a khadar lol @ that one is available! maalinta ka dib expert baad noqotay soma aha..So, I am assuming it played the same role the ring plays now. Even though some people say wearing ring is haraam. Not sure their sources though...

Thanks Bilan for the clarification now I think I know the difference.... Ayeeydaana ilaahay ha u naxaristo yada iyo dhamaan inti umad muslinka dhimatay. Janna alle haka waraabiyo..ubadkay ka tagtayna ilaahay haka dhigo kuwa khyr qaba oo u duceeya marwalba oo ay ku jano tagto inshallah.. salaam

lool walahi I can't say! ayeeyday baan u keena mid markasay dhahada kani wa masare ii keen malqamadii lol marka intaan kuwa badan u keeno mid kala baxda! ilaa maanta kuma kala sheegi karo! bal aan so waydiiyo LOL

^lol as was already explained here it is shaash saar..what the hell is sariir saar lol? or is that somein else..as fr the shaash saar thingy..it is just bunch of ladies throwing at the girl shaash (wax masarka oo kale usoo eeg laakin dumarka guursaday uun baa xidha!)...hope that helps lol tell me what does it stand for bilan? I am serious walahi lol or I will ask my mom. She has like three of them stacked in our living room...oo ay igu talagashay baan is idhi lol..walee waan ka dhaaran maanta..

The groom cannot partake in the opening of the Xeedho lol ..the article is a bit confusing. If the xeedho is symbolizing the bride why is the guy's male relatives untying it. That just doesnt add up ..the groom should be opening it? miyeyna aheen? lol

Yea bilan tell us the full story. But, I dnt think the meaning behind it should matter...guys usually enjoy the muqmad and that is it?...wait does the muqmad also stands for something? LOL..

A woman was frying eggs for breakfast. Suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen. "Careful. CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful. CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!" The wife stared at him. "What the heck is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?" The husband calmly replied, "I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving." loooooooool oh my god that is meee...people cant drive when I am in the car with them....

ameen walaal...

lol qurbe waligay baan joogay waxaasna waalidkey meel fog ayeey ka taaban lahayeen sababto ah qof lugu so tabcay oo maanta utube iska walwalaqaya wa kolay wax eena filaneen tan wixi dhalayna kolay wa somali oo waxaas mala rabi laheen.... Laakin waxa dhici karta walidkeed inuuba la socon ama ee wax ka qaban kari wayeen ..qof weyn kolay cidna ma khasbi karto kolay waan usoo duceen anuu loool.. salaam

First though, he must take the upper veil off, just as he would a new bride in her wedding gown, and then process with the untying of the ropes. is that what u referring to lol.. and I didnt know that fact before reading this article. I always thought it was a nice gesture toward the groom's family. lol... salaam

didnt it mention that in the article. Is there any other reasons??

Edit: I figured I shouldnt post her videos. Even thou they are available on youtube. Alle haso hadeeyo wixi dhalayna wax ha u shegaan lol.. salaam

^^She is funny in a retarded way. People are not laughing with her, rather they are laughing at her miskinta ku tidhi hollywood baan u socda ya waxas ugu shekeeyey lol..bas walahi waan ka qaleenaya intaan danbi ku galin!

^^waxee ka hadlasa walaal marka tidhi mataqan micnaha ka danbeeya?

^^ lol you actually sang that front of the whole crowd. You got some guts and I thought they were free workshops..aad umada wax ugu tarasid see weeye ..lol

