<cite>@CidanSultan said:</cite> Yazidis seek to justify the killing of Muslims converts. killing innocent people shouldn't be acceptable on either side,but why they have to enslave anotha human being and specially women and children; is that something we have to ova look at this day and age ?

Sweden to recognize state of Palestine. . . .Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven (front 2nd L) smiles as he stands with his new government during a news conference in Stockholm October 3, 2014. REUTERS/Jonas Ekstromer/TT News AgencyView Photo. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven (front 2nd L) smiles as he stands with his new … .. . . STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's new center-left government will recognise the state of Palestine in a move that will make it the first major European country to take the step, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Friday. The U.N. General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine in 2012 but the European Union and most EU countries, have yet to give official recognition. "The conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be solved with a two-state solution, negotiated in accordance with international law," Lofven said during his inaugural address in parliament. "A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to peaceful co-existence. Sweden will therefore recognise the state of Palestine." For the Palestinians, Sweden's move will be a welcome boost for its ambitions. With its reputation as an honest broker in international affairs and with an influential voice in EU foreign policy, the decision may well make other countries sit up and pay attention at a time when the Palestinians are threatening unilateral moves towards statehood. However, there is likely to be strong criticism of Sweden from Israel, as well as from the United States and the EU, which maintain that an independent Palestinian state should only emerge through a negotiated process. Within the EU, some countries, such as Hungary, Poland and Slovakia recognise Palestine, but they did so before joining the 28-member bloc. If the centre-left government fulfils its plans, Sweden would be the first country to recognise Palestine while being a member of the European Union. The Social Democrats and Greens hold a minority of seats in parliament and the incoming centre-left government is likely to be one of Sweden's weakest for decades. The former center-right government would not recognise Palestine as the Palestinian authorities did not control their territory. The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, with its capital in East Jerusalem. While Gaza's boundaries are clearly defined, the precise territory of what would constitute Palestine in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will only be determined via negotiations with Israel on a two-state solution, negotiations which are currently suspended. (Reporting by Johan Ahlander Additional reporting by Luke Baker in Jerusalem; Editing by Alison Williams) https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/sweden-recognize-state-palestine-114157058.html

JERUSALEM (AP) — The British parliament's vote to recognize a Palestinian state should concern Israel, Britain's ambassador to the Jewish state suggested Tuesday, saying it reflected shifting public sentiment in Britain and around the world following the summer war in Gaza. The vote will not change London's policy, British officials have said. But Ambassador Matthew Gould said it was "significant" because it reveals negative attitudes toward Israel following its 50-day war with the Islamic militant group Hamas. The violence ended with a truce but left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, most of them civilians, according to the United Nations. On the Israeli side, 72 people died, most of them soldiers. In an interview on Israel Radio, Gould suggested that although the vote was symbolic, Israel should take note. "I think it is right to be concerned about what it signifies in terms of the direction of public opinion," Gould said. The British House of Commons' vote Monday came nearly 100 years after Britain issued its famous Balfour Declaration in 1917, which affirmed its support for establishing a home for the Jewish people in Palestine. Israel was founded in 1948. Israel's recent settlement activity, such as last month's approval of the construction of more Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, has "a very corrosive effect on international opinion," the British envoy added. Nabil Abu Rudineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the British vote was "a step in the right direction" and that "the two-state solution is the solution of the international community," while Israel's Foreign Ministry said it undermines peace efforts because Palestinian statehood should come about only as a result of negotiations with Israel. "Premature international recognition sends a troubling message to the Palestinian leadership that they can evade the tough choices that both sides have to make," the ministry said. Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the Oslo peace process. More than two decades after direct negotiations began, Middle East peace remains elusive, with numerous rounds of talks having collapsed amid mutual recriminations -- most recently in April of this year -- leading to increasing international pressure on both sides. British legislators voted 274-12 in support of a motion calling on the government to "recognize the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel." Prime Minister David Cameron and other government leaders abstained, and more than half of the 650 Commons members did not participate in the vote. But the motion had support from both government and opposition lawmakers, who said it could help jumpstart the peace process. "The only thing the Israeli government in my view, under the present demeanor of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, understands is pressure," said Labour Party legislator Jack Straw. Britain's government is an ally of Israel, but public support for the Palestinians runs high. Demonstrators have staged multiple street protests against Israel's policies, and British academic and other groups have voted to boycott their Israeli counterparts. In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize a state of Palestine on territories captured by Israel in 1967. The United States and many European countries have not followed suit. But earlier this month, Sweden's new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said his government would recognize the state of Palestine, an announcement that drew praise from Palestinian officials and criticism from Israel. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon channeled international anger at the destruction wrought by the summer war on a visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. "I'm here with a very heavy heart," he said. "The destruction which I have seen while coming to here is beyond description." Ban promised that construction materials for the private sector would enter Gaza Tuesday for the first time since the war to allow reconstruction to begin. And in a sign of growing international support of the Palestinians, Ban was scheduled to participate in a meeting of the new Palestinian government in Gaza. Israel has denounced the Palestinian government because it is backed by Hamas, but Western governments have signaled a willingness to work with it. The U.N. chief said the destruction he saw in Gaza was "much more serious" than what he witnessed in the Palestinian territory in 2009, following a previous Israel-Hamas war. In the West Bank meanwhile, suspected Israeli vandals set fire to a mosque and left Hebrew graffiti in the village of Aqraba on Tuesday. The mosque's carpet was scorched, walls had burn marks, and holy books were covered in soot. The graffiti referenced the name of a late American-Israeli ultranationalist rabbi, a nearby Jewish settlement, and included the words "price tag," a slogan for assaults carried out by Jewish extremists in response to Palestinian or Israeli actions against them. Israeli police said they were investigating. .. .

