Thnx for the advice Cute..but am not really lookin for an indepth education within just two months of time..am merely trying to learn and understand the basics for now..that's all..U c an old friend of mine did this a year ago, he left for egypt, get enrolled in a school there and since then made some improvements with his studies. So it was basically him who encouraged me to come and register at one of the schools over there; A feet in the door..I think it's an adventure though but hope to b a rewardin one.. Insha'allah

I have been told several times, in different occassions, that my religious studies is as weak as Dubya's Grammar skills... so am heading Egypt for two and half months of Islamic Educations......

Enlighten me here guys...what's the punishment for this act in Islam? am not sure but will one of these among the deserved punishment: 1. Put a tire around their neck and burn it 2. Put their whole body in the ground except the head and start stoning them to death 3. Throw them in a lions den at the National Zoo 4. Chop their genitals off, as u would have chopped off the hands that steals 5.Or execute them publicly by hanging.

That was funny too Rudy but a slight difference here: SOMALI ECONOMICS: Of course u start out with 2 skinny cows u send one to claim a welfare check and the other over to the 14th peace conference to win it all

George Bush Joke While visiting England, George Bush is invited to tea with the Queen. He asks her what her leadership philosophy is. She says that it is to surround herself with intelligent people. Bush asks how she knows if they're intelligent. "I do so by asking them the right questions," says the Queen. "Allow me to demonstrate." Bush watches as the Queen phones Tony Blair and says, "Mr. Prime Minister, please answer this question: your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or sister. Who is it?" Tony Blair responds, "It's me, ma'am." "Correct. Thank you and good-bye, sir," says the Queen. She hangs up and says, "Did you get that, Mr. Bush?" Bush nods: "Yes ma'am. Thanks a lot. I'll definitely be using that!" Bush, upon returning to Washington, decides he'd better put the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the test. Bush summons Jesse Helms to the White House and says, "Senator Helms, I wonder if you can answer a question for me." "Why, of course, sir. What's on your mind?" Bush poses the question: "Uhh, your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Helms hems and haws and finally asks, "Can I think about it and get back to you?" Bush agrees, and Helms leaves. He immediately calls a meeting of other senior Republican senators, and they puzzle over the question for several hours, but nobody can come up with an answer. Finally, in desperation, Helms calls Colin Powell at the State Department and explains his problem. "Now lookee here, son, your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Powell answers immediately, "It's me, of course." Much relieved, Helms rushes back to the White House, finds George Bush, and exclaims, "I know the answer, sir! I know who it is! It's Colin Powell!" And Bush replies in disgust, "Wrong, you dumb sh*t, it's Tony Blair!"

Believe it or not, that is real..and was it a Burger King employee (SHE) who was caught on serveillence camera, doing basically the same kind of nasty stuff to the food she was serving.....God help Fast Food Junkies like me

My wish for the last three yrs since i started this job, if that wish is granted man and am stranded somewhere alone, why would I wanna b a fool and bring something, anything along to spoil that perfect getaway...?

Caanogeel: I am avid a reader of any and everything, and am also a reader who reads beyond the lines, meaning I am also a very judgemental reader, am one who is very sensetive about his culture and religion and likes to see it protected fro other predators(what some calls a writer's prerogative). Funny, I was watchin a sitcom the other day. A character walks into a musuem and falls in love with a paint. The paint was painted by a little boy..three years old. The little one splashes different colors on a cardboard and walks on the board with his bare feet. Then his mother, i think, presents it to the museum. The paint becomes a best sellers...a hit. every1 who comes into the musuem looks at the picture and tries extremely hard to see something which is frankly not there. The point of the creator of that sitcom was that people are influenced not by what is truly a great work but what the crowd wants and deems to b a great work. My point here is that sort of collective politeness and comerciality (advertised and paid by an interest group)and i bet it is, kills what could have been a fantastic invention. And that too takes away the honest view and interpretion and judgement of some1. It also takes the place of what could have been one of the very few great works we create be either a picture, a work of literature or say a fighter jet. That is how i see some of Nuradin's works, am not sayin all but some of his latest works are just like that paint. Some writers are really talented and Nuradin could b one but his motives lately became materialistic, he developed an obssession to become famous and hit the jackpot no matter what the cost is to him or to others...Through him I only see his predecessor and friend Rushdi. But who am i to judge him while I can't attempt yet the great marvels he produces? On the same token though, I do reserve the right to not read him or refer to him as one of Africa's finest writers...And I guess that is my prerogative

SECRETS has banned Nuraddin Farah from being a credible, responsible, respected author in the eyes of so many African readers. I remember him winning a Luarete for that book in which he portrays graphic scenes (sex) between a somali father and his son, a father and a cow, etc. This had shocked many people and was to many a slap in their faces from someone they regarded as the only beacon or hope or voice they had in the world arena...Does anyone read that book? any comments on it?

Of course he should, I think he should b hanged after he is convicted in a fair trail...I think though one man's criminal is another man's hero...I'm confused as hell here.. I watched TV yesterday where every1, the guest and the host all were takin shots on this guy, he should b hanged one says, no he should b imprisoned with the thugs in Guantanamo another says, of course he should face the "ultimate penalty" for the crimes he comitted a guy I thought looked familiar said..The TV was jammed with ideas and views and things..and countless of experts of law and human rights issue were taking turns on the mic to judge this guy. However, while watchin this on one channel, on another channel they were showin us ..thousands of pple out on the streets in this guy's country, chantin his name, showin his pictures, praisin him, sayin that they would die for him, huggin and kissin his picture, burnin flags...and this, the TV guy says, unlike the previous times, these pple were not forced, told, or persuaded to come out and defend this man we keep callin a tyran....I am simply confused..Maybe what is ur unjust, tyran, brutal dictatorship, is another,s just, lawful, patriotic, hero, nationalistic leader...which story do we believe? what explanation do we accept for these pictures? above all, how do we judge? it is kinda blurry..and what is makin the picture fuzzy is the multiple stories, all opinionated, that r out there...help me guys...I think I am a victim of the media...lol

This is indeed a minor display of how far the institutions will go to silence the choice of the people, particularly the choice of the Muslim women who without compulsion or fear of no one else opted to dress this way for a greater cause in which they believe. Indeed this is a case of truth exposed...behind that fake smile, and equal rights and personal freedom laws lay a cynical agenda....ban the headscarf today but I truly believe what is gonna come next should be both more worrying and shocking..

I think this piece of hate literature (by the pink women and the other piece by the African American guy) is a clash between two "cultures."....low and behold here, I said “two cultures”...the white culture in America and the black one. No racial approach or observation about this predicament from my side. I am trying to figure out though the connection, the link between the article and us (the Somalis), whatever your argument is about where we r from and who we are and what the color our skin is, I am still wondering where do we fit (the Somali immigrants who the longest have been here for 20 years) into this equation, or rather into this culture?

Wanted to c him in a Liverpool jersey but that is off the table now...hope he doesn't do something silly and sign with Manchester (lol)

I think a good match will be France Vs. England. But since we r all on a note here of hating and wanting England to be humiliated in the first round, hey I am all for that...My prediction is that (Stolen from Africa team) Zidane & Co. will prove once again to be the stars in Europe from "Africa"

Two years ago when I was in Addis Ababa, a young lady who I was acquainted with, through a friend here in the states, asked me if we could stop by at the house of one of her friends. When we got there, what I saw was unbelievable, tragic in the real sense of the word. There she was a young girl, barely 25 yrs of age, so skinny, and malnourished, and on the brink of death. I talked with her; she could still talk, and asked her if she saw a doctor and what he told her about her situation? She sighed and told me that she was dying of an unknown disease. I thought of a cancer first but later on, when I got to know her and became part of the people who was taking care of her, I started to take her to the Lab for blood analysis and so on; one of the lab technicians informed me that the young girl was dying of AIDS...what she already knew. And several days later Mulki, died because of HIV infection. You can’t believe how she was transformed from a normal person to a walking, talking skeleton...She was an unfortunate young lady as I got to know her better but what she told me was so also alarming too. When our people find out, she said, that they r infected, most of them go back home with their families to be taken care of ...and then without the proper knowledge of how to handle someone with AIDS (protection mainly), out of ignorance basically, the disease spreads in the family and then into the larger community...and what could have been contained, gets out of hand due to lack of information and public awareness programs (as the situation is presently) Anyhow, I am not really surprised by the statistics posted in here and I thin the stats represent a minuscule, a fraction of what the reality is on the ground. These numbers are the reflection of what is transpiring in the country as we sit her and watch and probably do nothing about an epidemic that seems to be taking over the rest of the people who survived from the civil…sorry I meant to say from the savage wars... Particularly in the big cities and the towns by the border areas with Kenya and Ethiopia are the places that have been hit hard by the disease

