Whatever happened to press freedom? I seem to recall when you were against the Courts when they tried to crackdown on the media. Another bid to prop up the TFG's image, Just like another regime weary of criticism.

^^ Waar shukaansi xumidaa. Waxaad dhaantaa Alle-ubaahne uun.

Assalamu'Alaykum Somthing I read, thought it would be interesting to share it with all of you. 800 Km Away From Hell ! (A Real Experience) A brother in Saudi Arabia went to pray in one of the Masjids there. After the prayer a sheikh (the one clean corpses) there stood up and said he wants to tell a story. He said he and his friends left Riyad to travel to another town. They were going on a trip to Dammam. He swears by the One that they were leaving to do things that Allah does not accept (sins). He says they passed by a sign that says Dammam 300 Km. His friends said 300 Km to Dammam but he said that he reads Hell 300 Km. His friends laughed at him but he was serious. They continue and then comes another sign saying Dammam 200 Km. He looks and again it says Hell 200 Km. He told his friends and they told him to stop and not spoil the trip. The sign Dammam 100 Km appeared and again he saw it Hell 100 Km. He asked them to drop him here because he doesn't want to continue this strange trip. His heart was giving strange beats. He felt strange. He left them and crossed the highway to the other side to go back to Riyad. He waited to get a lift for a while. A man stopped and picked him up. The man looked very sad. Our friend wanted to change this guys mood so he started to laugh with him and then asked what was wrong. He said I passed by a car accident and never in my life have I seen one worse in my life. He described a car similar to that of his friends. It was his friends all dead. He left Riyad with the intention of sinning and returned with the intention of never sinning Allah Almighty. He told the people listening in the Masjid that you all tell yourselves that you are still young. He said he was lucky because Allah Almighty gave him an example. He told them but Allah might give your friends an example of your evil death. So brothers and sisters lets not wait for Allah's blessings come to us. Lets go and reach out for Allah and make our deaths a good example for our friends not an evil one. May Allah give us a good death. Ameen.

Originally posted by Kashafa: Then they should stand up and be counted. How do you think they do that? Ever lived under dictatorship?

Take your minds from the gutter people!

Originally posted by Foxy: However, the chancellor has hinted that he will abolish VAT on nicotine patches and other anti-smoking products From 17.5% down to 5%. Nice going. 2p of basic rate of Income tax and 10p tax rate (which he introduced) abolished. The net affect of the changes is about the same! 2p off corporation tax for large profitable companies, 2p ON corporation tax for small businesses. Where is the logic in that?? The people who are really worse off are all tax payers with no kids and tax payers with kids but unable to claim tax credits. Basically tax payers unable to claim benifits are worse off, to pay for those who do claim. Pensioners get a higher tax freshhold, but one earner families are still unable to share their tax burden. The so called 'Green' taxes were nothing more than a revenue raising exercise. If you spend 30k on a gas guzzler are you really concerned about £200 extra on road tax? If Brown was really concerned he would have put it up to £1000 for the biggest polluters. Inheritance tax will threshold to rise from £285,000 now to £350,000 in 2010. Cosidering the current spiralling house costs, too little too late. This budget is a disgrace. Brown will make the poorest people in society even poorer, whilst aiming bribes at the middle classes that will be essential in the next election. It's typical of New Labour politics. More interested in winning key seats than tackling poverty.

You people talk as if the Puntland leadership has a choice in the matter. I can also tell you that not everyone from Puntland supports A/Y and his clowns. The only thing that is going for Puntlanders is peace (which itself is very dear) however as SOS mentioned, all their income is paid to A/Y. I have got on a good authority that A/Y has asked Cadde to stop the airport construction and redirect all the monies to him. This is the only thing Cadde objected to. Wish he'd have the guts to cut all ties with this poor-excuse of a govt. Cadde hasnt got the clout to take on A/Y. He hasn't been able to provide essential services to Puntlanders. It also worries me that when this govt falls apart, that he will return to Puntland and resume his old position. This concerns me.

