NGONGE, what are you thinking?

Man tells of first class flight with corpse (Reuters) 19 March 2007 LONDON - A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, British newspapers reported on Monday. Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off, the Mirror and Sun tabloids said. “The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor,” Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. “It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows.” The woman’s daughter was also upgraded and spent the rest of the nine-hour flight from Delhi to London grieving next to her dead mother, the Sun reported. The Guardian newspaper said the incident happened last week. British Airways has apologised for any distress suffered, according to the reports. The Mirror quoted BA as saying: “We apologise, but our crew were working in difficult circumstances and chose the option they thought would cause least disruption.” source

He should go and rob a bank. He has the perfect excuse and will be aquitted in no time!

^^When its wrapped in plastic bag?

Recently heard a Shiekh say the way her apostasy is being celebrated is a sign that Islam is winning. The celebration of 'one' apostate is out numbered by hundreds if not thousands each day!

Its another sticky one which needs to be researched both Islamically and their religious rights in the workplace.

LoL@orthodox muslims!!!!!!!!!!!

I like this response to the article refering to Ayan Hirsi. LesPolitiques March 15, 2007 5:10 AM I think most of the time internal criique is more productive than external critique because the latter is felt as a threat and pushes people inside to silence internal critiques. I am however surprised that nobody has ever highlighted the absence of intellectual rigour in Hirsi Ali's critique of Islam. This putting aside the fact that Ali's critique is a borrowed one, there is rarely reference to Muslim scholars and her interpretation of the Qoran is amateurish. Ali is not a critique of Islam, she is a Muslim basher and she got everything wrong about Islam. Moreover, nobody questioned her psychological motives which are really questionable and are obvious in her personal story, writings, declarations adn contradictions about Islam. She is no Enlihhtened person, she has the darkest personnality and intellect I have ever encountered in the world class of actual Msulim bashers. Here is my analysis of the Hirsi Ali phenomenon: http://lespolitiques.blogspot.com/2007/02/disrepute-of-reason-ii-hirsi-alis.html#links

Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia Abd al-`Azīz Āl Sa`ūd (November 26 (?), 1880 - November 9, 1953) (Arabic: عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was the first monarch of Saudi Arabia. He is also known by several abbreviated forms of this name, including simply Ibn Sa`ūd[1]. He was born in Riyadh into the House of Sa'ūd (commonly transliterated Saud), which had historically maintained dominion over the interior highlands of Arabia known as the Najd. Ibn Saud died in Taif. Loss and reclamation of power Abdul Aziz was born in Riyadh, Arabia in 1876. In 1890, at the age of fourteen, Saud followed his family into exile in Kuwait following the conquest of the family's lands by the Rashidi. He spent the remainder of his childhood in Kuwait. Abd al-Rahman had a stipend from the Turkish government of 60 Turkish pounds a month and Abdul Aziz went on several profitable raids in Nejd as he grew to adulthood. He attended the daily majlis of the emir of Kuwait, Mubarak al Sabah, from whom he learned much about the world. However, the family's home in Riyadh was of the simplest and cramped by five sons and at least one daughter. In the Spring of 1901 Ibn Saud and some relatives, including a half-brother Mohammed,and several cousins, set out on a raiding expedition targeting for the most part tribes associated with the Rashidis. As booty was abundant, with many camels stolen, the raiding party grew to around 200 as tribesmen loyal to the Sauds joined the party. In the Fall, with Ramadan approaching, the group, reduced in number by defections, holed up in the Jabrin Oasis. It may have been only then that Ibn Sa'ud decided to attack Riyadh and regain his family's heritage. On the night of January 15–16,1902, together with a party of some sixty, including seven relatives and some slaves, he recaptured Riyadh with only twenty; the rest were guarding the camels in an isolated oasis. They had been told to escape if the venture failed. The Rashidi governor of the city, Ajlan, was killed as he fled the attack by Ibn Sa'ud in front of the fort gate. Ibn Sa'ūd was considered a "magnetic" leader, and following the capture of Riyadh many former supporters of the House of Saud once again rallied to its support In the two years following his dramatic seizure of Riyadh, Ibn Sa'ūd recaptured almost half of Nejd from the Rashidis. In 1904, however, Ibn Rashid appealed to the Ottoman Empire for assistance in defeating the House of Sa'ūd. The Ottomans sent troops to Arabia, setting Ibn Sa'ūd on the defensive. The armies of the House of Saud suffered a major defeat on June 15, 1904, but his forces soon regrouped and returned to the offensive as the Turkish troops left the country due to supply problems. Ibn Sa'ūd finally consolidated control over the Nejd in 1912 with the help of an organized and well-trained army. In that year he founded the Ikhwan, a militant religious organisation which was to assist in his later conquests. More broadly, he revived his dynasty's traditional alliance with Wahhabism. During World War I the British government attempted to cultivate favor with Ibn Sa'ūd via their Political Agent Captain William Shakespear, but this was not seriously continued after Shakespear's unexpectedly early death at the Battle of Jarrab. Instead the British transferred support to Ibn Sa'ūd's rival Sherif Hussein ibn Ali, leader of Hejaz, with whom the Sa'ūds were almost constantly at war. Despite this, the British entered into a treaty in December 1915 which made the lands of the House of Sa'ūd a British protectorate. In exchange, Ibn Sa'ūd pledged to again make war against Ibn Rashid, who was an ally of the Ottomans. Ibn Sa'ūd did not, however, immediately make war against Ibn Rashid, despite a steady supply of weapons and cash (£5,000 Sterling per month) from the British. He argued with the British that the payment he received was insufficient to adequately wage war against an enemy as powerful as Ibn Rashid. In 1920, however, Ibn Sa'ūd finally marched again against the Rashidis, extinguishing their dominion in 1922. The defeat of the Rashidis doubled the territory of the Ibn Sa'ūd, and he was able to negotiate a new treaty with the British at Uqair in 1922, abolishing the 1915 protection agreement in return for Ibn Saud's agreement not to attempt to expand his state's borders into British protectorates on the Gulf Coast. British subsidies continued until 1924. In 1925 the Sa'ūds captured the holy city of Mecca from Sherif Hussein ibn Ali ending 700 years of Hashemite tutelage of the Islamic holy places. On 10 January 1926 Ibn Saud was proclaimed King of the Hejaz in the Great Mosque at Mecca. In 1927, following the defeat of Husayn, the British government recognized the power of the Saud family, led by Ibn Saud, over much of what is today Saudi Arabia. The Treaty of Jedda was signed on May 20. At this point he changed his title from Sultan of Nejd to King of Nejd. Initially the two parts of his dominians (Nejd in the east and Hejaz in the west) were administered seperately. From 1927 to 1932 Ibn Saud continued to consolidate power throughout the Arabian Peninsula. In March 1929 he defeated elements of the Ikhwan, which had disobeyed his orders to cease raiding and had invaded Iraq against his wishes, at the Battle of Sbilla. In 1932, having conquered most of the Peninsula, Saud renamed the area from the lands of Nejd and Hejaz to Saudi Arabia. He then proclaimed himself King of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud in the white wiki

