i cant deal with this anymore.

^^'conscious' music, really means music with a message. music is a medium of expression and should reflect society in all its complexities. its most certainty not leftist propaganda.

lol@XX.... i thought all dutch ppl were tolerant?

You had to go all the way to Africa to find your Queen. I always felt you were a little too traditional to find a woman in Canada. I'm very happy for you brother. May Allah grant you a happy union with your new wife and a prosperous future. Cheers.

Its a pathetic gimmack to promote womens empowerment. i'm not in support of it.

how exciting..... waar take them to somewhere decent. the life of a neo-salafee akhi is so boring.

behind closed doors.

lol thats not very ambitions. you want to be an interviewer?

completely disagree..... the biggest threat is multiculturalism. different groups cannot co-existent. complete separation is the only viable option.

The paranoid style in politics often imagines unlikely alliances that coalesce into an overwhelming threat that must be countered by all necessary means. In Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington conjured an amalgamated East - an alliance between "Confucian" and "Islamic" powers - that would challenge the West for world dominance. Many jihadis fear the Crusader alliance between Jews and Christians. They forget that until recently, historically speaking, populations professing the latter were the chief persecutors of the former. Now Anders Breivik has invoked the improbable axis of Marxism, multiculturalism and Islamism, together colonising Europe. As he sees multiculturalism as essentially a Jewish plot, Breivik has managed to wrap up the new and old fascist bogies in one conspiracy: communists, Jews and Muslims. Like his terrorist counterparts who kill in the name of various Islamic sects, Breivik is willing to slaughter people for an invented purity. Modern Norway is a latecomer to the world of nations, becoming sovereign only in 1905. Vikings, Arctic explorers and international humanitarians all went into imagining the place. Given how readily jihadi texts are dismissed as ravings, it is notable how much attention has already been paid to Breivik's wacky ideological brew. This is a worrying portent of the line of analysis that says that the "root causes" of Breivik's madness - immigration and cultural difference - must be addressed. Otherwise, European societies will lose their social cohesion, to choose one current euphemism for the Volk. To the extent such a view takes hold, the far right may be forgiven for concluding that terrorism works. As for the rest of us, now facing terrorist re-imaginings from both sides of obscure battles in a mythic past, we may long for the leftist and anti-colonial insurgents of bygone days. They at least could offer plausible accounts of what they were up to. To be sure, tactically speaking, Breivik thought through his operation. Unlike many jihadis, however, he lacked the courage to face men armed like him, and to offer his own life for his beliefs as well as the lives of others. Nonetheless he wanted at his court appearance to strut about in some kind of military uniform. Smartly tailored uniforms, an abhorrence of cultural difference, and a desire for racial purity are all of a piece with fascist mysticism. As with jihadi ideology, it is precisely the non-rational elements of fascism that give it emotive, and hence political, power. For what Breivik and others see as under threat in the West is the vital source of meaning, of ultimate values, which they associate with the communion of a purified people. Since the West faces no obvious threat of such existential scale and significance, one must be fabricated. It is here that the unlikely alliance of left wing parties and Islam plays its role, purportedly importing on a mass scale Muslims to colonise Europe. In Norway, Muslims account for less than three per cent of the population; in the UK, less than five per cent. Even so, the fantastical fear of the "loss" of Europe to Islam animates many on the right. It is part of mainstream electoral politics in Europe, and has long been an element of right wing discourse in the US. In this vision of danger, multiculturalism plays a key role. Many will have noted Breivik's odd invocation of "cultural Marxists", folks I have only spotted in small numbers in university departments and cafes frequented by graduate students. Breivik's reference is in part to the Frankfurt School, a group of German Jewish scholars who fled Hitler for the Western cosmopolis of New York. The idea is that "Jews" have encouraged cultural mixing in the West, fatally compromising its purity and thus its values, while Muslims and Jews retain their cultural strength and identity. Europe must therefore declare "independence" and fight the Muslim-Jewish-Marxist hordes, apparently starting by killing their children. We can only assume that Breivik has confused the computer fantasy games he played - using a busty blonde avatar named "conservatism" - with political analysis. What is truly frightening, however, is that the core of this vision of multiculturalism as a threat to the West is shared by leading political parties in the France, the UK, Germany and Italy, among others. This is why there is every chance that Breivik's murderous and cowardly rampage will achieve some of its aims. Immigration, it will be argued, has unbalanced "our" people. It is already being curtailed in all the leading Western powers. Shut up, obey, and collaborate The irony is that the West brought us empire on a global scale and drew its cultural, economic, and political strength from interconnections with all parts of the world. The cosmopolis of New York, London and Paris - a "brown" not a "white" West - are more appropriate beacons of a West flush with power and confidence in its values than the imaginary purification achieved through concentration camps and closed borders. But just what might be corroding values in the West? This was one of the questions that animated the Frankfurt School and those who influenced it. They focused on the interaction between capitalism and culture. They noted the ways in which capitalism progressively turned everything into something that could be bought or sold, measuring value only by the bottom line. Slowly but surely such measures came to apply to the cultural values at the core of society. Even time, as Benjamin Franklin told us, is money, a doctrine which horrified Max Weber in his searing indictment of the capitalist mentality as an "iron cage" without "spirit". Note for example the ways in which the great professional vocations of the West - lawyers, journalists, academics, doctors - have been co-opted and corrupted by bottom line thinking. Money and "efficiency" are the values by which we stand, not law, truth or health. Students are imagined as "customers", citizens as "stakeholders". Professional associations worry about the risk to their bottom line rather than furthering the values they exist to represent. Graduates of elite Western universities, imbued with the learning of our great thinkers, are sent off to corporations like News International. There they learn to shut up, obey, and collaborate in the dark work of exploitation for profit, for which they will be well rewarded, at least financially speaking. Thanks in part to the grip of corporate power on the media and on political parties, few today in the West can imagine any other politics than those of big money. In the US, and increasingly even in Europe, the income differential between the poor and the wealthy already resembles that of banana republics. The downtrodden are asked to bear the burden of a financial crisis created by bankers. America's wealthy fly their children to summer camp in tax-free private jets amid a real rate of unemployment of over fifteen per cent. Neoliberalism has only accelerated these processes at the heart of capitalist society. Here is a far more convincing threat to Western values and "social cohesion" than the lunatic fears of fascists. Notably, this is a threat that emanates from within, not without. It is precisely social democratic parties like Norway's Labour Party - Breivik's target - which have sought to contain the corrosive effects of capitalism and ensure the survival of the West's most humane values. Tarak Barkawi is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. see article here: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/2011726131835154941.html

