Oh for God's sake hablo, its after 2am. GO TO SLEEP. Qaxar badnaa kuwani. Wlc young one.

Originally posted by Nazra: Zeph, and 7 of nine, liking the same guy? yaa lolz. Now your best friend relationship is being tested. keep it strong. hehehe i wonder who will win him... Drama right here i say. LoL Nazra. I don't think any man, even the delish Zu, will come between me and 7. Plus, I always win dear. Always. Gediid, PME? Miyaad yara khafiiftay, walaalo? :eek:

^ Thank you for that, N-P. Completely agree. Originally posted by Salaxuddiin: "the end justifies the means" is contrary to Islam and everything it stands for! the only thing that cames to my mind is that, honestly, the hardest thing of all is staying just in an unjust world! Absolutely.

Hey Foxy, good to see you posting. Life is treating me well. Alhamdulilaah. The soya tosh is history, babe. I wouldn't touch that stuff with a barge pole.

Originally posted by Socod_badne: Zeph, the rot sets in :confused: Yes, dear. As in, it can only get worse from here. Jack Daniels? What are you, an old white man? *Shakes her head*

Ahh, yes..the man has taste. Great taste I might add. 7 doesn't know what she is missing! X, I don't like the thought of sharing a cyber lover with you. After all, I wouldn't want to catch anything. God Bless the Zu warrior.

I am feeling :mad: :mad: ...why do things just stop working on Fridays? Obviously no one is going to come and fix it on a bloody Friday. I am left twiddling my thumbs when I have important stuff to see to.

Originally posted by x_quizit: or shall i post ur "i love u" pm to me here? *Gasp* He sent you one as well? :eek: Damn the little chinese love rat! :mad: :mad: Animal Farm, Allah ha kuu fududeeyo.

I cant access either link. :mad: I cant access 80% of posted links from work. They keep blocking every bloody interesting site. Grr.. :mad:

In the words of JB...Hubba Hubba! What I like most about SOL is interacting with the newbies. I used to hate them before..coming in with their gung-ho attitudes, expecting everyone to kotow to their recycled topics. But now, I utterly adore them. Maybe that's because we are getting high calibre aliens these days. Maybe it's just the smell of fresh blood. Who knows? Nazra, hodanneey you say? That grossly racist girl? Well I never! :eek: Animal Farm, I'm curious...do you ever sleep? At all? I am a bit worried about you.

Thank you, Baashi. I take note of your points, however, maybe you could try being a little less patronising next time. Now boys, stop banging on. I am perfectly aware of the situation in Chechnya. I have been following it for quite a while, although it has been almost impossible to get any clear information the last couple of years due to the media blackout in the region. Baashi, 'a nationalistic war' you say? Please tell me which of the current ongoing conflicts in the Muslim world aren't nationalistic? What are the Palestinians fighting for? How about the Iraqi 'insurgents'? The South Sudanese (Christians I know, but Muslims are involved as well)? Are they not all struggling for sovereignty? Aren't they all mere political causes? Yet the Islamic name is always invoked on their behalf and Muslims everywhere justify their actions on what is happening in these regions. Is there much doubt that these 'nationalistic' wars have morphed into 'Islamic' jihads? I think not. Have a good one.

And the rot sets in. As you were. :rolleyes:

Sounds interesting, but I have lost the ability to write. I'm only capable of one-liners maalmahan. Will you be submitting a piece, Sheh?

Coincidently, I am listening to Usher's Lovers and friends. @ NGONGE. Mission accomplished.

My pleasure Sheh.

Rule # 3 in GF's Guide - What goes around comes around. Whats the topic?

Wishing Orgilaqe a safe journey, Insha'Allah.

ICE = In Case of Emergency, right? I got a hundred of these emails after the London tube bombings. Needless to say, I have 4 different ICE numbers saved in my mobile.

Hundreds, if not thousands of people are being estimated to have died in this disaster. It's incredibly sad. Even sadder is the stampede which killed over 700 Iraqis in Baghdad. May the dead rest in peace. I don't know, sometimes I pine for the good old days of no news.

I was reading the paper this morning when I came across an article on the Beslan School siege massacre, which took place one year ago today. But I need no reminders. I have heard that only a few moments in life actually manage to have such a monumental impact on you, that they fundamentally change you as a person. Well, Beslan was one of those moments for me. For three whole days, from Wednesday 1 Sept to Friday 3rd Sept 2004, I was nailed down in front of the television in my living room watching the most horrific events I have ever witnessed before in my life unfolding in front of my eyes. I suppose violence against children always tends to induce the most extreme reaction in people, but the images of the Beslan School massacre affected me so much that I found it difficult to function normally for a long time. The faces of those children are still burned into my psyche to this very day. I don’t think it will be possible for me to ever forget. I would even go so far to say that that one event has irrevocably changed my views on a lot of things, including how I see the Muslim World and its struggles against aggression, invasion, injustice and oppression. I had to take a step back and seriously re-evaluate my thinking. Whereby I only ever saw political causes before, I started to realise that there are human causes as well. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have always supported the struggles of the Chechen people, however, I no longer believe – nay, I refuse to believe - that the end justifies the means. My morally-shaky stand of ‘by any means necessary’ slid out from underneath me, and I haven’t been able to climb back on it since. Furthermore, all my closely-held arguments of why some Muslims have had to resort to terror in order to defend themselves started to mean nothing to me. Less than nothing actually. There was just no way I could justify what happened in Beslan to myself. I suppose you might say, that’s because I’m an outsider looking in, I have no idea what these people have been through, therefore I couldn’t comprehend the lengths they would go to secure whatever it is they are fighting for. It’s a brutal conflict, so only brutality should be expected. I undertsand this, I really do, but it doesn't justify the massacre for me. I still don’t see anything but the faces of those children. My views didn’t change just on Chechnya, but every other country and conflict as well, including Palestine. I whole-heartedly believe in the Palestinian cause and have actively campaigned for Palestinian Freedom. I had accepted that suicide bombings were the only real strategy open to the Palestinians in the face of the overwhelming military machine that is Israel. Every time I heard about another suicide bombing, I would gleefully think ‘take that, you damn yihuudis’! However, after taking a step back and clearly reviewing my thinking, none of my arguments and rhetoric could stand up to the glare of the audit. I don’t want the Palestinians to be ravaged and murdered, but I also couldn’t justify killing innocent Israeli civilians either. I think I understood for the first time, that two wrongs do not, and can not, make a right. There’s no honour in killing innocent people to further your cause. As always, only Allah knows best. May He forgive us all. Beslan grieves a year after siege

Sleep motivates me to get through the day. I try not to think about tomorrow or the future by focusing only on finishing what I'm doing so I can go home and fall into sweet oblivion.

Well I am impressed. We do seem to have real cyber pioneers in here. I was a late bloomer. I discovered the internet in 97/98 during my last year of college, but I only used it for study purposes till I was in my second year of Uni when I discovered Somalinet Forum...(I needed to vent about the American invasion of Afghanistan), but before I had the opportunity to post anything, I got invited to the recently set-up Somaliaonline and I have never looked back. Where was I in 91? Dunno...prolly Nairobi. 88-92 are a big blur for me. Must have blocked it all out.

Welcome all.

@ Shy She's very pretty.

Good to know you all had a lovely bank-holiday weekend. :cool: