This fb, I really dont know how it works. I cant get into ibti's fb and cant even see Jac's pic. Let me check itba.

I missed a lot last night it seems. I hope there is a repeat on the snake programme.

Any advice on how to stop headaches? Last time I saw Ngonge, he was having serious discussion on transexuals. JAc: Do you earn dollars? If so, you must be sought after Especially with your travels lately. The salman Khan of Somaliland eh?

Muslims wish Obama would be more positive about Islam Muslim Americans and political observers heralded the 2006 elections as a sort of debutante's ball for the Muslim voter, when anger and organizational heft pushed unprecedented numbers of Muslim citizens to vote and get involved with U.S. politics. The 2008 election cycle, however, isn't quite working out that way. Many Muslim Americans sense that presidential candidates have, at worst, conflated their faith with terrorism and, at best, treated them as a liability to be kept at arm's length. They're especially disappointed that Senator Barack Obama, in denying claims that he is a closeted Muslim, left it at that. They say he could have at least defended Muslims, or knocked down the notion that being a Muslim is somehow a negative. "I think he knows Islam isn't a violent religion, but he certainly has some sort of hesitancy to talk about his experience with it because of a fear that this will damage his campaign," said Qasim Rashid, 25, who covered the issue on his weekly Muslim-themed online radio show. It's almost as if Muslims are asking for an Obama version of the famous "we're-not-gay" denial from Seinfeld: "Not that there's anything wrong with that." Many Muslims say the dust-up over Obama's Muslim rumors reflects their continued persona non grata status in U.S. politics ever since 9/11. In fact, some Muslims aren't surprised at all. "I wish Barack had been more vocal about the fact that there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim," said Pamela Taylor, a Muslim American activist in Indianapolis, but added, "Clearly no one wants to be deemed a 'Muzzie-lover."' Candidates have been keeping Muslims at a distance since even before the 2001 terrorist attacks. In her 2000 race for the Senate in New York, Hillary Clinton returned $50,000 in contributions from the American Muslim Alliance after her Republican opponent alleged, wrongly, that the group had terrorist links. The Obama controversy stems from a 2007 article in the conservative Insight magazine that alleged that Obama, whose middle name is Hussein, attended a radical Islamic school as a young boy in Indonesia. A recent flurry of e-mails suggest that Obama's Indonesian stepfather was a radical Muslim and claim that Obama took his oath of office on a Qur'an instead of a Bible. They also suggest that Obama refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance and that his church membership is a charade to conceal his Muslim identity. John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, said "general antipathy" toward Muslims helps give the rumors staying power. "Some issues like this are very difficult to dispel," Green said, "because they have a face validity to them. Hussein is a Muslim name, and to many Americans, Obama sounds very Arabic." Numerous news outlets have proved the rumors baseless. Obama's biological father, from Kenya, was a secular Muslim who divorced Obama's mother when he was two. She then married an Indonesian Muslim and, while living in Jakarta, sent her son to both a Catholic school and a public school that was also attended by Muslims. The lawmaker who was sworn in on a Qur'an was not Obama but Representative Keith Ellison (D., Minn.), who actually is a Muslim. Despite the outlandishness of the allegations, many Americans have fallen for them—something that observers attribute to Americans' lack of religious literacy, especially when it comes to Islam. "There's a certain amount of gullibility in American life," said Alan Wolfe, a religion and politics expert at Boston College. He added that the allegations could hurt Obama's presidential bid. "It's going to matter some, especially in a close election." While Obama's campaign has generated some buzz on Muslim Web sites— including a Muslims for Obama site—some Muslims resent what they see as Obama's cold shoulder. "You could have simply said, 'While I am a Christian, I resent the implications in being branded a terrorist-sympathizer merely by association with Muslims.' . . . Instead, your campaign sought to play the defensive card," wrote Manan Ahmed, a Chicago-based blogger at the Muslim-themed Web site www.chapatimystery.com, in an open letter to Obama. Some of that may be changing, however slowly. Speaking in Boise, Idaho, on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries February 5, Obama referred to the e-mails and the closeted-Muslim rumors. "Don't try to insult not just me but people of the Islamic faith by playing on people's fears," Obama said. "I know who I am." And, in a recent interview with Christianity Today, he said, "I am respectful of the [islamic] religion, but it's not my own." Still, some Muslims—including some who are Obama supporters—seem resigned to their status in American political life. "Frankly, as a Muslim, I'd rather stay away from publicly supporting Obama," said Ani Zonneveld, a Muslim activist in California. "Believe me, this will be held against him." -Omar Sacirbey, Religion News Service source

Yaa naga dhiman ibtiyey?

