Blessed All you need is follow the link below. I believe most Somali text books can be found at this library, in the form of digital. There're also non- academic books in the library such as Cigaal-shiidaad, Dhagdheer, and many other short stories. If you need to know why they have this information, just go to University of Indiana Bloomington's library. Special Collection Waan hoydey, good night.

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiy aar: quote:Originally posted by Ismahaan: This dance is called hoobalow hilowle Qurxoonaa oo qaayo badanaa bilcaantaas. Dhaqankana kusii qurxoonaa waliba. Waa wada qani kuligood. Alas, some are trying very hard to eradicate that beautiful hido iyo dhaqan of ours, particularly guntiinooyinka iyo gareysyada qurxoon in the name of dhaqamo kale. Ma aragtey. In la soo wada xuley baad u maleysaa.

Ismahaan is indeed amazing Xaawo Taako and Araweelo combined. In North America, there are many charter schools founded by somali communities. Are there any Somali courses offered to the kids? Most parents make it compulsory for their kids to learn the Qur'an and the religion hiring private macalimiin. What about at the recommendation of making it compulsory for our kids to learn the reading and writing of Somali language and academic literature that would bolster the kids' understanding of the non-Somali approach of schooling. Some type of a great movement is needed to counter the decline of Somali literature.

I know of a special site that has preserved for our generation and the one coming after us almost all the written Somali books that were part of the school curricula in primary and secondary levels. I was at standard 7 on the eve of the civil war. However, I self-studied a lot with keen interest of my mother tongue.

Poker, sorry for that one, I didn't pay attention as I was in a hurry. Ninka waxaa uu heley dhaqtarkii qorey warqadda. I meant to put dhaqtarkii in place of warqadii

Direct English/Somali translation is weird. The oppisite is always right. The letter the man read is long. Ninka wuxuu aqriyey warqad dheer The doctor wrote the letter the man read Dhaqtarka ayaa qorey warqada, warqadaasoo uu aqriyey ninka. The man found the doctor who wrote the letter. Ninka waxaa uu heley warqadii uu qorey dhaqtarka. ii in this case stands for who

Excellent list of reasons by Marxwith the exception of # 4 Paragon and KK, waa runtiin. Waa wax aad looga caroodo qof dadkiisa hoos u dhigaayo markey ajanabi arkaan. Bal muxuu ka heli. Koley ummad wadankoodi iyo burburey wax walba ka filo. The only institution that has perfectly kept our identity from blemishes and scars is Islam. Other important institutions have all collapsed or they barely function.

Terrible News.

Give credit to reer Hargeisa. They have built a ruined city from scratch. Ozman, you should have said "taxpayers" including reer Hargeisa, not the late dictator.

Give credit to reer Hargeisa. They have built a ruined city from scratch. Ozman, you should have said "taxpayers" including reer Hargeisa, not the late dictator.

Hassan, stop using the "pro-Arab" agenda. Al-Qaeada is neither Arab nor one nation. It's made up of a diverse group of peoples. Besides, we have cultural, religious, historical and ethnic ties with Arabs.

http://wardheernews. com/News_09/June/06_ abdalla_un.html

I suspect Ozman is reer Puntland. He like many others before him have tried to wear on PL mask and failed.

Unbelievable! Ps. I remember back in the days, Somali kids at the age of 9-12 committing to memory the whole Qur'an with its rules of recitation. Early training in Memorization, reasoning and comprehension skills are three important aspects of the child's development in IQ and EQ. It's the responsibility of the parents to devote more time to their kids' proper growth and the more the parents are educated, the better chances for a good role model.

I recommend this new book. It's written by an Afghani historian and professor. A great book and it quite challenges the conventional wisdom. Destiny Disrupted: History of the World through Islamic Eyes By Tamim Ansary

C & H, free will holds a person in bondage to his own limited power in the pursuit of some ideal perfection. In the event of failure, it's highly possible that one will take actions to the detriment of his life and the life of others. In this world, you are judged or misjudged on the basis of this finite capacity . Predestination, however, does inculcate the belief to recognize your limited power and that whatever befalls on your person either tragic or good, happens for Allah's sake. This thinking nurtured from childhood years acquires strong faith, compassion and empathy towards others, confidence to reach your potential.Thus, you learn to recognize the triviality of the brief time we live in and how to purge that brief life out of the misery, injustice, prejudices and perpetual hate and war . Islam, since its shining moments, has taught us to build a community of righteousness and to marvel at the mysteries of Allah's creations.

Ibtisam, I really liked the Speech. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings. It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples - a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian, or Muslim or Jew. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today

I was so happy that Lakers won at Staples. Denver gave the Lakers hard time. Maybe the Nuggets have much better team than the Magic. We'll see that, InshAllah.

At this time, you are either underemployed or unemployed. Rudy, over 80% of businesses in America are propertierships but they only hold 10% of the market share. What does that tell you? Though It's very hard to get ahead on your own or be in partnership with someone else, there is no denying that some people strike it gold. You must also develop great knowledge skills and work experience to be that type of a person you wish to be. Knowledge and faith are two keys to good life and happiness.