Michael Ignatieff resigns after Canada poll defeat for Liberal party Liberals came in a distant third in Monday's elections with just 34 seats giving Stephen Harper's Conservatives a majority Michael Ignatieff Canadian Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff waves goodbye after announcing his resignation as party leader. Photograph: Paul Chiasson/AP Michael Ignatieff, the man once hailed as the "bionic liberal", has stepped down as Canada's Liberal leader after leading the party to its worst ever election defeat. The Liberals came in a distant third in Monday night's elections with 34 seats, giving Stephen Harper's Conservatives, on 167 seats, a majority in the 308-seat House of Commons. The collapse of the Liberals, the traditional party of governance for the 20th century, has redrawn the map of Canadian politics. The leftwing New Democratic party, led by Jack Layton, nearly tripled their strength to 102 seats, emerging for the first time as the official opposition. Voters also elected the first Green party MP, Elizabeth May, in British Columbia, and threw out all but four members of the French-speaking separatist Bloc Québécois. Ignatieff's humiliation was compounded by the loss of his own seat. On Tuesday morning, the exhausted-looking leader blamed the Liberals' collapse on negative attack ads. Canadians liked him once they got to know him, he told a press conference, but "there were these negative attack ads that made it very difficult for me to connect with people who weren't in the room," he said. "I had a very large square put around my neck for a number of years." But Ignatieff, who became a public figure in the 1990s as the telegenic host of BBC's Late Show before decamping for a job at Harvard as a human rights professor, said he took responsibility for the defeat. "The only thing Canadians like less than a loser is a sore loser and I go out of politics with my head held high," he said. The party will meet next week to choose an interim leader. Ignatieff said he wanted to return to academia, the career he gave up in 2005 to make his first run for office in a suburban Toronto district, though he said he had had no offers as yet. Ignatieff, who was cast by some party grandees as the great hope for an ailing party in search of a charismatic leader, became leader in 2009. But under his leadership, the Liberals were reduced to less than 19% of the popular vote and Harper got his first majority after five years of minority rule. Commentators said Harper now had an historic opportunity to move the centre of Canadian politics further to the right. In the immediate future, the Conservative majority gives Harper a chance to push through an economic agenda of corporate tax breaks and government spending cuts. At a press conference in Calgary on Tuesday, he said the result would bring stability to Canada, which has seen four elections in seven years. He also offered reassurances about an immediate lurch to the right because of pressure from his party's right wing. "We are intensely aware that we are and we must be the government of all Canadians, including those who did not vote for us," Harper said. Layton, whose party won more than 30% of the popular vote, must now fashion a credible opposition force from a large and inexperienced group. The party's biggest wins came from Quebec, where it became the default choice for voters fed up with the Bloc Québécois. One of the winners from Quebec on Monday night, Ruth Ellen Brosseau, works in a bar in Ottawa, does not speak French, and may not have ever visited her district, Canadian press reported. She also spent part of the campaign on holiday in Las Vegas - but she still took 40% of the vote. Other prominent casualties include the leader of the Bloc Québécois, Gilles Duceppe, who stood down after his party lost nearly all of its members. The Liberal party collapse claimed other high-profile figures. In Toronto, Ken Dryden, a goalie in the National Hockey League before entering law and politics, lost to a conservative. However, Justin Trudeau, the son of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau, held on to his seat in Quebec.

I asked to open it once because askariyada knew me.. darn it.. embarrassing when u never got that close to the thing.. then later asked me to sing when I couldn't untie it.. lol.. Ceebay taacaal... I thought it was the groom and his family who have to untie it? by the way when she told u to sing what did u sing? lol just curious.. and yea I would be interested in those workshops..waxad nugu dhaantid so bandhig

the liberals and ndp need to join for the next election cuz they are splitting votes in ontario. and it looks there will be no more separatists. Axmed I agree with you they should. just got the news, The conservatives won and won big. Hope conservative has a different meaning up there then it does down here Aaliyya Naxar most ppl if not all ppl who support the conservative government are white rich ppl. They are more geared to serve the rich ppl and they are anti public services. For instance, they are for private health care to name one, I would hate to pay everytime I visit the doctor.. dadka waa khaldi kartaa markaase..lol.. A khadar sifiican lol...hada ka dib I would have to take advantage of that fact .. anyhow still disappointed that they won. But, life moves on..lets see how things turn out now.

^lool a friend of mine had her on fb..I usually dnt like insulting ppl but this one is beyond retarded... one of the comments of this video, Bal caadi u istaag aad wax noo sheegtide.... haha I hope she takes this advice

Michael Ignatieff was born on May 12, 1947 in Toronto, the elder son of Russian-born Canadian diplomat George Ignatieff and his Canadian-born wife, Jessie Alison (née Grant). Ignatieff's family moved abroad regularly in his early childhood as his father rose in the diplomatic ranks. George Ignatieff was a diplomat and chief of staff to the prime minister under Lester Bowles Pearson. He also worked for Pearson's leadership campaigns. At the age of 11, Ignatieff was sent back to Toronto to attend Upper Canada College as a boarder in 1959. At UCC, Ignatieff was elected a school prefect as Head of Wedd's House, was the captain of the varsity soccer team, and served as editor-in-chief of the school's yearbook.[3] As well, Ignatieff volunteered for the Liberal Party during the 1965 federal election by canvassing the York South riding. He resumed his work for the Liberal Party in 1968, as a national youth organizer and party delegate for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau party leadership campaign. After high school, Ignatieff studied history at the University of Toronto's Trinity College (B.A., 1969).[4] There, he met fellow student Bob Rae, from University College, who was a debating opponent and fourth-year roommate. After completing his undergraduate degree, Ignatieff took up his studies at the University of Oxford, where he studied under, and was influenced by, the famous liberal philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, about whom he would later write. While an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, he was a part-time reporter for The Globe and Mail in 1964–65.[5] In 1976, Ignatieff completed his Ph.D in History at Harvard University. He was granted a Cambridge M.A. by incorporation in 1978 on taking up a fellowship at King's College there.[4] clearly he couldnt get any more educated yet it wasnt enough. Seriously, canadians are even more racist than I thought...and I simply cant stand conservatives!.. Not that I voted for the liberals..I actually ended up voting for NDP. They seemed to me that they had some potential.

