Serenity lol sis even wealth shouldn't be the issue, as long as he makes a decent living. aside from that, all that matters is personality. say somalidu dhahdo dabeecad aya la isku dhaafa. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

lol I hope you are joking for your own sake!!!

I am not sure what the religion says about this matter. But, it sounds reasonable, if they cant keep their hands off each other, they might as well get married. However, keep in mind that they might get kids at such a young age, as the various birth control methods do not always work. and in that case would u have the parents taking care of their own children, and their children's kids on top of that. I dnt know bt if i was a parent i wouldn't agree to this type of marriage. if some one wants to be married, they better take responsibility and move out of my house heheh..just my opinion. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

Lily, because, your river has the cleanest of waters to drink from. No brainer there really! says who?? You shouldn't limit your choices Zafir. You should be open minded about it, for Allah yaclam you might one day fall in love with a somali sister from another tribe. You should judge others based on their character rather than ina hebel hadaad aheen kuma aqaan. Walahi personally I think that is a bit of being primitive and old fashion. I think nowdays we are more educated and know better-qabiilna cidna wax ma taro. Lily yeah Nephthys might have been joking, bt as it seems some somalis do have that outdated opinion. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

I advice you to marry someone not only within your tribe but same LAF aswell. Waxaa taqaano guurso baa la yiri, waxaad taqaano baad dhalaysaaye nephthys walaalo qabiil muhim ma aha, haduu somali yahaya intaas aya kugu filan. marwalba waxa taqaan aa dhalasa haduu somali yahay, qabiilka wa la isku barta kaliya. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

Each individual has their own perspective and way of life. That is the beauty of life, the fact that we all have different opinions. So, the bottom line is we do have to respect one another’s choice. That been said, it is good to advice one another, as a Somali proverb goes, ”nin ku digay kuma dilin”. Therefore, it is crucial and a must that we marry some one who shares with us our religion. As it says in our Koran, O you men! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and families that you may know each other; surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the one among you most careful (of his duty); surely Allah is Knowing, Aware. Surah al-Hujurat (49:13) Race and culture is insignificant when it comes to Islam. Our religion is color blind, we are all judged by our ibada (deeds).However, if you look at real life examples where people married outside their culture, you will see how hard life could be. For instance, I seen Somalis who married outside their ethnicity, even though their spouse is religious, their different cultures brought many obstacles and challenges. So, as your sister I am going to advice each one of you to marry a Somali individual who is religious, that way you have some one whom you share religion and culture with. Even that does not guarantee a life without problems. But, it does remove unnecessary issues that might rise from different cultures and customs. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

Do you think I could eventually make half-decent money after a while, or should I expect to be stuck at $12/hour doing some sh*tty factory job 5 years down the road? If you don't have any post secondary education, it would be hard to attain a well-paying job, and that is not just in Toronto but anywhere regardless. However, if you have experience as you pointed out perhaps you might be able to get a decent job depends on the employer and how they perceive you at the time. Anyways, good luck with your interviews and as Kool Kat indicated above it is good to email your resumes in advance. -------------------- The world is nothing but a blink of an eye. Where the here-after is eternal

You should see my friends giving me advise "naayaahe aniga afarteyda caruur $1000 baan bisha labaantakeeda iigu soo dhacdo, ee caruurta iska dabakeen saad lacag badan u hesho...Mexey tahay halkaan aad la ordeyso"...looool Koot Kat tell me about it sis. There are many people who have kids just to get child benefits. However, they over look that certain responsibility that comes with having many kids.