10 reasons breakfast is a MUST Susan Burke Is it an old wives' tale, or is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Perhaps your mother always made you eat hot lumpy cereal in the morning, so as soon as you escaped her clutches, you developed the coffee and cigarette habit in college, and ever since then breakfast was a bagel... at lunchtime. You’ve realised your adolescence ended (about 10 years ago!) and now it’s time for a change. You’ve stopped that smoking thing... it was smelly and made your teeth yellow anyway. But your trousers are too tight, you can’t climb a set of stairs without huffing and puffing and you feel much older than your years. Back to breakfast... yes it’s true, breakfast can make or break a diet, because breakfast helps set the tone for the rest of the day. If you’re one of those people who think skipping breakfast is a good way to lose weight... think again. Here are the top reasons why you should definitely eat breakfast, every day: 1. Break the fast. Ever think of what "breakfast" means? Your body responds to not eating for hours and hours by slowing down its metabolic rate. By eating breakfast, you wake up your metabolism and get your engine humming, burning those calories you need to burn to lose weight. 2. Eat more, weigh less. Researchers have repeatedly shown that people who eat breakfast have a better chance of losing weight, and keeping it off. When you skip meals, you’re so hungry by lunchtime you eat the entire cow! Research carried out at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has shown that eating breakfast cereal in the morning helps aid weight loss. 3. Are you interested in doing better at work and school? Don’t be a bed head... breakfast helps wake you up. Studies show that people who eat breakfast are more alert and do better on tests than people who skip breakfast. Conversely, a hungry child can be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Breakfast is the key." No doubt adults need breakfast as much as kids do. 4. Breakfast is your chance to eat the foods you may not eat the rest of the day. You can have whole-grain cereal and berries with non-fat milk - here is your fibre, folic acid and calcium in one easy-to-grab bowl. Low-carbers need to go very easy on grains, so opt for the highest-fibre brand you can find. However, why not indulge instead in the typical eggs and bacon breakfast most other eating plans frown upon? 5. Skipping breakfast makes you grouchy. Studies show that people who eat breakfast tend to be in better moods (when I’m hungry - watch out!). Breakfast gets you started on the right track for the day. If you start out with a healthy breakfast, then you set the mood for lunch. You're more likely to choose something reasonable for lunch if you’ve paid some attention to your breakfast choices. 6. Cancel the Danish or sugared donut first thing in the morning - they cause a blood sugar dip a couple of hours later. You’ll be desperate for something to perk you up, and are more likely to grab another high-sugar refined carb, for a quick sugar rush. 7. Breakfast makes your machine run better. Get yourself on a schedule with a healthy breakfast, and you’re ready to take on the world. 8. If you're a parent, set a good example. By skipping breakfast, your kids will think it’s not important. Breakfast doesn't have to be a big affair, but don’t wimp out... make it a habit, and your kids will be way ahead of the game too. 9. Don’t eat dessert for breakfast. If you think a cereal bar with 30 grams of sugar is a breakfast item, then think again. Some cereal bars contain nearly as much sugar and fat as a regular chocolate bar. 10. One more word about labels... if it says, "Nutritious," it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s healthy. Cereal manufacturers are experts in marketing, using words that send a message of health, but unless you read the labels, eat at your own risk. Kids’ cereals often have more sugar than sweets. Protect your kids from getting hooked on these cereals... they’ll get used to all the sugar, and will want only pre-sweetened cereals. Whatever your diet you follow... breakfast is one meal you don’t want to miss.

