This is going to be a short one, a teaser. At Home in Tooray City Burco appeared to have a very high number of mosques. Most of the mosques are very small neighbourhood mosques the size of an average house. But this very very convenient. It means that you can wake up early in morning for Farj, roll out of bed and do weyso/wudu, and go the mosque (house) at the bottom of your street to pray and be back within 15minutes. Walahi it made prayer so much easier and, dare I say, enjoyable. I really enjoyed praying in the mosques of Burco. They were clean, had great locations and I enjoyed the messages of the imams - who it seemed, have the attentive ear of many followers. The mosques had a sense of purity, peacefulness and simplicity about them in that they did not appear to have been materialised with excessive decorations and glistening interior decor. Instead, they were quiet places where you could relish in your prayer. I may have been a "qurbojoog" and have not looked like or dressed like the "locals", but I never got that message or feeling from anyone. Nobody looked at me twice, said anything asked me anything. I think as returnee qurbojoogs we go back with a very defensive mentality. And this is precisely because there is such a disparity between our perception of the place and the reality. We go back with a very defensive mentality, prepared to be hassled, to be shouted at and namecalled (shouts of dhaqan-celis), to be questioned about our accent, to be asked what out clan (sub-clan) is and be hassled, attacked or discriminated for it. Non of that is a reality. As I sat there with everyone else, having done my wudu and waiting for the prayer to start, it was in a strange and unexpected way, quite an emotional experience. I felt very comfortable, very much at ease and very much at home. That was the case as I walked through the neighbourhoods - not knowing where I was - through the streets, allyways and side-streets, as I walked through the markets, sat in internet-cafes, sat in the busses - I was not, not once, in any way, hassled or attacked, or discrimitated, or questioned. I was merrily waltzing along, with fanny-pack, cap and bottle of mineral water in-hand. I got a few 'looks' but that is all they were. You can say that I had an epiphany of sorts. I felt like I was in my homeland, albeit impoverished and underdeveloped, and I was welcome and like inayna cidina iga xigin. One thing that I did notice about Burco, in the mosques, the shops, the streets, was all the tooray/ablay's being carried. I was sat there in a mosque and almost everyone in my sight had a tooray the size of small swords hanging from their trousers. Hence I named the city, tooray city.

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Mooge, what's the point in posting a video like this... especially if you disagree with her choice Yacni, whethe she chooses to become a Christian, Hindu or Bhuddist, is it of anyone else's business or concern. Its inconsequential.

oba hiloowlow;943515 wrote: btw i believe this abu mansuur al amriki guy is CIA agent +1

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Waterboard em!

This President makes a complete and utter fool of himself. On HardTalk, no less LMAO http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rfDmtQLiSbA#!" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Oba I didnt take you as the book worm haha. Keep it up

Haatu, Genre? o.k I will give that a thought. BUt reading fiction I would feel like I am wasting my time, reading someone's made up stories... nowadays that's how I view it. Hence why I asked what your motivaiton is?

HOw do you people motivate yourself to read fiction? I used to be an avid reader (almost exclusively fiction) but nowadays have little time for it.