^ mid-management medocrity. give us a break.... have you been denied promotion yet again?

somaliland local people never cease to amaze. i was verbally abused by my maid this morning on the phone, of course, she doesnt have the stomach to say this to my face. the woman had the nerve to call me -'illegitimate' as if to suggest that I was born out of wedlock lol. this came after i accused her of being lazy and never coming to clean the house.

the embodiment of african music today.

ah!.... taking the day off makes you so energised lol.

N.O.R.F;736563 wrote: ^Does a country need to be organised to deserve recognition? Waar SL is not far off some GCC countries in terms of chaos at govnt offices and lack of procedures in general. ''organised chaos'' at best. recogntion wont come with this level of faasuqnimo. this place is hell on earth lol.

nuune;736564 wrote: ^^ Alpha , You need to be brutal then, aggressive and look scary to others, don't be nice and smiling all the time, smile once in four months(only to your future wife when you are dining out in somewhere). lol@nuune. you must think i'm a fool. you think you've got me figured out somaha? i'm just saying people should be more cooperative. its not like they are providing services for free.

nuune;736559 wrote: ^^ Alpha, the drivers were on the same package, are you telling me that you will let your drivers sit in their cars while you and your friends stuff their bellies with yaanyuur and mushroom, on a series note, ambassador hotel is not organized, I know that by default. looooooooooooooool@ good nature, for some strange reasons, I thought you were one of those dwellers of the zoo the drivers and security have to accept orders. in this so-called democracy there is no deference/hierarchy. there has to be social classes and people have to accept orders. but it seems they be hating on me and see me as weak, (porridge (pronounced in Somali )- term they use for people like me) despite doing my utmost to be professional. its organised chaos at best but far from what Somaliland patriots say to convince the world. this place is not ready for recognition and to take it deserved and rightful place on the world stage.

N.O.R.F;736554 wrote: Alpha, thats $37 per person. Adaa waalan for letting it happen once again my good nature is mistaken for weakness.

nuune;736553 wrote: ^^ Ok, you spent 700$, intaas kaliya maa ka cabaadee, I thought you were earning 15,000$ per month, wallaahi pathetic baad tahay, sxb lol@nuune, its the principal sxbka. they had the audacity to send an invoice containing false information. who authorised for the drivers and security to have a 3 course meal? I certainly didnt!

for goodness sakes. i will never go to ambassador hotel again. bloody ***** charged me 700$. how the hell is that possible, when I only had 18 so-called qurbo joog fools?(IBZ was in attendance but i agree with her opinion). anything on the other side of that river bed is uncivilised. barbarians.

ok..... so what know? these voyeuristic pathetic fools are making a mockery of the suffering of our people.

lol@male rape. the biggest rapists are the feminists! this seems like it was written for a proposal.

yh i a agree Jb. Its not nice to humiliate your friends in public like that somaha? how do you give someone advice in private tho? some people take offence to advice maha?

Che -Guevara;735379 wrote: How do you know? I dont but if you're doing your bit then well done.

^ nah....:cool: