Originally posted by *Ibtisam: I did not want the Bengali to get jealous and mad at me Wasnt you asking me just a week ago why people would be jealous of me.

That would mean she would be a great grandmother to her own child.

Originally posted by Blessed.*: ^are you saying it doesn't? LOL. quote: Originally posted by B: quote: Originally posted by Blessed.*: quote: Originally posted by B: ^ Yes I know you very well indeed! You or your ego? Please refer to the evidence! Evidence In that case, ha i sheeganin, I don't want to be associated with crack heads. I do know Marx. Are you calling me a crack-head! How dare you? do you have a qualified privilege to utter such nonsense! Its very unbecoming of one of the elder members of the forum to resort to name calling!

Originally posted by Juxa: that sounds nice but why town planning? Its an area I am have particular speciality in! Originally posted by ailamos: ^^ Are you saying Hargeisa is not well planned Mr.B? My friend, Hargeisa road-system is abysmal and in dire need of serious investment! As the city has expanded, all the commercial activity appears to taking place in down-town Hargeisa and there are spouts of disorganised and aesthetically unappealing settlements across the city. This is causing serious burden on the road system. Plus the city has grown organically and was not planned! This has caused a mess!

Originally posted by ailamos: so there is no minimum marrying age in Somaliland? how does this work? they're 13, they get married, are they both under the supervision of the parents? Don't dictate to people what they ought to do an don't my friend. These people have the right to dictate their own way of life, even if its contrary to your preconceived notion of what is acceptable!

How The Media Play's With Muslims' Emotions

^ Thank you very much my friend. My innocence was long over due!

I use to volunteer quite a lot my friend! But now I want to set up an orphanage in Hargeisa and become an administrative town planner there too!

I hope the event was successful my friend.

Originally posted by Blessed.*: quote:Originally posted by B: ^ Yes I know you very well indeed! You or your ego? Please refer to the evidence! Evidence

I think this drink (moussy) is no longer in production. I only had it once and it was OK, nothing special!

^ The evidence is conclusive! people cut out the jibes and the slurs!

^ I responded back to you because your implicitly saying if a person doesn't profess your way of life then they are by default lacking in both intellect and reason. We must be able to see beyond our worldview. Rationality must understood in terms of peoples different principles, beliefs and notions of human nature. Its not universal!

Well I didn't if you must know and there is no reason for me to consider even the thought of it. Because I have so much to live for. Life is getting better these days!

Originally posted by *Ibtisam: 2) You lack of understanding about Islam or what it is to BE a Muslim shows in all of your responses- so please don’t claim to be representing Islam, just say I like being a saqanjan. It is often this type of hardcore Islamisation that is dangerous, provocative and arrogant. Islam is not the definitive and final answer to all of mans problems. We need to promote dialogue and discussion so as to promote greater understanding between all people. Of course, Islam it self is a religion of tolerance but its adherents are arrogant and often naive. We need to encourage a plurality conscious ways of thinking and seek to incorporate socio-cultural realities on the ground into our paradigm of how we see the world.

Originally posted by Allamagan: B-ga if I was you I would go and find this Marx dude and get him over here hold an E-press release confrence together answer questions and hopefully ppl would put these to rest. what you think about that? Originally posted by Allamagan: quote:Originally posted by B: How can I contact this Marx? Perhaps I should send him a message so that he could substantiate my innocence! you can send him a message or by just digging deep down his sol posts you can even find his contact number. Looking forward ur joint press confrence. My friend(s) I have sent marx a message and he responded back. See the evidence yourself if you dont believe me.

This is small step towards re-shifting global power dynamics. Its very encouraging news indeed!

