Very close to home and very sad indeed!

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: I would rather chew jaad than smoke shiisho, shaash iyo whatever it is called Carab laga keensaday. Jaad is at least dhaqan Soomaali now. p.s I heard Khat was introduced from Yemen to Ethiopia and Somalia and Khat wasn't that common in amongst Somalis. Till this day majority of nomadic Somalis don't chew, although more are starting to pick up the habit!

Baashi, perhaps my comparison between him and Tony Blair was a bit fat fetched. However, I am still unsure of this man, in fact I am suspicous of him. He has the type that wants to please everyone and everything. One day he will giving a passionate speech about how he will change the direction of the so called war on terror. The next day he will be giving another speech about how he would allow bombing of the Northern Province of Pakistan. Which is exactly why I believe this man is not what people are making him out to be, ie one who will radically alter the course of America's interaction with Muslim world. This is my main interest( foreign policy) in this particular man seeing as I am not an American resident or citizen. Many Muslims voted for Bush because Kerry they believed was a Zionist, but Bush turned out to be an equally as dangerous Christian evangelical. So don't judge a book by its cover. So I don't expect Obama to change American foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Palestine that much( if at all). Democrats are calling for withdarawl whilst still supporting more money funding and troops to the war on in Iraq. American foreign policy in the Middle East is to a large extent driven by O and I, ie Oil and Israel. I can't remember any President who has ever opposed Israel's occupation and oppresssion of the Palestinians,not even Clinton who offered the Palestinians labo gidar iyo sadeex makhayad. Obama wont have any choice but to continue the war in Afghanistan perhaps even most probably increase the troops presence inAfghanistan. So no changes there. Somalia is also at a critical stage, if you haven't notice America has been fighting a quite war with the Alshabab Al Mujahideen and the Union of Islamic Courts. They sent the Ethiopians in are are still providing the logistics, armoury and intelligence for them; the T.F.G and the Africans who came disguised a as peacekeepers, but were really mecenaries for the war on terror. Again, the question is will Obama( come next year), if he's elected be any better for Somalia? Yeah his father was a Muslim and his from Kenya, but that doesn't mean he has the capacity to alter the direction of policy in Somalia, which is already tough considering the hawkishness and zeal of their opponents( al shabab). Th Alshabab Al Mujahideen are said to be reappearing in several districts of Southern Somalia and controlling more or less some districts in Muqdisho. If the Ethiopians leave or even stay and Alshabab makes a reapperance in some parts Somalia of Somalia such as the open terrains near the Kenyan border; then you have to expect bullets and bombs will come flying down and they won't differentiate between combatant and civilian. Imagine American satelittes pick up up images of increased Cimamad activity in Somalia, do you think Obama will hesitate to send a down a hail of bombs and bullets? You can take the man out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out the Man! In any case, I don't think he will win

The Voice of Somali Women! United Somali Diaspora. Ilaahoow daainoow Dulqaadkaagu waa mid sare Oo ilaahoow daain Ducadeeyda iga ajiib Waxaan doonana Raboow iiga yeel diyaar Dareenka jirkeeyga Adaan daahna kaaga jirin Dawlad Tigree Dalabtay baa noogu timid dalkii culumo diinkii iyo caruurtiina weey dileen duqoowdii ma deeynin dumarkiina waa dubteen dad iyo duunyaba halkaas beey ku daba tireen Dad diinta ila sheegta oo diirku iigyu yaal ilaahoow daa'inoow weey ku diirsadaan ilaahoow daai'in dowgooda maanan garan sidii doofaaradii beeyba diir naxeeyn raboow darakaadka naartaada tii u daran intaan diinta daneeyn daarahooda ka yeel! Bal Aamiin dhaha inoow Eebe naga aqbalo! O! Omni-present GOD! , Your patience is the most high O! Omni-present GOD! Answer my prayers And the things I want Oh My Lord, make them ready for me. The feelings inside me No mask can veil it from you A government ordered by Tigree (Ethiopia) Came to us in the country (In Somalia) Religious scholars and the children They have killed (them all) And elders they didn't spare And the women, they burned them (alive) People and animals, They have wiped them out all! People who claim to be in the same faith That we share of the same skin O! Omni-present GOD! They enjoy of this (suffering) I don't understand their justification Like pigs, they have no compassion Oh Lord, of the lowest ranks of hell-fire those that are not concerned Let their abode be there ( in hell-fire) Say Amen So God may answer (our prayers)

Hadaan gartAy wuxu marc smith sunglasses u xidHay, wuxu noqon laha londons most wanted courtsey of depressed faraxz Yeah I could imagine the protest: Speaker: What do we want? Protestors: Khaat, Khaat, Khaat! Speaker: When do we wannit? Protestors: No, Now Now! Speaker: How much do we want? Protestors: Kow, Labo, Sadex, Afar Marduuf, Marc Smith we will Shoot!

u see the battle u will face to convince the government to ban khat ?

