No need to rewrap a candy once you tasted one.Dadka maanta jooga maacaanka before marriage ayaa la wada taste gareeyey and by the time guur la isla af garto testing will not matter.Its a catch 22 type of situation.Hope he/she is STD free.

A day like is today finds me with no complaint.Easy for the mind and the body alike.Weather is awesome with a of bit rain to cool the temp,only regret wish I was home on my couch

Originally posted by Devil's Advocate: quote:Originally posted by Gediid: For Islam to be even considered a dynamic religion, I think we have to have a revised or updated editions of the holy Quran that keeps up with the ever changing world or a new prophet.That will never happen since Allah has already sent his last prophet and his word in the quran is his last to us humans.What ever time it was set for is immaterial here but the underlying laws in there are eternal. The Koran is very dynamic, as it is meant for all muslims till the end of time. Even the Koran can be interpreted in so many ways, and that also makes it dynamic. DA I think that was exactly what I just said

DA We can pull and push all day long but I have a feeling this will not take us anywhere but I will try anyways. First and foremost its always good to start off with a disclaimer......Being human I know I'm bound to make mistakes but may Allah forgive me.Anyone with the exact daliil can come forward and correct me.Second if anyone knows better please enlighten us. DA walaalo there's no female/male issue in Islam that needs our attention.Islam clearly sets a different path for each.For a woman I think its a blessing that they have been fortunate to escape from the burden of having to pray five times at the mosque.I guess most men would celebrate if this applied to them but they are not that fortunate.You see DA I call this a burden because its extremely difficult to do such a deed in this time and age and knowing that every rakat you pray is half of what you would get if that was in a mosque is hard on the human conscience. Why one would advocate for a such burden I fail to understand.As for the issue of whether Islam states women get more ajar praying at home than at the mosques,I personally think we all know the logic behind that, a woman more than a man will know even better as to why. For Islam to be even considered a dynamic religion, I think we have to have a revised or updated editions of the holy Quran that keeps up with the ever changing world or a new prophet.That will never happen since Allah has already sent his last prophet and his word in the quran is his last to us humans.What ever time it was set for is immaterial here but the underlying laws in there are eternal.

I would always ask my high school Religion Education teacher, an anglican priest how he could prove the existence of God from a Christain point of view.I asked him this particular question not because I wanted to know what he thought or what the Bible said about the existence of God but it was rather a silly ploy that I knew would make my day easier and the most boring class in high school a lil more interesting.Now I knew that teacher was going out of his way to prove to me that God in his opinion did exist and his holy scriptures all proved that but to a 15 year old kid all I remember was while he talked my lil head would always have more question for him than he had the answers for.Later in life I recognised that maybe I went a little overboard and even though I had nothing in common with that Anglican priest yet there was so much that I could have learned from him instead of just sitting there and throwing a million questions per second.Religion is basically a question of faith ,you either believe or you dont.There are strict do's and don'ts in every faith whether its Islam or Hinduism and there are absolutely no maybe's.Thats why its called religion. Now getting back to this topic,if the girls feel that mosques are not sister friendly,lemme just say they aren't supposed to be sister friendly.Islam clearly states that women get more Ajar praying at home than at the mosque.With that in mind and the limited resources that Muslims especially those in the west have at their disposal I don't see any reason why a Mosque should have the same space for a woman.A smaller space will always be there to accomadate those women who wish to come to mosques and pray there but an equal size space I don't think so.I know someone stated that times have changed well tough luck Islam is not a dynamic religion.It came down in 632 AD and a million centuries later the principles of Islam will stay the same.That holy book that Mohammed(ASW) brought down is the first and last.Its not open to scrutiny nor change.You either take it in its entirety or leave it as it is.There's no room for feminism ,maleism or what ever movements there are, to Allah you are all his creatures, from him you came and to him you shall return.

I think when a community as large as the Somalis are faced with such negative programs the norm is for them to issue some sort of rebuttal whether its in the form of TV time or a column in the local papers.At least something that will deflame the already tense situation that this punk of a reporter has created with his one sided documentary.I also think to defuse such a situation the best thing to do is to collaborate with the Caribean community in some sort of a programme or show that would paint this dummys to be a BS.

Get off it Modesty ,here take some of my height,see for once what the view from the "top" looks like I happen to watch this programme the other day on the National Geographic Channel where a surgeon in China performs operations to increase the height of his patients by a few inches.Though the procedure once performed takes normally a year to see the full results yet its a pretty succesfully operation and the cost is measly. Not that I would suggest anyone to try it but FYI just in case.Haddi kale think of the future and get your self a really tall spouse....

