Originally posted by -Lily-: What a dog, he should be sentenced to a lifetime of sperm donation instead of referring to adolscend girls as machines. I hear there are two men for every woman in Japan. They can always visit China... He might just enjoy it, Lily

I was following the preceedings that day, and by God, Galloway give such an amazing performance! Albeit less colourfully put, I thought with their own respective propositions, both Jeremy Cobyn (Labour-Harringay MP) and another MP from manchester, have also made salient points about the issue of Iraq, Iran and the ME in general. I enjoyed that session of the parliament (thank you BBC parliament).

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: ^^LOL. Abeeso waa habar jinni, you remind me wallaahi . Abeeso or Abeeso lugaleey? I heard Abeeso luguleey, which lives inside ant hils is habar jinn. I remember when I use to run after it and then grab it by the tail before she enters the ant hill and swirl it round before hurling it into the air! Oh, youth and cruelty! PS: Legend has it that if it finds you asleep it can suck your brain out with her slithering two tongues .

^^Waryaa stop making fun of the situation. There is real decline of child birth in Japan. This is the problem with becoming technologically advanced and over-dependent on it; soon you start seeing fellow human beings as 'birth-giving machines and devices'! It is a matter that awaits all those who aspire to technological development such as that achieved by Japan. With an altered psyche, the view of things and the assessment of human relations becomes overly mechanistic - we might even live to hear Japanese ministers calling men: 'birth-inducing-male robots' . All is possible my man, all is possible indeed!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Official: Women are 'birth-giving machines' Japan's health minister weighs in on country's plummeting birth rate Reuters Updated: 5:45 a.m. PT Jan 27, 2007 TOKYO - Japan’s health minister called women of child-bearing age “birth-giving machines” on Saturday, saying each should do her best to help boost the nation’s rock-bottom birth rate, Kyodo news agency reported. Japan’s aging and shrinking population has raised concerns about the country’s economic growth potential and the government’s ability to finance ballooning pension requirements. “The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines,” Kyodo quoted Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa as telling local party members. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office in September, has pledged to take steps to make it easier for people to juggle work and child-rearing. Japan’s fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime, fell to a record low of 1.26 in 2005. Estimates show the fertility rate probably increased slightly in 2006 but it is expected to resume its decline this year. Japan’s population started shrinking in 2004, and already one-fifth of the population is 65 or older. Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16839596/ 'Birth giving machines' remark gives Japan PM a big headache TOKYO (Jan 29, 2007): First, his defence minister risks offending Japan's key ally, the United States, by calling the start of the Iraq war a "mistake". Then, his health minister sparks a domestic fuss by calling women "birth-giving machines". Gaffes by cabinet ministers are giving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a political headache when his support ratings are already slipping due to doubts about his leadership ability - hardly cheering ahead of an upper house election in July. "I want to make clear that our cabinet is not allowing people to just say what they want," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a news conference today in which he was bombarded with questions about the comments by the two ministers. Abe came under fire when he took office in September for creating a "crony cabinet" of lawmakers who had supported his bid to become prime minister. Now, some critics say his choices are coming back to haunt him. "These people are not media savvy. They are feudal warlords who voice their frank opinions," said Jesper Koll, chief economist at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo. "He put them in the cabinet ... and now he's stuck with them." Abe told parliament he had given a strong warning to Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa about his "inappropriate" phrase, and Yanagisawa himself apologised for "hurting women's feelings". Yanagisawa, 71, had been speaking to local lawmakers about Japan's rock-bottom birth rate, which has raised concerns about economic growth and the ability to fund ballooning pension costs. "Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines," Kyodo quoted Yanagisawa as saying Continue reading other equally contraversal in here.

From Awrcir to Carraweello . PS: Our women have been good since the death of Carraweello! Buraan is now peaceful!

MKA Yoonis said: Before we go into the salafi and hizb discussion, let me reiterate to you, that it wasn't me who condomned the Hizb to hell-fire but the righteous Ulama of this deen! Some Ulema, aren't they? What are they, soothsayers? How the hell do they know who enters hell or heaven, let alone Hizb ul Tahriir?

MKA Yoonis said: Before we go into the salafi and hizb discussion, let me reiterate to you, that it wasn't me who condomned the Hizb to hell-fire but the righteous Ulama of this deen! Some Ulema, aren't they? What are they, soothsayers? How the hell do they know who enters hell or heaven?

