Oh my God, is it 4 years?

Zafir, I think you should stop you have said enough. That argument sounds dangeorusly similar to that of women who get raped deserve it because of the way they dress. Ahura, I was just reading something in a book the other day, and it made me laugh so hard wallahi. It said that 'sexual harresment was invented by somone to make women feel even worse about themselves'. I was so shocked but it was rather halrious. Yes sexual harresment is a serious crime. But I doubt the guy would have done it if he knew one year jail term was awaiting him. I mean try to imagine, one whole year of your life, your freedom taken away. Men who think being groped by a woman is welcomed, does Sickos ring a bell with you?

I think if you can support your parents it is your duty to do so. My grandad never raised my mother but he married one woman after the next (never at the same time though)and she still supports him to this day. I mean he was a really absent father in every sense. Having an honest adult relationship doesn't mean pouring your heart out, it doesn't mean being best friends or having shared a life time of being close with one another. It just would be nice for a parent to know what boters you, what you can and cannot do, these are simple things. If a father starts havig children at 65 it doesn't mean he is less responsible but clearly he isn't in a pysical state to provide for those children thus putting a burdon on his adult children who want to get on with their life. It is sad that child/parent find each other as strangers who cannot talk to each other as adults.I think it is a cultural thing as well, children are encouraged to obey, respect and fear their father and not see him as a friend. Then again, our counterparts here have just as bad time with their parents. Forgot other children, if my father ever married another woman whilst he is still married to my mother he would be lucky if he got 'hello' and 'goodbye'. That doesn't mean I would let him starve though.

I second that. I don't agree with the view that Somalis have Arab ancestors. Some may do but is it so hard to accept that we are just different?

At the end, he was responsible for his actions, you dont see women groping men. It's your body and no one has the right to touch it without your permission. They should have scared him with a really long sentence, I doubt he would have re-offended. Should set a message to all future -would-be-gropers. I think his punishment should have been to be groped in return, in public to humiliate him. One year of yor life seems a bit much.

London mayor gets suspended for offending Jewish journalist: Livingstone suspended over 'Nazi' jibe Chris Tryhorn Friday February 24, 2006 Ken Livingstone was today suspended from office for four weeks by a disciplinary tribunal for likening a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The three-man adjudication panel of the Standards Board for England said the mayor of London should step down from his duties on March 1. They ruled that his outburst last February had breached the Greater London authority code and damaged the reputation of his office. His treatment of Oliver Finegold, a reporter for the London Evening Standard, was "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive", the panel said. Mr Livingstone had asked the reporter if he was a German war criminal and then, after learning that he was Jewish and had been offended by the question, compared him to a concentration camp guard. The panel rejected Mr Livingstone's argument that there was a difference between the damage he might have caused to his own reputation and the effect of his actions on his office. In deciding on a suspension, the panel rejected the alternative sanctions of a censure or an order for Mr Livingstone to undergo training. The panel's chairman, David Laverick, said it would not have been appropriate to have disqualified Mr Livingstone from office. "The case tribunal is, however, concerned that the mayor does seem to have failed from the outset of this case to have appreciated that his conduct was unacceptable, a breach of the code and did damage to the reputation of his office," he said. "His representative was quite right in saying that matters should not have got as far as this, but it is the mayor who must take responsibility for that. "It was his comments that started the matter and thereafter his position seems to have become ever more entrenched. "The case tribunal considers that the appropriate sanction is for the mayor to be suspended for a period of four weeks from March 1." Mr Livingstone is entitled to appeal against the ruling by making an application to the high court. Commenting on the ruling, the London Evening Standard editor, Veronica Wadley, renewed calls for the mayor to apologise for his remarks. "There is no question that he caused offence to many Londoners by his comments, and his stubborn refusal to say sorry aggravated the position," she said. "Mr Livingstone not only offended London's Jewish community but then he did not show the stature expected of the mayor of London by apologising. As the Standards Board found, our reporter questioned Mr Livingstone in a 'civil tone'. "Oliver Finegold behaved impeccably and was polite at all times as he questioned Mr Livingstone when he left a civic party. As the tape recording shows, Oliver Finegold did not swear at the mayor, or was in any way hostile." The complaint against Mr Livingstone was brought by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Jewish groups today sought to draw a line under the controversy, expressing regret that the row had had to be settled by a tribunal. Karen Pollock, the chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "It is unfortunate that it had to come to this ... People in positions of responsibility and power have to be particularly sensitive in terms of the language they use. No one wanted it to escalate or lead to this process." -------------------------------------------- from: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1717241,00.html

Congrats to Kool, Hope this happy edition benifits them.

The best polciy is ignoring. I mean placing something or someone below noticablity is the best kind of punishment. As for a man making a woman, God has made us women no some :mad: . Let's just leave it at that.

