Where are the people to go? It isn’t like the Ethiopians and TFG militia has given them any practical option. It was either abandon your house or get killed. Those who were forced to flee, are dying with starvation and are hydrated those who stayed are into piece today.

They are trying to make this incident Islam motivated. Didn’t you people heard. I noticed in a news report that Cho Seung-Hui, the VA Tech shooter, had "Ismail Ax" written on his arm in red ink. Wondering what that meant (as Wikipedia failed to clarify) I did a little Googling, and guess what? "Ismail Ax" is a well known phrase in the Muslim world. The Muslims believe that the [Old Testament] is wrong in saying that Abraham was supposed to kill Isaac with a knife, rather they believe he was supposed to kill Ishmael (Ismail) with an Axe. They also believe that Abraham was supposed to go out and attack idols with an axe, and some also attribute the phrase to meaning that Ishmael was supposed to kill Isaac, the father of all Western culture, with an axe. Cho was a South Korean immigrant to the US, but it seems undeniable that his killing spree, at least in part, was motivated by some sort of belief in Islam. http://unrestintheforest.blogspot.com/

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Originally posted by Laba_Xiniinyood: 1. A man is walking to the town of Ipswich. He comes to a fork in the road, with the two branches leading in two different directions. He knows that one of them goes to Ipswich, but he doesn't know which one. He also knows that in the house right beside the fork in the road there are two brothers, identical twins, both of whom know the road to Ipswich. He knows that one brother always lies and the other always tells the truth, but he cannot tell them apart. What single question can he ask to whoever answers his knock on the door which will indicate to him the correct road to Ipswich? Do you have a twin? The one that tells the truth will say yes, the other one will say no. Am i right...I am soo smart.

Originally posted by Da Scarecrow: For #1: The question you ask any of the brothers is: "If I ask Your Brother What Road Leads To Ipswich,What Road Will He Point At?" The Road he points at, you take the opposite one. What if you were asking the brother that tells the truth. Remember you can’t tell them apart. This is hard i need to think about it

Thanks Nur Of course khalaf, we need to start answering and knowing the questions the Un-believers have to throw our way.

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Originally posted by Khalaf: quote:Originally posted by Northerner: Edit U realize somalis have been the only africans in history that have been bombed from the air by the West, back in 1921 against Sayiidka, then 93, and now. Other africans they just pay them, or steal their dimonds/resources w/out going into any trouble. if only somalis could put aside their small differences what a country, what a ppl they would be! So true, Somalis have such loyalty, but if only it was directed towards their nation and not their clans and sub-clans.

Did they took this picture before she got beat-up or after she got beat up? If before than she already was a deformed creature. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Pi: You're welcome. Out of sheer curiosity, do you consider yourself a mystic? I'm sure you have some working definition of mysticism. What kind of mystic are you? Don't worry. I will tolerate difference- just this one time. LOL. Frist question, no. Mysticism has no boundaries. It can be reached from any path. Drugs can lead to spiritual hits, fights to spiritual realization, love to spiritual freedom, and hate to spiritual entrapment. We are self contained. Mysticism and spirituality opens the self, and frees the prisoner of his chains. Remember, curiosity is what killed the cat.

The one and only I am Somali, but the phrase “There is no God but Allah” confused me. Allah is God, so how could there be no God. Ms Dhucdhuc & Dheylo translation sounds much reasonable.

Thanks Pi for the clarifications. I have some questions, but I am in a hurry right now. I will post them later. Salam

i can't see it...is it just me????

A quick question. First my intentions aren’t to offend Allah or any Muslim person. But I want to have more knowledge about this, and clearly understand its true meaning. If I make a mistake I hope Allah forgives me. Is saying there is no “God but Allah” the same as saying there is “no Allah” Is it like saying there is “No man but Ali” Isn’t Ali the man? So if there is no man then there can’t be Ali. For Ali is a man. So what does “there is no God but Allah” mean? I truly don’t have much knowledge about Islam. So I thought I should ask questions rather than come to my own conclusion. help is seriously needed

Originally posted by General Duke: ^^^lol. Defetaed by whom, you must be smoking something strong saxib. Mogadishu is under control those who want to keep the looted properties will have to find another means other than millitary, that has not worked. How many people fled Xamar? Where they all occupying your huts? No body is willing to die for your hut in the outskirts of Mogadishu. So easy with your looted property nonsense. :rolleyes:

What is so racial about this? Black doesn’t = nappy heads Nappy heads don’t = blacks. So people need to stop saying this is racial, the man barely stated his opinion. They should focus more on the “ho” part. He was totally off there. As for the “nappy heads”, African American men call them that regularly on rap music, they are called all other defamatory words as well. So why cry wolf now? is it because the man is white???

