adam zeyla, mate, i dont want to be your enemy. there is no point of exchange insult on an internet forum. we should help one another. check these sites out: www.idealist.org www.reliefweb.com jumo.com

mate, instead of quoting what i wrote! answer the question: when are you going to leave your lofty suburban cul-de-sac and come here in the Somali peninsula (merka, bosasso, garowe or hargeisa). we have too often seen your type. if you say your young, isnt the best plan to gain experience now, or are you looking to be chosen in the hotel lobby in addis and be parachuted by a b-52 bomber to merka? you're just an internet freak with nostalgia somaha?

whats up with rural romanticism. put your money where your mouth is adam zeyla. are you really willing to give up your western comforts to live in merka? i think not. Hargeisa ''the old and the new''

This World War II film tells the tale of a group of African soldiers who join the French in their fight against the Nazis. Although they passionately battle to defend the motherland, a place they've never been, they face inequality and daily humiliation within the French army. These heroes that history forgot won battles throughout Europe before finding themselves alone to defend a small village against a German battalion. see here for film:http://stagevu.com/video/rzvovuboxbdp

China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand... watch film here http://stagevu.com/video/setlzygppjfp

The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. Nejat disapproves of his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But changes his mind when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's education. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to find Yeter's daughter Ayten. However, political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having to flee the Turkish police. There, she meets Lotte who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not pleasing to her conservative mother. When Ayten is eventually arrested, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten. ***One of my personal favourites*** 11/10 see movie here: http://stagevu.com/video/jzltrpmyoief

The story, unfolding over a 24-hour period, centers on Vinz, Said and Hubert--very close friends from very different backgrounds. Vinz is white and Jewish. Said, an Arab. Hubert is Black. They are three disenfranchised youths trying to find meaning in what appears to be an otherwise meaningless existence. During a riot the night before, a friend of theirs is arrested and then beaten while in police custody. He lies clinging to life in a hospital. One more riot in the drug- and crime-ridden housing projects, one more case of police brutality. Same old shit, only one big difference: a gleaming, chrome-plated Smith & Wesson 44 that falls into their hands, courtesy of the Paris Police Department. The weapon, which one of the riot cops lost during the previous night''s chaos, becomes the catalyst for the story''s climax See full film in excellent quality: http://stagevu.com/video/tpqiyjgvxapt

Director Alejandro González Iñarritu's internationally acclaimed debut film recounts three tales that unfold and intertwine on the brutal streets of Mexico City. Streetwise loser Octavio (Gael García Bernal) has an obsessive crush on his sister-in-law; Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) dumps his family for a disturbed supermodel; and ex-guerilla El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría) cares for a wounded dog while planning an assassination. see here for excellent quality: http://stagevu.com/video/mhofxjfiqpca

The year is 1989, and East Berlin is celebrating 40 years of socialist rule by the German Democratic Republic. However, these are tumultuous times, and East Germany is on the brink of dramatic political and cultural change. Christiane Kerner is a dedicated socialist activist helping to improve the lives of those around her. But after seeing her son Alex getting arrested in a protest rally she suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Months pass, all the while the Germany she once knew is being transformed from the relentless triumph of capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal when his mothers awakens, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible from his bed-ridden mother. We follow Alex through his often comical yet sincere attempts to keep a pre-Wall façade; but when his game takes on a life of its own, long buried family secrets surface as East Germans around them experience freedoms for the first time. Goodbye Lenin on Youtube

would you not agree that race, ethnic grp and background are the determinants of criminality. if you're deny this then surely how it is possible that there is a correlation between race and criminality, well, at least according to reports. perhaps, instead of arguing against the obvious, we should be asking how are crime figures collected, recorded and indeed presented in reports before going on to inform policy decisions. for instance, why isn't corporate crime punishable? why is petty criminality for the most part punishable, inducing a vicious cycle of criminality. this is why blacks are more susceptible to be criminals because the state authorities, which is often composed white, middle class and men, are responsible for deciding what exactly constitutes a crime and who is a criminal.

