Although this white girl...... white girl

The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice, I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Toure, do you disagree with them because of their tactics or because their ideology doesn't appeal to you?

The moment Snoop Dogg walks into the suite of The Grafton in West Hollywood, he sits down on the bed opposite a mirror and proceeds to stare at himself. It's a fancy hotel room on the debauched Sunset Strip: I imagine all manner of interesting things have taken place in front of this mirror. But never the self-love reflected here by the 37-year old rapper and former pimp. Smoothing his pig-tailed hair, he answers every question to his reflection, to the point where I wonder if it's an acting exercise this ex-Crips gang member picked up from Owen Wilson on the set of Starsky and Hutch (Snoop played Huggy Bear, one of his several forays into film). Until recently, Snoop, who rose to fame in the 1990s as a protege of NWA's Dr Dre, was most famous for smoking pot, for popularising the slang suffix "izzle" and for run-ins with the law. When gangsta rap was at the centre of arguments in favour of censorship, many focused on the misogyny of his record Doggystyle. When he moved, acrimoniously, from Death Row records to Master P's No Limit label, he incorporated P's Dirty South sound but stuck to the same themes with the top 5 single, Groupie Luv. In 2004, he signed to Geffen and, produced by Pharrell Williams, saw Drop It Like It's Hot go to No 1. Having been cleared of a gang-related murder charge in 1993, it was small potatoes when, in 2007, following a fracas outside the BA first-class lounge that led to a night in jail, his visa request to enter the UK was rejected. Incredible as it may seem, now that reality TV is the order of the day, Snoop has rebranded himself as a family-friendly guy, starring in a reality show about himself called Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, featuring his wife Shante and their children, on the E! cable channel. "It's a blessing," he reflects to his reflection, "to have been in the rap game for so long and to remain so relevant, to remain talked about with the newest and the latest and the hottest, freshest." Some would dispute his assessment. The thing that makes hip-hop different from other genres is that credibility is often found in the level of your success, not the quality of your music. Unless you're Afrika Bambaataa, your relevance is marked by sales more than by musical innovation. The music business is seen as a hustle, so putting out records is a start, but then you need to capitalise on it. (Jay-Z may be the best example: as well as scoring hit records, he runs a record label and a clothing line.) Snoop put out one record in the 90s that was both catchy and unique, Gin and Juice, and from that he's launched his own video games, porn DVDs, a soft drink called Pimp Juice, movie roles, and now the reality show. In that respect, he is a total success for working the hustle so well. "I earned the right to call my album Ego Trippin'," he tells the mirror. "Nine records in 15 years, top 10 every time I come. I earned the right to do that. **** whoever don't like it." His publicist has warned me to make his album the focus of my questions, but the truth is that he has very little to say about it. Fair enough, music is not necessarily any fun to deconstruct. His responses are near catatonic, with an edge that suggests if only he weren't so bored by the questions they would be making him angry. But he comes to life when I raise the subject of Barack Obama's recent speech on race. "What did he say?" he asks, raising an eyebrow to himself, flirting with his own angular lines. "Well, he's having to disassociate himself from his pastor, who was criticised for saying, essentially, that America is built on racism." "It is!" he screeches at the mirror. I'm not quite sure where I'm supposed to be looking: it's a bit like talking to someone with a wall eye. "Right, but because he wants to be president he still has to disavow this confidant of 25 years," I say. "Black America support him on that. By any means necessary. Get in that White House. Then once he get in, he can catch up to old relationships. 'Cos they looking for a loophole to make him not win." He almost looks at me, but then seems to think better of it as he whispers: "The KKK gave Obama money." "Really?" "YES." Snoop has an interesting verbal mannerism of capitalising words without putting any exclamation at the end. "They was one of his biggest supporters." "I've never heard that." "YES. Why wouldn't they be? The media won't tell you that. They don't want you to know that. They just want you to know that this nigger befriended this other nigger who be threatening your values. But we all know all presidents lie to get into ******* office. That's they job." Does he agree with the widely held sentiment that Bill Clinton was the "first black president"? "He was closest we gonna get to the first black president. He related to black needs and black values, black understanding and racism. He from Little Rock, Arkansas. That's a black-dominated world. He was part of us. That's why every day was happy when he was in office. It was just the funnest time in the world. Everything worked." If Obama were in the room, I get the sense Snoop would let him share the mirror. "In America's eyes, that mutha******'s gonna be the president 'cos [John] McCain can't **** with him. Hillary [Clinton] can't **** with him. He's winning over white people, white ladies." I mention a recent survey that revealed older black women's reluctance to vote for Obama because they have a maternal fear that, if elected, he would be assassinated. Snoop sits up straight. "It's real! It's true shit. That's the White House. No niggers allowed!" So what about Condoleeza Rice? Snoop slouches. "They need us to manipulate and do the bad shit because we conversate and our colour is friendly with other peoples. This colour" - he traces a loving finger down his cheek - "is friendly with every country. That white colour" - he points at me - "ain't friendly. The white man be threatening the Indian. The white man be threatening the slaves. The white man be threatening the Australians." (I think he is talking about atrocities against the Aboriginal people.) "That face ain't to be trusted. That's why Condoleeza does all the conversatin' and all the chores around the world. Remember when Clinton was in office, he had the black dude move for him?" Vernon Jordan? "Yeah, that nigger that covered up shit for him: 'Say you never had sex with that woman ... '" I ask why it is that Snoop doesn't address these strong political convictions in his music. "I feel it affect me, but I don't need to be crying and shit on my records." Not like Mos Def or Talib Kweli, whose music is the medium, is the message. Snoop is bored again. So bored. I am riveted because I was sure, as a businessman, he would have stayed on family-friendly message. Isn't he supposed to be just a regular family guy now? "But I am. That's what I always been. People in London always get information on me as far as when I go to jail and my criminal record. Negative things. They never hear about my football team, my wife, my kids, my standing in the community, the gang interventions that I do. They don't give a **** about it!" He focuses very hard on his reflection as he does an impression of a news anchor announcement: "'Today Snoop Dogg was arrested for ... ' As opposed to -" and now his voice is sotto, even coy - "Snoop Dogg done something very nice in the community today." He nods at his reflection in deference to his own nice doing, and I ask who he considers the most inspirational black leaders in America today. "Minister Louis Farrakhan. Snoop Dogg." I laugh. He purses his lips and gives the mirror a look so deadly it tells me that accidentally laughing at Snoop is equivalent to accidentally laughing at a regular man during sex. Since he's brought up Farrakhan, often vilified for his antisemitic remarks, I ask if he can explain how blacks and Jews, who worked together so closely during the civil rights movement, now seem so far apart. "That's the way the system has designed it. When they seen us becoming family, becoming close, that's when government and people behind the scenes created a negative inference between us. If the blacks and the Jews had stayed family then the blacks would have never suffered because the Jews would have showed us how to make money and keep it in the family." Spoken like a true Farrakhan follower. One of the most frustrating things about Snoop is that he and his pimpdom were already aberrations when they emerged. The majority of hip-hop voices at that time (groups like A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy) had been more socially progressive on everything, including attitudes to women, than the mainstream American culture of Playboy and the Hooters restaurant chain. But, as the industry went corporate and the record labels weeded out the non-pimp, non-gangsta acts and brought in artists who called women *****es and ho's, the Snoop-ification was rapid and lucrative for everyone from the Dogg himself, to the companies peddling his porn and clothing lines. I have worn scuffed Converse, boy jeans and a T-shirt to this interview because I didn't want Snoop to look at me sexually. And yet I find myself asking the next question, when the publicist pops her head in to say "two more minutes". I stare at him, staring at himself and it comes out like Tourette's. "What would be my market value, if you were still pimping?" Snoop looks up, with interest, for the very first time. He looks at my face, my hair. He appears to do a sum in his head. "Stand up real quick, let me see." And I do. "Oh! You built nice! You built like a black girl! You been sitting on a fortune. You need the right person to represent you, get the connection. You could be in the $4,000 range." Snoop was right. Us Jews do have all the money. All the time I had been wondering where mine was, when it was right behind me. Taking women dressed in diamond collars and leads down the red carpet at awards shows has been labelled hip-hop behaviour, when it's really just recycled blaxploitation imagery and misogynist buffoonery - to say nothing of Snoop's other confused political views. But he will do any dance and put on any persona, if that's what he thinks will command the most attention. Recalling that, last year, Snoop was the first artist to release his track as a ringtone prior to a single, it occurs to me that he is actually the ultimate ho, being pimped out by the industry in a fantasy of hyper-sexualised criminality. And laughing all the way to the bizzle. · The album Ego Trippin' is out now on Polydor. Snoop Dogg's Father Hood is on the E! cable channel. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/03/realitytv.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media

