^^Stick to American sports and baggy jeans saxib. Whats with the knee length shirts anyway?

4-0 Babel

3-0 with 10 mins to go. What a miss by Anelka! LFC are looking good.

19-1-1981 Do the maths :cool:

Its Portugal's cup Group A: Switzerland Czech Republic Portugal Turkey Group B: Austria Croatia Germany Poland Group C: Holland Italy Romania France Group D: Greece Sweden Spain Russia

Xiin Siilaanyo is an old soul indeed and I appreciate the fact that he at least tried to speak out against what transpired in Xamar. But as noble sentiment as his clearly was, still it was a stillborn one adeer, and I blame Ethiopia for it! How else would you explain for Siilanyo to reproach Ethiopia on a one hand, and fly and visit the darn place among Somaliland delegation on the hand meeting of course the same policy makers who devised the atrocities in Xamar! Now that needs a lot of explaining, Is that really you Xiin? Should Siilanyo stay at home?

waar ka daa. Reer Hargaisa yaanay moodin Dinosaure

What is an Elephant doing in a damp/cold Lyon? Hargaisa u kaxee ninyow.

LoooL Waar waxaasi ma maroodi ba? ps nice weather for football,,,

I think this documentary will air some time this week so look out for it. Lost Boys By: Rageh Omaar & Paul Sapin Lost to their community and lost to their faith, young Somali men of London are turning to ever more violent forms of street crime. But it was only when 18-year-old Somali Mahir Osman was murdered in Camden by a 30-strong Somali gang in January 2006, did Somali clan elders realise that things had spiralled beyond their control. The police got involved and the outcome was three gang members sentenced to life imprisonment, with five others sentenced to lesser jail terms. Somalis today form the largest ethnic group among young offenders incarcerated in the notorious Feltham Young Offender Institution south of London. In this powerful authored documentary, Rageh Omaar pursues the stories of three recent murders – in Woolwich, Camden and Southall - to try to understand why this new generation of young Somali men are underachieving in education - and what makes them turn on each other. He speaks to Mahir Osman’s mother, Asha, who believes that the boys struggle because they don't identify with any culture. "They haven’t got Somali culture, they haven't got English culture. They don’t know what they're doing. Really, they don't know. They're a lost generation." Rageh also goes on the airwaves at a local Muslim radio station to appeal for insight. Through personal meetings with disgruntled Somali boys, with elders who have taken to patrolling the streets by night for loiterers, and with an extraordinary reconciliation between the parents of Mahir Osman and his killer's parents, Rageh learns that a lack of guidance could be the basis of the youth falling astray. "Quite a lot of things struck me about what they said," he explains, "But two things stand out. One of them was when one of the boys said: 'You see them, the older Somali guys? They're here day and night, chewing qat, they're spending the family's money, they're not with the kids, they're certainly not giving us any guidance…how on earth can we respect them? And if they dare to try and discipline us, none of us would stand for it.' "And just as I was leaving," Rageh continues, "one of the boys said something that was really powerful. He said: 'Why are we talking about this when it's ten years too late?'" Witness

I think I could soon be one of them. My spoken word has suffered over the past couple of years working with people who speak differently (Indians/Arabs/Filipinos etc).

Originally posted by Suldaanka: Folks from Mogadishu's Academia shares with us about their recent visit to Hargeisa. That happy dude looks like a very nice chap. His happy-going put a big smile on my face as well. Maad naga daysid saxib. Dad ayaana caawa seexanaynine Very good school. Does it have a British Curriculum?

^^Going now. Have to take a vistor to Suuq Al Dahab for shopping. I'll go and have a good old fadhi ku dhirir over some laxam gamal whilst they do their thing :cool:

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: i miss my hilib geel I'm tempted to go to one of the Somali hotels and have me some hilib geel!