Fat Pham was laughing his face off in some parts of that video

Great News. My only concern is that the survey results are probably flawed. 75% of northern Somali girls have not undergone FGM - Unicef Three-quarters of girls aged fourteen and under in northern Somalia have not been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the United Nations children’s agency (Unicef) said in a survey released on Tuesday. If sustained, this could lead to the abandonment of FGM, which previously was almost universally practised in Somalia despite the risk of death and lifelong health problems. “I was absolutely thrilled,” Sheema Sen Gupta, chief of child protection for Unicef in Somalia, told TrustLaw. “FGM is practiced just around puberty. It usually spikes in 10 the 14 [year-old] group and to see that it was at 25 percent, that was fantastic.” “The new constitution of Somalia bans FGM so that’s a good place to start at the policy level,” she said, adding that al Shabaab opposes FGM as “non-Islamic”. The survey showed that in the semi-autonomous northern region of Somaliland, 25 percent of girls aged 0 to 14 had been circumcised compared with 99 percent of women aged 15 and above. In neighbouring Puntland, 26 percent of girls aged 0 to 14 had been circumcised compared with 98 percent of women aged 15 and above. Unicef and partners surveyed over 9,000 households in Puntland and Somaliland in 2011 as part of the global Multiple-Indicator Cluster Survey, carried out every five years. It was the first time that households had been asked the ages of all their daughters and whether they had been circumcised. Almost half the population of Somalia lives in the northern regions of Somaliland and Puntland, which declared independence in the 1990s. They are relatively stable compared with the war-torn south but they have not been recognised internationally. ENCOURAGING RESULTS Sen Gupta said FGM could be eliminated in these areas if present trends continue. “I do think it’s possible. But what we need is sustained interventions. We have to continue and expand the work that we are doing,” she said. “If, five years later, we find that this trend is reflected in the next age group, 15 to 25 [years old], then we know that it is sustained.” Sen Gupta pointed to the success of Egypt in banning FGM and reducing its prevalence among young girls. The government estimates that around half of Egyptian girls aged 10 to 18 are circumcised, falling to 22 percent among those whose mothers attended university. In December, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution banning FGM, which is forced on some three million girls around the world every year. What we found encouraging, particularly with Somaliland, is the rate of support is declining,” said Suzannah Price, Unicef Somalia’s chief of communications. In Somaliland, only 29 percent of women said they supported FGM, down from 32 percent in 2006. In Puntland, 58 percent of women approved of it. Somalis practice the most extreme form of FGM, called infibulation, in which all external genitalia are cut off and the vaginal opening is stitched closed. It can cause severe bleeding, problems urinating, cysts, infections and infertility, and is a factor in the country’s high rates of death in childbirth. Traditionally, Somalis believe FGM keeps a girl chaste, prevents promiscuity after marriage and increases male pleasure. Some say it is a religious requirement. Unicef works with religious leaders, teaching them that FGM is not part of Islam but a practice that pre-dates it. It also brings women who have had bad experiences with FGM to talk to families. Social acceptance is critical. ”Even when mothers are beginning to believe that this is not religious and not required, the thing that stops them from preventing it is ‘Will my daughter be marriageable or not?’” said Sen Gupta. “They would first simply say to you: ‘Find me a boy who will marry a girl who is not cut.’” Unicef encourages communities to publicly renounce FGM. In 2012, 28 villages in Somaliland did this. “They have actually declared abandonment, which means that no new kids will be cut,” said Sen Gupta, while acknowledging that monitoring this pledge will be a challenge. The governments of both Somaliland and Puntland have drafted bills outlawing FGM.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-boston-bombings-in-context-how-the-fbi-fosters-funds-and-equips-american-terrorists/5331872 The Boston Bombings in Context: How the FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI. People around the world watched in horror this week as explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, turning a day of sportsmanship and celebration into one of shock, grief and outrage. As with all such events, the desire to discover who was behind this cowardly act has driven many into a speculative frenzy. And, in a sad reminder of the indoctrination that the Western world has been under for over a decade now in the mythical “war of terror,” it did not take long at all before the collective finger of the mob was pointed squarely in the direction of Muslim terrorists. Within hours of the blast, fear spread throughout the international Muslim community that the bombing would be connected to an Islamist extremist. A Libyan Twitter user touched a nerve—and received thousands of retweets and worldwide media coverage—by tweeting “Please don’t be a ‘Muslim.’” The backlash began shortly thereafter, with the New York Post falsely implying that a Saudi national was being questioned for his possible role in the attack. The next day, a plane departing Boston Logan Airport returned to the gate and two passengers were forcibly removed because they had been overheard speaking Arabic before takeoff. As