You forget that Japan is one of the only few countries in the world where men out number women considerably. Lucky women...more like 45 year old cicked to the curb for a hot 20 something.

How good a friendship are we talking here? A pizza and a movie friend or die together kind of friends? If you deserved the promotion go for it. Your friend cannot be mad at your for something you worked hard for. You don't owe her just because she recommended you, it might have helped but people do not get jobs simply because someone else likes them. If this friend has best ineterest at heart then she will be happy for you.

I don't think anyone should be calling for the extermination of anyone else. This sounds irresponsible. Don't hate because we don't strive to have that kind of power.

Flipmode, I must expose your rumor for the farce that it is. McDonallds? Anywhere but that would have been almost believeable. I haven't been anywhere near there since my Psychology teacher told me a man did it with...

LazieGirl, I didn't know we were all big brother like. :rolleyes:

I remember a little while ago my 5 year old cousin ( who speaks like an eyeo and puts us to shame because of her excellent Somali) came over to stay with us a few times . She's a little wild.I knew she had been playing in my room and on her way out the door she says to me 'wa ka xumahay yaah, buugtada aan ku dheele'. I'm so shocked that as soon as the door shuts I run to my room only to see 3 library books which had the introduction/perface scribled to death with biro. Another time I was meant to be watching her she run away and hid in the local McDonalds that was 10 mins away. If did not die of heart attack that day I never will. 10 or so adults frantically searching for her. We found her giggling saying she wa splaying hide and seek.

How nice that there are so many sceptics of Love around, and in your hearts of hearts you all hope for 'true love' only some of us are brave and mushy enought to voice that. Shame on you!

40% of children in the UK are privately educated. This means that the rest either make it to selective grammer schools or have to suffer through the state system. Unfortunately bad housing usually comes hand in hand with bad schooling. Schools that do well are those that do not have rowdy pupils, who have standards and whose pupils return to clean & 2 parented homes at the end of the day. Its a simple formular. It's a pity Somali children are falling through the cracks. It's such a messy situation. Very sad indeed.

Ehem, ehem, focus on the topic at hand boys. Not everything can be deducted to sex. Yahoo, such a short attention span? Moving on swiftly...

Don't be so shocked, women are just as go-getters as men. I think what's ineteresting is that so many people live alone. There was a programme a while back on lonely Britian. The first thing people do after uni and job is get their own place. Having said that I don't know how long it's going to last. Housing is just ridiculesly expensive, in the London area at least.

Well well well, since my employment by Rumor Central several days ago I have been hiding in the most uninhabitable places to get you the best scoops this day. Rumor has it that super-genius-extraordinaire Katrina has been seen falling about outside a bar. Rumor Central is puzzled as to what problem this unusual sight can be traced back to. However, Rumor Central cannot confirm if there were actual traces of alcohol in her system or whether she enjoyed a bohemian style dance outside the bar. And if so, what was she doing there? Similarly, our very own Castro was spoted purchasing hair re-growth products in a local pharmacy. It seems to be in vogue following Tuujiye's near-admission of surgery. The fellow was disguised in a long black Mac and huge black glasses (no doubt a remains of 80s fashion). Nonetheless, his military style walking reminiscent of his hero Fidel betrayed him as to his true identity. Stay tuned for more to come...

lol@yahoo. We are eagerly checking every two seconds. Well I don't really think we can compare ourselves with generations of old, since we have been raised in a different culture and nonetheless we have been influenced by it. Like Che says, cheating happens in every culture and whether we like it or not it is legitimized in ours by second marriages. As long as I have what my parents have I don't think I have right to complain.

They are being 'kicked to the curb' as you call it because of lack of love. What is lotalty without love? I mean it works both ways, if it's not working out for you, and you have no emotional investments, its easy to walk through that door to singlehood without second though.

What's lacking in marriages is Love. If the going gets tough, it's easy to call it quits if there is nothing to hold you back.

^^^ Some of the points Khayr made are facts and do present a double standard on our parts. Eg. the boycotting on Iraqi products and what it has done do our Muslim borthers& siters in Iraq for decade. We should use our buying power seriously. Having said that, the problem is within the Muslim world (not Islam), why are Muslims stabbing other Muslims in the back? The problems with non-believers are age old, the Muslims of the past dealt with them because they were united and a force to be reckoned with. Today that unity is missing, because we take non-believers as protectors, when the Quran specifically told us not to take them as protectors because they will only side against us. Allah guide us, what else can I say?

Hey I just read parts of that article on the German site Spiegel (german answer to the Economist) half an hour ago. The name of the site 'Iran body count' is disturbing as well as the idea that learned people (in this case scientists) should be targeted and killed. These people want to destroy civalization.

^^All this time I thought Castro was a non-believer. Don't balme me I read somewhere that you 'corrupted' people and interpreted that to mean religiously.