>^^^ Looooooooooooool Ceebeey Tacaal! War heedhe, sowdigaa xodxodashada reer-maagaalleed bartay? Maxaad tanyar ku tiri? Yacquubow, Eebe caybtayada iyo tan waalidkeen ha asturo, tan yar intaad u dhallinyareyso, geedna u waabto, aqalna u -alloosho, allaa ku siiyee - aaheey-kusii Ninyahow horta, waa runtaayo naq iyo cagaarba lagu ma arko geyigan-gaalleed, laakiin nin-carriga ku cusubaan ahaayoo, waxaanba is iri intaan reera kale dhulka -aaranka ah idin ka hor-daaqin ku soo guur! Hadase beryahan ceyr ayaan wada nahayo - qamandidaan miisannaa!

Jumatatu, Sxb, runtaa weeye bal shaaha noo soo wada shub. Shaahaan cabbo waa midka loo yaqaan 'waarikow', ee sidaas maskaxda ku hay.. Baashi, Cirrooleyda Qurbeysan waa ay is ogsoon-yihiin oo markaan fursad u helo ayaan, insha-allaahu, mid mid shaaca uga qaadi, idin Allah. Qodobyo qiimo leh baad dabaqa iga sarreeya kusoo qortey, waana dhab-jirtoo rag badanoo gabow ah ayaa targalka minjihana ka xirta. Rag aan islahaa waa indheer arag, iyana wey igu maangaabteen, wallee xujada joogta ma sahlana. Baashi, waxaad mooddaa in aakharo-samankii lagu nool-yahay, xaaladuhuna xasaasi yihiin. War sow wacdara ma aha hadii yar iyo weynba dadka imaansan la'yahay intuu Eebaheen ku maneystey? SOw iyana, la yaab ma ahan hadii, rag aan ku qayaasey cimri-caameed ay dhagta u mudantahay sidii xaawaleyda? Baashi, qisada jirta ayaa waxay tahay, in maalin weliba marka aan is iraahdo u kici-tag jaamacadda aan raaco ... tarayn albaabada uga xardhantahay 'metro cammell', waxaanan u micneystey in laga wado 'Geel Magaallo'. Hasa-ahaatee aniga oon hubsan (illeen, hubsiino hal baa la siistaaye), sow reerihi migiya geela ku heystey inta aan taar qabadsiiyey kuma odhan: SOO WADA GUURA, SOONA DEGA LONDON, sababtoo ah, meeshu waa xero-geellaade, roob iyo daaqsin-madowna lehe, geedi soo gala. Lol.. Baashi, sheekada waa iga sidaas, oo reerihiina geela soo rare - oo halka ay Raashiya ayeey afka ku hayeen ... War saaxiib, 1900kii waa inaan u hab-sami leh uga faalleyn-naa markuu Eebeheen wakhti nasiiyo!

Baashiyow Adeer, sowtaa aan bilaabey 'thread' cusub. Waa inoo halkaas sxb. Ragga waa inuu isla shaahaa oo iska war-dhuraa, oo isla dha-dhanshaa warka dhuuxiisa.

Horta raggow, silsiladani waxa aan jeclaystey in ay noqoto goob ragga inta madaxa booseystey ee da'da ah isku nabdaadiyaan, oo ay, wixii wariyo wacaale ah isaga wareystaan. Damacna igama hayo inaan xaajo-odayeed dumari u xambaarshoo, waayo in dhoweydba, ma aanan macaansan gunuunacca, guraabaaska iyo far-fiiqoodan siyaadey. Marka, akhyaareey, illeen in la is wareysto ma xumee, sideey xaajadu idiin la muuqataa? Sideydaa oo kale - dhakafaar ma idinka heley nolol-maalmeedkan xaadirka ah? Maxaase tallood usoo jeedin lahaydeen Somalinimadan aafeysan? Wallee anigu yaabbane ayaan ahay

Lol@Baashi War ninyahow aniga, when I first came to Boqoradda Carrigay ka taliso, I wore my macawus but couldn't get peace with it. My non-Somali friends from work would just pull it down curiously, so, intii anoo khabaar moog ah layga xayuubin lahaa, waxaanba is iri, tar-galka iska xiro QL - I am thinking of adapting the 1900s Dress codes, I just wonna get some shaxaad from Boqoradda iyo ehelkeeda.

