Aduunyo! Walle waxan la fajacay dadkan billada quruxd siiyey a inantan daankiyo dhafoorkii isdhaafeen. waa aduunya geddoon, bal maxaa ku dhacay Hablihii wax geli jiray, Hablihii Wax goyn jiray, Hablihii wax gudi jiray, Goldaloolo iyo ceeb, Hablihii ka guban jiray, Hablahaan gankoodiyo, Hilbahooda gadan jirin...

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Published 08 January 2007 ???

The case of Ashley X is all oevr the news and has caused some controversy. She will never be taller than 4'5'' or weigh more than 75lb as she is frozen in time, to remain a child forever. ...read more here And here is the Blog of ther parents, justifying their cause.

Members of the international blogging community have given their reaction to the role of Ethiopian troops in Somalia where Islamic militias have been defeated. "'The air raids have begun, the air raids have begun. Ethiopia has entered Somalia.' My mother kept repeating the words hardly able to believe it herself... Words I never thought I'd hear. Words that made my heart race and my blood boil. I cannot think straight." That was the scene in the Canadian-Somali household of blogger Muslimah as Ethiopian and Somali government troops launched a devastating assault on Islamist forces in Somalia, pushing them out of stronghold after stronghold by sheer force of arms... ...Read Entire article here

Isma dhaanto iyo dhasheed!

Wasn't this the same chap that started a thread not a while ago about the Somali Language, saying it is borrowed from different languages, but couldn't himself speak (or write in this case) much somali? and today he MADE a book!

Alla maxaa dameer iska ciyey!

However, Allah is there for us Somalis and punishes imposters. ...indeed Allah is with those whom He loves and who love Him!

It might be a cathratic moment for the Iraqis who witnessed several Balaclava-clad men surrounding Saddam and leading him to the trap door where he was to be hanged. But are we 100% certain that he has been hanged? if hanged as they say, Saddam has simply become an Udxiyya for the Americans. They very well knew the significance of this sacred day in this sacred month of the islamic calender and chose it particularly for mockery! They (iraqis) didn't even have time to communicate the hanging with anyone. Everything was so haphazard and so quick and so American way of things - no single Iraqi had a a say in the trial, the conviction and the hanging.

Ha is raacdo waa diidee, ha is raabsatee daa!

Timi oo wax lama iman, tagtayoo wax lama tegin If true, it is simply an ignominious end!

"^^^Yusuf is no warlord, he is a master of the art of war. A decorated war hero, founding leader of Puntland and now the man who brought Somalia back..." ...ileen Doqoni Caaqiba ma leh! Stop being blinded by emotion and petty clannish ties Duke, the man is severely depriving a village somewhere of an idoit! even his clansmen who after some deliberation went to his aid returned to their base in utter dissapointment.

waxa la yiri, saddex ayaa rag u liita. Ma toshe, ma tashade iyo ma tashiishe, wadaadadu maysan tashan! Siyaasadan colaadaba wadee , noo cag dhigi weyday Siyaasadan ku cayn go'an , inay cidiba noolaanin Siyaasadan cariga yaga gubtee col u hayaan siisay lol@Val, don't read too much into it, love!