^^^ Yaa, cajiiba Take your time Gavin. You just don’t have to say those words. You would have to imprint them on your heart and conscience. The sooner the better. It is merely a request and not an order.

Mogadishu - Clashes between Ethiopian forces and Islamist fighters shattered a ceasefire in the Somali capital on Wednesday and raised fears among residents of more serious unrest. There was sporadic gunfire across the city and heavy mortar shells around a stadium in southern Mogadishu, where the two sides recently fought the worst battles seen in the Somali capital in 15 years, which left about 1 000 dead. There were no details of casualties from the new fighting but the overnight clashes shattered a week-old ceasefire announced by elders from Mogadishu's dominant ****** clan after talks with Ethiopian military commanders. The resumption of clashes that came hours after the Ethiopian army refused to meet ****** elders for routine peace negotiations unless insurgent commanders were present. "We are very worried and it is clear that the shaky ceasefire has broken because heavy fighting started overnight," said Abdulkadir Mohamed, a resident in Towfiq in south Mogadishu. "I was sleeping when heavy gunfire broke out. Everyone woke up and fled from the area because stray bullets were hitting everywhere," he added. Mohamed Hussein Wehliye, a resident near the stadium area, said "We ask the warring sides to stop the fighting because it will increase the casualties and only bring damage." Last month's heavy fighting erupted when Ethiopian forces launched a crackdown on suspected insurgents in the Somali capital. Somalia has lacked an effective central government since the ousting of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 touched off a power struggle that exploded into inter-clan warfare. Tensions have risen again since Ethiopian forces helped the UN-backed transitional government to oust Islamists from Mogadishu at the start of the year. The Islamists have since vowed a guerrilla war against the Ethiopians. http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,9294,2-11-1447_2096748,00.html

Beautifully written, this man is one of the few Somalis who truly is a SOMALI….lately we have some people who are only Somali through birth.