-------------------------------------------------- Hell, I could even be the resident Jewish Rabbi of this site. -------------------------------------------------- Sure, here are the ropes.

Xasbunallahi wanimalwakiil. Subxaana allah Xasbunallahi wanimalwakiil. Subxaana allah do really shias believe in those folk stories. may allah guide us all to the right path, the path of our prophet Muhamed(SAW) Sareeda, I think it would have been more innocent if you did structure your sentence from: “do really shias believe in those folk stories†to “Oh, do really shias believe in those folk stories?†and place emphasis on the question mark, maybe the ensuing poster would have replied: Yes or No. However, it seems your [honest, I hope] forgetting of the question mark attracted a reply you haven’t desired. may allah guide us all to the right path, the path of our prophet Muhamed(SAW) Aamiin, kulligeen. Originally posted by Feynman: quote:Originally posted by Jumatatu: ^^^ bet if he came around with another post saying Shia believe madona is a weli you will believe that too.... It seems a lot of people would out of ignorance. I urge people here to go and study and find the truth for themselves rather than believing what someone is telling them here. Jumatatu and Feynman, did she really say she did believe what was said or was she questioning what was said? PS: Typographical errors do alter initial meanings sometimes you know! ïŠ

May Allaah bring us back to our senses, aamiin.

And I thought, it was said Islamically that its more rewarding for a woman to pray at her home than the mosque? I am not sure about this, but if this is true, Islamically, it does explain the spaces allocated to Muslim women.

This is the home-shopping chanel for the 2nd, 3rd and forth? Alla macaanaa, macaanaa hablahayagu!

'Khaaakh, **draws together a concentrated one, Tuf! , haye, ii wad sheekada!'Maxaa la sheegey! Khookh-khookh, uhuhum, waa sidaas, Tuf! Somali baan ahay

whom I shant name because being the neanderthals they are they will prolly try to kill each other in their attempts to vie for my attention. Great idea. Lol we haven't got time for treating the heavily wounded and God knows what else! Neanderthals kute!