I'm lost here.What is the argument all about now?

Here's a lil something from the pen of Hadraawi.The poem is called Sirta Nolosha.I selected only parts of the poem.The poem is addressed to Sahra an orphan and the daughter of one of his closest friends from what I heard. Dharku Saadhi qudha maaha Saylooni garan maaha Iyo sabarandaa giiran Mana aha surwaal biid ah Haddaan saarku kuu diidin Saddex-qaydu ceeb maaha. Gabdhayahow sidee waaye Ilbaxnimadu saas maaha Hadba suf karkaro maaha Sararaha bannee maaha Qorqor suunniyaa maaha Dhabanada sibbaaq maaha Sanka oo la mudo maaha Sakhrad iyo xashiish maaha Sawir iyo riyaaq maaha Filin iyo sarcaad maaha Saxan reer galbeed maaha Kabo sookal dheer maaha Suuriyo durduro maaha Salsalaw cid kale maaha Qof silloon ku dayo maaha Wax sawaaban noqo maaha Sinta iyo lafaa duudka Saddex goor jejebi maaha Dhaqankaaga saydh maaha Soomaali diid maaha Sidaad doonto yeel maaha Dhulka oon ku sidi waayin Samadoo la koro maaha Heedhee Sahraay heedhe Dhulka iyo wixii saran Sare iyo wixii laalan Inta sudan intii seemman Waxa jira sir iyo caadba Rabbi qudha sax weedhiisa Sida uu ku yidhi buuxi Waxa hadhay salka iyo baarka Inta sool qarsoon joogta Inta seel xidhxidhan jiifta Inta saydha waabayda Maroodiga siddaa dheer leh Wiyil iyo sahboodkeeda Inta laga subxaanaysto Kolay tahay libaax sayn leh Marka aad Sahraay meel fog Uga suul-dhabaaleyso Deg-deg inay sujuuddaada Suxullada dhigtaan weeye! Sidashada awooddaasi Sahal iyo wax fudud maaha Qofba waa si garadkiisa.

Having lived in Asia I have seen or heard of a million different madhabs that Muslims follow of which few in my honest opinion can seriously be considered Islamic.One of those many madhabs is the Ahlu Sunnah or Ahlu Hadith as they are more commonly known.I dont know if Ahle hadith subscribes to that but from the look of his posts I think he might or might have studied among them.Their madhab revolves around the simple notion that the Prophet's hadiths saaxiih or otherwise have precedence over the holy Quran.A fact they miss tho is that Allah picked Nabi Muhammed(ASW) to pass his message to the people in the form of the Quran and not the other way round.I know as a Muslim our guide in life is the holy Quran first and foremost.It takes precedence over every holy scripture out there.Next in line is the hadith of our holy prophet Muhammed (ASW).To imply otherwise I think is tantamount Blasphemy.

Baashi I think he hammered the nail right through our thick foreheads.It is the true but sad story of the state Somalis are in at this moment. What do you think tho does he have any political ambitions in the near future?