Originally posted by -: GJ_Goate..You conspicuously left Yeey in the hall of shame. I put his brother there. Who appeared more educated then the warlord at the time and was trusted by a lot of Somali people!

Hall of Fame: Imam Ahmed Gurey( hoisted the flag of Islam at Axum, the capital of Tigray) Hall of Shame: Ali Geedi, hoisted the Xabashi flag at Muqdisho, the captial of ibn Samales!

Originally posted by Socrates-1986: quote: from Burco via a couple other places wlc saxib,,,, :cool: lol, u see how happy Northerner was? he found one of the lads( reerihi) .

Its obviously:Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, but I suspect sum 1 sent an emial to cover this topic or he was reading SOl...

http://www.ilaqosal.com/details.php?image_id=203

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2008/Jan/prep_boys_basketball_farah_is_armed_to_reach_goals.aspx

Something gives me the the feeling that the Professor has been reading SOL?

Aniga I'M nin British ah with a red passport . That passport was pretty useless because it belongs to a fugitive anyway, meelna kuma tagi karo, but they could done something other things with it....

I don't it is neccesary for an African American to blame other Africans for what happened to them. Because they have been in Europe and America for over five hundred years. Their hardwork on the sugar plantations in the Carribean is what drove the British economy to rise and produce all these Banks that exist today. So I support them when they speak out against the injustices that have been commited against them by a nation that claimed to be the most free on earth. Somalis living in Africa is a different issue altogether than a man who lives in America, which he should more of a right than most whites to be called an American and treated with full rights, something that didn't exist till the 1970s and some rights are still lacking!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7174623.stm

http://downloads1.nadeemdownloads.com/ISLAMIC%20SERVER%2009/Bilal%20Assad/Miscellaneous/Bilal%20Assa d%20-%20Imaan.mp3

@SN, White Europeans people enslaved each other for centuries and massacred each other like no other mans business,I quote this: quote:" Changes in the medieval slave trade brought peoples from new parts of the world to Western Europe. From the late thirteenth century to the mid-fifteenth century, merchants from Genoa had purchased captives from Scandanavia and Slavs From Russia and the Balkans in the Black Sea slave markets located in the the Crimea and near the mouth of the Don River. By 1400, after the Turks conquered Constantinople IN 1453, West European slave dealer lost their acessto Black Sea markets. From the mid fifteenth century onward, the importance Genoan and Venitian slave merchants diminished as Castille and Portugal struggled for hegemony over the the Guninea coast of Africa and gradually introduced a new, largely African slave population in in Lisbon, Valencia and Seville. As Early as 1460, a Lisbon decree distinguishing between " black and white slaves" partly recognized the diverse slave origins............ ( Inventing Western Civilization: Thomas, C, Paterson, p.96). So how is this any different from Africans? White Europeans enslaved each other too? However, the majority of African slaves that were brought to the Americas were forcefully captured by Europeans not literally sold out by other Africans. Lastly, there is no evidence to suggest that white Europeans weren't willing or didn't sell their own white Europeans to Turkish, Arab and African slave merchants. 1 million white European slaves are said have ended up in North Africa alone! Who do you think was selling and buying captured Greek Christians to the Turks? The Latin traders who had no qualms about buying and selling their own Catholic Brethren as human commodities from Turkish Muslims!

http://www.somaliaonline.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/8/625/3#000033 u missed tha I think!

look @ one of the comments Maakhiri:Aahhaahhaahahaha war waa waalalanyihiin kuwani!!!

Waxan maqlay from ila dhow dhow oo ah highly diplomatic officials that General Gabre Dilla will be given a SOmali passport and he will run for Somalia, ilen Tigreyga oroodka ku fican! personally I used to be a long distance runner, but I want to do the wresttling in the olypics, xabad sabaxad baan kaga turaya

rubbish match, but sum big boyz got knocked out..........

ps. the third choice is supposed to say : right aims, but wrong tactics".

Which of the following do you consider Alshabab to be?