^^ You and MKA keep mentioning emotions this, emotions that. But what can be descerned from such tendency, according to the psychologists, is that you two are putting in place a psychological defence mechanism that enables you to 'stop' others before they accuse you of being emotionally unstable . As Somalis say, doqon intaadan doqon dhihin bey doqon ku tiraahdaa. So, I would like to know why your buddy MKA is condemning everyone except the salafiyah to hell-fire and why you have come out to support him on that? Saying a certain group of people would enter hell-fire is much more serious than many things. If anything, it questions the faith of the one who claims to know of such judgments (all being Cilm-ul-Qayb) that are specifically 'reserved for Xizb-ultaxriir? Pray tell Pi, how has your friend come to know this with such overwhelming certainty?

Erm, which law indicates a female officer 'must' shake the hand of superior male officer? A salute maybe, but mandatory hand shake? Never heard of it. To make something of this nature newsworthy is totally foolish, really.

Hayyam congrats for being there. Glad to hear it went very well ...

^^ Horaybaa waxa la yiri 'Qabiil aanan qof u waalanin, qosol kama dhergo' . MKA, reer buu u waalan yahay.

Dheekaa Hartaa

To begin with, circumstances vary. Problems may vary from lack of communication, petty misunderstanding, differing preference in lifestyle or diverging priorities and so on and so forth. There is no one common factor that can be claimed to be the sole ingredient that leads to marriage failure. Issues as simple as 'leaving the toilet seat up' or more complex matters such as alienation can bring down one's marriage. Ah, the more I think about it the more unsure I become of how to approach this topic....

Sheh, I am in rehab dear, it doesn't count. Withdrawal symptoms ayaa i haya .

Compulsive, you ask? I compulsively click on SOL politics section! Does that count?

Hehehehe waryaa Carabta are scared sh!tless! The last picture is the American embassy's building with protesters standing outside it. Nothing fishy lol. Walaahi you guys in the Arab countries have problems, it is worse than being in China sxb . North, checkout my flickr then, that is if UAE hasn't censored it already! Lookie HERE , all the 'we apologize' the UAE dishes out to internet users . It is a scandal, really a humongous scandal I tell you. I'd rather be under the TFG than the UAE .

^^ Originally posted by Northerner: Cant see the pics ya Abu P! North, sorry bro. You mean you can't see any of the pics? Hmmm! Alright then, maybe you can visit my Flickr Page

More pictures...

Sheh , the protest was good. It was peaceful, well-mannered and organized. Apart from the Hizb's speakers, there were several keynote Somali speakers. In all, I say kuddos to the organizers! LX, sxb thanks. I think the SLR has a bit of an edge over your digi-camera but I must admit, you've taken superb pics. Especially the pics you took of the march look great really. I blame LT for the lateness . Brown, lol . That isn't me brother. I was looking around for few emotional Somali faces and I saw this two guys standing there- proberbly touched by the Somali speaker from Af-madow lamenting the deaths of the nomads as a result of the American bombings. It was a photo op I couldn't miss . WaterLily, thanks sis. I think the camera I used although for professionals to play with, brings out, even for the amateur, alot of details in the pics. So yeah, the speakers' close-ups look good. Now if you say 'newsworthy', I may be tempted to join the papparazi . Hayam, yup. Its really great that reer Canada did something! That makes us proud. You know, yesterday, there were, as I was told, two demonstrations- this one I took pics of and another one right after that organized by Somalis. There was one on Friday 5pm. In a given week, London currently expects two demos! its amazing.

Some of the speakers....

I took photos of London Demo for Somalia and Iraq yesterday....

get a flickr account LX and upload ur pics there -- then link them to SOL.

^^ Thanks. Brothers, I feel obligated to reply to you all for the last time. Thankyou all for the kind words. Although I have decided to leave the politics section alone, it doesn't mean that I am abandoning the forum altogther. Nor does it mean that I quit supporting the principles of the ICU. I still support the ICU as strongly as I can and would post in all sections of the forum except the politics. Just trying to utilise my time for other useful matters (such as taking direct action and organization). Talk has become extremely cheap lately. Once again thanks.

Oh c'mon now, Old Gill,who the hell wants to hang around a happy world dressed with kilts anyway? Matter of fact, the world when immersed in troubles and tribulations is more fun to dwell in. At least humour gets a good chance at being used in corney ways . I've lived in England's weather for sometime (and mind you today is bloody windy -10 people killed in N.Europe as a result) but thats what makes things more interesting, I say . Get killed by lightnening, or by a flying uprooted tree? Oh, that is very English! Isn't it? Just imagine how humorous it is to learn Mr. so and so has gone with the wind, litarally,tha is!