^I am a shark - so no need for weapons. just the occassional bearing of the fangs

^both studio and apartment in general. It's the usual messed up Brit-speak.

^A bit stalker-ish no?

Originally posted by Valenteenah: Even worse, if any of my references are deemed 'unsatisfactory', my holding deposit won't be refunded! WTF? This whole system seems to be set up to con people. What's stopping them from finding a reference 'unsatisfactory' and thereby pocketing the money? That is too fishy. The plethora of documents is annoying but if you want the flat - gotta do what you gotta do. But under no circumstances should you allow your deposit to be forfeit. I would call your local tenant's association and double check the total illegality of that ruse - and once you have that confirmation inform your prospective landlord that you know the deal and they'd better cut the sh*t out. The other thing is - maybe it is a none too subtle hint that they simply don't want you. And personally speaking I would reconsider having aa my landlord ppl like this. Just a thought.

^Got it - Somali origins talked to death. I dispute your assertion about Shabelle/Juba people - there are many groups who live there. Only a minority have been isolated or isolated themselves and remained distinct but the majority of the residents are Somali or have been Somalized generations ago so they are Somalis for all intents and purposes.

Originally posted by Hizb_UK: Anohther important date to add the Somali celebetory calender : January 1st the birth of 85% of Somalis in the west. the other 15% have dates like July 1st, 02/02, 03/03, and so on. LOL - so true!

Originally posted by wacdaraha_aduunka: HornAfrique arent North Sudanese and other north african people ethnic arabs or are they ethnic africans meaning bantu??? Walaahi if someone is in doubt if somalis are arabs then go to Salalah in Oman as I was born there and ask those people whether they are somalis? They lived there all there life but they cant speak somali only arabic but they're elders will tell you what qabil they're from as they havent forgotten that aspect. The Omanis have an almost exact version of our buranbur that they sing in weddings and when they're a conflict between clans they all sit under an acacia tree so how somali is that?? If they can't speak Somali then their ancestors may have been Somali - but you cease being a Somali when you have no connection with the language as the whole culture is tied to the language. And as such we are not Arabs - we have a different language and dhaqan though there are many shared similarities.

Originally posted by Bishitta: The Point: Spare us the judgment and ignorance. Allah does not punish a person who is not in their right mind because of that very reason. Is a person who wants to kill themselves really in their right mind? It is neither judgement nor ignorance - simply an echoing of Allah's judgement. Take it as you will. But now is hardly the time to be engaging in this. May God have mercy on her soul. And more importantly, may God strengthen her family and increase their Iman.

Originally posted by Castro: Could all this hate of AHA be due to her reminding Somalis of themselves? Even a little? Like it's looking in the mirror? Though not entirely undeserved, there just seems to be an extra dose of vitriol being hurled in her direction. Not even warlords in Muqdisho get multiple, individualized and multimedia topics like AHA does on SOL? What if AHA was Ahmed Hirsi Ali? Anyone stop to examine that? Just a thought. P.S. As LePoint accurately pointed out, the US and the AEI will not embarass themselves by putting the national guard on the US-Mexican border and having AHA (a self-confessed queue-jumper and fraudster) do the talkshow circuit here in DC. It's just not gonna happen. She's headed to Buulo Xuubay or whereever she came from originally. No - I don't think that is quite it. The Somali nation has little vestige of self-respect left given the brutalities that we have committed against each other. About the only thing left to cling to was Islam and our sense of belonging to the greater Ummah, however morally bankrupt our practice of Islam in Somalia has been or continues to be. Then we have this minion of the devil speaking as a Somali and in the name of Somalis and hammering(for her own petty interests) this last remaining aspect of our national self-respect. The vitriol is totally understandable saxib.

Can't see the miracle fish mate as the link is not working! Bloody Kiwis

Unbeleivable! I can't believe that the AEI gave her a post - and this breaks on the night that Bush is giving a speech about 'illegal aliens' and 'queue jumpers' etc.

Originally posted by naden: ^^ Nothing is unforgivable. May she find peace wherever she may be. Many things are unforgivable - murdering babies, raping children etc. and suicide - there are millions of people who can barely get their daily bread and here in the west we have ppl killing themselves over trivialities. Anyway - wish for the best in this case.

Yes congratulations Stoic - happy liberation!

Sad story - but if a suicide would be unforgivable.

Originally posted by THE EMPEROR: NO AIDS By STEPHANIE NOLEN Monday, July 25, 2005 XUDDUR, SOMALIA -- They have posters. They have training manuals. They have wipe-off markers. The only thing that the earnest band of AIDS educators in this Somali town don't have is, well, any people with AIDS. At least none they know of. The breadth of the AIDS pandemic has led to the idea in the West that the entire continent is ravaged by the disease. But Somalia -- isolated for 14 years since the civil war began and populated by devout Muslims -- has an infection rate of perhaps only 1.5 or 2 per cent of the adult population. Its isolation has helped to keep the infection rate one of the lowest in Africa at a time when countries to the south are reporting infection rates of 40 per cent of the adult population http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...News/TPStory/L AC/20050725/SOMALIA25/TPInternational/Africa Nice pictures Emperor. Bullshit to the above quote - Somalia is generally AIDS free because of Islam not because of isolation. And where did they get the figure of 1-2% - these people know little about the country and its vital statistics as they haven't been near it for such a long time. I'm no health expert but I would venture to say less than 1%.

Old story - but only a partial version was posted on SOL earlier - Below is the link for the full story --------------------------------------------- http://www.somalistudents.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=386

^LOL, LOL

^Damn that anti-Muslim university and their administration :mad:

^^Has it been established that they were indeed Somalis?

^AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SHUCKS

^Very cool - have fun. But where are you coming from to need a visa?

^Your fact relates to boy/girl separation so it doesn't apply to black/white separation which I and others were commenting on. I think it is fairly clear that separating girls from boys has a beneficial effect on boys' learning but separation of races has yet to demonstrate a similar result.

^Ever heard the phrase - chewing gum and walking at the same time. I guess a whole lot of Somalis have difficulty with that concept. No wonder the country is in the state it's in

^I think an argument could be legitimately made that Iran blinked first. After weeks of threatening and defiant statements - they come out with this letter. According to Reuters: "The letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the first publicly announced personal communication from an Iranian president to his U.S. counterpart since the 1979 Islamic revolution." Why would they take that drastic step unless they felt some fear from the States? The US has been talking tough and so had Iran for some time - and now the first party to bend(seemingly) has been Iran. As such - you could say they blinked first.

Originally posted by Castro: This SOB thinks he's Phileas Fogg. What in God's good name is he doing? Did he think he was "elected" so he could fly all over the place? Abdillahi Yussuf needs to go pronto. LOL, LOL - I love the Fogg reference.