Post by: J-11 Presenter: Muuse, madaama aad tahay nin gar weyn leh, oo yara shabaha Osama bin Ladin iyo wadaadada, so laguguma tirin karo argegixisoda Somalia lagu tuhunsan yahay? Muse: Horta Ma tukataa maad i weydiisaan! That really was funny in a sad way I guess..After all the guy is well..Musse...who would've said or thought such a way except a warlord in Somalia and Sharon...

Can't kill two birds with one stone in this situation..that would've been my kinda suggestion but since the matter is so serious on ur side, I mean on this person's side, I will say "learn" to love the person who is "madly in love with u." But just curious BEE which one r u leanin towards?

Are u guys tryin to prove something for the rest of us or what? can't help but feel jelous like so many Nomads here..'ve to admit though that was extraordinary..a group of Nomads gettin together and havin fun like that..wonderful..I will fly myself whenever and whereever the event is going to be held next time, just let me know the terms and the condition to dine with u guys..Count me in.. no matter what..(even if that includes takin care of the tab.)lol

Did I hear the Oxm of all Somali Peace Conference (1-14)

The scary part of it all is that this guy could be ur doctor, ur teacher, the guy u file with ur taxes, ur good mechanic, the cop who gave me the jay-walkin ticket on the other day, we r in the midst of it all...and look at him, the sheer disgust on his face, no wonder Malcoml X cried a foul with his color......God help us..Canabilism = Judaan?

You can't stand alone all by yourself these days guys. I think Omar Guelleh or whatever his name over there is, I think made some good decisions by aligning himself with the US. Remember the French was already there, paying nothing to the people of DJibouti or the country. And in case u may not know the whole world now has been given a stark choice of being "either with us or against us." And nobody including the so-colled powers of the region is rejecting this order so why him? I think it is good that he is doing what he is doing...and I hope it is no surprise to no one that to get some, u should give give some. The little he is provided is better than nothing. I think Omar Guelleh has done some pretty work when u put things in prospective...just in the region

The other day a friend of mine was telling me how a gang of Moryam came to a village and destroyed the village, raped the women, burned the huts and the houses, took away camels and started shooting people right in the center of the village market. When he was about to finish this story, antoher guy who was also listening to what happened to the people of that village said that Allah never destroys a village unless the people reject the ways of Allah and his messenger (SCW). True my brothers look all over the world, not only in the muslim world is this very evident but the whole world. you go East and West and witness the same clamity. I think it is time we should all (human race) feel fearful about the wrath of Allah upon us. Be either Jew or Palesinian, or Somali or Kosovan, or American...I hope that people will act upon the truth as they see it..........

Mohamed Sheik Osman (Barbe), named after one of the 13 SYL leaders. located in Madina, won 2nd place throphy for the (Kedis) 88 or 89(guessing). had the best Math teacher in the Capital, and the worst headmaster..Holla at me if u were in the class of (89-90)...

Mohamed Sheik Osman (Barbe), named after one of the 13 SYL leaders. located in Madina, won 2nd place throphy for the (Kedis) 88 or 89(guessing). had the best Math teacher in the Capital, and the worst headmaster..Holla at me if u were in the class of (89-90)...

I can't stress enough about the importance of education, and I bet each and every one of u is doing it not because of money but because of the stability it brings into ur lives, the satisfaction of course, and according to the rules laid in our religion...As for me, I am in the drug biz....Pharmacy...