muslims need to understand that they can never really be treated as 'citizens'. they are after all ''outsiders''. perhaps, under law, all citizen deserve same treatment but i reckon muslims expect preferential treatment. while muslims are killing apostates. there is a clash of civilisations. there can be no compromise and so called 'moderate' Muslims need to stop being apologists. whats the purpose of this article. these views are all too often heard, often in private conversations, but now it has entered the public discourse.

eid in a muslim country is not at all what i imagined. there is a sense of a great anti-climax.

whats the point of posting if they are not somali?

i'm not a parent. but....its not easy for Somali parents. they must allow some flexibility while instilling good values in their children. but you find there are many who are oblivious to their children. its not an issue of their power being eroded but a good parent will create boundaries between all completing social settings like schools,friends, mosque, neighborhood etc.

do i agree? i think there are several issues that need addressing. 1. socialisation - young Somalis are facing identity crisis. they are developing new hybrid identities. is this a good thing or not i'm not sure. but i reckon its an eventuality. 2. individuality vs. conformity - western societies emphasis individuality but somali family structure demands conformity. some people are doing well in culturally navigating between different social settings. but for how long? 3. expectation to submit to parental control. but there are several different social institutions also influencing young somalis choices and lifestyles. schools, peer relations to name but a few. 4. inter-generational relationships. communication is a real problems with mothers and fathers thinking raising a child means only taking care of their welfare - (like the mother showing love through making food and buying clothes) but about emotional needs?

finland? how reflective is that of all somali experiences. there are no guns, gangs, pimps nor sex trafficking. isnt this what you wanted to talk about?

Originally posted by Sayid*Somal: I am a Somali man living in London as oppose to an English man in New York how chessy. anways i reckon somali parents are ok. there is good and bad in all of them.

horta why does president silaanyo have a horse-like face. he has a very long face.

somalis and yemenis look nothing alike. they look very ugly. they usually have bigger bulgy eyes and hooked noses. yemeni somali

i thought you would be happy.... the old bag has given birth her gay sons child. how old are you again? p.s are you in favor of such psychosexual relations?

prostituion and inter-racial are common these days among most cultures. it doesn't matter if its considered morally bad but its tolerated and in some cases promoted.

Originally posted by Chimera: What a fcked up thing to say. People should be upset regardless of what the victim's background is. Eight hundred people were arrested in a nationwide bust, so you can imagine with a racially diverse countery like America the make up of the victims will most likely resemble that. it's worse and becomes more personal when little pre-teens somali girls are being fiddled by old men.

I am stilling confused! are the victims young somali girls. because that would upset many people.

its strange isnt it. that's exactly what i thought!

If you think 29 Somali pimps and two slightly bimbo-ish jamaican loving somali girls have brought shame to ''our community'' you needn't worry because thats considered ok by most standards. ---------------------------------------------------- By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent November 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A fifty-year-old Mexican woman has given birth to a child whose biological father is her homosexual son, according to the Mexico City newspaper Reforma. Reforma reports that the woman, whose name has been withheld, decided to offer her womb to her 31-year-old son "Jorge," a single homosexual businessman who wanted a child. A childhood friend, who is married, contributed the ovum. Jorge's son was conceived through in-vitro fertilization with the assistance of obstetrician-gynecologist Juan Manuel Casillas and implanted in his mother's womb. Jorge's mother, who gave birth to her own grandson by cesarean section on November 1, has been released from the hospital after 48 hours of observation, and is now nursing the child. The attending doctors say that there have been no complications. "I don't feel like a mother nor like a grandmother," the woman told Reforma. "When they say 'mother' to me I feel strange, and when they say 'grandmother' also. I mean, he was my first grandson, and I don't feel that way because at the same time he is my fourth son." The family says that they have documented the circumstances of the birth so that the child, whose name is Darío, will someday know the full truth about his origins. According to Casillas, the woman "would like to get pregnant again. She says that if we know that the development [of the child] will be the same, she's delighted." source: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/nov/10110901.html this is a good site by the way.