A Bosnian couple are getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting each other up online under fake names. I am always shocked at those who take their vows lightly, once you take the vows it is for eternity. Therefore, I feel the least sympathy as they deserved one another. Waxaadse iigu duceyneyso Allaha i barbar mariyo yarta. Mid waxaad iigu duceysaa habeenkii ila dul taagnaata koob caana ah while I serve SOL [big Grin] oo i tiraahda ...'walaale...waxay waxan aad qaruurada ku xarxariiqeyso' [smile] . Ana waxaa oran lahaa 'walaale...waa wax sida shaaha hablaha looga mamnuucey la idinkaga mamnuucay...hablaha wey ku indha beelaan iftiinka qaruurada ee walaale ka jeedso' [smile] . Paragon xagee taa ka helina waaba iga su aale?

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto sabar iyo imaana dadkooda haka siiyo.

shiekhi Jacaylka aa lol. Jacaylbaro uu aha gormu badalay oo dalcay waaba yaabe. Hada aaba u fiirsaday laakin somali maahmaah ba jirta oo ah laga baray laga badi

I thought the debate was between 8 and 20 rak'as. Anyhow, the more you pray, the more ajar you get after all it is optional to pray tarawiih.

Jacaylka looooooooool poor guy!!

I was wondering abt this matter for some time now. So, I am glad to know sisters who work hard in the dunya will be rewarded insha allah. May Allah guide us all to the right path insha allah and Jazakalaah red sea for taking the time to post it. wa salaamu alaikum

The Following article is written by a Muslim journalist. Faith-based revelation: I was a second-class student in Ontario OMAR SOLIMAN Special to Globe and Mail Update September 11, 2007 at 12:10 AM EDT Once again, religion has entered the fray of Ontario politics. And, once again, the same old players are hard at work fanning the flames of hatred, division and religious intolerance. Behind some of the silly reasons to oppose John Tory's proposal for funding faith-based schools is the Ontario Liberal Party's principal setback in the current election campaign: No leader in Progressive Conservative Party history has had a better relationship with Ontario's ethnic communities — a legacy of Mr. Tory's Toronto mayoralty bid. Somehow, though, it has become perfectly acceptable in Ontario to lobby for the women's vote in Sarnia, the seniors' vote in Whitby and the students' vote in Kingston — but not the Muslim vote in Mississauga or the Sikh vote in Brampton. Canadians witnessed this most recently during the 2006 federal Liberal leadership convention, when Liberal candidates were criticized for trying to attract Tamil and Muslim delegates. The Muslim Canadian Congress, a group with a secular bent run by a handful of "postmodern" Muslims, accused these Liberal candidates of dividing the party into ethnic enclaves. No one really has the guts to say it, but this presumption is a racist one. The Muslim or Sikh vote, like the women's or seniors' vote, is not monolithic. A functioning liberal democracy warrants that, within the confines of our laws, those who govern should articulate the attitudes and beliefs of the governed — irrespective of race, creed and so on. For the past four years, however, Premier Dalton McGuinty has proved himself to be incapable of accommodating religious minorities as a fact of public policy. "There will be one law for all Ontarians," he said in his 2005 decision to ban religious arbitration for family disputes. He has the support of misinformed secularists on the far left and narrow-minded traditionalists on the far right — all of whom are united in the belief that faith-based schools are bound to propagate medieval, Taliban-style beliefs. Well, let me break it to you, folks. I went to an Islamic day school from junior kindergarten to Grade 8 in Mississauga. At this school, our books (many written in the 1980s) were largely torn and ripped apart. Our desks and chairs were an ergonomic nightmare. We had no student government because there was no money to fund activities. Our school library didn't have the liberty to purchase books; we simply collected outdated, unwanted novels from other schools. True story: We played hockey on broken gravel for three years while waiting for some decent hockey nets; and when those didn't arrive, we set up a bake sale and bought the cheapest pair on sale from Canadian Tire. And, no, we were never taught creationism. But I do remember writing an essay on the life and works of a Charles Darwin. My parents were paying a lot of money. But let's face it: I spent the first 10 years of my education in a poor school with poor facilities and poorly compensated teachers. I was a second-class student in Ontario. Tell me, Mr. McGuinty, how do you create a "knowledge economy" that breeds "creativity" and "excellence" (your words) when you are unwilling to elevate the educational standards of 53,000 Ontario students who are receiving this same second-class education? And yet, there was Deputy Premier George Smitherman suggesting that, because it would cost an extra $100- million, funding for these students is not warranted. This, from the same minister whose response to the ailments of our health system was to increase its budget by $11-billion since 2003. During Mr. McGuinty's time in office, public education funding rose from $9.4 billion in 2003 to $12.8 billion in 2007. So don't tell me the money doesn't exist. Still, some Liberals will continue to make the very conservative argument that, on balance, all social policy is somehow inherently or deliberately exclusive. When Mr. McGuinty says funding religious private schools is tantamount to "segregation," I first try to ignore the irony that this word invokes. And then I turn to my Muslim friends who graduated from my Islamic school and who are now in law, medicine, teaching, business and, yes, even our armed forces. I turn to my four brothers: two doctors, one lawyer and a future investment banker. And then I wonder: Since when did it become too expensive or too dangerous to uphold equality? What happened to the idea of accommodating or celebrating diversity? Omar Soliman, a former provincial Tory, is a graduate student at Columbia University's School of Journalism.

