Originally posted by Animal Farm: To simply put it, reading philosophy gets you lost instead of providing you with elucidation of things. I was making the point that, it doesn’t really matter what they were, all we know is that they were not Muslim, because if they were, they would have noted it in their academic mambo jumbo. Like many other ppl in here I spent years, reading the works of philosophers(including the Greeks) to find out that thing brother Animal Farm posted above. Thanks for this posting!

Okay think about this: All "educated" Somalis from all over the world are going back. What then? Will they grap a shovel and start digging holes for building a canalisation? What Somalia needs is financal and logistic HELP from some other so called "brother-coutrys". Just like the US did it with Germany after the Second World War. Maybe someone really trustable should found a fund for Somlia. If noone does till i finish my studies,I will do it. Peace.

I dont know who is playing for Somalia but I am sure these are not the best players. Who is the coach of this team anyway? Who selects the players?

Hi all, maybe this is crazy but still I will try. My name is Nageye Abdifattah Sheikh Ibrahim. I was living in Medina from 1982-1987 when I was 3-7 years old. My dad is somalian my mum is german so i am mixed. I used to have lots of friends in Medina and nearly everybody knew me because of my light skincolor. In 1987 my sister became very sick and in the middle of the night we left Mogadishu and went back to Germany without saying bye to anyone. I have been thinking about that almost my whole life. I mean what did my friends think? I was just not there anymore and nobody knew what happened. What I would like to know is if there is anybody in here who is my age and maybe lived in Medina at that time. Maybe this person still remembers me... I know it is implausible but you never know! Nageye

Dear Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar, thank you for these wonderful pictures of our beloved country. I copied all of them to my harddrive --- I lived in Medina from 1982-1986 from the age of 3 till the age of 7. Never again I felt that comfortable anywhere in this world. Down there I did not feel like nobody - I felt like somebody.And I felt at home.

I can just speak for myself.If I would get to know a girl/women and after some time she would tell me that she was a SSM,I would be shocked first. Why? Because you just do not think of something like that.When you get to know somebody you and start thinking about a serious relationship you also think of how it will be to marry, having kids and all that.But suddenly you realize that she already had all of that. And exactly this is the moment of disillusion. ---Some people can not handle that. For me it would not really be a problem.When I love that women I want to be with her,no matter what happens. But still it feels kinda strange.