Qoraal jawaab u ah hadalkii Siilanyo oo ka soo baxay madaxtooyada Somaliland. Warkii 08-Apr-2008 iyo Qormadii: H Dirie Guddomiyaha Xisbiga Mucaaradka ah ee Kulmiye Md. Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo), ayaa gaashaanka u daruuray in aanay aqbali doonin Muddo loo kordhiyo maamulka Riyaale.Hadaba waxaa qoraal ay arintaas kaga jawaabayaan soo saaray madaxtooyada Somaliland,nuqul ka mid ah qoraalkaas oo naloo soo diray waxa uu u qornaa sidan hoose: Aniga oo tix-raacaya Waraysiyadii Gudoomiyaha Xisbiga KULMIYE Axmed Maxamed Siilaanyo uu siiyay Warbaahinta qaar ka mid ah , taasi oo uu ku cel-celiyay in aanu aqbali doonin in Madaxweyne Daahir Rayaale Kaahin loo kordhiyo mudada uu xilka Madaxtinimada hayo. Marka hore Siinaayo si fiican uma akhrisan Dastuurka dalka u yaala ee ku saabsan doorashada Madaxweynaha, qodobka 83-aad, Farqadiisa saddexaad oo si cad u tilmaamaysa in Madaxweynaha iyo Madaxweyne ku xigeenkii hore ay sii wadi doonaan hawlaha ay u xil saaran yihiin ilaa Madaxweyne iyo Madaxweyne ku-xigeen cusub la soo doortaa kala wareegaan xilka. Waxa la yaab leh in Siilaanyo carabka ku dhuftay in Madaxweynuhu ka soo baxo Qasriga Madaxtooyada bisha May badhtamaheeda sida uu hadalka u dhigay, taasina waxay muujinaysaa in qasrigii Madaxtooyada uu ka dhigay guri ama dukaan isagu iska leeyahay. Afxumada iyo Aflagaadada noocaas ahi ma aha sifo lagu hanan karo kursiga Madaxtinimada dalka , waxase aanu u sheegaynaa in Madaxweynuhu yahay Madaxweyne Qaran oo shacbiga reer Somaliland soo doorteen , una diyaar yahay in uu jagada baneeyo haddii lagaga helo doorasho xor ah oo xalaal ah, Gudoomiyaha Xisbiga KULMIYE waxa uu baal marsan yahay go’aankii ay wada jir u gaadheen Saddexda Xisbi Qaran oo uu ka mid yahay xisbigiisu , kaas oo ku salaysnaa in doorashooyinka Dawladaha Hoose iyo Madaxtooyada la qabto Bilaha July iyo August. Waxa la yaab leh in uu Siilaanyo ku tilmaamay dhawr jeer xeerka diiwaan gelinta in uu yahay mid qurxin ah , balse aanu waafaqsanayn dastuurka doorashada. Sida laga war qabo waxa uu Siilaanyo had iyo jeer ku cel celiyaa in doorashadu wakhtigeedii aanay dhacayn , taasi oo uu khal khal iyo cabsi gelin ku abuurayo shacbiga dhexdiisa. Wax badan ayuu Madaxweynuhu ka dhawaajiyay in uu diyaar u yahay in doorasho xor ah ay dalka ka dhacdo , wakhtiga se doorashadaasi la qaban doono , waxa ay tahay mid u taala oo ay go’aankeeda leeyihiin Komishanka Doorashooyinku. Hassan Dirie Jama Contact:xassand2000@yahoo.com or info@afnugaal.com

Norf.... One fact is that PL and SL are working in tandem and are being directed from Adis. The points highlighted by this article are all based on factual events. Whether these lists that have been handed over to the masters in Adis will result in the arrests/assasinations of wadaads in the SSC region remails to be seen. The events that are unfolding in Northern Somalia today are a part of a bigger picture that will become clear very soon. These ONLF or 'terrorist' accusations are only an excuse to justify Ethiopian aggression/physical pressence. These corrupt leaders whether they are in SL or PL are only filling their pockets and putting you guys who believe in either secession or TFG in the way of those who believe in Somalinimo. You might seem to be enjoying peace now but in the long term you guys will be loosers unless you change course. The xabash will loose and all those that support them now will go down with them. Lets hope that at least you guys have something to gain with it now. But by the way it looks we will all be loosers in the short to mid term.

runtu ma caybaa?

Ha xanaaqin dee, adaa doortay in aad dabadhil*f noqotide. Ku adkayso.

See xabashi ayaad wali difaacaysaa. Ignoring everything they are doing and blaming Somalis. Typical dabadhil*f talk.

hahahahaha, answer the question ninyahow.

Cay maaha waxaan idhi...inta jeer oo aad soo boodid marka Meles ama xabashi la hadal qaado tirada ayee ka badan tahay. Somalilandta waad u copy gareesaa un, hasayeeshee xabashida si fiican ayaad uga dambeysaa una difaacdaa. Don't worry about waxa aan u shaqeeyo, maalinta aan kugu soo garaaco albaabkaaga ayaad ugaan doonta waxa aan u shaqeeyo.

Whats your opinion on the matter? Whats your opinion on that those who gave their lives and fought for the North West of Somalia should be treated this way? and that they are sidelined by xabash puppets?

Inaad xabashi u shaqaysid layskuma haysto adigu. Marka Meles iyo xabashi lasoo hadal qaado, saad u boodid cid walbaa way aragtay. maanta xabashi difaac kuuguma horatso. Xabashida miyaad Somaliland u qaabilsantahay horta?

Xukuumada Somaliland oo is hortaagtay xuska aasaaskii ururkii SNM ee ka dagaalamijiray W/Somalia Warkii 07-Apr-2008 iyo Qormadii: afnugaal Xuska aasaaskii Jabhadii ka howlgali jirtay waqooyiga Somalia ee SNM oo ku beegnayd maalintii shalay ayaa baaqday ka dib markii sida la sheegay ay qabashadeeda is hortaagtay dowlada Somaliland................... Xubna ka mid ah Jabhadaasi hore ayaa ku eedeeyey xukuumada Somaliland inay korantadii ka jareen madashii lagu qaban lahaa xuska Jabhada SNM taas oo ahayd beerta xoriyada magaalada hargaysa , waxayna intaasi raacshay in xukuumada Somaliland ay beryahanba waday olole lagu cidhib tirayo taariikhda iyo dhamaanba astaamihii ururka SNM . Mr: Cumar Cilmi Dixood oo ka mid ahaa saraakiishii jabhadii SNM ayaa isna ku baaqay in sharciga la horkeeno ragii is hortaagay xuskii SNM , Sidoo kale gudoomiyaha Xisbiga Mucaaridka Kulmiye ayaa si aada udhaliilay talaabada ay wasiiiro ka tirsan xukuumada Somaliland ku joojisay xuskii SNM oo ku beegnaa maalintii Axadii aynu soo dhaafnay bishuna ahayd 6/April.. Isku soo duuboo Jabhada SNM ayaa waxaa la aasaasay sanadii 6/April/1981 waxaana aasaasay Rag u badan beel ka mid ah beelaha Somaliland waxayna dagaalo farabadan la galeen xukuumada Marxuum Maxamed Siyaad barre ee Somalia ka talinjirtay mudada 21 sano ah iyadoona ujeedada loo sameeyeyna ay ahayd in xukunka laga rido uun hogaamiyihii wagaasi balse ay markii danbe rag gaara ah badaleen hadafkii ururka SNM , tan iyo markii uu hogaanka u qabtay Somaliland Marxuum Maxamed Xaaji Ibraahin Cigaal awoodii Siyaasadeed ee Jabhada iyo jiritaankii SNM aad ayay usoo yaraatay taas oo aakhirkiina kusoo ururtay inay magac ahaan ujirto .. Bishii 1aad ee sanadkan aynu ku jirno ayay xukuumada Somaliland ka saartay manhajka waxbarashada Somaliland taariikhdii SNM taas oo si aada usoo dhoweeyaan inta badan Bulshada ku dhaqan Gobolada EX: British Somaliland Protectorate manta se lamagac baxday jamhuuriyada Somaliland Talaabadan lagu yaraynayo buunbuuninta jabhadii SNM oo ka mid ahayd jabhadii ka qayb qaatay dagaaladii Sokeeye ee ka dhacay Guud ahaan Somalia gaar ahaana Somaliland ayay dadka ka faalooda Somaliland ku tilmaameen mid wax wayn ka taraysa isu soo dhowaynta bulshada reer Somaliland oo dhan . Afnugaal.com News Dis Hargaysa Somaliland info@afnugaal.com