You are quoting an article by the owner of right-wing, tabloid-like, pro-neo-con National Post paper? Of course, he is mad. He wants the funds extended to private Jewish schools as well. Jewish schools are one of the many religious schools, and it is only fair that they should get funded as well. However, this does not limit to Jewish schools, Islamic schools that many Somali kids attend will also immensely benefit from being funded by the government. Somalis are working poor, they would benefit most by sending their child to a Islamic school without paying any tuition compare to many rich Jewish families who already send their children to private schools and have the means to do so. He is not the only one who is mad, all religious non-catholic parents are mad because they don’t have the same rights as catholic parents Mr. McGuinty himself and his children graduated from publicly funded catholic schools, the wife also works for a public catholic school, so its hypocrisy for someone like McGuinty to oppose the expansion of public education system to include the faith schools of minority religions. John Tory may support the public funding extended to private schools It’s a well-known fact, The platform of McGuinty liberals and Tory conservative are very similar and identical, the only difference is Mr. Tory’s plan to extend public funding to minority faith based schools following the publicly funded catholic model, and Mr. McGuinty’s Ontario health premium tax, besides McGuinty promised that he will not increase tax if he is elected in last election, Mr. McGuinty is just hypocritic, dishonest. however also know where he will get those funds from. Probably from those funds reserved for the healthcare or public schools. It is no brainer once the funds are extended to private schools, the public schools will suffer. The issue is not money; minority faith-based schools will receive funds from government in same manner as catholic schools. The secular and catholic schools get paid per student per year formula. For example, if the parents of students of minority faith based schools decide today to transfer their children from muslim/Jewish/sikh schools to publicly funded catholic and secular schools, the government will find a way to accommodate these students. Also, its in the constitution that the government is forced to provide free education to all children regardless. Therefore, it is obvious that the issues is more of ideological and racism than funds. Its mind-boggling that the government has 6 billion of tax dollars to pay the cost of 700,000 students who go to catholic schools, and cannot afford to half-billion dollars to pay for 53,000 students who attend minority faith-based schools (like Muslim Jewish, hindus, sikh etc) Muslims particularly Somali community will benefit most from Tory’ proposal, it will allow for parents to send their children to publicly funded Islamic school free of charge. Catholic parents already send their children to publicly funded catholic schools, and Jewish parents are well off and they can afford to send their children to faith based schools. In other words, it’s the Somalis parents who currently have no alternative to secular schools For example, in Ontario there is about 500,000 Muslims and there are only 37 islamic schools. where there is only 200,000 jewish population (less than half of the Muslim population) with 43 Jewish schools Already 7 Canadian provinces such as British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec etc fund all faith based schools, if Majority of Canadian provinces can do it, why not Ontario? Ontario’s education system fully funds catholic and secular schools and NOT Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh etc is discriminatory, outdated, and against all the principles of democracy Therefore the issue is about fairness entirely.

