Why cant it be the opposite - male nudity causes siesmic movememt? Is that unthinkable?

Jumca Mubarak folks! Glorious day - weekend is here! I dont know how long I want to continue living only looking forward to weekends. I need more of my life to do what I want than 2 days every 5 days.

Originally posted by Castro: ^^^^ So is a minyaro. With many more uses to boot. Still persuing the minyaro holy grail Adeero? Miskiin.

Arent kinds really an advanced type of pet anyway?

Val, more please.

And my sense of deja-vu continuous. I see no basis Islamically for barring women from political participation. The question is and has always been of one position - head of state. This too is quite contentious amongst different historians and scholars. I'm always shocked when I read stuff like this as it makes no sense to restrict the efforts of half the population in an already crippled country with an incompetent and ineffective system in place. Personally I think this character Maxamed Ibraahim Bilaal should be exiled from all political participation after this article because he is clearly too istubidh and too short-sighted, not to mention too insecure to do any task. If I ever see him, I'll be more than tempted to b*tch slap him.

Maybe you should start making a list Ibtisam and start a blog to document it all - like this bloke. http://www.100things.com.au/ Gotta admit, there is a slight thrill to it.

Ibti - travelling is great and alot of fun, but it can get tiresome too and even routine! Take a vacation, a couple of times a year, every year instead of just upping and moving about aimlessly for months. I always find that after three weeks of traveling, my mind becomes consumed with thoughts of my bed, a hot cup of tea and silence and I start to loose interest and momentum.

@blank sexual message. I suppose it can be interpreted in a lot of ways. Makes one for the imagination.

Sorry to learn about your loss LS, Ilaahay ha u naxariisto your friend. Samir iyo Iman I'A.

I replied to this topic again and had a sense of deja-vu. Then I used the search functionality of this forum and input my member number [140] and 'polygamy' in the search words section and realised that I've said all there is to be said on the subject. 5 topics in the Women's section 9 topics in the General section 3 topics in the Islam section. Enough already, no more topics on polygamy please!

Nice find.. looks good! And I've always wanted to go to Turkey. Not sure the website looks authentic though.. have heard of too many Turkey holiday packages that were nothing like the brochure or package.

This an an AMAZING event taking place via webcast tonight and on Sunday afternoon InshAllah.. it is a worldwide celebration of our beloved prophet Muhammed (PBUH). Join if you can. Celebrate Mercy

Originally posted by General Duke: how on earth can a contenent come together? Erm, maybe like the European Union!

I agree with Ailamos over there, if the Chinese and Indians get a hold of the African market, you bet they are going to flood it with their cheap products and services and run any local and homegrown business out of job, only to hike up the prices and hold the market by the gonads going forth. Africans need to come together and stop looking to the west or east for assistance.