The game is up for you and your Xabashi masters. The eyes are no longer blurry. Ethiopia, Somaliland, Puntland and TFG...it doesn't matter what you guys call yourself. The people of the SSC will fight for their rights and for independant Somalia. First they sell our resources for pocket change, then they occupy our cities and make our people refugees and now you want us to hand over our wadaads? whats next I wonder?

culimada gobolada sscda iyo macalimiinta dugsi quraanada oo liis laga qoray Warar xogogaala oo ay shabakadda boocame ka heshay ilo ku dhow dhow maamulka riyaale oo iminka ka taliya magaalada laas caanood ayaa waxay noo xaqiijiyeen in habeenimadii uu joogay kuxigeenka Riyaale magaalada laascaanood loo dhiibay labo waraaqood oo ay ku yaallaan magacyada culimada magaalada laascaanood iyo tiro badan oo wadaaddo ah.liiskaas oo loo gudbiyey dawladda Ethopia. liiska culimada ayaa waxaa ku qornaa sida ay u xaqiijieen shabakadda boocame masuuliyiin xogogaala culimo tiradoodu gaadhayso illaa 120 wadaad kuwaasoo laga soo kala qoray magaalada laascaanood ,buuhoodle,kalabaydh,widhiwidh,iyo boocame,talleex,xuddun boocame kalabaydh iyo dhamaanba tuulooyinka ku xeeran gobolada hawdka iyo nugaasha. waxaa kaloo uu masuulku xaqiijiyey in loo gudbiyey liiskaas dawladda Ethopia,isagoo sheegay inay ahaayeen waxyaabihii uu u yimiddey mr way dhaqaaqday oo ah ku xigeenka riyaale iyadoo la sheegay in markii uu yimiddey magaalada laascaanood oo uu ahaa nin loo soo diray arimo kale. culimadan ayaa waxay yihiin kuwa dhiga madarasooyinka iyo malcaamadaha iyo kuwa kale oo iska caadiya oo aan shaqo kulahayn wax siyaasad ah sida uu xaqiijiyey masuulku. waxaa jiray ee daymo lagu eedaynayo inay ka danbaysay dawaladda ethopia inay qabsadaan laascaanood maamulka hargeysa,waxaa kaloo jiray in dhawaan loo yeedhay isimada daaroodka khaasatan kuwa *****ga oo loogu yeedhay magaalada qalloocan ee ismaamulka somalida ee ethopia iyadoo dawladda ethopia ku ee daysay inay qarinayaan koox wadaaddo ah ayna caawiyaan ururka ONLFta oo dagaalka ba an kula jira dawladda ethopia.asal ahaanna ka soo jeeda beelaha daaroodka khaasatan ****** oo ay isku hayb yihiin dadka reer puntalnd. Maamulka Riyaale ayaa isticmaala xod xodasho ay dawladda ethopian kaga xod xodaynayso inay u gudbiyaan culimada iyagoo ku sheega inay yihiin argagixiso,waxay kaloo maamulka riyaale ku eedeeyeen maamulka cadde inay caawiyaan ONLF ayna isku hayb yihiin maamulka Puntland.waxay kaloo ku eedeeyaan maamulka riyaala goboladan khaasatan laascaanood inay tahay xarun