When did this foreign exodus begun, I wonder? 2500 people comprising of Ethiopians, Sri-lankans and Tanzanians? Damn. Its a crazy world. Yesteryear, there were hundreds of Zanzibaris seeking asylum in Xamar. Whats the attraction? Ajaanib ku qulqulaya Bosaso Axmed-Kismayo BBCSomaliOnline Dadkaas galaya Bosaso oo iskugu jira Itoobiyan, Syrilanka iyo Tanzain ayaa haatan waxay dhibaato badani ka haystataa xagga nolosha iyo jawiga kulul ee magaalada Bosaso, ka dib markii ay joogsadeen safarradii doonyaha tahriibta ah. Dadkan oo haatan tiradooda lagu qiyaasay 2500 oo qof, ma laha guryo ay seexdaan waxayna daadsan yihiin gidaarada magaalada iyo dhirta waawayn hoosteeda, mana hayaan wax shaqo ah; marka laga reebo tira aad u yar oo ka xoogsata dejinta iyo raridda alaabada. Maadaama aysan ku hadli karin Afka Soomaaliga, waxa dadkaan aad ugu adag inay dadka u sheegaan waxa ay doonayaan sidaa awgeed marka aad dhexmarto magaalada Bosaso waxaad arkaysaa qaar badan oo ku biiray dadka dawarsada ama tuugsada. Inta badan dadkani waxay uu ka yimi dalka Itoobiya, muddo haatan laga joogo saddex bilood waxa mar keliya magaalada Bosaso soo galay dad gaaraya 600 oo qof oo Itoobiyaan ah, waxa kaloo jira kuwo kale oo iyagana u dhashay dalka Syrilanka oo tan iyo bartamhii sanadkii hore ku soo qulqulayay magaalada Bosaso. Muddooyinkii hore dadka tahriibta ah waxay u badnaan jireen dad dhallinyaro ah, hase ahaatee waxa hadda ku soo biiray dad xaasas ah oo ay wehliyaan haween iyo caruur aad u tira badan. Urur Samafaleed oo haween sameeyeen Ma jiro wax samafal ah oo dadkaa loo fidiyay marka laga reebo ururada wadaniga ah qaarkood oo mar-mar gacan u fidiya dadkaas, Ururka Midaynta Haweenka Soomaalida (SRWU) ayaan haatan waxa uu wadaa olole dadkaas loogu gargaarayo. Boosteeyo Siciid Yusuf oo ururkaas madax ka ah ayaa ii sheegtay inay haatan quudiyaan dad gaaraya 480 oo qof oo ka kala yimi Itoobiya, Syrilanka iyo Tanzaniya, iyagoo la kaashanaya xafiiska hay'ada qaxootiga ee Qaramada Midoobay ay ku leedahay Bosaso, waxana dadkaas ilaa hadda la siiyay raashin ku filan muddo toddobaad ah. Qaar ka tirsan dadkan Syrilankaha oo gaaraya ilaa toban qof ayaa Hay'adaha Qaramada Midoobay waxay u aqoonsadeen in la siiyo magangelyo siyaasadeed waxana haatan si ku meel gaar ah gacanta ugu haya Ururka Midaynta Haweenka Soomalida sida ay ii sheegeen masuuliyiinta ururkaas. Marka laga yimaado dadka ajnabiga ah waxa iyana jira dad Soomaali ah oo ka soo barakacay gobollada Koofureed ee dalka, kuwaasoo iyana aan hooy iyo degaan wanaagsan ku haysan magaaalada Bosaso, haatan ayaa waxa socda qorshe la xiriira sidii dadkaas loogu heli lahaa meel ay degaan. Dadkaas oo gaaraya 38 kun oo qoys sida uu sheegayo tirakoob dhowaan laga sameeyay, waxay ku nool yihiin ilaa 12 xero oo ku yaal daafaha magaalada Bosaso meelahaas oo aan lahayn adeegyadii asaaska u ahaa nolosha bulshada. Maamulka Puntland ayaa dhowaan bixiyay dhul gaaraya 1 Km oo isku wareeg ah oo loogu tala tala galay in guryo looga dhiso dadkaas, kaasoo ay dhismahiisa iska kaashanayaan qaar ka mid ah Hay'adaha Qaramada Midoobay. Haddii uu qorshahaasi hirgalo waxa la hubaa inuu wax wayn ka beddelayo nolosha dadka faraha badan ee ku nool guryaha ka samaysan baakadaha iyo bacaha aan looga gabban Karin kulaylka iyo qabowga midnaba. Source: www.bbcsomali.com

Nomads, Interested in performing your own poetry infront of a large audience? Joking ofcourse, no need to panic. Well, I am looking for Somali performers who live in London or the UK. If you are a performer and once performed or would like to perform please let me know. You can either PM me or email me: jamaal_11s@hotmail.com Please feel free to enquire more about performing poetry. Looking forward to hearing from you PS: Performance is in English language.

^^^^ So I dismiss 'em. The author of the article doesn't suggest democracy or communism, its your Xeer he seems to suggest. My problems, Solve'em with your Xeer. My solutions. Again they should come from you, meaning your Xeer! Originally by Sophist: I think the article is loaded with anarchic sentiments of which I don't subscribe to... Well, there is nothing wrong with the opposite of anarchy. You can call me an Anarchist. I have always been so.

In my process of asking 'are stuubid?' I seem to have unearthed, accidentally that is, stars in their own right. Sue, you should pay me my dues Baashiyow, odey, horta waa illaaheey mahadiis oo carriga cagaar buu leeyahay, wax caano-dhan diideyna naguma jiro, dhulkuna waa uu nabdoon yahay, reeruhuna waa ay wada doogeysteen. Gabankan axmed ahi falaad-xumadiisa ayaa laga amaan la'yahay. Walaakin dhibaato taas ka weyn naguma hayo xaqiiqdii!

^^^ You dont know that? Oh nooo! tst tst tst ..

Lol@raula! what a wise idea. I know some faaraxs that can't hold back their delight witht this thread

"and by "weyd" he meant "caato". " ^^^ Qaar badan oo naga mid ah ayey "weyd" ka tahay Baashiyoow!