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Curse be upon the so called Islamic fighters,may Ebola decimate thm. YUK!

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war. In an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq, the group provides what it says is religious justification for the enslavement of defeated "idolators". The ancient custom of enslavement had fallen out of use because of deviation from true Islam, but was revived when fighters overran Yazidi villages in Iraq's Sinjar region. "After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State's authority to be divided as khums," it said. Khums is a traditional tax on the spoils of war. "This large-scale enslavement of mushrik (idolator) families is probably the first since the abandonment of Shariah law," it said. Dabiq, distributed in a slickly-produced online format, is described by the group SITE that monitors militant publications as Islamic State's English-language magazine. The cover shows a picture of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, with an Islamic State black flag superimposed in place of the cross atop its obelisk. Inside it features photos of the group's arsenal of heavy weaponry and what it says is the final letter to his mother from an American journalist the group beheaded. The article on slavery confirms practices documented by Human Rights Watch, which says Yazidi women and girls were forced to marry Islamic State fighters and shipped out in busloads from Iraq to Syria to be sold off as prizes. Islamic State practices a harsh form of Sunni Islam and has declared its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the ruler of the entire Muslim world. Mainstream Sunni scholars around the world have denounced the group and its interpretation of Islam. The group has hounded ethnic and religious minorities in northern Iraq since seizing the city of Mosul in June, killing and displacing thousands of Christians, Shi'ite Shabaks and Turkmen who lived for centuries in one of the most diverse parts of the Middle East. "FIRMLY ESTABLISHED" U.S. President Barack Obama justified his decision to bomb Islamic State targets in August in part because the group was poised to commit what he called "genocide" against Yazidis, who were trapped at the time on a mountaintop after fleeing an Islamic State assault on their towns and villages. Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, have faced some of the harshest penalties from Islamic State, which regards them as devil-worshippers. The Dabiq article said fighters were reviving a practice of the companions of the Prophet Mohammad by enslaving enemies. Enslaving women and forcing them to become wives reduces sin by protecting men from being tempted into adultery, it said. "One should remember that enslaving the families of the (non-believers) and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Quran and the narrations of the Prophet," the article said. Many of the captives had "willingly" accepted Islam, the group said, "and now race to practice it with evident sincerity after their exit from the darkness of idolatry". Mothers had not been separated from their young children, it said. U.S.-led air strikes have halted Islamic State advances in the north of Iraq, allowing Kurdish forces to regain ground. Many of the Yazidis trapped on the mountain they consider a holy site, Mount Sinjar, were eventually able to escape, but their nearby villages are still under militant control. HORRIFIC CRIMES On Sunday, Human Rights Watch said Islamic State was holding hundreds of Yazidis captive in both Iraq and Syria and that the group had systematically separated young women and teenage girls from their families, forcing some into marriage with fighters. Fifteen-year-old Rewshe, one of several Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State captivity and spoke to Human Rights Watch, said Islamic State fighters transported her with about 200 Yazidi women and girls on a convoy of four buses to Raqqa, their de facto capital in Syria. An Islamic State commander sold her and her 14-year-old sister to a fighter, who told her with pride that he had paid $1,000 for her, she said. The fighter sold her sister to another fighter, Rewshe said. She escaped through an unlocked door while the man who bought her slept. "The statements of current and former female detainees raise serious concerns about rape and sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters, though the extent of these abuses remains unclear," Human Rights Watch said. “The Islamic State’s litany of horrific crimes against the Yezidis in Iraq only keeps growing,” said Fred Abrahams, special adviser at Human Rights Watch. (Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Peter Graff) .. .