If young British Muslims had any doubts that they are singled out for special treatment in the land of their birth, the punishments being meted out to those who took part in last year's London demonstrations against Israel's war on Gaza will have dispelled them. The protests near the Israeli ­embassy at the height of the onslaught were angry: bottles and stones were thrown, a ­Starbucks was trashed and the police employed unusually violent tactics, even by the standards of other recent confrontations, such as the G20 protests. But a year later, it turns out that it's the sentences that are truly exceptional. Of 119 people arrested, 78 have been charged, all but two of them young ­Muslims (most between the ages of 16 and 19), according to Manchester University's Joanna Gilmore, even though such figures in no way reflect the mix of those who took part. In the past few weeks, 15 have been convicted, mostly of violent disorder, and jailed for between eight months and two-and-a-half years – ­having switched to guilty pleas to avoid heavier terms. Another nine are up to be sentenced tomorrow. The severity of the charges and sentencing goes far beyond the official response to any other recent anti-war demonstration, or even the violent stop the City protests a decade ago. So do the arrests, many of them carried out months after the event in dawn raids by dozens of police officers, who smashed down doors and handcuffed family members as if they were suspected terrorists. Naturally, none of the more than 30 complaints about police ­violence were upheld, even where video ­evidence was available. Nothing quite like this has happened, in fact, since 2001, when young Asian Muslims rioted against extreme rightwing racist groups in Bradford and other northern English towns and were subjected to heavily disproportionate prison terms. In the Gaza protest cases, the judge has explicitly relied on the Bradford precedent and repeatedly stated that the sentences he is handing down are intended as a deterrent. For many in the Muslim community, the point will be clear: not only that these are political sentences, but that different rules apply to Muslims, who take part in democratic protest at their peril. It's a dangerous message, especially given the threat from a tiny minority that is drawn towards indiscriminate violence in response to Britain's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and rejects any truck with mainstream politics. But it's one that is constantly ­reinforced by politicians and parts of the media, who have increasingly blurred the distinction between violent and non- violent groups, demonised Islamism as an alien threat and branded as extremist any Muslim leader who dares to campaign against western foreign policy in the Muslim world. That's reflected in the government's targeting of "nonviolent extremism" and lavish funding of anti-Islamist groups, as well as in Tory plans to ban the nonviolent Hizb ut-Tahrir and crack down ever harder on "extremist written material and speech". In the media, it takes the form of relentless attempts to expose ­Muslims involved in wider politics as secret fanatics and sympathisers with ­terrorism. Next week, Channel 4 ­Dispatches plans to broadcast the latest in a series of undercover documentaries aimed at revealing the ugly underside of British Muslim political life. In this case, the target is the predominantly British-Bangladeshi Islamic Forum of Europe. From material sent out in advance, the aim appears to be to show the IFE is an "entryist" group in legitimate east ­London politics – and unashamedly Islamist to boot. As recent research co-authored by the former head of the Metropolitan police special branch's Muslim contact unit, Bob Lambert, has shown, such ubiquitous portrayals of Muslim ­activists as "terrorists, sympathisers and subversives" (all the while underpinned by a drumbeat campaign against the nonexistent Afghan "burka") are one factor in the alarming growth of ­British Islamophobia and the rising tide of anti-Muslim violence and hate crimes that stem from it. Last month's British Social Attitudes survey found that most people now regard Britain as "deeply divided along religious lines", with hostility to Muslims and Islam far outstripping such attitudes to any other religious group. On the ground that has translated into murders, assaults and attacks on mosques and Muslim institutions – with shamefully little response in politics or the media. Last year, five mosques in Britain were firebombed, from Bishop's Stortford to Cradley Heath, though barely reported in the national press, let alone visited by a government minister to show solidarity. And now there is a street movement, the English Defence League, directly adopting the officially sanctioned targets of "Islamists" and "extremists" – as well as the "Taliban" and the threat of a "takeover of Islam" – to intimidate and threaten Muslim communities across the country, following the success of the British National party in ­baiting Muslims above all other ethnic and religious communities. Of course, anti-Muslim bigotry, the last socially acceptable racism, is often explained away by the London bombings of 2005 and the continuing threat of terror attacks, even though by far the greatest number of what the authorities call "terrorist incidents" in the UK take place in Northern Ireland, while Europol figures show that more than 99% of terrorist attacks in Europe over the past three years were carried out by non-Muslims. And in the last nine months, two of the most serious bomb plot convictions were of far right racists, Neil Lewington and Terence Gavan, who were planning to kill Muslims. Meanwhile, in the runup to the ­general election, expect some ugly dog whistles from Westminster politicians keen to capitalise on Islamophobic sentiment. With few winnable Muslim votes, the Tories seem especially up for it. Earlier this month, Conservative frontbencher Michael Gove came out against the building of a mosque in his Surrey constituency, while Welsh Tory MP David Davies blamed a rape case on the "medieval and barbaric" attitudes of some migrant communities. As long as British governments back wars and occupations in the Middle East and Muslim world, there will continue to be a risk of violence in Britain. But attempts to drive British Muslims out of normal political activity, and the refusal to confront anti-Muslim hatred, can only ratchet up the danger and threaten us all. Source

Originally posted by Khayr: Salams, what is more shameful and depressing: - Getting Old ALONE or - Being part of a polygamous family Khayr, the point is, they are both not favourable or any woman's first choice. Ilaahay saa nama yeelo but I dont look down on someone who chooses either path as its a personal preference (something I sense you'll never understand, esp if one were to choose the former over the latter, granted they were the only two options on the table). Salaam. [Edit] - The title of this thread and the measure of 30 as old is very ... how can I be delicate here.. istubidh!

Khary, horta su'aalo xumidaa saaxiib? I, my parents, my grandparents or my ancestors were not enslaved. But if there is anyone reeling from the effects of bad government policies in the past (e.g. the stolen generation in Australia, black Americans, South Africans, Zimbabweans and many other parts of Africa, etc etc), I think they are entitled to some compensation. Of course, whether this actually can be achieved on every front is another matter!

Yes Arch, apparently thats the exact same reason there are two Qibla's on the mosque in Saylac. They had to change direction too after the revelation and build a new mihrab.

Apology ma qof bey wax u taraysa? Compensation, maybe.. laakin apology is just patronizing in a civil guise.

Adam, thats quite an impressive list. I wonder how many of those sites are being actively preserved? I was reading about Qiblatain Mosque(the one in Medina) the other day and then my aunt told me about the one in Saylac. Apparently the mosques were built around the same time period (the time of the prophet - scw), which explains the two qibla's. Showz how far back dated the spread of Islam to Somalia goes.

Originally posted by Sayid*Somal: i am waiting on Serenity to come here and rescue me. she is proper reer burco - she won't stand up for this injustice. :cool: Sayid, waan ku caawin lahaa, laakin you must atleast get my region right. Reer Burco kulahaa.. ! Ha i caayin huuno , I'm not budh-sidato like Ibts and NG here. They call us the diplomatic Northerners.

Juxa, adna ma anigaad gafuurka ii taageysa? Waamaxay salaan la'aantu?

Yes NG, thats the book. Are you really reading it? Even *I* found it a bit too much to chew...

Sheh, now I've no choice but to finish it before starting up again on the black mamba. Maybe we should have a catch up after I finish it - I would like to know how much of the principles you managed to apply and if you can be classified as the NR Ibs and NG - maybe you should both consider sending Nadifa a critique of her book? I'm sure she would appreciate the far-off-the-mark analysis