Conservatives are up ahead in the game .. As for the liberals they are losing badly.....I believe their leader Michael Ignatieff will probably have to resign tonight...

^^Are you Somali-Canadian?.. Just came back..and the guy sitting at the table was like are you 18? lol totally caught me off guard....man do I look younger than 18 *feeling flattered! =)

Sayid, wasnt there an arabic proverb - too many cooks spoil the soup...midba shekadii meel kale ula boday lol.. Waan ka baxay..

On my way to vote..kinda late hehe but I will make it inshallah ..so ye all dnt forget it!

It's all over but the voting as Canadians choose government in spring election (The Canadian Press) – 7 hours ago OTTAWA — The campaigning is over, the opinion surveys have all been done and now the only poll that counts is underway. Canadians are voting today in the fourth federal election in seven years and, by most accounts, it's going to be a game-changer. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and his NDP rival, Jack Layton, both cast ballots in their Toronto ridings this morning, reflecting what is expected to be the most significant dynamic of the national ballot. Ignatieff, a relative unknown going into the 36-day race, got a boost early on but his support appeared to fade as the campaign evolved. Layton's NDP surged to unprecedented levels in Quebec after the leaders' debate and appeared to gain momentum across Canada in the last two weeks of the campaign. The final public-opinion poll of the campaign — conducted by The Canadian Press Harris-Decima, and released Sunday — suggested Stephen Harper's Conservatives were at 36 per cent support, with the NDP six points back at 30 per cent and the Liberals languishing at 19. The Greens and Bloc Quebecois were well back nationally, with the separatist party lagging far behind the NDP even on its home turf. How those numbers will play out, and whether the surge in NDP popularity will only serve to split the left-leaning vote enough for the Tories to seize a majority, was the big question going into the day's balloting. Layton voted in his Toronto Danforth riding, about a block from his home, accompanied by his wife, incumbent New Democrat Olivia Chow, his mother-in-law, his daughter and granddaughter. "We're feeling optimistic," Layton said. "The future of our country, our wonderful country, lies in the hands of Canadians today and I think many will choose change." He said he gets the sense Canadians "will break out of the old patterns and the old habits" of voting for either the Conservatives or the Liberals. Ignatieff shook hands as he arrived at a polling station in a junior high school in suburban Etobicoke, trailed by news media. He appeared a bit on edge and after slowly inserting his ballot in the box, he got on the bus and waved to the cameras. Later, he and wife Zsuzsanna Zohar visited a nursing home. The Liberal leader said it "feels great" to vote after the rigorous campaign. "It's an important moment for every citizen, it's an important moment for me, so I was delighted to vote today." "I am getting reports of good turnout today so that's terrific." Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe cast his ballot in the morning in the Montreal riding where he's believed to be fighting for his own seat. And in the British Columbia riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, Green Leader Elizabeth May was looking to defeat Tory cabinet minister Gary Lunn. May focused virtually her entire campaign on the riding in her attempt to gain a voice inside the House of Commons. Insiders suggest the race is too close to call. Depending largely on those vote splits, the Conservatives appeared to be on the cusp of their first majority since Harper initially took power in January 2006. Conventional wisdom suggests high voter turnout is generally bad for the governing party. Voters turned out in record numbers for early balloting on Easter weekend but it is not known if that was because of the holiday or other reasons. "We can't say if that is going to translate into election day — we don't know," an Elections Canada spokesman said today. "We're certainly hoping that there's a good participation, but we don't have any hard data to support it." The agency does not release turnout data until the voting is done this evening. Christian Rouillard, a political science professor at the University of Ottawa, notes overall election turnout has been dropping in recent years — hitting just 58.8 per cent in 2008. Rouillard said the youth vote, just 37.4 per cent among 18- to 24-year-olds last time out, could prove a critical element to the outcome tonight. Since the writ was dropped March 26, online campaigns and so-called "vote mobs" aimed to get young people engaged as never before. "These tend to be less conservative as a group," Rouillard said, "so if the young people ... choose not to vote, then I think that would, in fact, favour the Conservative government."