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-seeks-justify-enslaving-yazidi-women-girls-150713031.html

you lost big, keep barking in the wilderness Mr. Script.

such nonsense as your headline'from Hargeisa' won't keep you off the hook.You either fight for whateva you believe in as a man or keep clutching straws like toddler.............Such desperate tactics won't take you anywhere,if any you meet wth the strongest backlash which knowing you absolutely there's nothing you can do about.

Nothing beneficial, only headlines.They following the Sheffield recognition of Sland.SLand build a bridge,they build one,somaliland build road,they follow,Riyaale stepped gracefully,so faroole...and claim they ones who did first! Sland bay ku xiiqeen...Nice thou.

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Why Athletes Go Broke By Tim Parker | March 05, 2012 AAA | Why Athletes Go Broke The latest to join the ranks is Allen Iverson. After earning $154 million in the NBA, and even more through sponsorship deals, Iverson is now broke. A judge recently ordered Iverson to pay a jeweler $860,000 but once he revealed that he couldn't pay, the judge ordered his bank account to be seized. College football fans know of Raghib "Rocket" Ismael, the presumptive NFL No.1 draft pick who played in the National Football League as well as the Canadian Football league. Ismael earned around $20 million in his football career, but lost all of it due to a string of bad investments that included phone-card dispensers, a movie and cosmetics. Marion Jones was a three-time gold medalist making more than $7 million per year until she was indicted on check fraud and IRS forgery charges among other problems. She lost all of her medals and later filed for bankruptcy after serving six months in jail. Finally, who was once worth up to about $400 million and later had less than $700 to his name? Mike Tyson. After spending time in jail for rape, and dealing with a wealth of other problems, Tyson has slowly recovered but is still worth a fraction of what he once was. According to "Sports Illustrated," 78% of NFL players who are retired for only two years file for bankruptcy, and after five years of retirement, 60% of NBA players suffer the same fate. Why have so many athletes and celebrities, who were once financially well off, later found themselves bankrupt and more important, what can we learn from their falls from financial grace? Small Earnings Window Athletes have a unique problem that many other professions don't: the earnings window is small. While the more traditional careers may allow a person to work 30 to 50 years, a professional athlete will work only a fraction of that time. This leaves the retired athlete with the job of managing what they have to last for the rest of their life with only a fraction of their old salary being earned. Although most people aren't in that situation, the lesson to learn here is that our income is never guaranteed, and living within our means while putting money away for the unknowns of tomorrow is a necessity. Lack of Financial Knowledge According to "Sports Illustrated," most athletes lack the financial knowledge to manage the large sums of money they're earning. Allen Iverson is one of the many athletes who lived a lifestyle based on his peak earnings, yet failed to think about the money he would need later in life. Even worse, some like Rahib "Rocket" Ismael, trusted his money to attorneys and other advisors who steered him into overly risky investments that later left him bankrupt. Regardless of your net worth, you have to play an active role in the management of your financial affairs. Even the best money manager won't care about your money as much as you do, and for that reason, you have to be the final and most important decision maker and those decisions have to be made based on your financial knowledge. If you know very little about managing money, it's not too late to change that. Extravagance Warren Buffett may be one of the richest men in the world, but you may not know it by looking at his modest home and relatively simple lifestyle. He chooses a modest lifestyle because he knows that the accumulation of "stuff" is contrary to good, long-term money management. Many of the athletes who find themselves bankrupt overspent on extravagance only to find their possessions nearly worthless later in life. Regardless of your level of income, live a lifestyle that doesn't stretch your budget. Not only will it set you up for financial freedom, but it's far easier to sleep at night when you're not worried about the next paycheck. The Bottom Line Take a cue from the many athletes who have found themselves bankrupt later in life. Spending, rather than saving, is a losing proposition regardless of how much money you have. If you don't consider yourself a good money manager, ask for help. Get Out of Debt – Start Making Money Want to get out of debt, get a mortgage and save for retirement? Investopedia’s FREE Personal Finance newsletter shows you 7 Steps to Become Financially Independent. Take control of your money and Click here to start managing your finances like the pros. TAGS:Budgeting Celebrity NBA NFL Personal Bankruptcy Personal Debt Sports http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/why-athletes-go-broke.aspx?partner=YahooSA&rp=y