In a significant development emerging economies India, China and Brazil have been given more voting rights in the way the World Bank is run and how its money is spent. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund approved a slight shift of voting shares in favour of developing countries, while agreeing to raise more money for global aid. Under the new voting structure announced on Sunday, some emerging economies will have a greater say in how the 186-nation bank distributes aid. This represents a total shift of 4.59 per cent to developing and transition countries since 2008, the IMF and the World Bank said in a joint statement after the meeting. As a result, India's voting power has increased from 2.77 per cent to 2.91 per cent while China has emerged as the biggest beneficiary, its rights increasing from 2.77 per cent to 4.42 per cent. The shift places India at the seventh biggest place after the US (15.85 per cent), Japan (6.84 per cent), China, Germany (4 per cent), France (3.75 per cent) and the UK (3.75 per cent). South Africa disappointed Pravin Gordhan, South Africa's finance minister, expressed disappointment with the outcome. "We are disappointed that the process has resulted in dilution of the voting power of some sub-Saharan African countries, in spite of the collective acknowledgment of the need to protect them," he said. "We strongly believe that more should have been done to prevent such dilutions." Zoellick said emerging economies had become vital for the global economic recovery [AFP] Gordhan said South Africa was looking for "more robust outcomes in future". Speaking to Al Jazeera on Monday, Manu Bhaskaran, chief executive of Centennial Asia, a Singapore-based advisory firm working with major emerging economies, said the new voting structure will not make any difference to China's leverage within the two financial institutions. "Compared to yesterday and today, there is not that much more that China can do. This simply recognises an already acknowledged fact which is that China's clout in world bodies, multilateral institutions and so on, is rising," he said. "But in the real material sense the decision doesn't really make that much difference. "We do, however, have a fundamental shift in the balance of global economic and political power going on and it's good that there is some kind of recognition of that." 'Significant step' Robert Zoellick, the World Bank's president, said, he hoped shareholders will review the approach in 2015. "The change in voting-power helps us better reflect the realities of a new multi-polar global economy where developing countries are now key global players," he said. "This change in voting share, giving developing countries over 47 per cent, is a significant step." Membership of the financial institution gives certain voting rights that are the same for all countries, but there are additional votes which depend on a country's financial contributions to the organisation. Zoellick said at a time when multilateral agreements between developed and developing countries have proved elusive, this accord is all the more significant. Istanbul commitment The increase fulfils the Development Committee commitment in Istanbul in October 2009 to generate a significant increase of at least three percentage points in Developing and Transition Countries (DTCs) voting power. "We, in calculating this, looked at size of the world economy, using purchasing power but also exchange rate measures, but also, as a development institution, the contribution to development including the contribution to IDA, our fund for the poorest." The governments also approved over $90bn in extra money for the World Bank's various arms that provide aid to member countries. Zoellick said the shift in voting powers was designed to try to reflect past contributions, citing the example of Japan that has been "a very gracious contributor." Under the changes, China will become the bank's third-largest shareholder, ahead of Germany, after the United States and Japan. Countries like Brazil, India, Indonesia and Vietnam will also have greater representation. Source

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: They are polite Yes this is true my friend! We are the Greeks to your Romans!

Thank you for stating this needed thread. Its amazing no one thought of starting such an excellent thread where people can share youtube clips and where we can have a collection of youtube clips. I would however suggest we keep the quality of the thread high only by posting valuable videos.

Yes! Indeed, Today is Friday! Its a day of rejoicing!

The coverage of the article is very bias and one-sided!

Originally posted by *Ibtisam: Khad is like alcohol.

Originally posted by Karl_Polanyi: Regarding Islam and khat, then, this is an extremely peculiar case. Islam bans any forms of intoxicants. Yet, bizzarely, converting to Islam in the horn of Africa, particularly amongst the Oromo, meant adopting "Muslim cultures" such as chewing khat. The Ethiopians started to become suspicious of the Emperior Ilyasu because he started to chew khat and socialise with Muslims. It is also widely believed that Khat use was a widespread habit of "sufi" mystics. How khat become so prevalant amongst Muslims socities in Yemen and the Horn Africa needs more research. Somali people will not accept foreigners telling them what they can do and cannot do. If we want to chew khat we will and will not accept people coming to our country tell us what we can do and cannot do.

^ why?