Thoughtful and egalitarian! Items of the speech touch on the modern struggles of ideological movements, Turning points of Islamic history and their innovation, prosperity tolerance towards other faiths. Women rights, aggressive policies that currently exist and impede the rights of Muslims within the borders of Europe and America, education, economic development and business partnerships, Israel and Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prejudices, hate and mistrust that divide nations. How do you interprate these events? Transcript

'What makes Israel's right-wing government nervous, and what is worrying the center-right Israel lobby in Washington, of course, is the fact that in order to make his approach to the Muslim world credible, he will have to sustain his already robust effort to roll back Israeli settlements and to pressure Israel into accepting a state in Palestine. Virtually all of the neoconservative commentary on Obama's Cairo speech focuses on their preference that Obama tell the Muslim world to look inward, to correct its flaws, to get its own house in order, to suppress extremism, and so on. And no wonder -- because they desperately want to change the subject from the Israel question' I think no US President had ever pressured Israel like Obama has been for the last couple of weeks. I hope he turns his rhetoric into a tangible progress.

Obama’s Cairo Speech Obama will have to do more than be not-Bush. By showing an understanding of the diversity of the Middle East and pledging neutral support for Middle East peace, he can put the capstone on a break with decades of failed American policy, says Robert Dreyfuss. It's a mistake to see President Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo merely as a repudiation of George W. Bush's wrecking-ball approach to the Middle East. It's certainly true that during the eight years of the Bush administration, the United States lost a great deal. Bush's War on Terror, which in a moment of candor he called a Crusade, was widely viewed by Arabs, Iranians, Afghans, Pakistanis, and others as an assault on Islam itself, a conclusion that was reinforced by right-wing US Christian denunciations of Islam as a religion of violence and by neoconservative and pro-Israeli efforts to exaggerate the importance of Al Qaeda in the broader Muslim world. The Bush administration's policy of regime change -- applied in its ugliest form in Iraq -- was originally intended to include Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan, as well, creating the image of the United States as a born-again imperial power in a region still recovering from the British, French, Italian, and other colonial powers that exited the region only recently. And Bush and Co. lumped together all of the region's anti-Western political forces, rolling Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Iran's Shiite clergy, Saddam Hussein, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia's Wahhabis, and the Syrian Baath party into one big "Islamofascist" ball of wax. It is, of course, easy to find advocates for all of that, still, in the neocon-linked think-tanks and in the pages of the National Review, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal editorial pages.So the first thing Obama can do is to officially renounce that, all of it. If I were writing the speech, here's a line I'd put in it. "There is no Clash of Civilizations. There never was. Instead, I suggest that, working together, we can create a Partnership of Civilizations." But Obama will have to do a lot more than be not-Bush. The tricky part of Obama's speech is navigate the intricate relationship between (1) the need for the United States to establish strong, state-to-state relationships with autocratic and less-than-democratic leaders in the region, from pro-Western military strongmen like Egypt's Mubarak to the conservative and kleptocratic Arab royal families of the Persian Gulf to Syria's secular regime and Iran's clerical one; (2) the challenge posed by the rise of political Islam, from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait to the power of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine to Iraq's Shiite fundamentalist government and on to Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; and (3) the question of democracy, elections, and representative government. Let's take those in reverse order. The Bush administration, especially in its first term, made democracy the center of its rhetoric. For Bush, "democracy" was a code word for "regime change." Bush argued, falsely, that lack of democracy fostered Al Qaeda-type, anti-US terrorism. Spurred by neoconservatives, who touted the model of the Soviet Union's dramatic transformation, Bush argued that peaceful revolutions in the Middle East were inevitable, and that the United States stood ready to encourage them. Obama will have to make clear in his speech that while the United States supports progressive, democratic reform in the region, he recognizes that such change is likely to be evolutionary, not revolutionary, and that the United States will not try to impose a democratic form of government anywhere in the world. And certainly not by force of arms. Here's another line for Obama's speech: "While we support the ideal of democracy in government, we will never, ever attempt to impose democracy by force." An issue directly related to democracy is the rise of political Islam. In this, Bush was hoisted by his own petard. While he supported democracy in principle, he refused to acknowledge the real-world victories of Islamist formations in Palestine (Hamas), Lebanon (Hezbollah), and Egypt (the Muslim Brotherhood). Bush dealt easily with Turkey, but he never acknowledged the frankly Islamist character of the ruling AK party. And, of course, Bush never acknowledged the real, if flawed, nature of Iran's electoral system. This is an area where Obama, over the next year or so, can take steps toward opening explicitly to all of these movements, one by one. Just as it doesn't mean that the United States embraces the Egyptian or Saudi autocracy when it deals on a realist, state-to-state basis with those regimes, it doesn't mean that the United States embraces religious-fundamenta list political movements when it deals with them, either. And when they win elections, as they did in Palestine (and as Hezbollah is likely to do next week in Lebanon), then the United States will have to swallow hard and accept them as duly elected. Here's a quote, cited in my book, Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, from a 1992 speech by Edward Djerejian, then the assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs, who made the first effort by a US official to address the rising power of political Islam: "Much attention is being paid to a phenomenon variously labeled political Islam, the Islamic revival, or Islamic fundamentalism. ... We detect no monolithic or coordinated international effort behind these movements. What we do see are believers living in different countries placed renewed emphasis on Islamic principles and governments accommodating Islamist political activity to varying degrees and in different ways." Added Djerijian: "The US government does not view Islam as the new 'ism' confronting the West or threatening world peace. ... The Cold War is not being replaced with a new competition between Islam and the West. The Crusades have been over for a long time." Obama could do worse than to quote those lines in his speech. As for relations with the autocratic, monarchical, and kleptocratic regimes, Obama will have to acknowledge that, for the foreseeable future, they're not going anywhere. We can deal productively with each and all of them, without sacrificing American principles. At the core of his speech, of course, Obama will have to succeed not just in rhetoric, but in concrete policy terms. He's made a start by ordering a drawdown in US forces in Iraq, and it would help his case to reiterate that, to accelerate it, and to make it clear that the United States has no designs on Iraq and its oil and that the US will not seek to establish permanent military bases in Iraq. What makes Israel's right-wing government nervous, and what is worrying the center-right Israel lobby in Washington, of course, is the fact that in order to make his approach to the Muslim world credible, he will have to sustain his already robust effort to roll back Israeli settlements and to pressure Israel into accepting a state in Palestine. Virtually all of the neoconservative commentary on Obama's Cairo speech focuses on their preference that Obama tell the Muslim world to look inward, to correct its flaws, to get its own house in order, to suppress extremism, and so on. And no wonder -- because they desperately want to change the subject from the Israel question. More than anything else -- more, even, than the invasion of Iraq -- it was Bush's unquestioning embrace of Israel, his refusal to deal with Yasser Arafat, his endorsement of Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon and its 2008-2009 war in Gaza that angered Muslims around the world. True, those actions were exploited by Muslim autocrats seeking to divert their populations from problems at home. True, those actions were used by Al Qaeda and its allies to recruit angry, desperate young men to violence. But that's the point. America's blind support for Israeli expansionism and intransigence bolsters the power of autocrats and provides recruiting slogans for Al Qaeda et al. It also is a stumbling block to better relations with Iran. By committing the United States to an unwavering, international effort to rally support for a deal between Israel and Palestine, Obama can put the capstone on the break not only with the Bush administration, but with decades of American policy that put Israel first. King Abdullah of Jordan -- no radical, the son of king who was literally on the CIA payroll -- has suggested that peace will be a "23-state solution," i.e., peace between Israel, Palestine and the 21 members of the Arab League who support the Saudi-inspired Arab Peace Initiative. Not only that, but such a deal would include the 57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), who've broadly endorsed the Arab plan. This is a lot to put on one speech. And, of course, the speech is just the beginning, not the end. Robert Dreyfuss is a contributing editor to The Nation magazine, and the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam [/](Metropolitan).Co pyright © 2009 The Nation