^^^^ Raggu, (intooda duqeytida amba gabowga ah) ha sheekeysto, laakiin, waa saban-aakharoo, raggii sheeka-aqoonka ahaa ayaaba yaraaday baan is iri ninyahow.

^^^ Don't mind me. Lately I have been scrutinizing myself about whether what I do for Somali community is enough or not. tell me why would you wanna generalize Somalis and thier collective intelligence. I mean what is it that compell us or should I say some of us to diss all Somalis with these sweeping statements. Baashi, one can only make sweeping statements or generalize when he/she says: community X is this; or community Y is that. However, I asked a question and could not accuse Somalis (me among them. The reason why I question the Somalis' intelligence in general is because: somaliness faces a general problem and not a specific. Is it a genuine self-examination (what went wrong back home) or this is psychological damage as a result of what we've been through in the way of violence and what not. Yes! thats my concern. Or is this a self-doubt and low self-steem? Is it the civil war, the poverty, the lack of thriving, emerging, and successful community in the West? Not really. .... I'm not being argumentative here, these problems are not solely unique to Somalis. Yes, its not unique. But we arent doing anything to change it and that worries me much. Aah! it feels good now I vented a bit don't mind me ranting cuz I needed...thanks for being such a good listeners and thanks for putting up with my "opinionated" view about Somalis and where they stand... Lol I am glad to hear you feel relieved. Aniga waan madluunsanahay sxb ... Illaahoow Soomaali u gaargaar

BBC is nothing more than a messenger. Its like an enterpreneur employing 'Demand and Supply'. The blame shouldn't be placed on th BBC since all they do is provide what many Somalis ask for, out of their own free will.

I read this: As one viewer has commented on a Somali website: "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 !)." The viewer's trenchant entry concluded "May Allah save us all!" And asked: "Are we really an entirely stup!d community?" Baashi, my question is much heavier than Ahmad's do's and dont's. It is an over-arching one. Realistically, judging from what we are in, are we generally a stup!d community? Sxb forgive me, I am really concerned. Lol that is about our collective intelligence, something is rotton in the core of our Somaliness. PS: About Ahmed? I don't have a view on him yet.

Ahmania rules A middle-aged, homophobic Somali seemed odds-on for an early exit from Big Brother. But after 49 days he's still there, ranting and raging at his housemates. Sarfraz Manzoor on Ahmed, the rogue rebel Thursday July 15, 2004 The Guardian Be honest. None of us thought he would still be here. When Channel 4 revealed that one of the housemates in the latest series of Big Brother was to be a 44-year-old former asylum seeker from Somalia, the motives seemed cynically obvious: put a middle-aged teetotal Muslim with openly homophobic views in a house with the campest man in Britain, a transsexual and an aspiring page-three model and the potential for fireworks is going to be pretty high. And so, we assumed, were the chances that he would be thrown out at the first opportunity. But here we are at day 49: the gorgeous Vanessa and the absurd Marco have gone, and Ahmed is still in the house. Astonishingly, Ahmed has emerged as the most bizarre yet compelling character of the entire series. Considering the competition, this is praise indeed. In the first few weeks he was merely an extra, off-stage as the great Michelle and Stuart romance blossomed and the Victor and Jason conspiracy was hatched. He confessed in the diary room to feeling that he was being excluded by the others, and deliberately did not participate in group activities. Having decided early on that he had had enough, he thought his eviction would come swiftly if he simply asked the others to nominate him. But week after week, to his bewilderment, he was not nominated. He owed his survival to the fact that everyone in the house believed he would be evicted the first time the public were given the chance to throw him out. Even as the housemates were flattering him, they were conspiring against him in the expectation that he could be sacrificed later. The other housemates coined the word "Ahmania" to describe what they believed was the viewers' enthusiasm for the bespectacled Somali with the crooked smile. Others tried to win favour and headlines with cheap displays of nudity and boisterous bust-ups. Not Ahmed. Rather than licking jam off someone's breasts or imitating a seal, he has secured our horrified attention by affecting the role of existential rebel, with gnomic observations such as the diary room comment that "I am not a sandwich". Apart from the philosophy, there have been unpredictable flashes of horror - the smashing of plates on the floor; the beheading of Maureen, an innocent papier-mache statue; a gruesome Elvis impression - which then descended into something far darker: a man unravelling in front of us. According to answers he gave before entering the house, Ahmed's hero is Gandhi, and one feels the great man would have approved of Ahmed's strategy of non-violent protest against the other housemates - the refusal to obey orders to undertake sentry duty this week in the boot camp. But Gandhi might have been less impressed by Ahmed's attempts to overthrow the sergeants with a military coup. In earlier weeks he has always looked awkward joining in inane group tasks, uncomfortable trying to hold conversations with people with whom he has nothing in common. In fact, Ahmed, who fled Somalia during the civil war, has appeared at his most relaxed in his army uniform, attempting a military takeover. With his rogue rebel status, his refusal to take part in group activities, his blatant use of china cups and his naked desperation to be evicted, Ahmed is clearly the most unpopular person in the house; and it is interesting to speculate about how much of a factor his race and religion are to his predicament. With a series as high-profile as Big Brother, it is inevitable that the house will be seen as a social experiment, that the choice of the housemates can be read as the programme-makers' view of the wider society. Previous Asian contestants - the sensible law student who walked out early, the affable but dull chef from last year - were likeable characters, the message being that Asians are just like the rest of us; choosing Ahmed, clearly not likeable, a loose cannon, suggests that the message from this series could be interpreted as: Muslims - some of them are as strange as the rest of us. Before he entered the house, Ahmed said one of his reasons for taking part was that he wanted "to be the first Muslim to be portrayed favourably in mainstream media" - a laudable aim that has not been entirely successful. As one viewer has commented on a Somali website: "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 !)." The viewer's trenchant entry concluded "May Allah save us all!" It is fair to say that the jury is still out on Ahmed's contribution to religious tolerance. But Ahmed's religion has not been as much of a factor as it threatened to be - and although he prays regularly, the nightly highlights programmes rarely show him in prayer. What is more, despite being an avowed homophobe, he has not been as bigoted as the programme-makers perhaps hoped. What then are we to make of Ahmed's failure to integrate with the rest of the housemates? Can it be seen as a microcosm of the general failure of Muslims to integrate into society? There is no doubt that Ahmed's frustrations are fuelled by feelings of being an outsider. Some of that is because of his religion - he cannot get drunk with the others - and some of it is about temperament, but mostly it is a generational difference and a chasm in the life experiences of a man who fled the Somali civil war and, for example, a young woman who aspires to be a page-three model. As Michelle, the wannabe model, observed: "Ahmed just wants to talk about current affairs and politics and I just can't be arsed." What makes Ahmed's discomfort so fascinating is that he displays it in ways that are so clearly not British - the finger pointing, the proclamations, the outright refusal to participate; he sticks out in the group like the rogue tooth in his mouth. He longs to be evicted, but his sense of pride means he cannot walk out. Hence the desperation of this week's attempted military coup and the flare-ups with Michelle. But what is really heartening about the coverage is that the issue of race and religion have not been raised as reasons for his peculiarities, either in the house or the press. Ahmed has been shown to be a disturbed, socially maladjusted individual who just happens to be Muslim. Meanwhile, with each episode of rage and violence, Ahmed increasingly resembles Michael Douglas in Falling Down, a middle-aged man bristling with anger, who is driven mad by those around him. Ahmed's pain is now palpable and he is no doubt praying that release will come soon. But even though he is the bookies' favourite for ejection, it is his very desire to leave that could provide the reason for his continued stay: if there is one characteristic the British voting public have demonstrated time and again, it is a cheery sadism. The sure knowledge that Ahmed wants to leave, coupled with a curiosity about what he might do if forced to stay, could just keep him in the madhouse. --------- Now, surely there are amongst SOL nomads avid supporters of Ahmania, what do they have to say? Are we really an entirely stup!d community?

Dadka markey 'ilbaxaan' waa in laga heli karaa reer-magaal noocba nooc. Kuwo ku takhasusay: Kaadi ku qubeysiga; khamri Qurqurinta ; Wada marqaansanaanta; amba: Tafo Qaawanaanta dumarka; Qayilkiyo Qaaciyeynta; Qiiqiska sigaarka iyo xashiishka...IWM