Maanta all the trolls waa la dhanyahay.. Lets have a meeting on how we can increase our trollment.

Is it owned by the oomaar family? When I was in Boosaaso, I was told to bank with Dayax Islamic bank. I couldnt trust somali bank with my money. oh no jose!

There are many buildings from Whitechapel masjid to strafford, all calling themselves Queen Mary. Marcas Is the talk in Somali? If so, I would like to bring my mom.

Where exactly is the venue? I once was told about a Yasir Qadi lecture at Queen Mary, Only Allah ayaa loo sheegtaa waxa iga raaacey finding the place.

^^ spoken like a burnt man Edit: Surely extra compliments would soften the blow.

I am rich too...in my heart

Ibti Do people still go to Slanka for holiday? Anyhow..would love to see pics of gunners

Muslim TV evangelist preaches Allah of love By Carolynne Wheeler in Cairo Last Updated: 2:48am GMT 24/02/2008 Video of Moez Masoud He is handsome and charismatic, and his velvety voice makes young women swoon. But his young female fans mostly wear headscarves, and while his gatherings look more fitting for a rockstar, they involve lessons from the Koran. Moez Masoud, a 29-year-old Egyptian party-goer-turned-preacher, is sweeping the Middle East with his moderate Islamic message to love not just Allah but also others - and to play a full part in the modern world. Mr Masoud provokes debate over contemporary issues His views are controversial among more conservative imams both in Egypt, where he is based, and further afield. But his television shows have garnered an audience of millions across the Middle East, his website attracts thousands of hits, and he fills hotel ballrooms and lecture theatres whenever he appears in public. “I’m just about everyday things, you know? It’s about keeping it real,” said the young televangelist, as he prepared for an event at a Cairo hotel where he was to discuss how romantic love and marriage relate to Islam. His message carries weight among his mostly educated and middle-class young fans, because - perhaps like many of them - he too has previously succumbed to temptation. Mr Masoud spent his formative years in American schools in Kuwait and Cairo, and his adolescence and early twenties in a haze of alcohol and women. “For a while, I just went with the flow, and coming from a rich, or at least better-off family, and going to American schools, the flow was partying,” he told The Sunday Telegraph. “I didn’t think it was wrong. I just did what came naturally.” Then came the life-changing experiences which he said showed him the path to God: the deaths of several close friends to a drugs overdose, to car accidents and to cancer, and his own surgery for a tumour on his spleen. Despite the alarm of his mother, who had raised him as a secular Muslim open to the West, he began to pray and to learn the Koran. Invited to address his first audience in 2000, in New York State, word spread quickly across the Muslim world and within two years he was invited to record his first television programme, Parables of the Koran, which began as a Ramadan special. His mission has taken on new urgency with the growth of Islamic-inpsired terrorism around the world, spurred by what he sees as the complete misinterpretation of a peaceful faith. “It scares me. It scares me because you can build so much and they just tear it down so quickly,” he said. “But we can get over it. I really believe that.” In Mr Masoud's latest Arabic-language television show, whose name translates literally as “The Right Path” but which he prefers to call Take a Right, he adopts the fast-paced format of the music-video generation to challenge stereotypes and push for greater tolerance. He believes modesty for women is part of Islam, and his own wife wears a headscarf, but maintains the veil should be a personal choice. He believes art, culture and music should be appreciated, rather than outlawed, and that while young Muslims should reject sex outside marriage, socialising with or even dating members of the opposite sex is acceptable as long as encounters are chaste. And he is clear in his rejection of acts of terrorism like the 7/7 bombings in London, as well as the furore that surrounded the British teacher Gillian Gibbons, who was charged with blasphemy, jailed and eventually pardoned in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed. An episode of Take a Right was recorded at King’s Cross station to emphasise the innocent casualties in the London bombings, while Mrs Gibbons is the subject of a pop song whose lyrics Mr Masoud has penned. “I felt it was a horrible misrepresentation of some childish, infantile people who happen to be cultural Muslims,” he said of the teacher’s case. His televised shows have been ground-breaking; a mixed panel of men and women, with and without headscarves, debate contemporary issues in the context of Islam. Hot topics include homosexuality, in which he calls on believers to hate the sin but love the sinner - evoking messages found in many Christian churches - and gender discrimination. He encourages women to pursue fulfilling careers. Traditional Islamist clerics criticise moderate preachers like Mr Masoud for advocating “Islam light”, designed to appeal to the middle class. But he also attracts fire from secular voices in Egypt, who are concerned that he is drawing more people into the religious fold. “This is part of the global phenomenon of Islamicisation in the Arab world,” said Hala Mustafa, editor of Egypt’s Journal of Democracy. "There is no difference, Islamicisation is Islamicisation.” “Honestly people, the lecture was more than perfect,” wrote a young Egyptian woman named Maha on one Facebook site. “This guy is awesome, God bless him for what he is doing.” Source