Back the Palestinian unity regime By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News The Palestine national unity government, which begins work today, has the huge task of providing its battered, besieged and famished people with security and the basics of a decent life. It must then attempt to persuade Israel to come to the table and negotiate a two-state solution to their ancient conflict. No one can honestly claim that its prospects are good. It faces two formidable obstacles: first, its internal cohesion remains fragile, with competition inevitably continuing between Fatah and Hamas. Last month the two parties were on the verge of all-out war. It will need time, skill and real goodwill for reconciliation to take hold. Secondly, Israel has denounced the new government as "a step backwards for peace prospects" and has launched an intense diplomatic campaign in Washington and Brussels to discredit the Makkah agreement of March 8 which brought Hamas and Fatah together, to undermine the new Palestinian government and to keep the international boycott of Hamas in place. The first problem is less serious than the second. Having had a taste in recent weeks of an incipient civil war, Fatah and Hamas are determined to stop the suicidal inter-Palestinian bloodshed. Unifying their ranks is their very first priority. Israel's priority, however, is the very opposite. It wants the Palestinians to fight each other and it will do everything possible, including resorting to its familiar black arts and to provocation by its army of informers, to set them against each other. It wants Fatah to destroy Hamas and drive it from power. It repeats its mantra that there can be "no compromise with terrorists", while seeking to persuade the world that its own violence - far more lethal than that of the Palestinians - is that of legitimate self-defence. If Israel is eventually forced to negotiate with the Palestinians - which it will do its utmost to avoid - it wants the Palestinians to be weak and divided rather than strong and united. Yet, if Israel were only to open its eyes to the enormous benefits of peace, the Palestinian national unity government could be the partner it truly needs and which it claims it does not have. Enforce ceasefire The new government has the muscle to bring about the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier seized on the Gaza-Egyptian border; it can tame Islamic Jihad and other extremist factions; it can stop the firing of Qassam rockets from Gaza against Israeli towns in the Negev; it can enforce a real and long-term ceasefire if Israel stops its own punitive incursions and targeted killings; and above all it can ensure that any agreements reached with Israel will stick. Why then does Israel not welcome the new Palestinian government and seize its outstretched hand? Because it wants to deal with a defeated, not a resurgent, Palestinian movement; because it wants to impose its terms not to negotiate; because it labels any resistance to its 40-year old occupation as terrorism; above all, because it refuses to withdraw to anything like its 1967 borders, but instead wants to extend its colonisation of Palestinian land. Moreover, Israel is determined not to allow even a single Palestinian refugee back into Israel. The deadlock is therefore complete. It can only be broken by sustained intervention by the international community. To Israel's alarm, some European Union members and Russia have welcomed the new Palestinian government and have called on the world to recognise it and end the financial sanctions. In a brave gesture, France has invited the new Palestinian foreign minister, Ziad Abu Amar, to Paris. This seems to be the view of Norway, Spain, Italy and others. Britain - still under US and Israeli influence - is apparently only prepared to deal with Fatah and independent members of the new government, not with Hamas members - a pusillanimous and self-defeating attitude. What of the all-important American position? Israel's foreign minister Tsipi Livni rushed to Washington to make sure that the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not stray from the earlier refusal to lift the embargo or deal with Hamas. She even persuaded Rice to call for "Arab-Israel reconciliation" before any peace process could begin. Livni herself, in a flight into the land of fantasy, called on the Arab states to normalise relations with Israel before the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! Rice is coming to the region in the coming days before the important Arab summit in Riyadh of March 28-29, which is expected to re-launch the March 2002 Arab peace initiative, which offered Israel peace and normalisation with all 22 members of the Arab league once it agreed to withdraw to the 1967 borders and committed itself to a "just and agreed upon solution of the refugee problem". Historic importance This document of historic importance offers Israel the chance of full, peaceful and secure integration into the region. The Palestine government has agreed to abide by Arab Summit resolutions - including the Arab Peace Initiative of the 2002 Beirut summit - as well as the two-state solution called for by the Palestinian National Council in 1988. The world will be watching whether Rice is now ready to endorse the Arab Peace Initiative and will urge Israel to negotiate on its basis. This will be the real test of her authority and independence. Patrick Seale is a commentator and author of several books on Middle East affairs. http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10112053.html

^^Bob Woolmer re-united a Pakistani team made up of all sorts of characters from the religious to the wild boys. Cricket is the 'gentlemans' sport.

Your saying Africans are more violent based on what?

What a weekend ey? Rugby, Cricket, F1, Football,,,,,,,

Pronounced: 'Lakum diinukum waliya diin without the 'i'. As for the topic, well erm,,,

