^^waar ajarki aad ushaqeysatey ma xagaasaad ku waste-gareyni? Solution - get married tomorrow :cool:

Miya la-isgaley?

Eid Mubarak waryaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!! Plans? Phone everyone in my phone book tonight and wish them eid wanagsan wa kuli amm wa antum bi-khayr. Eat at my local lebanese (missed the place) Tomorrow Go for Eid prayer (7am) Have breakfast (approx 8am) Sleep (8.30-12pm) Visit rearo and eat (1pm-3.30pm) Go to the park/beach (4pm-5.30pm) Go to the fun fair/fireworks display (8pm-late) Make more calls Sleep

Allah yarxamhum

Nacam akhi! Eid Mubarak

Veil controversy rocks Egypt university Sunday 22 October 2006, 1:20 Makka Time, 22:20 GMT Egyptian students who wear the veil could face expulsion from a leading university if they refuse to uncover their faces. Helwan University has already banished students from residence halls and has threatened to expel from campus those who turn up with their faces covered, university officials said on Friday. "They say nothing to indecent girls, but we - the daughters of Islam - are being hounded," said Iman Ahmed, a 21-year-old female student. The decision was made by Abdel al-Hay Ebaid, dean of Helwan University, which is located on the edge of a large industrial estate 30km outside of Cairo. "What I want is to protect students against those individuals who might worm their way in, disguised under a face veil," Ebaid said. "[students] Their parents would kill me if a man infiltrated the women's halls." Restriction of freedom Around 2,800 female students are housed in the women's residence halls. Those in the anti-niqab camp are congratulating themselves that something has been done to halt the spread of "fanaticism" and "warped Islam", while those who support the veil say the ultimatum is an invasion of their freedom and flies in the face of true Islam. "This ban restricts my freedom," said Rihan Sami, a student teacher, who is completely veiled and gloved. "The [niqab] veil is my choice, and that of Islam, in battling against the shamelessness that abounds here." In order to gain access to the campus, girls wearing the full veil must pass through a small office where a woman inspector checks them behind a curtain to verify their identities against a list of registered students. "They only have to do the same thing for the halls of residence," argues Sami, adding that she decided to no longer wear the veil there in order to avoid being expelled. A "committee of free students" quickly staged demonstrations against the ban, a front, which sees a new milestone in the Islamisation of Egyptian society. Other universities in Egypt such as Ain Shams and American University of Cairo (AUC), have tried in recent years to oppose the veil, which was being advocated by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian religious leaders. Un-Islamic "I don't agree that the veil should be compulsory, and I don't like it," says Soad Saleh, a professor of Islamic law and former dean of the women's faculty of Islamic studies at Al-Azhar University, which is more than a thousand years old. Her face framed in a blue headband under a white hijab, she said that she wants to "purge Islam of false concepts: the Koran does not say women have to cover their faces, it's an old Bedouin tradition". After she questioned the wearing of the face veil during an appearance on the Dream satellite television channel, Saleh came under fire from a high-ranking Islamic official, and was even threatened by a fundamentalist imam in the Giza suburb of Cairo. Yussef Badri, a member of the Supreme Islamic Council, filed a complaint against her. "I don't care. The only one I fear is God," says the professor, putting the reaction down to male chauvinism at Al-Azhar University.

^^ The definition of a matyr is simply one who dies doing what he beleives in. It can be for anything. Whether one agrees with it or not.

^^so thats why you are on your way!!!!!!!!!Gotcha!!! Trees/wildelife are protected the world over. Same thing in UK (if its your fault and through insurance comp).

Your a a Brit, you will be at the top of the stack!!!!!!!!!Then come the muwaadins then the Arab Africans then the Indians! Yup they get their weddings paid for, free plot of land to build a home (its a lottery where you will end up though) and an interest free loan from your particular ministry/public works (they all work in the public sector). Thats what i've been told anyway. Funny thing is Somalis born/bred in Dubai are now Muwaadins whereas their Abu Dabi counterparts are not. Again something i've heard. Life a breeze. You get respect for simply being Somali, then a brit on top that! Hindidauun iska ilaali, xaasidnimo iyo uqdad ayey hayaane!