I have had flu for the last 2weeks.

I have seen the adverts while back but I was meaning to watch it but havent got round to it. I am into Grand Designs instead. Delightful programme. I will watch marcas's link soon.

Salaam aleykum According to `Aa'isha radhiallahu `anha, the Prophet sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam said, "The first of you to join me (after death) will be the one who has the longest hand." `Aa'isha radhiallahu `anha said, "They began to measure their hands against one another to see who had the longest hand and the one who had the longest hand of all of us was Zaynab because she used to work with her hands and give charity from her earnings." (Sahih Muslim) `Umar ibn al-Khattab radhiallahu `anhu sent Zaynab her annual salary and when it was brought to her, she said, "May ALlah forgive `Umar! Others of my sisters are more capable of sharing this out than I am." They told her, "This is all for you." She said, "SubhanAllah! Pour it out and cover it with a cloth." Then she told Barzah bint Rafi`, the narrator of this report, "Put your hand in and take a handful of it, and take it to Banu So-and-So and Banu So-and-So" - who were orphans and related to her. This was repeated until there was only a little left under the cloth. Barzah bint Rafi` said to Zaynab radhiallahu `anha, "May Allah forgive you, O Mother of the Believers! By Allah subhanahu wa ta `ala it is our right to have some." Zaynab said, "What is left under the cloth is for you." (Barzah bint Rafi`) said they found eighty-five dirhams under the cloth. Zaynab said, "O Allah, do not let me live to receive another payment like this from `Umar," and she died before the time for the next payment came. (Ibn Sa`d, al-Tabaqat 8/109; Sifat al-Safwah 2/48,49; Siyar Siyar A`lam al-Nubala' 2/212) Ibn Sa`d reported that when the money was brought to Zaynab, she started saying, "O Allah do not let me see this money again next year for it is a fitnah (temptation)." Then she shared it out among her relatives and those who were in need until it was all gone. `Umar heard about this and said, "This woman is destined for good." He stood at her door and conveyed his salaam to her, then said, "I have heard about what you gave out to others. Send her a thousand dirhams to keep for herself." But she did the same thing with that money and did not keep a single dirham or dinar for herself. Extracted from 'The Ideal Muslimah' by Dr Muhammad `Ali Al-Hashmi (International Islamic Publishing House)

Apparently this was a hoax...according to some people

Salaam A very good website on this very subject: http://www.africaeconomicanalysis.org/content/economy.html Africa has a long way to go. We are at stage where the developed countries were few hundred years ago. We will be drained dry before we wisen up.

what was it about Chub?

Nin kuu af-maceeyey, he is after something. Declare your intention Paragon, or forever hold your peace.

lool CL I will tell you that eligible men like that are hard to come by. Seriously though, I wouldnt mind seeing a somali professional and do work on me. I wouldnt discriminate.

Was he single CL?

Do we ciyaal faa cali here? As I recall, they did the most bullying

WOnders never cease. Ngone being passionate about something. Nevertheless, I also forsee non-compatible men for ibti and CL.

Cara This is unique event. It is matchmaking event for somalis. This is the first the I have heard of it. But Sadly Lily I am not going b ut I am tempted inaan qaato gaarigeyga aan banaanka ka qasho. Nothing gets ever done in this country. It takes ages to get the bank reply!