Now this is what i call a hijack operation, you ladies could give a lesson or two a certain set of vagabonds! sshehehehe, i'll take that post card, thanks , and sneak out of here, before i turn out like NGonge and end up knowing the difference between John Rocha and the other places you mentioned . p.s. skiing hurts, well, the skinny version, i.e. sliding on your face down a mountain at 20mph hurts, it really hurts and snowboarding is just another way to discover what new impossible angle can legs endup in as you use your head to break your fall, but it is fun

NG ^^ I have a feeling it's all done through arranged marraiges. Acutally I am sure it is. It must! Come on man, sweet taking aside, there is no easy way around the "Do you knowingly take this woman whose face you will never see, as you wife" .. It's an explicit precondition to the contract they agree to. Now unless these guys come from spectacularly masochistic families, that's a hard sell for anyone unless its the last woman on earth! and if he chirped her on the streets, then it just reinforces the idea of niqa/burka kink

These men have to be satisfying some pervasion to be in this place. This is truly bizzare, i mean the vast majority of human communication, revolves around facial expressions! Otherwise how do they justify agreeing to share a life with some one whose face they know they will never see. Simply it must be for kicks they get from not knowing or putting faces to the missus - perves!

shehehehe, abaayo, research on the nearest beaches, walks and trails, sights, quality of husband material and etc, all make sense, but shopping malls, puurleeeze! p.s. don't ya go forgetting maa authentic-non-shopping-mall prezie

In frustration of quantunm mechanics, Einstein is famous for having said "God does not play dice with the universe". And virtually all of his latter research was concerned with ridding the physics he fathered of notions of `uncertainty'. Much like Kurt Gödel (a hero of the 20th century whose philosophical ideas made it possible for you read what I'm writing here from a terminal anywhere in the world), he is said to have been a spiritual man. But and a big BUT, we must distinguish between conventional religion of a book, and what these guys believe, after all, they dedicated their lives to dismantling the orthodox and trying to unravel the building blocks of our world and mind. When professor Einstein writes "it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity", his emotion is a reverence for the "mysterious" and the "knowledge" its unravelling to the *provably* obvious or evident. But these guys can definitely be said to have been spiritually orientated. Interestingly, Gödel gave a formal ontological proof of Saint Anselm's ontological argument for God's existence. The argument says: "God, by definition, is that than which a greater cannot be thought. God exists in the understanding. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist." Gödel's proof in english says (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_ontological_proof#Derivation): if x is an object in some world, then the property P is said to be an essence of x if P(x) is true in that world and if P entails all other properties that x has in that world. We also say that x necessarily exists if for every essence P the following is true: in every possible world, there is an element y with P(y). Since necessary existence is positive, it must follow from Godlikeness. Moreover, Godlikeness is an essence of God, since it entails all positive properties, and any nonpositive property is the negation of some positive property, so God cannot have any nonpositive properties. Since any Godlike object is necessarily existent, it follows that any Godlike object in one world is a Godlike object in all worlds, by the definition of necessary existence. Given the existence of a Godlike object in one world, proven above, we may conclude that there is a Godlike object in In simpler eglish, if god exists in any imaginable world, then god must exist in all worlds. In somali, war illaah ka baq, and in picture format for JB Note that this is merely an exercise in logic, nothing more, a major tenant of a religion as we understand it, is faith, not logical proof. Something people seem to forget, and thereby undermine their argument when they mix up religion and science that they often know little about, e.g. Harun Yahya style.

I am perving at the Mall of the Emirates website and the ski slopes. ^ lordh, get out of the house woman!

ooah and believe me it hurts

how much?

