Has anybody slathered good old Hellmans Mayo on hair? And henna, any negatives? Sheh, Mayo is great every once in a while. Just add an egg and keep it on for a few hours and you get some shine. Henna is just evil for my hair. I have the prototypical Somali hair with frizz and tangling and one application of henna made it impossible to comb. Sumama bi*tch :mad: . Some people hail it but it turned my hair into a ball of wires. I want to colour my hair for the first time ever. I'd like to make it black (again?). The sun seems to have made them lose some of their lustre and a few grey hairs need to be dealt with :rolleyes: . Recommendations anyone?

Naden, what? c'mon who gave u that fatwah? it is munkar...dancing & music....not haram tho. You mean there isn't one??? :mad: Let's draft a request and send it to the fatwah bosses. All break-dancing, especially the white people kind with the robot is munkar, munkar, I tell ya.

^ Just a misunderstanding, then, xiin. Thanks for the clarification. And if I could dance like that, I'd be celebrating my boom not confessing. yet ppl participate and encourage munkar….dancing like in da club…and I used to enjoy it tho loool. Khalaf, only break-dancing is munkar. The rest is boom mania .

^ No need to wonder. Just a yes or no was enough.

^ xiinfaniin, are you talking to me? Name names, brother, so you can take your boom (no, not the dance type) like a man.

^ Okay. Quit music, huh? I would be the shaydaan if I did. To each his boom, I say.

^ Nevermind the matchmaking, sister, the next time you're in a wedding and the niiko starts, do this: knock skinny faraxs in oversized suits to the side, push ogling, gossiping xaliimos to the opposite side and let the boom, boom, boom take you home.

^ A sister can admire boom, boom, boom, no? The percussive, mother Africa feel captures my fancy. No sissy music, wind instruments and anorexic dancers for us. Noooooooo. Just the drum and the boom.

^ No? Okay, how about spiritual? But the drums and boom, boom, boom stay.

Niiko IS a religious experience. Percussion, drums thumping, bodies wiggling, beeehinds going boom, boom, boom. Amen and Praise the Lord.

Black women, beware. They are trying to steal us away from you. Don't take us for granted now aight! You just seen how well we do in the market. [Cool] Don't let the door hit you on the A*S*S.

What's the point of having a bouncy tailfeather if you're not gonna shake it? . Let's say it again: Make Niiko Not War.

Not very. Apparently, I'm sleep-walking through life .

Originally posted by sheherazade: I've stopped using shampoo and use good old-fashioned, unscented olive oil soap- the more rustic the better. Olive oil soap, huh? I might just try it. I'm using Nexxus products now, their Humectress conditioner is great. My hair is long, curly, and thick, straight and frizzy in some areas. My head has 3 different hair types in one. The last time I was at a hair salon, I had all the stylists there working to get it in rollers and then straightened with a blow dryer :rolleyes: , it's like man against beast. With summer coming, I'm thinking of cropping it like I did when I was in uni. I got sick of the limited black hair care products available. All that smell and grease, all it's missing is bariis and suqaar.

^^ Nothing is unforgivable. May she find peace wherever she may be.

Here is a hadith from Sahih Bukhari to give you an indication of certain scholarly views. Khumus is one-fifth of war booty given in Allah's cause etc. (Quran 8:41) for those who don't know. I thought I understood something about this wife versus slave issue till khumus, khumlus, hateful Buraida, Ali and the slave-girl, and booty-collecting Khalid came on the scene. Now, I am absolutely baffled. Lost.

What kind of sick pervet wants sex with a child whose going to be playing hopscotch and barbie the next hour? A pathetic freak who couldn't relate to a woman his age and prefers the company of a child.

^ Please refer to verses 2:221 and 24:33. Engaging in sexual relations outside of marriage is unlawful in Islam. Hence the permission to have multiple wives. What is the purpose of having a zina punishment then? There is no exception for bedding a slave person.

^ No doubt that a stable home where parents encourage excellence and higher study is a must for success. I think a segregated school might work only if the above conditions are met; it is not only the segregation that will be key. The goal is to remove black children from an environment where they are herded into 'special' education, streamed out of advanced classes, punished differentially and with severity under the guise of zero-tolerance of violence, and passed classes without effort because they make the basketball or the track team get awards. If a mainstream school can fight these discriminatory practices, then sure, a black child would do just as well as any child in a regular school.

I think it might work. A similar call was made in Ontario a few years ago and it garnered the usual white, liberal drivel of the benefits of integration. The sidelining of black children, especially boys, happens early on in the elementary stage through special education classes and other such 'therapeutic' interventions. Black children in general may benefit from separate schools, better facilities, better trained teachers, more rigorous curricula, greater expectations for academic advancement and higher study, and a greater exposure to world history and not white conquests alone. These would probably have to go together.

Well said, Stoic! Malaria has taken a serious toll on the lives and economies of African countries thanks to hysterical environmentalists and these powerful corporations. Let's hope other African nations will be able to follow suit.

One can only imagine the desert storyteller of yesteryear gathering his hefty, hairy wives, dusty children and slovenly slaves to tell tales of the day when we will be no more. Save for what is taken from the Quran, the rest of the 'signs' in that list are the products of imaginations to titillate, frighten and all-around amuse.

^ I'm just sayin', if she'd kept her grubby little paws away from Luther's song, she would've been on my good side and I would have ignored her happily. But noooooo, they had to do it. They had to take my favourite love song and defile it like that. :mad: :mad:

Never mind that Ayan Hersi heffer, I can't believe they put Jada Pinkett-Smith on the list. The woman is a two-bit actress and a vomit-inducing singer. She's been on a different sort of list in my book since she and that big-eared husband of hers butchered my favourite Luther Vandross song, Never Too Much :mad: .

^ :eek: :eek: Naden rushes to her accounting software to draw up a bill wondering whereabouts to send in Sweden. The image of JB's cyber butt-clapping is forever seared into her mind. Only a very expensive hypnotist can induce partial amnesia.