yee Gulf Arab states are same cos of too small population like Qatar(100,000),abudhabi,kuwait ,each couple hundred Ks,only Saudi Arabia have few millions. But my example was mostly otha Asians..I know I put Dhubai there. Anyway keep with soft targets and keep the confidence and specially when you have no concrete rebuttal. Me keep inferiority complex.

yes with very small population and do they run the mines,cut it,sell it,NO NO......is there any African owned company,run by native Africans;are engineers and everyone else who manages native, like you would find say in china,india,malaysia etc...they doing good with very small population with minerals but still not comparable to these countries in terms of industry and knowhow....yeee and out of 50+ countries.

hahaaa you took the easy road!! trying to pick easy one but still BIG FAIL . you couldn't counter my points, exactly vietnam shithole in 1980 after long war with America but where are they now,much ahead than all Africa,maybe except white run S Africa.What about rest of countries I mentioned above, do you have any African country equal to them.Say India,Malaysia???????

George Bush messed up when he removed saddam,as bad as he was,he held Iraq together and the balance of sunnis & Shiites was somewhat equal.Then the Saudis along with their friends kick it on the curve in their containment of Iran.Now no one knows who's who and what he stands for...Boomrang. Turkey is rebuffing the US cos it has 15 million kurds inside its borders and adamant that strong Kurdistan doesn't come out of this,angry with the west for their refusal to let turkey into EU and strong dislike for Gulf states which they see only concerned about protecting their wealth and many times siding with Israel ova Iran and Palestinians.Erdogan doesn't have that special relationship with Israel unlike his predecessors

inferiority complex hahaaa,see no evil, hear no evil.EXplain why there is no one country in Africa equal to Malaysia,indonesia,india,pakistan,vietnam,Abu dhubai...all came to being about the same time as Africans.The only countries in Africa where some development took place are were whites reside & run, like S.Africa,Kenya,Ivory coast before the civil war.As for civilization..nothing biggee except for Egypt which various groups claim.Well Nigeria!!!! How many civil wars,acute poverty,high illiteracy,corrupt gov'ts,lack of infra structure,tribal warfare,deadly diseases.Buddy Africa is seen all ova the world's screens. and let go your inferiority complex about the Gov't of Somaliland.

True they pillaged but don't have good reason why Africans fare worst among races in every aspect.India had independence in 1948 and on Mars today.Most African countries had their flag same decade or so.Maybe this their world and we bond to be subservient.