The outspoken former Dutch legislator deserves the protection her country promised before she ran for parliament. By Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie October 9, 2007, LA Times As you read this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits in a safe house with armed men guarding her door. She is one of the most poised, intelligent and compassionate advocates of freedom of speech and conscience alive today, and for this she is despised in Muslim communities throughout the world. The details of her story bear repeating, as they illustrate how poorly equipped we are to deal with the threat of Muslim extremism in the West. Hirsi Ali first fled to the Netherlands as a refugee from Somalia in 1992 after declining to submit to a forced marriage to a man she did not know. Once there, in hiding from her family, she began working as a cleaning lady. But this cleaning lady spoke Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, English and was quickly learning Dutch, so she soon found work as a translator for other Somali refugees, many of whom, like herself, were casualties of Islam. These women had been abused, mutilated, denied medical care and proper educations and forced into lives of sexual subjection and compulsory childbearing. After attending the University of Leiden, Hirsi Ali began speaking publicly about the repression of women under Islam, and shortly thereafter she started receiving death threats from local Muslims. Her security situation eventually became so dire that she moved to the U.S. in 2002. However, she was soon contacted by Gerrit Zalm, then deputy prime minister of the Netherlands, who urged her to run for parliament. When Hirsi Ali voiced her security concerns, Zalm assured her that she would be given diplomatic protection wherever and whenever she needed it. She returned to the Netherlands with this assurance, won a seat in parliament and became a tireless advocate for women, for civil society and for reason. The rest of her story is well known. In 2004, Hirsi Ali collaborated with Theo van Gogh on the film "Submission," which examined the link between Islamic law and the suffering of millions of women under Islam. The reaction from the Muslim community was nothing short of psychopathic, and it confirmed the necessity of Hirsi Ali's work and the reasonableness of her fears. Van Gogh, having declined bodyguards of his own, was gunned down and nearly decapitated on an Amsterdam street, and a letter threatening Hirsi Ali was staked to his chest with a butcher knife. Hirsi Ali was immediately forced into hiding and moved from safe house to safe house, sometimes more than once a day, for months. Eventually, her security concerns drove her from the Netherlands altogether. She returned to the U.S., and the Dutch government has been paying for her protection here -- that is, until it suddenly announced last week that it would no longer protect her outside the Netherlands, thereby advertising her vulnerability to the world. Hirsi Ali may be the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust. As such, she is a unique and indispensable witness to both the strength and weakness of the West: to the splendor of open society and to the boundless energy of its antagonists. She knows the challenges we face in our struggle to contain the misogyny and religious fanaticism of the Muslim world, and she lives with the consequences of our failure each day. There is no one in a better position to remind us that tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. Having recapitulated the Enlightenment for herself in a few short years, Hirsi Ali has surveyed every inch of the path leading out of the moral and intellectual wasteland that is traditional Islam. She has written two luminous books describing her journey, the most recent of which, "Infidel," has been an international bestseller for months. It is difficult to exaggerate her courage. As Christopher Caldwell wrote in the New York Times, "Voltaire did not risk, with his every utterance, making a billion enemies who recognized his face and could, via the Internet, share information instantaneously with people who aspired to assassinate him." The Dutch Parliament will be debating Hirsi Ali's case this week. As it stands, the government's decision to protect her only within the borders of the Netherlands is genuinely perverse. While the Dutch have complained about the cost of protecting Hirsi Ali in the United States, it is actually far more expensive for them to protect her in the Netherlands, as the risk to her is greatest there. There is also the matter of broken promises: Hirsi Ali was persuaded to run for parliament and to become the world's most visible and imperiled spokeswoman for the rights of Muslim women, on the understanding that she would be provided security for as long as she needed it. Zalm, in his capacity as both the deputy prime minister and the minister of finance, promised her such security without qualification. Most shamefully, Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, has recommended that Hirsi Ali simply quit the Netherlands and has refused to grant her even a week's protection outside the country, during which she might raise funds to hire security of her own. Is this a craven attempt to placate local Muslim fanatics? A warning to other Dutch dissidents not to stir up trouble by speaking too frankly about Islam? Or just pure thoughtlessness? The Dutch government should recognize a scandal in the making and rediscover its obligation to provide Hirsi Ali with the protection she was promised. There is not a person alive more deserving of the freedoms of speech and conscience we take for granted in the West, nor is there anyone making a more courageous effort to defend them. ---------------------- Anyone else think that Nurudin Faraax should start claiming royalties on the 'kidnapped and forced marriage then run away to be a cleaner' tale( read from a crooked rib) that some somali ladies seem to be so fond of?

not Locust, but i've had grubs like these, but dried, they were salty and chewy and trust me, i'm not planning on going back there any time soon.

^^really KK? I'm sure I would've remember that

lol ^ lazy and you too, its just funny, sorry, but i have this mental image of you gals, bug eyed, ready to spout a torrent of verse and good 'old damnation and vaguest possible unorthodoxy .. dont get me wrng, it amuses me, and you've contributes some gems in your time, but let me in on why, please..

kk, adiga why does everything *somehow* manage to offend your overdeveloped sense of sensibilities? :rolleyes: umu zakaria I agree with you, poor guy, good luck to him.

I'm sorry to read the bad news Puuja, allah ha u naxriisto, adiga, dadka yaqaaney iyo reerkeeda samar iyo iimaan ha idinsiiyo

Originally posted by Ghanima: ^^miyaad ciiyaari?? i'll quote intel, waxaan ku cunin oo aan xaaraan aheyn waa lacunaa serinity, i'm with you on that

wouldn't mind trying a bit of that lizard, ng can you recommend retailers or give us insight into u're experience of it?

khalaf #10. I have heard sheikhs say this, u can't talk to opposite sex, u can only talk and mix if u have intentions of marrying them. but we friends, school mates, work with opposite sex, and keep within bounderies of islam just fine, marka i don't see this arguemtnt. Allah knows best. I dont know man, your making interpretations to suite your self there man. If i were you, i wouldn't take the risk and reply to Al-Mu'minah

There is a really simple secret to get your brother feeding himself G, it worked for all of us. simply get him out of your house and into his own place, preferably far enough from you that he doesnt turn up at your door at meal times. That way, once he's become sick of expensive takeaways, the chore is of feeding himself becomes easy ms DD thanks for pointer, ambala is down the road from work, i cycle past it on my way home, tonigh i'll pop in . lilly easy tiger

what i miss is 'caano baraawe' ayeeyadey baa noo samenjirtey markaan yaraa, even the word brings her smile to my mind. Haven't had them since somalia,

Originally posted by Dahia al Kahina: ^^Me too,I also use the same ingredients when cooking plain white rice..Heyl,coconut milk/cream..hmmm the smell,the test,the texture...divine! FB,what else do you want to learn,am assuming your missing "Futari za pwani" ..katlesi, kalmati, kachori, bajia, etc etc nice, i was addicted to that coconut rice for a while, it took a lot of strength to step back , another fav rice of mine is frying some coriander/cilantro roots and cumin seeds and then adding some lebanese/greek yoghurt instead of the coconut - when the rice cooks, it gets coated from the fat from the yoghurt and its silky but not oily

man i can't write, [i blame it on the coffee rush]

Faarax-Brawn, I like with heyl iyo qumbo instead of just oil. my family version, you take 5-6 pods of cardamoms, crush them, pour about 1/2 a can of coconut milk into a pan, add the heyl, sugar to taste, then put in on a low heat. simmer *with out boiling* for about 5-6 mins so that the sugar melts and the coconut takes up the heyl flav. when done, add the vermicelli, and strir thru. if you like you can add a little sessame oil also at this point, and its done. yeah also slightly under cook the vermicelli the as described, so that it retains a bit of a bite otherwise it just feels like mush. enjoy emperor lay down your kaluun man, i'm always in the market for something new

Daqsi, you mean Dhaqsi = quick no? Tuqsi, is a fly? I vote for "Tuqsi Tuujiye', double 'T' in short

Originally posted by -Lily-: ^LoL Caano, Looser was one in a million, (besides he had no option but to be a success with a name like that) compared to the hordes of black ppl that employers discriminated against. Surely you could use the reach of the moon and land on the tree analogy, surely reaching for 'sensational' and falling on 'great' couldn't be so bad

faarax, come to think of it, somali nick-names ala. indhacade, dhag-dhuuban iyo lug-dheer which are substituted for birth names arn't far off the whack list