A German Judge Cites Koran in Divorce Case By Veit Medick and Anna Reimann He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce court judge saw no cause for alarm. It's a religion thing, she argued. The Koran seems to have become the basis for a court decision in Frankfurt. The case seems simply too strange to be true. A 26-year-old mother of two wanted to free herself from what had become a miserable and abusive marriage. The police had even been called to their apartment to separate the two -- both of Moroccan origin -- after her husband got violent in May 2006. The husband was forced to move out, but the terror continued: Even after they separated, the spurned husband threatened to kill his wife. A quick divorce seemed to be the only solution -- the 26-year-old was unwilling to wait the year between separation and divorce mandated by German law. She hoped that as soon as they were no longer married, her husband would leave her alone. Her lawyer, Barbara Becker-Rojczyk agreed and she filed for immediate divorce with a Frankfurt court last October. They both felt that the domestic violence and death threats easily fulfilled the "hardship" criteria necessary for such an accelerated split. In January, though, a letter arrived from the judge adjudicating the case. The judge rejected the application for a speedy divorce by referring to a passage in the Koran that some have controversially interpreted to mean that a husband can beat his wife. It's a supposed right which is the subject of intense debate among Muslim scholars and clerics alike."The exercise of the right to castigate does not fulfill the hardship criteria as defined by Paragraph 1565 (of German federal law)," the daily Frankfurter Rundschau quoted the judge's letter as saying. It must be taken into account, the judge argued, that both man and wife have Moroccan backgrounds. "The husband can beat his wife" "The right to castigate means for me: the husband can beat his wife," Becker-Rojczyk said, interpreting the judge's verdict. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Becker-Rojczyk said the judge indicated to her that it makes no sense to insist on an accelerated divorce. The judge's advice? Wait for the year-long waiting period to elapse. The fax from the Frankfurt court granting the conflict of interest claim. The lawyer and her client were shocked. Immediately, they filed a claim alleging that the judge should have recused herself due to a conflict of interest. They felt that, because of the point of view presented by the judge, she was unable to reach an objective verdict. In the reply sent to Becker-Rojczyk, the judge expressly referred to a Koran verse -- or sura -- which indicates that a man's honor is injured when his wife behaves in an unchaste manner. "Apparently the judge deems it unchaste when my client adapts a Western lifestyle," Becker-Rojczyk said. On Tuesday evening, Becker-Rojczyk expressed amazement that the judge was still on the bench, given that the controversial verdict was handed down weeks ago. Becker-Rojczyk had elected to go public with the case to attract attention to the judge's conduct. It seems to have worked. On Wednesday, after the Tuesday evening publication of the story on SPIEGEL ONLINE, the attorney received a fax from the Frankfurt court granting the conflict of interest claim and excusing the judge from the case. Still, it is unlikely that the case will be heard again before the mandated year of separation expires in May. But the judge who heard the case may have to face further consequences for her decision. On Wednesday, numerous politicians in Berlin voiced their horror at the verdict -- and demanded disciplinary action against the judge. Further investigation "In my opinion, this is a case of extreme violation of the rule of law that can't be solved with a mere conflict of interest ruling," Social Democrat parliamentarian Dieter Wiefelspütz told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "There have to be further consequences. This is a case for judicial supervision -- this case needs to be further investigated." The deputy floor leader for the Christian Democrats, Wolfgang Bosbach, agreed. "This is a sad example of how the conception of the law from another legal and cultural environment is taken as the basis for our own notion of law," he said on Wednesday. This isn't the first time that German courts have used cultural background to inform their verdicts. Christa Stolle of the women's rights organization Terre des Femmes said that in cases of marital violence, there have been a number of cases where the perpetrator's culture of origin has been considered as a mitigating circumstance -- although such verdicts have become seldom in recent years. But there remains quite a bit of work to do. "In my work educating sexist and short-sighted Muslim men," asked Michaela Sulaika Kaiser of the Network for Muslim Women, "do I now have to convince German courts that women are also people on the same level with men and that they, like any other human, have the right to be protected from physical and psychological violence?" With reporting by Franziska Badenschier and Severin Weiland http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473017,00.html

^^ when you get old..waad garandoontaa

Have you seen where eedoyaasha mix buraanbur dance with couple of moves borrowed from their teenage hiphop dvds? I think that is what they call progressive. I particularly believe inuu JB ku fiiclaan lahaa dhaantada. Call it a hunch.