A lil something from NY Times Lately the author has been active in Somali affiars.From America to Europe to Africa he has participated in discussions on Somali affairs.Can this mean he might join the political fray anytime soon? And if he does what are the chances he can hold his ground against the warlords? Anyways here's the article.... Another Little Piece of My Heart By NURUDDIN FARAH Published: August 2, 2004 Cape Town — ON the day I needed to fly out of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to get back home to Cape Town, my only choice was a Kenyan Fokker, normally used as a cargo plane, that was flying back to Nairobi with passengers. As we were being shown to our seats, the Kenyan captain told the passengers to hand over our passports. He said that he would hold them in the cabin until we landed in Kenya I became angry when I asked the other passengers, who were all Somali-born, what passports they were traveling on. Two of them had Canadian nationality, three of them - one a Somali-Swede, the remaining two Somali-Dutch - had European Union passports. I asked the captain if he would have demanded the passports of non-Somalis from Canada, Sweden and the Netherlands taking a flight from Mogadishu. He knew where I was headed, but of course he didn't want to go there. So he asked, "What precisely is your gripe?" I replied that I objected to handing over my passport to a Kenyan who had no authority over Somalis. Did he not know that we were still on Somali soil, not his country, but mine? Was he aware that Somalia was a country in its own right? He mumbled something about America, but I couldn't hear exactly what he said. He might have alluded to a post-Sept. 11 world in which Somalia was perceived as playing host to a terrorist network that resulted in the attack on a hotel full of Israeli tourists in Mombasa, Kenya. I don't recall him saying anything about September or Mombasa, but he acted nevertheless as though the mention of America alone in today's Somalia was sufficient to put the fear of God into its citizens. And when I requested that he speak up, the pilot informed me that he could deny me the right to fly on his aircraft. Then with his hand outstretched, he demanded that I decide whether I wished to travel or not. (Rumor had it that Kenyan pilots were required to keep a list of all passengers, including their nationalities, who were flying out of Mogadishu. Any passengers holding Somali passports or having Muslim-sounding names were to be reported to Kenyan authorities, working with the United States, who would then monitor their movements.) I became aware as I considered my options that I was getting caught up in my emotions over the chaos that has enveloped Somalia since American forces left the country in 1993. This post-collapse was having a far-reaching effect on how Somalis were being treated in a world adjusting to Sept. 11. In the end, I realized that I had no choice but to accept my humbled condition within the rationale of terrorist paranoia. So I gave him my passport. I struggled to control my temper for the two-and-a-half-hour flight to Nairobi, angry not at the pilot or, for that matter, the United States, but at my people. I wondered why we have allowed such indignities to be visited upon our nation - and for so long. The answer is that we no longer own our country. Somalia, which lacks a functioning government, is a free-for-all country. Anyone may enter: no visas are necessary nor does anyone check passports. Nobody honors Somalia's airspace or its porous borders, especially not Ethiopia, whose military, every so often, occupies large chunks of Somalia on America's behalf on the pretext of hunting down Islamists - and not even the African Union or the United Nations has ever bothered to reprimand Ethiopia for its behavior. Last year, there were reports that a group of United States soldiers, having received a nod of approval from a Somali warlord, went into Mogadishu and abducted a terrorist suspect from his sick bed. In Mogadishu, the consequences of Somalia's collapse were evident everywhere I went, beginning at the airports, which are controlled by warlords who demand "landing fees.'' Destitute Somalis, refugees from the countryside, were squatting in ruined buildings that once housed the offices of state utilities, the polytechnic schools and the Foreign Affairs Ministry. These refugees have no charitable groups to look after them - because of the lawlessness, United Nations and nongovernmental organizations stay in Nairobi and travel in and out of Mogadishu during the day, leaving the city before dark. Even more disturbing because of the ominous omen for Somalia's future is the lack of education available. The Somali tradition of secular education is extinct. The schooling that does exist is financed by Arabs, which means Arabic has replaced Somali in school curriculums. This is tragic, especially because writing in Somali was in its infancy when the state collapsed - the standardization of the script having been adopted in 1972 - and Somalia is the only African country with a population numbering in the millions to boast of having one unifying language. This will no longer be the case if Arabic continues to be the medium of instruction in schools. Little of value has remained of Somalia's wealth. Its beaches have been rented out to entrepreneurs who dump nuclear waste there. Government property has been taken over by African and European countries because of nonpayment of taxes. Even Somalia's flagship airline has been confiscated for not settling its landing or take-off fees. Somali children destined to become prostitutes are exchanged for a truckload of weapons, given to a warlord. Can we, Somalis, be responsible if our country becomes a terrorist haven when we do not own it - a Somalia where anyone can come and go without our authority; where American soldiers allegedly go in and out and abduct possible suspects; where Ethiopia invades at will; where our beaches are the dumping sites of other country's nuclear waste; where Arabs alter our educational system and secular tradition? To own Somalia's problems and eventually its solutions, we must take possession of our country, and everyone must return our property to us, and all interferences in our affairs must stop. But if our land remains someone else's playground, and we continue to be victims of everyone else's machinations, then we won't make the necessary link between our post-collapse and America's post-Sept. 11. Nuruddin Farah is the author, most recently, of the novel "Links." Orginal Article

May you feel better soon Raula. Amiin

Uunsi??? Saaxiib am I missing something here?