Blow the whistle on Israel England's forthcoming soccer match with Israel conflicts with the campaign to kick racism out of sport. As part of the UEFA 2008 qualifiers, England's football team will be playing Israel on March 24 - just three days after the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Despite protests against the match on the grounds of Israel's treatment of Palestinian footballers, the FA decided that England will go ahead with the fixture. Those protesting against Israel's inclusion in UEFA, which it joined in 1991, do so because of Israel's compound failure to act in the manner of a sportsman where its Palestinian neighbours are concerned. Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian football team members and facilities which resulted in the Palestinian side failing to make any progress in this game. Most recently, in November 2006, the Palestinians failed to play against Singapore in the Asian Cup qualifier due to the singular reason that Israel barred team players from traveling out of Gaza. Earlier in 2006, Israel fired a missile into the densely populated Gaza Strip which destroyed its only football stadium. Such acts of sabotage thwart all efforts made by Palestinians to progress in this sport in their home territories. The world football organisation FIFA granted Palestine a nation status for the purposes of entering the world cup tournament in 1996. Since then, Israel has at every opportunity attempted to prevent the Palestinian football team from fielding its first choice players at the World Cup qualifiers. Israel's targeting of the Palestinian stadium and the restriction of movement has meant the Palestinian team is forced to have its practice sessions in Egypt. The team manager is faced with the challenge of training players on an ad hoc basis, depending on who can manage to circumnavigate the Israeli checkpoints and travel to Egypt, and is also forced to wait until just before the starting whistle to name his squad based on the players present. Of course it naturally follows that the Palestinian side can therefore never experience the luxury of a home game - or an away game - in the presence of cheering Palestinian crowds. Israel's deliberate targeting of sports facilities, punitive travel restrictions on Palestinians, general undermining of Palestinian football, and in particular obstructing Palestinians from participating in international tournaments, has to be categorised as racial discrimination. Faced with such concrete facts, there is dismay that despite the FA's anti-racism campaign, Kick It Out, which has done great work in the UK since its inception in 1993, it has failed to act on the complaints against England playing Israel and has disregarded heavy UN censure against Israel. On March 9, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination composed of 18 independent experts, issued damning observations. The committee strongly criticised Israel and emphasised 25 areas of concern. These included the issue of the right of return for refugees, the illegal wall and Israel's compliance with the convention concerning the rights of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT). Of the 25 concerns and recommendations, number 16 directly concerns Palestinian sportsmen and women. It states: "Severe restrictions on the freedom of movement in the OPT targeting a particular national or ethnic group, especially through the wall, checkpoints, restricted roads and permit system, have created hardship and have had a highly detrimental impact on the enjoyment of human rights by Palestinians, in particular their rights to freedom of movement, family life, work, education and health." Although in an ideal world sports should be kept separate from politics, there is a different reality. Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympics to showcase Hitler and his fascist ideology, which culminated in the Holocaust and the tragic deaths of six million Jews. Since then, sporting events have been used as a means of political protest, with boycott strategies being used against oppressive regimes, as typified by the civil society movement against apartheid South Africa. Ironically, it was Israel's relationships with apartheid South Africa that led the UN passing resolution 39/72C declaring that "the increasing collaboration by Israel with the racist regime of South Africa, especially in the military and nuclear fields, in defiance of resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, is a serious hindrance to international action for the eradication of apartheid ..." It is easy to understand the call for the boycott of Israel in sporting tournaments until such time that it begins to respect the human rights of Palestinians as stipulated within the Geneva Convention. source

Rocko, you sure the guy is black? Nuune, a great site and team. You drew with Brazil but keep losing to Romania? :confused: Well done, looks like you guys are enjoying it. Time for me to start a team here i think,,,,i will look in all the shisha places and grab some Somalis!

^^Rudy, where are you from by the way? Cant remember you telling us.

and of course Shiekh!