For the past few weeks or so, most people's hopes lay with the ICU, but now the Amxaars are getting deeper into Somalia and a return of 77 is now inevitable. The Wadaads are now pushed back to Mogadishu, and though some of them still remain in ksimayo it is very likely that they will soon be on their way to defend Mogadishu as their last stronghold. Can they? Geedi - The man in charge. I believe he calls the shots and at times tells A/Yusuf to shut up! A/Yusuf - Where is he? has anyone heard of him yet? I believe upon reaching Mogadishu, he will either be imprisoned or subjected to severe humiliation by Gheedi who will take over. Qaybdiid - He is now passing through Baladweyne, on his way to Xamar to reclaim the territories he lost to the Courts. M.Dheere - so he entered Jowhar today and gave a public speech there. his interest lies with the TFG and i believe once he achieves his objectives will denounce them too, just as he did previously. Qanyare - Where is he? After his last public repentance has anyone heard of him? Indha-Cadde & Roobow - These two, after killing thousands have now gone to make amends with their Creator. they are perfoming Hajj! Barre-Hiiraale - A while ago, he strongly spoke against the Amxaar troops setting foot in Somali soil, but yesterday, just like a woman, he changed his vows and now vehemently supports their advancement into the capital city. Could the prime reason be the humiliation he suffered at the hands of ICU? he is on his way to Kismayo now. yalaxow - a cunning killer. He is now in Malaysia where he set up a home painted in blood and furnished with dead bodies! What are your predictions with regards to the war? how long will the Islamic Courts and Mogadishu stand?

Centurion, if everyone had their way here, then this forum too would have turned out just like any other Somali forum.

Enormous chandeliers luminously lit the hall as you walked in through the double doors into some lavishly arranged sets of round tables and chairs. The outstretched red carpet beneath your feet, matched by the red seats gave the hall a feel of cosiness and a friendly welcome to the arriving guests. A beautiful hall I thought and having arrived early patiently awaited the arrival of the esteemed guests – fathers, mothers, children and soon-to-be fathers as well! By 18:30, when the event was ready to start, I looked around to see that ONE father had arrived. What a disappointment. It is something we do not know – time management that is. To us Somalis, it seems that time is something of no relevance to us. Means absolutely nothing! The starting of the event was then delayed for a while, but when it began, the crowd received it uproariously. After Humera Khan with her opening speech, Xudeydi took to the stage with his Oud. The first two songs that he sang, “Uur Hoyahayow” and “weli waa caruuro” stirred the crowd, so much so that with every chord that he struck on the Oud, the throng clapped their hands in vicarious thrill. He is very passionate about his instrument and played it with much enthusiasm. Then came Prince Abdi , a young comedian whom God has given the gift of the gab. One can sit there and listen to him for hours on end. Having performed at several major concerts and comedy clubs, including Hackney Empire, he still has the ability to woo the crowds and leave them to twist in the wind, just when they need to hear more. And on that stage, yesterday, he has left his mark. Tony warner too did his part by reminding us some of the long forgotten history of our ancestors from the time of their arrival to the United Kingdom, to their participation in the World Wars. Received with much appreciation indeed. Mecca2Madina , a Muslim droup, who creatively combine Hip-hop and reggae beats with Nasheeds then braced the hall and livened it up and most people joined them with great gusto. Book of Rhyme too, exploded on the stage with his rap alongside a member of his and finished it off with a poignant poem. Then, back by popular Demand, Xudeydi once again was called up to the stage with his Oud, and the reception was none lesser than the first. Prince Abdi too, was seen back on stage also by popular demand to do a finale. And the result – a GREAT evening! p.s Great Photos Paragon, you beat me to it!

"she needs to speak up or get a microphone or take it off, it is not farad and she is making life for Muslims difficult" Take it off? You sound very weak in character by willing to compromise your religion in order to attain some sense of place or understanding from the society. Compromise is a sign of weakness! The strong have conviction in what they do, and she sure is a strong woman, just as Azmi is!

