I’m afraid it’s a clear cut case of copyright infringement. They’re even using a very similar( if not same) font. The polyethylene cover design is exactly the same.

LOL all im saying is that their membership includes a wide variety of people from the community. Nothing sinister about that mate.

They are using Somali as an all encompassing term, regardless of interior boundaries. I’m sure they won’t mind anyone using the SL flag in conjunction with the Somali one. You are right it’s a little vague but with the right input it has the potential for some real good. Recent graduates and professionals can join too.

El Punto, i think it’s a wee bit ambitious also, but i admire their lofty ambitions. http://www.facebook.com/WorldwideSomaliStudents Apparently they are working on a website also. They certainly seem to have generated a lot of goodwill and momentum. I just hope they can channel all those disparate views and expertise into something tangible and coherent. I personally think it’s exciting stuff and can’t wait to see where the journey leads. Getting educated professional young Somalis can never be a bad thing. More power to them.

This looks interesting folks, might join myself. Come on get involved!

I'm biased but I would say SCM with IS most definitely.

An unjust occupation, an illegal occupation, many innocent lives lost. I only hope as a ‘Marine’ he did not kill any so called insurgents who were defending their country. In wars like this the line between right and wrong is clear cut. He was clearly on the wrong side. Clearly! I remember downloading and reading the so called famous dossier for the Iraq war, the morning it was realised. If i as a high school student could tell the case for war was weak and unconvincing then so should he. You always have a choice. Always. Nevertheless I’m not judging the brother but just thoroughly disappointed for him as it sounds like he so called brothers didn’t accept either. You live and you learn. The guilt he must be feeling is immense. In hindsight with our rose tinted spectacles it’s easy to judge.

where she gets some of this is beyond me. :confused::confused: http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/25/ayaan-hirsi-ali-i-told-my-father-that-i-no-longer-believed-in-the-example-of-the-prophet/

What do you do for a living? if you dont mind my asking.

Niall Ferguson is to a historian what a televangelist is to a theologian. He is the intellectual equivalent of a radio shock jock albeit one with a dazzling pedigree.

why is it a miracle? i've seen many farms and green areas.

Excellent article. If you have time check out the excellent video at end of link. http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/03/max-blumenthal-anti-muslim-hate-rally-summons-the-ghosts-of-jim-crow/

Quick question JB. why are the newly built roads in SL sub standard. I mean their hardly asphalt grade. They seem to have loose grounded rocks on them. It will do for now but its hardly a modern road. Plus whats happening with the Dahabshill building in the centre of town. Is it still in scaffolding.

where does the endless stream of arms seem to be coming from:-(

Hello Nomads, i need help from anyone with experience in rolling out or at least configured an ERP implementation at a company. Any industry welcome. Just want to hear about your experiences and problems encountered, usability, GUI, results, and first impressions. I’m also interested from anyone who’s used Oracle solutions. PS! If you’re a SAP Consultant i definitely want to hear from you. Many thanks in advance.

Growing up my dad’s favourite quotes were; Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds If wishes were horses then beggars would ride The good old days ;-)

^^not for the foreseeable future anyway:-(

^^please do, i'm intrigued now.

whats going on with that Dahabshill building. will it ever be built. its been like that for the past 3-4 years.

Alpha Blondy your comments are deeply offensive. I’m so glad I don’t encounter many people like you. My niece is half Somali half Bosnian, and she is accepted by us all. In fact thanks to her mum she is more Somali than anything else. she speaks the language and we're soon planning her first trip to the motherland. What matters is not her father’s race but the fact that he is a born Muslim and practicing. There’s no place for your nonsense on this forum.

something fishy going on.

what a legend!, defo has a future in comedy:-)

Cecile Laborde, 14 February 2011 Which 'multiculturalism' was Cameron referring to when he delivered his speech in Munich on February 5th? The Prime Minister did not claim to contest the fact that British society is multicultural, multi-ethnic and multiracial. Rather, his target was what he called state multiculturalism - the policies implemented by the government in order to 'manage' cultural diversity. Strictly speaking, multicultural policies involve the attribution of special rights to groups defined by their cultural, linguistic, religious, or ethnic identity, with a view to preserve the latter against the assimilationist impulses of majority groups. Of such differentialist multiculturalism there has been very little in the UK (or indeed in most of Western Europe). British policy, with its robust focus on the provision of equal opportunities, extensive anti-racism and anti-discrimination legislation, and universal access to health, education and basic skills, has consistently pursued policies of minority integration into British society. It is true that UK governments have, more than others, relied on, and enhanced the power of, local community leaders in their search for community cohesion and social peace. It is also true that they have paid lip service to the need to respect cultural and religious sensibilities, often in clumsy and inappropriate ways (witness the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act). Yet, on the whole, British policy, while alternating between multicultural, difference-sensitive rhetoric and (increasingly) appeals to shared nationality and citizenship tests, has pursued a not wholly unsuccessful course of culturally-sensitive integration. One becomes British not through cultural assimilation or declarations of patriotic loyalty but, rather, through participation with others in the labour market, local schools, neighbourhood life, civil society associations, and local and national politics. When things go well, one becomes British through mixing and mingling and working and arguing with others Brits, of diverse origin. If this is the multiculturalism that Cameron has in mind, it is innocuous and benign indeed. Much more disturbing has been the recent emergence of a genuinely differentialist, potentially segregationist multiculturalism at the top of the state. Initially sponsored by New Labour, this multiculturalism has been wholeheartedly espoused and developed by the Coalition government. It is this new 'state multiculturalism' that carries the gravest dangers for the integration of minorities and for social cohesion. It has two pillars. The first is the securitisation of Muslims, as both Stuart Weir and Andy Mycock have touched upon in recent posts. Never mind that Cameron took care rhetorically to distinguish 'good' and 'bad' Muslims. When, in the same speech, a general assessment of the successes and failure of policies of integration is so cynically conflated with the imperatives of national security and anti-terrorist policy, the result is that all Muslims are singled out as potential 'enemies within'. Under this security-driven multiculturalism, a class of citizens are reduced to their presumed origins or beliefs, which are suspected of conflicting with 'our' values, and therefore justify that they (as under the 2006 Terrorism Act) be subjected to an arbitrary regime of suspicion, surveillance and repression. The causes of Islamist radicalisation are complex, but it is well-known that resentment towards both Anglo-American foreign policy and the persistence of large social inequalities of opportunity and status contributes to fuel it. Unfortunately, the second pillar of Cameron's state multiculturalism is unlikely to address the latter. His 'Big Society' agenda involves the delegation of state functions to 'free schools', faith groups, local communities and businesses, and the partial substitution of privately-funded, locally-run and group-specific schemes for publicly-funded, egalitarian, universal-access public services. Citizens are no longer expected to mingle and mix and work together: rather, they should set up their own little private communities catering for their own, cultivating parochial identities and priorities - be they white middle class, or Muslim, or evangelical, or whatever. And the state will be encouraging, and generously subsidizing, such endeavours. Ironically, then, both the anti-terrorist agenda and the Big Society agenda, albeit in different ways, involve the attribution by the state of special privileges or burdens to specific communities or groups, defined by reference to their class, identity or religion, with the effect of separating them from wider society. These policies are more radically multiculturalist than any actually targeted in Cameron's speech. It is under his government that we are likely to take the full measure of the centrifugal and destructive nature of state multiculturalism. Cécile Laborde is Professor of Political Theory at UCL's Department of Political Science; her last book is entitled “Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy”. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/cecile-laborde/which-multiculturalism-has-failed-david-cameron

easy. the proliferation of small arms throughout society. Thats the key difference.