The somali culture and language is one of the few ones that use the same terms when a parent is calling his child or vice-verse.A somali mother would say Hooyo when talking or calling to her her kids. The same goes for the father(aabe), the uncles( adeer, Abti),the aunts( eedo, habaryar) n the grandparents( Ayeeyo n Awoowe. I never asked this myself but iam wondering why our Hooyos call us Hooyo when they wanna our attention. How could the same word be used by the parents and their offsprings?

That just shows the sorry sad state ,we somalis are in right now!

Honesita....Sorry , yu had to go through dat...Iam not picking on anyone particular ppl. It is just some ppl go to the extremes....maybe i had one too many encounters with ppl who are less considerate of others around them. The last time ppl with cell fones ruined my day was at Hoytes Ciname, I came to watch a movie. Bunch of Afro-Americans boys who were sitting in the front rows talking on the fone with speaker on, this went on through the previews, to the begining of the movie and i finally the theatre ppl had to call the Sheriff to remove them since they wouldn't get off da cell.now dats bad!

Honesita....Sorry , yu had to go through dat...Iam not picking on anyone particular ppl. It is just some ppl go to the extremes....maybe i had one too many encounters with ppl who are less considerate of others around them. The last time ppl with cell fones ruined my day was at Hoytes Ciname, I came to watch a movie. Bunch of Afro-Americans boys who were sitting in the front rows talking on the fone with speaker on, this went on through the previews, to the begining of the movie and i finally the theatre ppl had to call the Sheriff to remove them since they wouldn't get off da cell.now dats bad!

Paki....Idar kiyaa karahay....Agar tu somali log basan nahii kartay....Bahar jow....jal teraa gar, tumara logay saad. Samaj. I dought if yu are really a pakistani.

Whiteman...Whats a white person....A human without many melanin cells to produce melanin which protects humans from diseases and sunburns....Get dat in your head....You are saying you are white.....If it gets too warm or you get angry.....You turn red, pink, etc. n Like Shyem...we somalis don't blame anyone for what happened to Somalia....The blame lies with us. It seems America like previous empires never learns anything.....you can't impose your will on the rest of humanity....It is when empires starting believing that can be God, they start falling apart!......N speaking of Darwanism, don't you think yu are loosing the survival war since America is getting more darker......Even western Europe is getting darker....With lower birth rate among Euro whites , it won't be long before entire America will speaking Spanish since the faster growing race, black and whites will assimalate into the hispanic world. The irony here is that the first white immigrants in America couldn't have survived without the help from the natives. The whites repaid the natives with genocides. Now those whites are loosing America even without single bullet being fired! FYI....Your so called leaders care about their corporate freinds than you.....The war in Iraq is not about crazy dictator with MoD, it is about corporate interest.

Good points guys. I personally think it is combination of an inherent evil in us and the circumstances that determine how we behave in wars and bad times. Let me ask this, i have seen a picture of Adolf Hilter as baby taken in 1890 and below the picture, there is massage which said," Would you kill baby Hitler if yu were transported back to 1890"?. what is your view?

we don't think like to be reffered to as somalis. Many hate somalis which is understanble considering how we treated them back home.

NO!

He should be killed and pay the price for what he he did to Shiites, Marsh Arabs and Kurds.

I simply don't care! wat difference would it make anyway?

If i had a penny for everytime a black person says the word," hater" , i would have been billionaire by now.lol I don't know you walaal but welcome back anyway. Did wat i just said count as "Hating"...lol later nomads

Scarface....LOL....it is funny Barwaaqo....Good point, i guess the ladies didn't take that into consideration. Lefty.....Wat do yu suggest..? Another Hippy movement....Make Love, Not War!....lol

I thought this article was pretty interesting n funny. Sex boycott urged over war That's close enough, say the campaigners Women opposed to the war with Iraq have been urged to withhold sexual favours from their partners if the menfolk are pro-war. On Monday thousands of actresses all over the world are taking part in a reading of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata, as part of a protest against the war. In the play, penned by Aristophanes in 415BC, a group of Greek women, fed up with their warmongering husbands, go on a sex strike in a bid to end the endless conflicts. Eventually the menfolk cave in and agree to a truce. The Danish group have taken the interpretation quite literally and are encouraging women to slap on their chastity belts if their men are pro-war. Bawdy play The Lysistrata Project is planning around a thousand readings of Aristophanes' bawdy play in 56 countries. Readings will raise money for charities working for peace and humanitarian aid in the Middle East and elsewhere. In Denmark several of the country's leading actresses are at the forefront of the protest. Actress Anne-Marie Helger told BBC News Online: "Mrs Blair, Mrs Bush and (the wife of the Danish PM) Mrs Rasmussen should stay out of their husbands' beds until they call their dogs off." Basically we are saying No Peace, No Sex. Rhea Leman, director Some of Denmark's most famous TV and stage actresses, including Andrea Vagn Jensen, Lone Hertz, Lykke Nielsen and Trine Appel, are staging a production on Monday night of Aristophanes' Greek comedy Lysistrata. Worldwide protest Rhea Leman, an American theatre director who is directing Monday's play in Christianhavn near Copenhagen, said: "Basically we are saying No Peace, No Sex." Ms Leman told BBC News Online: "The essence of the play is that if men go to war women should not go to bed with them. Until these men stop the war they will not get any sex." She said: "What makes the play a comedy is that it is as hard for the women to go without sex as it is for the men. But they stick the strike out as a matter of principle." Mark Greene, one of the world co-ordinators of the Lysistrata Project, said: "Each country and each group of performers is free to interpret the play in different ways. "This is the first time I have heard of anyone actually suggesting a sex boycott, but then that's how these things start. "We are limiting our advice on a sex boycott to the First Lady and Mrs Hussein (sic)," he quipped. I was wondering what if somali women try this on their men to find solution to somalia...LOL later nomads