by Ran HaCohen Readers very often accuse me of not writing about Palestinian terrorism against Israel. A typical reader writes: "if Israeli gunmen were going in Palestinian pizza places, weddings, buses, discos, shoe stores and deliberately massacring Palestinian civilians, Ran HaCohen would go on a tirade against Israel. Yet he remains silent on Arab terrorism against Israeli civilians." I would like to relate to this accusation. But before doing that, let me pay a small tribute to a brave Israeli soldier who refuses to serve in the occupied territories any longer. The Tel-Aviv weekly "Ha'Ir" last week printed forty short evidences of such refusers; here is one of them. Not the most shocking one. The harder stuff sometimes makes it to the news. But it illustrates some of the daily, banal routines of occupation, countless similar scenes that take place every day, every night, in endless variations. And they all count as "no news". A SOLDIER'S STORY "Jabaliya (a refugee camp near Gaza). Terrible heat. It's after midnight, we are on our way to arrest "wanted people" – small criminals and tax-evaders whom the Shin Bet wants to blackmail. We surround the area and storm into the house. The officer quickly climbs the wall and I, his signalman, close behind him. We break into the "house": a single small room, blankets on the floor, four kids aged two to six or seven. They and the parents – a young woman and a not so young man – all wake up in panic, weeping and yelling. They are hysteric, and we, very young soldiers, too. We shout at them to shut up and at the man to dress up, and "search" the home. There is nothing to find, nothing to look for. Handcuffs, and out to the lorry. Several arrested Palestinians have been gathered there, and someone from the Civil Administration is 'taking care' of them: slaps in the face, kicking. I want to say something, but off we go to the Shin Bet camp. The man we have arrested is smashed at the lorry's floor, weeping, sobbing in fear, with a broken voice, 'I beg you, I beg you...'" (written by Sergeant (res.) Yotam Cohen) ALTRUISM AND DISTRACTION Now back to why I don't write on terrorism. Surprisingly, this accusation comes mostly from American readers. At first I thought I should be grateful for this rare token of altruism: Are people living in the US actually more concerned about my well-being than I am?! But as all too often the complaints ended with such cordial blessing as "you racist anti-Semite", I gathered that pure altruism might not be the true motivation. So why do people want me to talk about terrorism? Surely not because they know too little about it. As a mourning Palestinian mother said last week, international press would pay more attention to a Jewish settler's dog injured in a terrorist attack than to her dead child. Terrorism is the most popular term in Middle East media coverage, and still people want me to talk about it too. So why? I believe it is because those people do not want me to talk about another term: occupation. Note how seldom this term is used when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dealt with. In fact, when you hear someone say "terrorism" over and over again, you can be certain he won't use the term "occupation". TERRORISM VS. OCCUPATION Terrorism and Occupation may look like twin brothers. Both are illegitimate: occupation is acknowledged by international law, but for a limited time, not for 35 years; resistance to occupation (which is what Palestinian terrorism is about) is legitimate too, but not when innocent people are targeted. Both are murderous: innocent Israelis fall victim to terrorism, innocent Palestinians fall victim to occupation. Terrorism is pervasive: it threatens all Israelis; Occupation is even more pervasive: all Palestinians are under occupation, and as we have seen above, while terrorism can get Israelis in pizza places or discos, occupation visits Palestinians in bed, either by a missile or because some Shin Bet agent wants to blackmail them into collaboration. Needless to say, the number of Palestinian victims of the occupation overwhelmingly exceeds the number of Israeli victims of terrorism – if you like, one more reason to talk about occupation more than terrorism. Israel, especially since September 11th but even long before, has been trying to convince the world that the Palestinian Authority, not just individual Palestinians, is engaged in terrorism. True or not, the uncontroversial reality is that the State of Israel, not individual Israelis, is running the occupation. Israel sometimes claims that the occupation has been forced upon it against its will. It is one of the most ridiculous claims I have ever heard, but this is actually what Ehud Barak's celebrated "analytical mind" was trying to sell us: that because he had supposedly made some "generous offers" to the Palestinians, and because they had supposedly rejected these offers, Israel could not stop the occupation. Sounds ridiculous? Ask some Israel fans and you'll see how seriously they take this joke. WHY OCCUPATION? The simple fact is that Israel is occupying the territories because it wants to occupy them. It does not withdraw from them, because it wants to take the land for settlements, for water and for regional strategic considerations. It does not annex them, because it does not want to give citizenship to three million Palestinians. Occupation is the only way to satisfy both aims. It may be direct occupation, it may be an indirect one: in fact, Israel is generously offering the Palestinians both options. Israel's present message to Arafat is expressed clearly and shamelessly: either you comply with the occupation, or we replace you with some other "leaders" who will. Shimon Peres prefers the former option, Sharon prefers the latter. They both support the occupation, they have both done more than any other Israeli politician for the sake of the Israeli settlements, they differ in tactics but share the same cause. ENLIGHTENED OCCUPATION Centuries of colonialism have proved that "an enlightened occupation" is a contradiction is terms. Occupation cannot be tolerable and therefore cannot be tolerated. Expecting a people to live without political rights is both unreasonable and immoral. The occupied Palestinians, in order to get rid of the occupation, use violence – verbal violence, physical violence, violence against soldiers and settlers and deplorable violence against innocent people. Thus, the occupation becomes ever more violent and the deprivation of political rights is inevitably followed by violations of human rights. You cannot oppress one people for the sake of another without resorting to atrocities. It starts with exploiting one's weakness (a sick elderly mother, a sick child) to blackmail one into collaboration, it goes all the way through torture, siege, starving and killing and it ends in letting a pregnant woman die with her infant at a checkpoint. As Friedrich Schiller said, this is the curse of the evil deed: it inevitably gives birth to ever more evil. Indeed, Palestinian terrorism has increased step by step with occupation; the cruelest stage of occupation, with the whole world singing the praises of Oslo while the settlements were expanding rapidly and the cantonisation of the territories by checkpoints and highways was advancing in an unprecedented high pace, gave birth to the appalling phenomenon of Palestinians whose despair had overwhelmed them to the point of being ready to die in order to kill their oppressors. Just like the 200,000 settlers, just like the hundreds of checkpoints, the suicide bombers haven't always been there: they emerged in a specific historical context. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM So why don't I talk of terrorism? Because Palestinian Terrorism is not the Occupation's twin brother, but rather its murderous offspring. Like father, like son. Terrorism is horrible; but occupation is too, and the former is the result of the latter. To stop the circle of violence, to stop terrorism, the occupation must stop first. Since a one-state solution seems unlikely under the present circumstances, Israel must end the occupation by withdrawing all its forces, dismantling all its settlements and letting the Palestinians establish a true independent state in the entire territories occupied in 1967. This is the only way to uproot terrorism, not bulldozing the Gaza strip or aiming a cannon at imprisoned Arafat's head.