wadaadood iyagoo horay ugu eedeeyey intaanay qabsan buuhoodle inaanay cidina xukumin ayna noqotay waddo ay ukala goosaan wadaaado iyo onlf puntladn iyo somaliland aanay midna hoostagin. markii ay qabsadeen maamulka riyaale magaalada laas caanood ayaa hargeysa loo soo fadhiistay shalay waxay ku sheegayeen laascaanood waxayna dantu ku kaliftay in la qorto liiska wadaada iyo ardayda malcaamadaha dhiga.illeen haddii kale waxba umasoconayaane,iyagoo ku andacooday inaanay haddeer qab qabankarin dadkuna ay ku kacayaaan una sii hormariyay liiskii looga baahnaa. bishii hore bilow geedii ayay u yeedhtay ethopia caddemuuse iyo riyaale iyadoo cadde muuse ay ku eedaysay in maamulkiisu uu caawiyo ONLF,waxay kaloo cadde u sheegtay inuusan wax dagaala ku qaadi karin maamulka riyaale.arrintaasoo uu qariyey kana qariyey maamulka uu madaxweynaha uyahay caddemuuse kolkii uu ka soo laabtay ethopia kolkii ka horaysay xiligan uu hadda jooga magaaladda addis abbaba. cadde muusoow dagaal maqaadi kartid adiyo maamulkaagu {ethopia.} cadde muuse iyo saraakiil sar sare ayaa waxay hadda ku sugan yihiin magaaladda addis ababa iyadoo loogu tagay maamulkiisa iyo GAROOWE, saraakiisha ethopianku waxay cadde ugu tageen puntland halkaasoo ay saraakiishu ku qaateen salaan sharaf waxay soo kormeereen dhamaan meelaha fadhiyaan ciidamadu,dadka qaarwaxayba leeyihiin waxay sahan u yihiin maamulka riyaale,waayo waxay ku amreen inaanay qaadin waxdagaala. meelaha ay fadhiyaan ciidamda daraawiishtu,iyagoo ka qaaday sawirro. mar aan waxka waydiiyey sarkaal sare oo ku sugan xarrunta garoowe ayaa waxaa uu sheegay in si toosa cadde muuse loogu yidhi waxdgaala ma qaadi qartaan labadiina maamulba waa puntland iyo somalilandtaba,waxaana sarkaalka ka muuqatey kalsooniwayn oo ah inaan dagaal lagu soo qaadi doonin. ama uu san waxdagaala gali doonin wuxuuna kaloo shegay inaanay ogayn arintan shacabka reer puntladn. sababa loogu yeedhay ayuu sarkaalku sheegay saraakiisha, inay tahay si loogu qanciyo saraakiisha kale oo maamulka puntland ayna la ogaadaan kuna ciil qabin inaan lalagalin wax dagaala ah maamulka riyaale oo ay halkooda iska fadhiyaan. xogmooge ayaa xaajo kaa dila bal aan liiska la qortay,shirka tukaraq,talada puntland,cadde iyo afqudhac saraakiisha iyo odayada loo yeedhay,.ethopia . lasoco qoraalka danbe sida ay cabdulaahi yuusuf dawladda ethopia u dibin daabyaynayso iyo dawladda fadaraalka.iyo sida ay dawladda maraykanku u doonayso in soomalia loo kala gooyo,iyo sida ay u taageerayso maamulka riyaale. xiinfiniin1@hotmail.com s/haaruun