Cushtic Cutue n Sol Prez...I agree with you...Cell fones are useful but there should be free cell fone zones , libararies , ciname halls should be at top of free cell fone zone list..Ppl also used cell fones even though there is no need for it at times. One time , i was on a visit in another town.We were gonna head to somebody's house, and dis guy who was with a friend of mine, called the ppl we were meeting. He called agian to let them to know we were in the car driving to their house. N he called for third time to let them know that we were at their doorstep.Now i call dat insane! Cushtic-Cutie....Luckly I never had a date talking on cell fone.thats pretty inconsiderate.If I was in da same situation, i probably would have paid the check n left unless if she was worthy of sucking up to. N yeah, Fone signals can be picked from air.The National Security Agency "NSA" of US Defense Dep does that kind of monitoring, picking up fone signal from foriegn leaders, orginazation, and wat have yu. I don't know if yu guys remember but while back, two radio DJs from Vegas picked a signal from Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuila who trying to call Fidel Castro. They have recorded the conversation, n yu could hear the Chavez all confused thinking what happened to Castro.

Cushtic Cutue n Sol Prez...I agree with you...Cell fones are useful but there should be free cell fone zones , libararies , ciname halls should be at top of free cell fone zone list..Ppl also used cell fones even though there is no need for it at times. One time , i was on a visit in another town.We were gonna head to somebody's house, and dis guy who was with a friend of mine, called the ppl we were meeting. He called agian to let them to know we were in the car driving to their house. N he called for third time to let them know that we were at their doorstep.Now i call dat insane! Cushtic-Cutie....Luckly I never had a date talking on cell fone.thats pretty inconsiderate.If I was in da same situation, i probably would have paid the check n left unless if she was worthy of sucking up to. N yeah, Fone signals can be picked from air.The National Security Agency "NSA" of US Defense Dep does that kind of monitoring, picking up fone signal from foriegn leaders, orginazation, and wat have yu. I don't know if yu guys remember but while back, two radio DJs from Vegas picked a signal from Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuila who trying to call Fidel Castro. They have recorded the conversation, n yu could hear the Chavez all confused thinking what happened to Castro.

Ok...I like modern technology and how eases our life but sometimes people don't know when it is appropiate to use technology.This is particulary true when it comes to cell fones.I don't have problem when ppl talk on cell fones in subways, buses, etc.I don't have even a problem when ppl speak so load as if i wanna know what they are talking about. What bothers however is ppl talking on their cell fones in places where it suppose to be quite and peaceful like libraries, cinema halls,etc, and sometimes even class rooms.This may sound harsh but people using cells should wear a phone boat over their heads?. It really gets annoying on many occasions to see inconsiderate person talking loadly all day on a cell, and what's even worse,they could be talking about NOTHING!

Ok...I like modern technology and how eases our life but sometimes people don't know when it is appropiate to use technology.This is particulary true when it comes to cell fones.I don't have problem when ppl talk on cell fones in subways, buses, etc.I don't have even a problem when ppl speak so load as if i wanna know what they are talking about. What bothers however is ppl talking on their cell fones in places where it suppose to be quite and peaceful like libraries, cinema halls,etc, and sometimes even class rooms.This may sound harsh but people using cells should wear a phone boat over their heads?. It really gets annoying on many occasions to see inconsiderate person talking loadly all day on a cell, and what's even worse,they could be talking about NOTHING!

Someone once told me, everyone of us(humans) has a good side and evil side and that one pre-dominates the other in different circumstances.Iam beginning to believe that maybe true. I was reading a story about the Rwandan Genocide( the killing of million tutsis in just under one month),the story was about this pastor and his son who is doctor both being tried for actively participating in the genocide.These men are by anybody's standard good people, one tolerant religious and an educated doctor. They are both respectable figures among their community.They were equally good to the Hutus n Tutsis before the ugly massacres started. My question what turns normal reasonable people into cold-blooded killers?. This story is repeated all over the world from Nazi Germany, Bosnia to Somalia where neighbors turned on each other. The oppisite is also true.Normal folks rise to the occasion to stand up for their freinds n neighbors. A lot Hutus were killed defending their Tutsis neighbors and friends. what movitated these people stand up for what is right in the face of grave and immenent danger? This too repeats itself all world including Somalia. Is the circumstances that control how one behaves?.

I think love is just an illusion.It lasts not that long. Couples stay together coz they learned to respect , understand, and co-exist with each other as time passes. I think today somali's defination love is through western eyes, I will do this for you, do that for me, and you failed to do your part. We have a problem.

Sayid-Somali.....I second yu on that....Iam not Islamic expert but i think killing a somali might not constitute as Haraam.

President...thats pretty sad thing for somalis in jabouti. Personally i think Somali should be the official language of any future somali State. Arabic should also be taught at schools since we are muslims and it is also economically useful since we interact and trade with da Arab States.English should also be required subject for pure ecnomical reasons.

Iska warama....It is good to be back. Later

Garyaqaan....Everybody acts different when they are around foriegners. It is not something unique to us. Illmatic....Maybe regionalism is not bad idea. It could help in driving out tribalism.

Ladiif...well, walaal the parts involved decided to break it off. It is kind of sad considering one invested so much time and energy.but i guess it was for the better.