The German poet is trully inspirational in his letters! Great read!

That would be a great idea, since these so-called dole-bound Somali Communities are doing nothing to combat the issue. We need an official media watch team that will moniter all the media and respond to any misreprenrtation. Only yesterday the Sun run an innocent looking peice from Bosaaso port and they indicated a hint of connection between crime in UK and these refugees. ..How about the day before when they pictured a 12-year with a Machine gun claiming that Somalia was the most dangerous country in the world! The SUN and The Daily Mirror are well known for their blatant criticism of other cultures and pride themselves in their "englishness".

The Britishness Test that is. i would be surprised if they didn't change the tests within a few months or even weeks. The questions are pretty tough for a person required to have just passed their ESOL lessons. You are expected to answer questions such as (only the ones i can remember);- a) Who overseas the day to day runnings of the European Council? b)Who opens the Parliament? c)In what years were the men and women given equal voting rights? d) Who are the Ministers of State and who selects them? e) How many students continue on to Higher education after leaving school? ...Do you know the answers?

O-o-k! Greetings Clever guy!

UK, your stats are flawed i say! £700-a-week is far too much for majority of family barely making it past subsistance level. As for the dads, majority of them either chose Qat as their new wife and abandoned their families, and the rest... well, Majority of Somali men do not work, and neither do their female counterparts. They rely on dole without having to render any services in return!

Geed 12 miro leh, 11 kamida waa la cunaa 1 (mid) ka mida la ma cuno ...Never heard of this one before...could it beBisha ramadaanka If am right, Googaa... Taniyo Xamar xaarkaagu Daadey