LONDON (Reuters) - When he walks down the street trying out his nifty invention, Nicholas Roope looks just a little bit crazy. He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket. Heads turn. The faces of passers-by register surprise, disbelief, and then, almost immediately, signs of recognition as if Roope's object were the most familiar thing in the world. It is, essentially, an old phone handset wired up to a standard mobile phone concealed in the pocket. It may or may not become the de rigueur fashion accessory of the decade. It may or may not ever make Nicholas Roope any money. But it has landed him on the covers of an Italian style magazine and the Home section of the New York Times, and into the pages of technology, fashion and finance sections of magazines and newspapers in Britain and Sweden. Not bad for a gizmo he makes on the coffee table in his London apartment and sells on Ebay. He calls it the Pokia. And when he starts to explain that he has tapped into something important about modern life and modern style, you can't help feeling like he may be on to something. "The idea is really simple, but the reaction is always really strong," he says. Look at your own mobile phone. It's probably small, silver or black, and vaguely futuristic. You probably don't care about it very much. SIMPLE, ROBUST Roope holds up a classic army-green BT home telephone receiver, probably from the 1960s or 1970s. It is a heavy-duty functional object which Roope says was styled by legendary American designer Charles Eames. "We've had mobile phones for maybe 10 years. They get smaller and smaller and smaller, and more and more powerful. But with that, the design takes a back seat," says Roope. "The very simple, robust, focused, single-minded design loses its way." One of Roope's latest -- an old BT signal checker's handset which comes in a gray metal box -- has been bought on eBay by a Hollywood producer to install in his limousine. Another, the Hotline, is bright red and looks like it would be perfect for dialing the Kremlin or launching a nuclear strike. Roope has made Pokias from old-fashioned brass candlestick-style phones, and squarish 1980s plastic office phones. But it seems to be the heavy-duty receivers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s that look the most natural. Though he has been told he would be unlikely to win a patent for wiring a vintage receiver to a mobile phone, he thinks he can turn it into a design-driven business. With technology making it cheaper and easier to make handsets, he expects one day you will buy them at a high street fashion shop alongside sunglasses or handbags, rather than at a mobile phone shop. You can buy them to suit different outfits. In the meantime, for those willing to plonk for a Pokia on Ebay, it's a great way to meet dates. "When you take it out in social situations, the first thing that happens is people say: 'Does it work?' And then inevitably you say: 'Phone me on it.' Then you have their number." Here's a pic

Did anyone see the boys from DC?? Heard they looked like Sumo wrestlers instead of football players..... Sad the the tourney was didvided up among two competing camps.I just hope the the folks in T.O come to their senses and organize this better next year.

Originally posted by Libaax-Sankataabte: quote: "I can't believe that out of all the people in the UK they managed to pick him. I seriously felt physically ill because they put this Muslim man in there and then to make it worse he had to be Somali (probably because no one else would be that stup!d !)." "May Allah save us all!" I just noticed something. That above comment was from nomad Curly_Sue posted on Somalia Online on May 29, 2004 07:45 AM US central time. Here is the original article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1261484,00.html Nomads, the Somali website the UK's Guardian is quoting is none other than your SOL. We can now add the Gaurdian to the list of media outlets coming to SOL for Somali related content. if you find more, just let us know. Wow amazing when the Guardian quotes someone from SOL but aren't they supposed to mention who and where they got it from.....Any lawyers in the house to advise Sue and SOL on intellectual trespassing or theft or what ever they call it

Muxuu cuneey Yusuf.Ka waaweyn hal marduuf maybe a jawaan sounds more like it......

^^^^Get off the pipe baan ku leeyahay.Aeryn ha dhageysan tan wax eey ka waasho bey rabtaa

^^^Cant beat that so maaha Rocco. Jumamatu looked for ice cream on the menu but no luck slow me thought maybe they served it only to known customers....... :confused: :confused:

We don't have Somali restuarants in this part of the country but I have seen a few in Ohio.One was even named Darbo(muxuu darbeeynaa I dont know)but the food was truely a Darbo and a half.If I remember correctly the place had 2 or three tables and the only thing I remember about the place other than the good food were the Xalimos,a few were wearing outfits that said Ice cream and Delicious on their rear end.Unfair so maaha ,when you consider the fact that the resturant dont serve it.

So was this meant to be a step forward or backwards.Africans will continue to amaze.Why spend millions translating documents and nameplates in the AU headquarters when children are dying by the thousands daily in Africa.What will such a stunt do knowing that Africans will continue to converse, teach in English or French. It shows the level of intellect that those dumb fat African leaders possess. No offense to people who speak Kiswahili but I just dont see why its important for fat bureaucrats at AU headquarters to know kiswahili when all they do amounts to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Cutting off the hand that feeds them.Somalis dofaaro dheh.If the Canadaians cut off welfare beri xageey u ordi donaan. Shomb correction N Stars won the cup 3 years out of the last 4.

It has become so common here in the DC area too.If one passes by a shiisa place any day of the week you will notice young Somali girls puffing away at that thing.

It doesn't add up!!! Wait till you see the Porsche I plan on purchasing with the blood money Amina Waal's family are gonna cough up. Araweeloism..........Aniga innocent to who/what/where that is?