While Britons' conversions to Islam in the seventeenth century do not appear to have changed the tide of history, the intellectual and cultural impact of Muslims was profound and far-reaching. Texts in Arabic in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry and medicine were central to higher education in England in the seventeenth century. In order to obtain access to the advanced knowledge of the day, not only were translations commenced at Oxford and Cambridge, but preparations were made to train a generation of Arabic scholars. A visitor to Westminster School observed in his diary, "I heard & saw such exercises at the election of scholars at Westminster Schoole, to be sent to the Universitie, both in Lat: Gr: Heb: Arabic &c in Theames & extemporary Verses, as wonderfully astonish'd me, in such young striplings". Linguistic ability was important, because, in the words of Isaac Barrow, Cambridge Professor of Mathematics, 'the mastery of Arabic was necessary for the advancement of learning'. Muslim intellectual giants came to be known by their anglicised names 'Alfarabi, Algazel, Abensina, Abenrusd, Abulfeda, Abdiphaker, Almanzor, Alhazen'. Walter Salmon included among the authorities of his Practical Physik (1692) 'Geber Arabs', or the chemist (and alchemist) Jabir ibn Hayyam. Robert Boyle, the chemist known to every schoolboy, studied Arabic sciences in order to be able to challenge the 'groundless traditional conceptions' in contemporary learning. Boyle in turn acted as a guide for Isaac Newton, a seeker of the truth who naturally became drawn to the esoteric sciences (perhaps better called the mystical arts). Newton, in the words of Maynard Keynes, 'regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty'. Newton left behind more than a million words on the subject of alchemy, and the task of deciphering this mass of material has occupied scholars since 1936. It is still ongoing, and interestingly, a significant portion of manuscripts is now in the Yahuda Manuscript Collection of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. His biographer Norman White has attempted to trace a mental connection between Newton's religious beliefs and scientific discoveries (see 'Isaac Newton, The Last Sorcerer', 1997; pp161-162. Read more Islam in Britain 1558 - 1685, by Nabil Matar, Cambridge University Press, 1998

waar meesha waa lagu madowbaadaa. No fresh meat. Frozen for one month! Not like Hargaisa where you eat something killed the same morning,,,

Too lenient!

Very wierd if true.

If you genuinely can't understand what North is saying, then your IQ is that of a minor. I'll break it down for you, hopefully the penny might drop on this occasion... The man doesnt know how to debate period! Ayoub, dont bother trying to make Mr Me 'understand' things. He will only repeatd the same issues again and again. He is yet to answer my earlier question. Can a defender of Barre talk of Somalinimo and what not?

Try to decipher and comment on the below. No time to keep repeating myself! Originally posted by Northerner: The goings on in Muqdisho, the invasion, occupation and massacres which have taken place, can only be described as wrong regardless of where one’s loyalties lie (SL, TFG, ICU or whatever). Therefore, when one voices his displeasure at the said goings on, it should be viewed as a welcome thought in amongst all of the anarchy. Secondly, the support for secession being something which invalidates one’s concern for the goings on in Muqdisho is made redundant by the fact that a Somalia free from occupation (which is what I call for) would have a better chance of unity and would invariably be detrimental to the secessionist cause. In other words, support for the TFG and Ethio occupation would be understandable for someone who hopes the disunity continues and recognition comes his way due to this disunity. Thirdly, the situation is LA is grim and I agree it should not have happened and was not supported by the majority. It has more to do with political figures and opportunists with tacit support from the Ethios who also happen to be occupying the south. Having said that, this could also be reversed on the TFG supporters. Why support an invasion in the south and cry about an ‘invasion’ in the north? But lets not ask them such a question ya Mr. Me. Fourthly, the arrests of individuals by the govnt who are then handed over to the Ethios do not have the support of the majority and is wrong. You seem to be equating the actions of politicians with SOL nomads by implying that they are in agreement simply because of their points of view. If a player from your favourite football team gets sent off for an elbow I’m sure you wouldn’t agree as it’s against the laws of the game. Therefore, the ‘wrong’ actions of politicians don’t mean the populace in support of them. A silly way of going about things ya Mr. Me. I expected better than that.

^^waa carab saaxib. Whenever you meet one chances they will speak highly of Gamal Abdul Nasser!

Well there is an easier way of doing that. Like moving there and sitting in hotels sipping tea for a few years. Who knows a post in Azarbaijaan might be just for you :cool:

Originally posted by NGONGE: ^^ They possibly don't get as much publicity nor are they an urgent case. You should have used Kosovo as your example. I am sick and tired of having those two cumbersome flags under my bed. Get recognised already so that I can ditch the blue one. Boy is that fence under strenious pressure

^^peanuts

Edit Says the man who defends Siyaad Barre (Mr Me)