Predictably, Dalton McGuinty's henchmen have seized on the religious-school funding issue to recreate Jean Chretien's anti-creationist propaganda campaign against Stockwell Day in the 2000 election campaign. Yesterday, Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne did her best chicken-little routine, falsely implying that John Tory's proposal to fund Ontario's private religious schools would lead to the elimination of the accepted science curriculum. Given that Premier McGuinty and co. intend to continue funding Catholic schools, this election tactic is hypocritical and crass. Mr. McGuinty himself is a product of Ontario's publicly funded Catholic religious school system. Yet the Liberal Premier now claims that if such funding were extended to other faiths, segregation and fallacious interpretations of how the world came into existence would result. Such intellectual dishonesty suggest that he was not hypnotized by his own religious education: The ninth Biblical commandment forbids the bearing of false witness. John Tory, his Conservative opponent, has made it very clear that qualifying religious schools would have to conform to the provincial education curriculum. Nowhere in his policy is there any suggestion that the provincial curriculum as a whole would be changed into something that is non-secular. What I find most strange about the whole affair is not the blatant dishonesty and overblown Liberal rhetoric on the schools issue, but the fact that the Premier and his team are actually making themselves the real focus in the provincial campaign. Real leadership means saying what you mean, and believing it. Many will disagree with Mr. Tory's position on public funding for qualifying religious schools, as he was surely aware when he first declared his position. He knew it would be controversial, but is prepared to stand by his view and provide a cogent rationale for it. This is a good example of leadership. It stands in stark contrast with that of Mr. Mc-Guinty, who has previously admitted that there is inequity in funding a Catholic school system to the exclusion of other religious schools. If the Premier really believes in what he said, then he would either be agreeing with Mr. Tory -- or he would be arguing that no religious schools should be funded. Instead, Mr. McGuinty has chosen to abandon his stated views, and is allowing his campaign to spout extreme rhetoric aimed at smearing his opponents. In so doing, he and his clan have responded to a legitimate issue of public policy in a way reminiscent of schoolyard loudmouths shouting epithets. This is not leadership. By attempting to demonize Mr. Tory, Mr. Mc-Guinty's team is trying to distract voters from the broken promises made in the last election. Or perhaps it is trying to hide the fact that he still hasn't told the electorate how he intends to help Ontario -- whose economy is still heavily dependent on manufacturing -- deal with increasingly intense global pressures. In the end, it is voters in Ontario who will deliver the only verdict that counts. But thus far, it looks like there is a fundamental difference between Ontario's two main party leaders. On policy matters, Mr. Tory is telling it as he sees while Mr. McGuinty is resorting to a time-honoured Liberal tradition of crass political opportunism and fearmongering. The Premier is living proof that graduates of the religious school system can be very secular. -David Asper is chairman of the National Post.

Keyf I believe it is going to be on Sep 13. Allah Yaclam.

Age is nothing but a number. you will find young women who are mature. It all depends on that certain individual. Anyhow, if you like older women Roobleh go for it.Just remember you can not generalize. wa salaamu alaikum

Ramadaan Kariim

I doubt this will ever be possible. Allah swt has created women and men differently so they could serve certain roles. so ye all stop daydreaming- women will not share that role of pregnancy. As Ghanima just said men could never take that motherhood position, not that they are selfish, it is just nt meant to be. wa salaamu alaikum

I fail to see what you guys are coming to her defense. She was in an apartment with two guys and drinking. she put herself in a situation where should could be raped, she should have thought better. I am not here to say she deosnt have right to drink she does, bt why in an apartment with two men.... anyhow, the guy is paying for what he done, and so is she. she put herself in that situation haka saarto. wa salaamu alaikum