Xiin I know for a fact that you would have changed your tune, had you been living in that hell-hole. You would take peace at any price. We all want the same thing ultimately. May Allah accept our duas.

My husband does Especially with all his travelling. I do also when it is the time of the month.

Originally posted by Hunguri: loool@ the Buraanbur. Cambaro, dont u know both these guys compose Buraanburs Captain Xalane and Jbro. LoooL They both do Buraanbur in long threads . Are they movers and shakers? woow..We live and learn everyday.

Originally posted by Cambarro: That captain is truly a menace to the society. But it is nothing that the sweet loving of CL cant tame. Apparently he is putty in her hands

ABout buraanbur..There is this lady i am so jealous of. She is really big..size wise but an 18yr old qalanjo cant move the way she does

That captain is truly a menace to the society. Iga ilaaliya. Who will be my bodygaurd? Baliis dont kill me like some bodyguard killed his charge last week in Kismayo?

It is awful. I just heard from family members. They are cooped up in their homes and scared to leave. They live near xarunta gaanshaandhiga. The govt and their little helpers are getting some whupping. Alle ha u fududeeyo the poor somalis.

Waa ikan..Yaa i baadi goobaayey? Random Thought: I'd love to learn sida buraanburka loogu cayaaro.

Australian imams 'to fight fires' Islamic clerics in Australia are being encouraged to volunteer as firemen and lifeguards, to improve the image of the Muslim community. The request came from Tom Zreika, president of the influential Lebanese Muslim Association, in a report set to be discussed by clerics this weekend. Mr Zreika said Muslims had become as unpopular as communists once were. He also said that any imams who felt they could not comply with Australian law should leave the country. As head of the largest Islamic organisation in Australia, Mr Zreika's views hold a lot of weight among the country's Muslim population. In the 16-page report obtained by The Australian newspaper, he said that Australians "have had enough of us". "We have become the new communism, particularly in the West, and some people in our community are so repulsed by our actions it is making life unbearable for us and our offspring," said Mr Zreika. "It would be great to see a turbaned imam fighting fires alongside other bushfire service volunteers," Mr Zreika added, also recommending that clerics volunteered as lifeguards. Such public service volunteers are highly respected in Australia - which has a strong beach culture and frequent forest fires. Mr Zreika also spoke out against Islamic clerics who opposed Australian rules. "If an imam finds it impossible to comply with the laws of this country, and justifies its breach, then they should leave Australia altogether," he said. Top cleric Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali created un uproar last year when he described scantily-dressed women as "uncovered meat" inviting rape. He then made disparaging remarks about Australia's convict beginnings. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6473723.stm Published: 2007/03/21 05:54:55 GMT

Violence has not solved the Palestenian problem, and It hasnt solved the Iraqis problem. I doubt very much that it will resolve the Somali problem. It is ludicorous to forget the last 16 years and how Ethiopians/outsiders didnt have to cause chaos as much as we did ourselves. It is all very well to assume that if the invaders leave the country, all problems will be vanish. That is wishfull thinking. Our problems existed long before any invasion. Confrontational posture is likely to exacerbate the situation. As we saw with the Courts, pacifying Mogadishu is acheivable if the populace is on your side. Peace would come a lot sooner if there were no insurgency, and the sooner this happens, the sooner we can get our country back.

^^ I agree. Lets look at the bigger picture here. She can do more for her people by being MP in another country than MP in Somalia. What a defeatest attitude do we have! We wont get anywhere if one fails to recognise that we are in this struggle for the long-term.

Is this her? I googled Zahra Abdulle from Finland and this was what came up.

Originally posted by Catalyst: Amin this, amin that. What if, just what if all your prayers were to a non existing deity? How would that make you feel? You guys need to learn that some people hold different beliefs to your own. If you choose to believe in Mohamed then thats your business, just dont force it upon others. Wasalaamu calaykum waraxmatullahi wabarakaato Ka darroo dibi dhal!

LOL..where is Yoonis..mudankaaga ha ku marsiiyee

Cheers my friend. That above comment about the bread had red alert all over it.. Aint that so my Hunguri friend There is innan asluub u dhameystiran.