They should have the meeting Burco,,,

Recentlt got a warning from a Somali woman. She told me not answer numbers starting with 22 as she heard the phone explodes when you answer it loooooooooooool I couldnt stop laughing,,,,,,, If someone is so convinced by just Somali hearsay, i mean why no questions asked like why no one else knows about it (the authoritities etc). Same with alot of the Muslims today who do not question the goings on. Its all a conspiracy (some of it might be true) without sitting back and having a holistic view is holding Muslims back.

Reasons for decline of the Muslim world By Husain Haqqani, Special to Gulf News The Muslim world seems to be in the grip of all kinds of rumours. The willingness of large numbers of Muslims to believe some outrageous assertions reflects pervasive insecurity coupled with widespread ignorance. The contemporary Muslim fascination for conspiracy theories limits the capacity for rational discussion of international affairs. For example, a recent poll indicates that only 3 per cent of Pakistanis believe that Al Qaida was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the US, notwithstanding Osama Bin Laden and his deputies have taken credit for the attacks on more than one occasion. The acceptance of rumours and the readiness to embrace the notion of a conspiracy does not apply exclusively to the realm of politics. Villagers in rural Nigeria are refusing to administer the polio vaccine to their infant children out of fear that the vaccine will make their offspring sterile. Some religious leaders in Pakistan's Pashtun tribal areas bordering Afghanis-tan have also voiced concerns about a "Western-Zionist conspiracy" to sterilise the next generation of Muslims as part of what they allege is an "ongoing war against Islam". Mobile phones and the internet, the pervasiveness of which is often cited as a measure of a society's progress and modernity, have become a means of spreading fear in the Muslim world. Text messages, originating from the Pakistani city of Sialkot, recently warned people of a virus if people answered phone calls from certain numbers. The virus would not hurt the phone, the messages said, but would rather kill the recipient. The panic caused by the rumours forced the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to issue a denial. Phone companies sent out text messages urging people to be calm. A newspaper rejected the rumour but featured the headline, Killer Mobile Virus. Text message A text message widely circulated in an Arab country claimed that trucks carrying a million melons had been smuggled across the country's northern border and the melons were contaminated with the HIV virus, which causes Aids. No one paid any attention to the fact that the HIV virus cannot be transmitted by eating melons. The Muslim world has a high rate of illiteracy but ignorance reflected by the readiness to believe unverified (and sometimes totally outrageous) claims is not just a function of illiteracy. It is a function of bigotry and fear. Literate Muslims, such as those involved in the text message rumour-mongering, are as vulnerable to ignorant behaviour as illiterate ones. Conspiracy theories have been popular among Muslims since the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire as a way of explaining the powerlessness of a community that was at one time the world's economic, scientific, political and military leader. The erosion of the leadership position of Muslims coincided with the West's gradual technological ascendancy. The Persian, Mughal and Ottoman empires controlled vast lands and resources but many important scientific discoveries and inventions since the 15th century came about in Europe and not in the Muslim lands. Ignorance is an attitude and the world's Muslims have to analyse, debate and face it before they can deal with it. The 57-member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) have around 500 universities compared with more than 5,000 universities in the US and more than 8,000 in India. In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an "Academic Ranking of World Universities", and none of the universities from Muslim-majority states was included in the top 500. The Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on research and development, while the Western nations spend around five per cent of GDP on producing knowledge. The tendency of Muslim masses to accept rumours as fact and the readiness to believe anything that suggests a non-Muslim conspiracy to weaken or undermine the Muslims is the result of the overall feeling of helplessness and decline that permeates the Muslim world. Most Muslim scholars and leaders try to explain Muslim decline through the prism of the injustices of colonialism and the subsequent ebb and flow of global distribution of power. But Muslims are not weak only because they were colonised. They were colonised because they had become weak. Conspiracy theories paper over the knowledge deficit and the general attitude of ignorance in the Muslim world. It is time for a discussion of the Ummah's decline in the context of failure to produce and consume knowledge and absorb verifiable facts. Husain Haqqani is director of Boston University's Centre for International Relations, and Co-Chair of the Islam and Democracy Project at Hudson Institute, Washington D.C. He is author of the book 'Pakistan between Mosque and Military'. source

What is Somalia's debts? Should it be repaid? I dont think it should be repaid. 5 years time Somalia may be in so much debt (Allah forbid)

lol Garaad Canood A man smokes cigarettes and another smokes crack! I think they are both wrong but the cigarette smoker will obviously be doing less wrong. He should tell the other guy to stop smoking crack and try his cigarettes. Besides shisha is the best

lol has to be seen to be believed,,,,,,

more than 5b has been 'lost' in curruption. The Prime Minister has blocked countless investigations into more 100 prominent politicians/senior figures

Urban, you are close but not right Come on guys answer the question,,,,,

Rocko lol I will stick my neck out and say i want Milan. But Man Utd can do it tonight so who knows? Nuune, i dont think Liverpool can double their work effort. Chelsea did have time on the ball the whole game. Jose was inferior to Benitez yet again. If he played Balarouze and put Essien in the middle Chelsea would have had a better game. Essien had a great game again. "We were the best team today, even against a team only playing for the Champions League." "In extra-time we were the only team who tried to win, but football is like that and the penalty shoot-out is part of the game. "My players did a great run in the Champions League." "I respected Liverpool always in my words. I don't need to say more and today I think the best team was Chelsea." You have to love his 'panache' Soma and crew, you had injuries yes. You played more games yes. You was at Anfield yes. But who gives a ?

^^doesnt matter saxib i hate both teams 2am and time for bed

Jose can shut it! Come on Milan! Mascherano, what a player and Reina!

Malaysians are what Muslims used to be. Modern day thinkers and innovators. Proton cars Banking (Islamic) etc The most developed Muslim nation

All the more reason to use the time you have now to be active and eat well. I hope to be faster than my sons (insha allah) when they are 20 inshallah.

Easy to point the finger Eat your heart out Jerry Springer Stump you like Malinga (cricket watchers will know this one)

^^dont worry you will be blamed for it and called a husbandtionist Me, but we have the shahada

Originally posted by Ms Dhucdhuc & Dheylo: North What do the colours of the flag represent? Green for prosperity White for peace Red for the blood of the fallen heroes of the liberation. Shahada is for Islam The Black star is for the demise of the united Somalia dream.

Calanku quruxbadanaa

18-5-1991

Bada Cass, July 12th will book next week IA.

We are in May, give it some time and i'm sure Somaliland will be the flavour of the month

Another article highlighting the backwardness of Muslims. I'm beginning to believe them.

^^demonstrating has become a futile exercise, i usually enjoy a meal in McDonald's on 1st May

Originally posted by me: quote:Originally posted by Northerner: Me, Where is this intimidating city where people are killed for being of another clan? It happens in all over Somalia including my hometown Hargaysa. ps. I never had so many friends as I have today on SOL Some places are more welcoming than others