abuses that begun during centuries of white domination. By Kathryn Gaitens When I was in high school, the cold month of February passed without my taking much notice. The few lovable students who were political and knew the names of their local MPs organized cultural events. Some of the teachers who pretended to seriously mull over the contributions of blacks in the civil rights movement showed grainy videos of Martin Luther King rallies. Now that I've made a few recordings and gained some notoriety, I've been invited to speak at workshops and forced to consider my own position on the value or legitimacy of Black History Month. "Is there a black community?" a few of my fellow panelists at the more unimaginative workshops have asked. I knew the answer to that: I was living in one, Jamestown (Rexdale), where we were dealing with weightier questions like "Where are the guns coming from?" Then there are those bloated with wisdom who invariably ask burning questions like "Why have we been given the shortest month of the year?" This sort then quickly offer the answers, while being sure to insert jargon like "politrics" or "overstand." Watching events in Africa, it's so easy, surveying the hunger and the war, to forget how the dilemma faced by blacks today was all structured long ago at a conference table in Germany. On Christmas Eve 2006, Ethiopia, cheered on by the U.S.-inspired Transitional Federal Government, invaded my birth country, Somalia, and overthrew the Union of Islamic Courts. To Africans, this story seems all too familiar. Division and conquest, war and subjugation and here we are. One could start the narrative with the Stanley Electric Group, an automotive light bulb company based in Japan, named in honour of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, one of the most negative figures in black history. Stanley was born in Wales, and at the age of six was committed to a workhouse. At 17, he made his way by sea to New Orleans, where he befriended a cotton broker. He later fought on both sides of the American Civil War. But it was as a journalist that he cemented his ugly place in black history. In 1871, the New York Herald commissioned Stanley to travel in Africa. It was an assignment that would change the course of history when Stanley's ambitions expanded from exploration to exploitation. By 1876, he had found a like-minded partner, the powerful King Leopold of Belgium, a first cousin of Queen Victoria, who believed that a country's greatness depended on the acquisition of colonies. When the king could not find support for his ambitious expansion plans within his own government, he started a private company, the International African Society, and hired Stanley to run it for him. Under the cloak of this "philanthropic" organization, the king assembled a private army called the Force Publique that, through horrendous brutality, extracted rubber and ivory riches from the region. Stanley thus laid the groundwork for long Belgian rule over the Congo, a regime that we know today claimed between 8 million and 30 million African lives. The French, who did not recognize Leopold's private colonization, tried to lay claim to the region themselves. Out of this dispute, the Berlin Conference of 1884 convened, at which 13 European countries and the U.S. recognized Central Africa's Congo region as Leopold's private property. But the effects of the Berlin Conference were much broader. It went on to divide the continent into incomprehensible pieces, in a process now known as the Scramble for Africa. The Europeans basically invaded, imposed a new map on Africa according to their geographical needs, divided tribes and communities that traditionally got along and confined traditional enemies inside new shared borders. All these years later, border disputes are still unresolved, as in Somalia, one of the most homogeneous countries in Africa. Ongoing conflict there began in 1886, when the British invaded the northern part of the country, the French took a piece in the north and Italians captured southern Somalia. Ethiopia's then emperor, Menelik II, encouraged by Britain, took over the ****** region. Celebrated Somali poet Mohammed Abdullah Hassan led a 22-year-long colonial resistance, one of the longest and bloodiest in sub-Saharan Africa, in which Somalia lost a third of its population in the north. The decisive end came when the British, having lost too many of their men, called on a squadron from the Royal Air Force, fresh from a World War I bombing run, to destroy the resistance. Ethiopia's support back then for the colonial powers made a long-term enemy out of its neighbour, Somalia. During a ceasefire in the 1980s, Somalis lived under a U.S.-funded dictatorship that was overthrown in 1991. The country was in complete anarchy, with a handful of powerful warlords struggling to dominate one another. More than a decade later, an alternative in the form of the faith-based Union of Islamic Courts emerged, crippling the warlords and restoring order in the capital of Mogadishu. Undaunted, the U.S., citing fears of Al Qaeda involvement, reorganized and funded the warlords under the umbrella Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terorrism. Fast-forward to 2007: Ethiopia is now withdrawing after its December invasion, and the U.S.-backed pro-Ethiopian Transitional Federal Government, which made warlords from the Alliance into ministers, has been discredited by its reliance on Ethiopian forces. Division and conquest, war and subjugation, tactical separations, ideological impositions and here we are, under the sun of a day when average people in these conflicts no longer know what happened to put them there, why they are dying and why they will continue to die, plagued by disadvantage, hunger and war. Over a conference table in Germany it all began, but we Africans, speeding to our demise when the baton was passed , have all too eagerly carried it on. And so it occurs to me that the month of February is really not so black after all, but half black and half white like the two men whose birthdays it commemorates, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. And maybe, too, like the puppet regimes of Africa that are still in place to serve the interests of Western countries far away. World events today are starting to resemble the old Scramble, with one country waving the flag of domination. I wonder if the Middle East will get a month all to itself one day. ---------------------------------------------- This brother is amazing...

^^^Good luck to them.....They will need it. Hate blinds them.

Yes, I pray. And no they are losing because as the prophet Mohammed (pbuh) said Allah's Messenger (pbuh) has warned us about this, saying: "Beware a time is coming when all nations of the world will gather together to wipe you out the way they gather around a table to partake of its meal." His companion said "Will we be so few in number that day Oh, Messenger of Allah?" He (pbuh) said "No, on that day you will be many in number but you will be guthar (like the froth on the surface of the water after a flood) and Allah will take from the hearts of the Kafirs respect for you and fear of you and Allahwill cast into your hearts wahan." The companion said "What is wahan?" He (pbuh) said "Love for this world and hatred of death." Today everyone doesn’t want to be labeled Al Qaida, Taliban, Islamist, extremists, because they know America will make them a direct target but Allah is All Knowing and All Merciful, and the only person anyone should fear is HIM alone. Our own Somali, Muslim brothers had turned against themselves. They walk, ready to kill another Somali Muslim. It was one thing for two Muslim Somalis to kill each other, but to side with an infidel and shot your own Muslim brother in the head in front of an infidel is despicable. May Allah help us all…..

Well bush will be gone in 08, and it is right around the corner. The next president is already chosen, don't let all this fake elections fool you.

^^^Islamdiid. Case closed!