The world of modern child slavery By Rageh Omaar Presenter of BBC Two documentary Slave Children Slavery is a word which immediately conjures up very specific images in our minds. When it is mentioned we tend to think of people, almost always black people; degraded, abused and bound in chains, and we tend to think of such images, and the word slavery itself, as belonging to another era. We do not see slavery as belonging to our world, not as something which is still happening today. Yet the truth is that if William Wilberforce were alive today and he travelled to different parts of the world - not just in Africa, but also in large parts of Asia, the Middle East, South America and even parts of Europe - he would find children living in conditions and circumstances which Wilberforce would understand and which I am sure he would describe as slavery. It is believed there are nearly nine million children around the world today who are enslaved. There are international charters and covenants which try to come to a legal definition of what constitutes slavery. In essence these documents define slavery in the modern world as a situation where a human being and their labour are owned by others, and where that person does not have the freedom to leave and is forced into a life which is exploitative, humiliating and abusive. 'Sexual slavery' One of the characters in the film I have made for the BBC is Dalyn, a young girl from Cambodia, who after years of counselling and therapy was able and willing to talk to us about how she was sold into sexual slavery in a brothel when she was 12 years old. Dalyn represents just one of the estimated 1.2 million children that the International Labour Organisation believes are trafficked every year. Tricked and forced into prostitution, Dalyn spent much of her time locked in a cage with others underneath a brothel - starved, beaten and threatened at gun point until she agreed to service clients. Unregulated industry Then there is the gentle and sweet 12-year-old boy Mawulehawe from Ghana, who is sold by his mother to a fishing "master". Far from being the sadistic and immoral person you would expect, master Aaron is friendly and completely open about what he does and his motives. Mawulehawe sits and listens as he is haggled over, eventually being sold for £25 ($48). Many people will be shocked and horrified by such a figure. How can anyone, let alone a mother, put a price on a child's head? But £25 in Mawulehawe's village is the equivalent of two months salary for a local teacher, or enough water to meet the needs of a family of six for over three months. In selling him to a fishing master, his relatives believe that far from being sold into anything approximating slavery, Mawulehawe is being given an apprenticeship, a chance for him to learn a trade. But of course, not all fishing masters are as seemingly caring and gentle as Aaron. Many of the boys which Mawulehawe eventually joins, tell of the beatings, the dangers of diving to loosen trapped nets and the fatalities in this utterly unregulated industry. Forced to beg Nearly three thousand miles away in Saudi Arabia, six-year-old Ali was picked up by the authorities for begging on the streets of Jeddah. He was smuggled him into Saudi Arabia from Yemen for this purpose. Ali says he ended up begging after being beaten with a metal wire when he said he did not want to beg all day. Ali is one of thousands of Yemeni children sold to gangs and forced to beg each year. Many of these children smuggled over the border are often sold by families who are duped into believing their offspring will get a better life. My journey Like many other news reporters, I have reported on children around the world who have been soldiers, prostitutes and workers at ages where their counterparts in the West would be in primary schools. But news reports about child soldiers or prostitutes invariably turn to adults and international bodies to describe, analyse and contextualise the experiences. In this documentary, we get to see and learn about the world of modern slavery in which these children live, through them, and as a result it provides a complex, disturbing, surprising and vivid look into a world many of us adults are oblivious to. I was born in Somaliland, the self-declared republic in the north of Somalia, where my relatives still live. A couple of miles outside the capital Hargeisa is a vast and flat savannah landscape that still belongs to nomads who herd camels and goats. Here, I met a shepherd boy called Abdi, tending his family's 35 goats and reflected on the fact that only one generation separates me from Abdi. I live in a comfortable house in west London, my children have scooters and summer holidays, yet my life could easily have been exactly like Abdi's. My mother was a nomadic shepherd, and as a girl tended the family's animals. Abdi may well have to work instead of going to school, but he is not enslaved. Slavery means you do not have the freedom to say no. Laws and standards Poverty underlies almost all aspects of the phenomenon of modern child slavery. It is the one issue that most often lies behind the reasons and circumstances they were given up or sold into such conditions. Yet although there has been progress internationally on creating laws and standards aimed at stamping out child slavery, there are still many adults who not only gain from child slavery but believe that they will, in more cases than not, get away with it. Defining what modern slavery is, even finding out the scale of it around the world, is not enough if the practice is not seen to be punished. This World: Slave Children with Rageh Omaar will be broadcast on Monday, 26 March, 2007 at 2100 BST on BBC Two. Link and programme preview

^^Of course,,,,,,,, Xafadaha cusube ladisey, bal sosawir saxib,,,,,,

^^maaha maaha, really?

Thats if i can leave my beloved Burco

An over the top reaction by the SL Govnt. They be trying to help the kids instead. However, if a Xabashi and/or his Somali lover(s) arrive at the airport, they should not be treated!

^^ Insha allah Hargaisaan kugu arki in July, shaqo iyo wixi businessah iraadi saxib!