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Jihad Comes to Wall Street "Sharia finance" does exactly what it promises, financing the spread of sharia — and terror. By Alex Alexiev If you’ve seen Geert Wilders’s film Fitna, you may not have noticed a single headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam’s eventual world domination: Halal-fund: investments for Muslims. But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within. And Wall Street, barely out of the woods from its disastrous run-in with sub-prime mortgages — and having lost one of its historic investment houses, Bear Stearns, in the process — is now chasing the very kind of “sharia finance” against which Wilders's movie warns, a business line that may eventually wind up being even more calamitous than the subprime-mortgage fiasco. For the growing army of its acolytes, who salivate at the prospect of tens of billions of dollars in transaction fees from the burgeoning industry, sharia-compliant finance is seen as little more than a cuddly Islamic version of socially conscious investment — with ethical strictures forbidding usury and sin industries, and emphasizing charity. Indeed, a conference on the subject last Fall co-sponsored by the Wall Street Journal was titled just that: “Islamic Ethical Investment.” According to this rosy interpretation, sharia finance is a windfall for capital markets — allowing Wall Street to skim some foam off the ocean of petrodollar liquidity in the Middle East, and put it to good use. Other interpretations are possible, of course. Critics see sharia finance as a massive subversion campaign by radical Islam designed to legitimize sharia in the West, to undermine our markets, and ultimately to imperil our free-enterprise system and national security — all the while exposing banks to financial risks that make the sub-prime fiasco look like a walk in the park. For its proponents and ideological enablers — such as the well known suicide-bombing advocate, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — sharia finance is nothing less than “Jihad with money.” As al-Qaradawi explains, “God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and with our money.” Unfortunately for Wall Street, it’s hard to argue with the good sheikh on that score. Far from being a guide to ethical investment, sharia finance is indistinguishable from sharia itself. Sharia is a reactionary-to-the-core medieval Islamic doctrine that claims control over every aspect of every Muslim’s life. It imposes such “ethical” mandates on Muslims as the obligation to discriminate against women and non-Muslims; to kill homosexuals, adulterers, and apostates; to establish and maintain Muslim rule around the world; and to carry out violent offensive jihad against infidels. Notably, for those Muslims who cannot engage in physical jihad using force of arms, sharia requires that they support jihad financially. This is what sharia finance is all about. Far from being a legitimate investment vehicle, sharia finance facilitates religiously sanctioned support for terrorist organizations — as well as providing radical Islamists with highly paid sinecures as sharia-finance board advisors in the sanctum sanctorum of capitalism, all the while that they are pursuing a subversive campaign to destroy it. Predictably, none of this is even remotely disclosed by any of the dozens of Western banks promoting sharia finance today, which obviously exposes them to huge non-disclosure risks ranging from fraudulent misrepresentation, to material support for terrorism. Consider the board chairman of the Dow Jones Islamic Index (IMANX), one Mufti Taqi Usmani. Mr. Usmani is widely reputed to be one of the world’s top experts on sharia finance. Whatever his stockpicking abilities may be, they are dwarfed by his jihadist credentials. A key executive of Pakistan’s prominent Deobandi jihadist factory, the madrassa Darul Karoom Karachi (currently headed by his brother, Rafi Usmani), Taqi Usmani has openly advocated jihad by Muslims in the West, and just last month again publicly endorsed suicide bombing and the Taliban. Since sharia-finance funds like the IMANX may invest in companies that are not completely halal — that derive their profit from interest or other sharia-prohibited activities — returns on investment in those companies must be purified by donating a portion of that ROI to charity. More often than not, it is people like Usmani who are paid lucratively to sit on sharia-finance boards in order to determine what charities will receive the sharia-finance institutions’ donations — and it’s a fair bet that the March of Dimes is not among them. IMANX itself is owned and operated by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), an organization listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator by the Department of Justice in a recent terrorism-finance trial, and the proprietor of hundreds of radical mosques and Islamic institutions in the U.S., including some that have been closed down by the government as criminal enterprises. The chairman of both NAIT and IMANX, Bassam Osman, has been the top executive of terrorist-funding organizations like the Quranic Literacy Institute (suspected financiers of Hamas whose assets were seized by the U.S. in 1998) and the Islamic Academy of Florida (founded by Sami al-Arian, a convicted financier of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist criminal enterprise), and is a board member of other un-indicted co-conspirators like the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Is Dow Jones aware of all this? Is Rupert Murdoch? And if they are not, shouldn’t they be? The IMANX marketing slogan is “Markets Fluctuate. Principles Don’t.” Judging by the ideological principles of those involved in its leadership, that is precisely what Wall Street — and the West — should fear. The legitimization of sharia in the West and its gradual imposition in Muslim communities and beyond is a key objective of sharia finance, and there is no doubt it has already made huge strides. Indeed, the precedent of legal sharia-finance transactions was used by the hapless archbishop of Canterbury to buttress his argument that introducing sharia in the United Kingdom was unavoidable. Given the reality of malignant Islamism now spreading into our own capital markets to the loud cheers of the same Wall Street masters of the universe who gave us sub-prime mortgage securitization, Americans have a right to ask: Where are the U.S. Treasury Department and the SEC, whose job it is to protect our markets? Given the outright fraudulent misrepresentation of the potential liabilities of sharia-finance funds under existing regulations, they should get involved soon. — Alex Alexiev is vice president for research at the Center for Security Policy.

Faynuus: We are Africans laakiin africaan walaaqanaa nahay.

I am just wondering what this move has got to do with the Xabashis that are on their way to the region?

How many times have they been cought lying horta? I lost the count.

Who is he horta? and why does it bother you?

Entertaintment huh? It's not the xabash or the monkeys that entertain me but the commentators. I hope you get that. The suffering of the Somali people isn't entertaining, commentators chasing their tails is. This fadhi ku dirir and marfash talk is entertaining.

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: Gees ka gees, sal ka sal. Maxee Xabashi Soomaali u tashatay. Badownimana halkaas na gaarsiisay, anaga cadow isku ah iskugu wacaneeno, oo midba kan kale Xabashi ugu kala dhuumanaayo, usoo kala kaxeysanaayo. Shuuud. Hahahahahahaha, you should be thankfull! we are getting that 'shared' experience I am just waiting for you with a blue bandana rambo oo kale It's better if the xabash go everywhere in Somalia with their armies. We know they are present everywhere now via their proxies, but nothing beats a xabash army base with it's prisons in every city. Me's 2 taano, this is great news.

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