just to remind ,so we won't take it for granted.Memorials every nation,what's the fuss!

^^^ mr nationalist i'm talking people like you:D

psycological boost,gives people some kind normalcy.Great.

how qabiil infested people develop!they could have a bigger pie but some took the wrong turn & dragged everyone else along with thm.

sharif sikiin.Is that the president or there's anotha shari?

whateva they agree upon is fine...let peace prevail.No one is upto more upheaval.

N.O.R.F;809987 wrote: He doesn't realise there is no correlation. skin whitening not mentioned in the verse whether is quran or hadith.Are we dancing around the topic.I'm pretty sure you familiar with it.

So hur al ein verse doesn't exist now...WOW!

^^^^ you correct jacpher...what we have here is blind defense once you question anything to do with Islam.All of a sudden uncall for accusations start hurling. help if some need to decipher the enigma that's quran or let others come with their thesis.

congratulations,may allah lead to greatness.

^^^ that's why you can't be muslim queer boy. and keep trashing the site.

AYOUB;809548 wrote: Oh dear. Contain yourself, will ya? The notion Islam is against foreskin (Buuryodhaadheer) is better argument. I was just trying to help. your favorite...how many others you know.Stay away queer

"It is Islam, however, that instituted a new set of unnatural beauty standards on women through the description of Hur-al-ain (black-eyed houri). The description of Al Suyuti, one of Islam’s eminent Quranic interpreters of the houris, is telltale. “Their bodies,” he says “are so diaphanous, so transparent that one can see the bones through the flesh and the marrow through the bones, just as a drinker can see the ruby red of the wine through the clearness of crystal.” __________________________________________________________________________ @NORF.... My friend I don't understand what the whole fuss is!!! this verse is in quran..no one is denying that.If those people acting they the only muslims can't stand or defend ,then tough luck.You can't be selective.No one hating arabs or islam.In this world everyone is racist in his own way.Some africans don't like our features & some of us don't like theirs.some of any nation r racist toward others & vice versa. No one is saying you have to leave your religion & anything controversial is up for grabs.Instead of lambasting the journalist or me they have to prove that's not in the quran or why they agree with it.Too much escapegoating.

my condolence...one of a kind.

^^^^ Crooks,same,same,same everywhere.......they have to resort to insults or gun everywhere in the name of religion:D their way of exerting pressure to silence! Don't buy a nigga without the whip(arab proverb).

and facts...

been fakatay runi ma gaadho....puntland all hot air no substance....unite Galkayo...illusion after illusion:D

kingofkings;809051 wrote: since there're not here flooding the thread with their usual nonsense, i say they are speechless. real show.Where are the puntland soldiers...hehe in lascanod,buhodle!!!!!!!...jajajajajajajajajaj:D

""It is Islam, however, that instituted a new set of unnatural beauty standards on women through the description of Hur-al-ain (black-eyed houri). The description of Al Suyuti, one of Islam’s eminent Quranic interpreters of the houris, is telltale. “Their bodies,” he says “are so diaphanous, so transparent that one can see the bones through the flesh and the marrow through the bones, just as a drinker can see the ruby red of the wine through the clearness of crystal.”" statement in quran ...is there one talking about ebony like!