data continues to pour in regarding the bombing and who may be behind it, it is instructive to take a moment to step back and consider this knee-jerk tendency to conclude that this is the work of Islamic radicals. In the minds of millions of Americans, bombs targeting innocents on US soil are inextricably linked with the image of the bearded, turban-wearing boogeyman that has become the shorthand for evil in this age of terror. This association is not only incorrect, it is dangerously incorrect because it signally fails to identify the one unifying thread between all of the recent terror plots in the US. Lurking behind the shadowy armies of would-be jihadis in the popular imagination is the sober reality that every single major terror bust in the United States since 9/11 has sourced back to the same group, a single entity that has in every single case funded, equipped and even incited the would-be terrorists into action: the FBI. In 2005, federal prosecutors charged Michael Reynolds, a 47 year old drifter living with his elderly mother, of attempting to wage jihad on the US by blowing up fuel facilities. In reality, his plan for jihad was little more than a series of conversations he had on a Yahoo! Chat room with a US judge posing as a militant. He was arrested after agreeing to meet with an FBI informant who had promised him $40,000 for his cause, and two months later the FBI quietly announced he was likely mentally ill. He was eventually convicted and is curently serving 25 years in jail. In 2007 the so-called “Fort Dix Six” were nabbed in a much-hyped FBI terror bust after allegedly hatching a plan to attack a US military base and kill the soldiers there. At the time, a 26-page indictment revealed that the group had “no rigorous military training” and “did not appear close to being able to pull off an attack.” The next year it was revealed that the FBI informant who had infiltrated the group had in fact offered to organize the members and lead the plot itself. In 2009 the Newburgh Four were arrested for an alleged plot to blow up synagogues and shoot down military airplanes in Newburgh, New York. The group was a ragtag bunch of poor black men, at least one of whom was mentally unstable and stored his own urine in jars around his apartment. The group’s fifth member, Shahad Hussein, turned out to be an FBI informant who had promised the members hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry out the plot. In sentencing the defendants, Federal Judge Colleen McMahon said: “[The government] created acts of terrorism out of [the defendant's] fantasies of bravado and bigotry, and then made those fantasies come true. The government did not have to infiltrate and foil some nefarious plot – there was no nefarious plot to foil.” In November 2010 the FBI busted the so-called Portland Christmas Tree Bomber, who was allegedly attempting to bomb the lighting ceremony at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square. “The threat was very real,” the FBI intoned at the time. “Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale.” The alleged bomber, Arthur Balizan, turned out to be a teenager who bragged to undercover agents that he could get a gun because he was a “rapper” and wrote an article on workout tips for jihadis. In 2011 the FBI arrested a man that they themselves had supplied with a remote controlled plane and C4 explosives in a harebrained attempt to bomb the Pentagon. In 2012 they busted another would-be jihadi that they again had supplied with a fake gun and suicide vest. Also in 2012 the FBI busted a group of five “anarchists” who were allegedly going to bomb a bridge in the Cleveland area, although it was quietly admitted that the FBI informant who had infiltrated the group had in fact initiated the contact with them and been present at the meetings where they developed the plan to blow up the bridge. One of the most ridiculous examples of this pattern dates back to 2006, when the DOJ attempted to make it seem as if they had just nabbed a group of dangerous jihadis who were preparing a full ground war against the United States. The picture that is painted by these facts is as overwhelming as it is difficult for much of the public to comprehend. The conclusion, nevertheless, is incontrovertible: that without the FBI, many of the so-called “terrorist cells” that have been hatching their inept, bumbling schemes against the United States for decades might never have existed at all. Despite what many would believe, this conclusion is not even controversial. Rather, it has been backed up time and again by evidence in the official record and multiply attested to by FBI insiders and whistleblowers themselves. Given all of this damning history and insider whistleblowing, it is vital that the Western public break out of their media-induced programming and question the core assumptions of the war on terror paradigm that we have been programmed with for decades now. If there is to be speculation at all over events like these, and if there is any group that has to present a thoroughgoing case for why it is NOT responsible for this atrocity, surely it is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Having been at the heart of so many terror plots in the past, both the hilariously inept and the chillingly successful, how could the public refuse to even interrogate the organization that has the most to answer for? The simple fact of the matter is that the history of the modern age of terrorism has proven time and again that the FBI is the prime suspect in any terrorist atrocity that takes place on American soil. Let us all keep this in mind as the details of the investigations into this (and all other) American terrorist incidents begins to emerge.