Btw, let's not hijack the thread

Originally posted by Recovering-Romantics : Bro, as some-one who shares a clan with Sh Sharif, I hope he would be wise enough to use the services of willing commanders like Sudi and Mo Dheere. I only hope bro. [/QB] What if he doesn't succeed with this clan project of hegemony? Your uncle should avoid these warlords and enter into accord with the opposition groups. I support the AU troops but their presence generates public hostility. The President should let them go for the sake of the civilians or else the the anarchic violence will sure outlast his transitional Presidency.

Originally posted by Recovering-Romantics : quote: Originally posted by NASSIR: ^at least, no Xasan Turki of the North exists yet like it's in Jowhar and Mahadaay. Bro, Jowhar and Mahadaay are paradise and the bread-basket of Somalia. [/QB]RR, the so called bread basket of Somalia including the lower and middle Shabelle, Bay and Bakool and the two Jubbas' crop production constituted less than 25% of Somalia's export, esp during the good times of Somalia, whereas the livestock export took 65%, the rest being filled by other sectors like the under-invested fishery. However, fyi, the region of Sanaag grows its share of different fruits and vegetables like Mango, potatoes--in large scale, water melons, banana , frankincense and many income generating crops. And, according to a UN report, the region is self-sufficient producer of such crops and therefore does not import them from other regions. The only import with significant impact on the local economy has been the import of sugar, rice, and other needs. I know, for instance, the two sugar factories Somalia had were both localed in Jowhar and Mareerey, but what use of these industries when everything has been ravaged by endless clashes and occupations. My own family had several hectares of farm lands in Janaale and Qoryoley and were previously occupied for many years. Rudy, lol, are u serious? go check Calmadow chain and see the beauty of this land. It even has water falls.