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado city is standing by its decision to turn away a Muslim woman from its recreation center pool for wearing an Islamic dress over a shirt and pants. Saba Ali told KMGH-TV (http://bit.ly/1vUSBA1 ) that she offered to just wear the shirt and pants to swim on Sunday but was denied. Commerce City spokeswoman Michelle Halsted says street clothes aren't allowed in the pool because they can increase the likelihood of contamination and waterborne illness. She says full body swimsuits are allowed, including "burkinis" — loose fitting full-body swimsuits with a hood made for Islamic women. She says the city's swimwear brochure will be updated to make clear full-body swimsuits but not street clothes are allowed. ___ Information from: KMGH-TV, http://www.thedenverchannel.com ...  View Comments (1520) . http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-woman-barred-colorado-pool-over-dress-155347864.html

Maybe sometimes better to duck under hostile environment.......

A Muslim civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to investigate an Arkansas shooting range whose owner recently declared it a "Muslim-free zone." In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jenifer Wicks, a lawyer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), writes that the declaration is "a violation of federal laws prohibiting racial and religious discrimination" and "will inevitably result in a hostile environment for ordinary Muslims in Arkansas." "This is not a coffee and donut shop," Jan Morgan, owner of the Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range in Hot Springs, Ark., wrote in an online post last month. "This is a live fire indoor shooting range ... Why would I want to rent or sell a gun and hand ammunition to someone who aligns himself with a religion that commands him to kill me?" Morgan, who says she has "read and studied" the Koran thoroughly, found "109 verses commanding hate, murder and terror against all human beings who refuse to submit or convert to Islam." "People who shoot at my range come from all religious backgrounds," she wrote. "I do not care about their religious beliefs until or unless those beliefs command them to commit violent crimes against innocent people and I witness those crimes increasing, as we all have lately." Morgan claims that when she received her license to sell guns, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives informed her "that if we feel ANY reason for concern about selling someone a firearm, even sense that something is not right about an individual, or if we are concerned about that [person's] mental state, even if they pass a background check, we do not have to sell that person a gun. Two different ATF agents stressed that it is better to err on the side of caution. In other words, a federal agency has given [gun shops] discretion on firearms deals. "I understand that not all Muslims are terrorists," Morgan continued. "I also believe there are as many Muslims who do not know what is in their Koran as there are Christians who do not know what is in their Bible. Since I have no way of discerning which Muslims will or will not kill in the name of their religion and the commands in their Koran, I choose to err on the side of caution for the safety of my patrons." In the letter to Holder, Wicks writes that Morgan "appears to be misinterpreting the advice given to her and refusing service to all Muslims, which cannot be a correct interpretation of compliance with federal gun laws and the U.S. Constitution." But according to Morgan — who says she has received death threats from Muslims in the past — the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks; Boston Marathon bombing; Fort Hood massacre; and a recent beheading at an Oklahoma food distribution center justify her ban. "This is more than enough loss of life on my home soil at the hands of Muslims to substantiate my position that Muslims can and may follow the directives in their Koran and kill here at home," she wrote. CAIR sent copies of its letter to the governor of Arkansas, U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas and the ATF's Little Rock field office. Morgan responded on her Facebook page: "It’s easy for CAIR to bully and threaten average American citizens like me who have a business to lose and a life to destroy. It's what they do. We are the easy targets. I’ve been a target of Islamist threats for five years ... fully expecting at any time one of them to follow through with the threat. I may go down for speaking the truth about Islam ... I may lose everything I have, (which isn't much) but they can't take my integrity ... This is a mountain I’m willing to die on." http://news.yahoo.com/muslim-free-gun-range-arkansas-160333108.html Related video:

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Master race niggas not in dictionary.

^^ Concur they lagging behind in innovation.

Pirates,democracy and penguins,,these safest places. came across decade ago video detailing how French experiments in the Congo might have caused Aids. Now wondering who causing all this as Africa the last frontier abundant with minerals and life!!!! glad am home,no longer guest in other's land with that continuous barrage of nonsense.Thanking thm thou for being nice to all refugees.