Well OG Sophist is a big boy and I think he needs no help but I do expect someone to respond to me in the context of the post and not by intuition.

^^^^^Mean what you say and say what you mean.....Rag taas baa lagu yaqaneey.

OG I don't know how well you undertand/read Somali but I assume its very rudimentary so I will let your "selective" comment ride. The Gandhi quote is pretty impressive but I just don't quite understand how it applies to this particular post.I responded to a comment someone made about people tasting bullets of a tribe and you respond with Gandhi, a man of peace.I'm thinking maybe this quote was better off directed at who ever is instigating war.........

Originally posted by Sophist: Horn, Inaadeer, hadal badani haan ma buuxsho. Soomaalidu waxay ku maah maahdaa "Ninkii soo joog laga waayo, soo jiifso ayaa laga helaa", marka bal giraantani meesha ey ku danbeyso weynu eegnaa. Reerahani waa dad warankoodu isyaqaan, malaha qolyahaan fog fog ee hargeysa ayaan rasaasta nugaaleed hore u dhadhamin Is our Cambridge educated, Shakespeare quoting lawyer now a tribal war mongerer.Addun like they say you can take the man out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.I suppose tribalism will continue to flourish among Somalis so long as we have a hard time telling the difference between our Ivy league graduates and the tribal warlords. :confused:

Originally posted by LayZieGirl: Gediid, you should know better than to compare your own "educated sisterS" with the SOL women. No one is alike, in reality, be as it may, even men aren't alike, so the next time you want to show off your educated sisters, do not try to take cheap shots at women in these parts of the forum, or else its just gonna make you look like the same "men" being described in this very thread....(btw, being educated isn't just all about graduating highschool,Sir) Lazie I never made a comparision between my high school sisters and SOL women.Mansha Allah most of our SOL sisters have been blessed with plenty of common sense and knowledge to know that complaining all the time is just a total waste of space.

Originally posted by besbaaso: b4 i left .....i would have to know .....what is a head of us, and what to expect.....and as long as we have planned and r not just going on an impulse.....then ..hella yeah....there just has to be a reason.... ps....there is no place like home.....and queenie...sis...regardless of where u were born ...u r still a second class citizen of whereeva u r....the only home u have is somalia.... peace Very well said Besbaaso

Honestly no but I support those who do am I not standing in the way of those who want to make real changes. I know you are on the last chapter but you seem to have skipped a few in the process

Shoo Amiin baan leeyahay ducada

Did I say something wrong? :confused:

I believe in the age old adage that says help yourself before helping others.....

Baashi Saaxiib waad i jeceshay malaha(I mean that in general ways)I don't see my name in this topic but I see that you have responded to Gediid. :confused: :confused:

X-Quizit You n I are both on the same page but I think on two different chapters I voiced my opinion on the rationale of presenting an essay on FGM in N America but if this was lets say in Somalia then I would be 100% in support.

X-Quizit I do not fear being called uncivilized but I just don't see the rationale behind presenting an idea where no help or soltuions will be forecoming.

^^^^Tell it like its supposed to be

X-Quizit I agree we need to solve our problems from the inside not from the outside and presenting an essay on FGM to a class made up of 99% foreigners is to me the outside.It will only recieve a gasp of shock and in no way will a gasp be a solution. Your second point that guys dismiss FGM as the thing of the past, I personally think its very much here though not as widely practiced as before now that more people know the harmful effects it has on girls.

Damsel The problem of FGM has nothing to do with Islam and it should not be brought into the argument.As for Waris Dirie I doubt if her crusade against FGM is anything but an aging model trying desperately to stay in the spotlight. Dangerous I have no idea why the girls decided to write an essay on the topic but I do agree with you somehow.There's nothing to be gained by writing an essay on all that is wrong with one's society.If this was for sympathy I doubt if a gasp or a sigh will suffice nor will it do anything for eradicting the practice.

Besbaaso Any man approaching a woman with such lame pick up lines I think should be shot .... A total disgrace to the word and to the genes.

Pepper Only if you administering the spanking Shoo

Walaahi in another post I claim to be free of all pet peeves(what ever that is) but I can't hold it any longer,I have to get this load of my chest.......... People are you loosing your minds or what....a whole post to public toilets and the art of peeing.God whats next.....

Correction pepper,Grade school for pensioners ooops sorry I forget you mailed me the brochures from there.....

^^^^Ma aragtaa.Grow some croc skin,that should do the trick.......? Khaaaaaaakh tuf and a few feet away lands a yellowish..............

^^^^^^^Dead on miyaad tidhi.Ma jiin baa kula sheeqeeyo ninyahow.

^^^Anything that ruins my fantasies waan ka soo horjeedaa.

Oo weliba naf ku jirto neefsanaya.Saaxiib you have left nothing for the imagination.Every gal maanta sawiirkii eey in badan qariin jireen baad bada soo dhigtey

Shoo imtixaan socdaa baad tahay