Hague looks exasperated towards the end of the clip. Probably that guy screaming: "GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" GREAT TO SEE YOU! GOOD TO SEE YOU! GREAT TO SEE YOU!

N.O.R.F;935332 wrote: You can't place too much blame on the parents or even the kids. The parents have a big role to play and many parents are too liberal these days. When I see young Somali kids and youths outside at night, as late as 10, 11pm if not midnight or later, you ask yourself where the parents are in all of this. What business has a 15yr old being outside at 11pm?

The wikipedia page has been edited and his ethnicity has now been changed to Nigerian. Someone is waging a wikipedia war against Somalis, because I have noticed a lot of history relating to Somalis has gradually been edited or deleted wikipedia page by page. One such example is the wikipedia page about the Somali millionaire who used to export coffee from Ethiopia, whose Wikipedia page has been completely deleted.

Chimera;936767 wrote: I'll import one if I have to, what's the point of living in the west if you don't bring any of the positives back to your ancestral country? I think that's one of the good things about the returning diaspora, they are introducing improved sanitation, new lifestyles and more efficient technology. What water supply would the washing machine be connected to?

Salahudin;934616 wrote: Alpha, how could u call ur fellow nomad doofar?subxanaAllah... Leave the little qaansiir alone, that parrt was actually humorous

Alpha Blondy;934581 wrote: yeah!....uu sheeg, inaar. You really need to stop addressing me with this irritating "inaar" though... I might have to take a leaf out of Oba's book and use this ignore facility.

Cambuulo iyo Bun, that's how it was supposed to be bro. There is no point beating yourself up about it and it may even have been a blessing in disguise for you.

Alpha Blondy;934564 wrote: you must know your enemy, so why ignore them? Tell them. Its a defeatist attitude.

Xaawa Aadan Maxamed & team, founders of the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development (GECPD) for their exceptional, tireless and inspiring work for Somalia's refugee and displaced girls and women. Dr. Xaawa Cabdi,daughters and team, Who created a safe-haven for for 90,000 IDP's. A safe-have with a few rules: 1. No man may hit his wife. 2. Each person must earn his keep (though free assistance is given for basic needs). 3. No to handouts, yes to development. Edna Aden, Founder of two Hospitals (one in Mogadishu & one in Hargeisa) and countless maternity & prenatal clinics. She and her team (of mainly Somali women) savely delivered 1000's of Somali children in her hospital and saved many lives of Somali mothers. Edna and her team plan to train 1,000 midwifes and they are well on their way to achieving that goal.

Chimera;934179 wrote: As a baby. Ever the more reason to go. But the first experience = sensory overload, information overload. Chimera;934183 wrote: Exactly, I need to experience it. I also need to scout locations for potential films and tv-shows, and we both know good pictures of the country are hard to come by. All of this is still just speculation, nothing set in stone, only the desire is there. I'm also looking thinking about going back, inshAllah, but with purpose and a plan this time and to put some things into action.

Juxa;934171 wrote: Che goormee is xureynee oo baxee? If ibti has gone back for good and Adam is going for visit? Juxa, what was your experience of Xamar & Hargeisa?

Chimera I would encourage you to do a road-trip of the North & Eastern Cities/Towns and those places are relatively safe (the major urban centres anyway)! Its certainly an experience to be remembered.