« PREVIOUS POST | NEXT POST » Islam Also to Blame for Prizing White Skin Just like everything else, perceptions of sexiness have globalized. Hollywood movies, the fashion industry, MTV and Miss World beauty contests have set universal standards for female sexual appeal. It is in this context that Arab and African men have come to measure the beauty of their women. But the pressure on women to meet men’s expectations of beauty isn’t a recent invention, and standards have changed over the years. Over sexualizing girls is as dangerous as global warming. In the Arab world, the features of an ideal woman changed between being opulent, plump, slim or obese, according to Abdelwahab Bouhdiba in the book Sexuality in Islam. Sometimes large breasts were preferable, sometimes firm round ones. At other times, pink flesh, chubby and curved (samina, maluma), a wasp-like waist, or a bamboo-like figure (ghusn al ban, gudib khizuran) were fashionable. Bouhdiba even cites that women in the Abbasid era had to compete with the marked homosexual features that were in vogue; something similar to what happens in fashion today. “ The Abbasids,” he says, “ even preferred a tomboy type of women, with hair cut very short and a manly stride.” Arab men’s views for female beauty, however, for many years sought a firm well rounded behind, large breasts and translucent skin. Arab belly dancers with their plump bodies remain the fantasy of the ordinary Arab man. Fair or translucent skin was always a highly demanded feature of beauty. Even in the old days, Arab women used a bleaching agent known as Batika. In Mauritania, an Arab-African country, women are still force-fed to become fat and meet their men’s standards of beauty. Men of the Somali race always have long valued slender waists. It was not that long ago when Somali nomad girls used to tie a rope around their waist to prevent them from filling their stomachs when eating. But extremely skinny women were never in vogue. While fair skin was considered not bereft of beauty (Casaan qurux kama qatana), it was the marriin dhalaal, shinning brown skin that caught the imagination of poets. Fair skinned women were often used as the butt of jokes, accused of being airheads, just as are blondes in the West. Somali women have never come under great pressure to lighten their skin. Those who used whiteners were often looked down upon. It is Islam, however, that instituted a new set of unnatural beauty standards on women through the description of Hur-al-ain (black-eyed houri). The description of Al Suyuti, one of Islam’s eminent Quranic interpreters of the houris, is telltale. “Their bodies,” he says “are so diaphanous, so transparent that one can see the bones through the flesh and the marrow through the bones, just as a drinker can see the ruby red of the wine through the clearness of crystal.” No wonder that most Arabs today see no offense in watching ad nauseam a commercial showing a female applicant for a TV presenter job who is rejected due to her brown skin but gets the job after she lightens the tone of her skin with a brand name cream. World folklore is rife with princesses but I bet there is not a child of any race that has imagined a princess with black skin color, or even a black prophet of any religion for that matter. One therefore can say that although pressure on women to measure up to the existing norms of beauty is as old as history, it is the conversion of women’s sexuality into a commercial industry using global media as its vehicle that portrays women only as sex objects. It is soap opera’s such as Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives where the unnatural looks of the models and MTV singers that make today’s standards of beauty for teenage girls around the world. Also the pharmaceutical industry thrives on peoples’ fear of fat. They portray thinness as the epitome of sexual appeal, thus prompting young generations around the world to suffer from psychological disorders in their quest to boost their sexual appeal and remain in vogue. Over sexualization is not limited to girls only as boys also undergo similar torture. They have to adhere to certain sexual charisma standards imposed by the fashion and music industry. The industry needs them to be thin, hairless, have a six pack, pecs and dress well. The banning of skinny models from catwalks by Spanish fashion organizers may be a good place to start a concerted international campaign to help the young generation regain their health, their self-esteem and their natural bodies. Maybe it is time for the United Nations to assign a panel of experts to study the health and psychological impacts of sexualizing women in cinema, fashion and the pharmaceutical industries. This is indeed an issue that is as threatening as global warming and needs to be addressed at the highest levels of power. If global warming endangers our physical existence on earth, our sexualizing of girls is to use Susan Brownmiller’s words “…the ultimate restriction on freedom of the mind.” POSTED BY BASHIR GOTH ON MARCH 3, 2007 1:10 PM Somali veteran journalist. PostGlobal is an interactive conversation on global issues moderated by Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria and David Ignatius of The Washington Post. It is produced jointly by Newsweek and washingtonpost.com, as is On Faith, a conversation on religion. Please send us your comments, questions and suggestions.

^^ life of deceit is smartness for you and leads to self destruction as documented:D

Carafaat;808038 wrote: we are hardly behind sxb. Almost everythink is managed in Kenya by non-Kenyans. even the airport, Kenyan Airways and this project above are managed by non-Kenyans. but still kenyans benefactors.Isn't PB operating in america:D