I wonder why there was no media explosion on this? ------------------------------------------------- Ex-BNP man held in 'bomb' swoop By Charlotte Bradshaw A FORMER British National Party member has been arrested after police found bomb-making equipment at his house. Police sealed off the home of Robert Cottage in Talbot Street, Colne, after storming the address and discovering chemical components that could be used to make explosives. The 49-year-old has been arrested under the Explosives Act on suspicion of possessing chemicals that may be capable of making an explosion. However Superintendent Neil Smith moved to reassure residents and stressed: "It is not a bomb making factory" and added that it was not related to terrorism. continued... Officers have been at the address since last Thursday and have been conducting door to door inquiries. Forensic officers have seized his car for examination. Supt Smith added: "We are making inquiries in relation to what we have found at his address and to establish what offences he may have committed. "He's not a terrorist and it's not a bomb factory but we are interested in what we have seized from his house. It will take expert advice to establish exactly what he has got. "He was arrested under the Explosives Act on suspicion of possessing chemical substances that aren't in themselves an offence to possess but if combined may be capable of making an explosion." Cottage stood for the BNP in the May elections in the Vivary Bride ward of Colne. However it is understood his membership had lapsed. Nelson BNP councillor Brian Parkinson said: "I am very shocked and surprised to hear this. I am glad to hear that he is no longer a member of our party because the BNP wouldn't want to be associated with this incident. It certainly wouldn't condone the sort of thing he is allegedly being connected with." Neighbours said they were shocked by the police swoop. Corinne West, 22, of Talbot Street, said: "The police came to my door at 7pm on Friday night asking if I had seen anything suspicious. They wouldn't tell me anything which was quite worrying." Aaron Haworth, 23, who lives next door but one with his partner Marie and two children, added: "The police have been here since Thursday and we are still none the wiser as to what's happened. "It's ridiculous really. I have two young children and if there is bomb making equipment at the house I want to know about it because I have my children's safety to think about. There's been all sorts of rumours flying around, I don't know why the police are being so cagey, that's what's making everyone so worried." Another neighbour, who lives across the road, but who asked not to be named, said: "I know Robert to talk to. He's always very polite and stops to talk his mum who lives on the same road and she's very nice too. "He is good with the children on the street. He's been married to Karina for about three years and they seem good together. He drives a yellow bus taking disabled children to school and stood in the local elections for the BNP party. "I think it is an outrage that the police have been so secretive. The forensics have been here and taken his Peugeot car away for examination. "On Thursday we were told to stay inside and stay away from the windows which left us all wondering what on earth was going on. They arrested him from the back door and it was strange because the officers had a key to get in the front but from the way they went in it looked as though they thought it might have been booby-trapped. It took them about 10 minutes just to get through the door." Burnley Citizen

its not insomnia, just no point going back to bed after fajr, at work now watching the clock

If this onslaught was about Jews, I would be looking for my passport Politicians and media have turned a debate about integration into an ugly drumbeat of hysteria against British Muslims Jonathan Freedland Wednesday October 18, 2006 The Guardian I've been trying to imagine what it must be like to be a Muslim in Britain. I guess there's a sense of dread about switching on the radio or television, even about walking into a newsagents. What will they be saying about us today? Will we be under assault for the way we dress? Or the schools we go to, or the mosques we build? Who will be on the front page: a terror suspect, a woman in a veil or, the best of both worlds, a veiled terror suspect. Don't laugh. Last week the Times splashed on "Suspect in terror hunt used veil to evade arrest". That sat alongside yesterday's lead in the Daily Express: "Veil should be banned say 98%". Nearly all those who rang the Express agreed that "a restriction would help to safeguard racial harmony and improve communication". At the weekend the Sunday Telegraph led on "Tories accuse Muslims of 'creating apartheid by shutting themselves off' ". That's how it's been almost every day since Jack Straw raised the matter of the veil nearly two weeks ago. Even before, Muslims could barely open a paper without seeing themselves on the front of it. David Cameron's speech to the Tories a week earlier was trailed in advance as an appeal for Muslims to open up their single-faith schools: "Ban Muslim ghettos" was one headline. Taken alone, each one of these topics could be the topic of a thoughtful, nuanced debate. The veil, for example, has found feminists among both its champions and critics, proving that it's no straightforward matter. There should be nothing automatically anti-Muslim about raising the subject, not least since many Muslim women question the niqab themselves. Similarly, Ruth Kelly was hardly out of line in suggesting, as she did last week, that the government needs to be careful about which Muslim groups it funds and with whom it engages, ensuring it leans towards those who are actively "tackling extremism". Other things being equal, that was a perfectly sensible thing to say. Except other things are not equal. Each one of these perfectly rational subjects, taken together, has created a perfectly irrational mood: a kind of drumbeat of hysteria in which both politicians and media have turned again and again on a single, small minority, first prodding them, then pounding them as if they represented the single biggest problem in national life. The result is turning ugly and has, predictably, spilled on to the streets. Muslim organisations report a surge in physical and verbal attacks on Muslims; women have had their head coverings removed by force. A mosque in Falkirk was firebombed while another in Preston was attacked by a gang throwing bricks and concrete blocks. Of course, such violence would be condemned by any politician asked about it. But a climate is developing here and every time a politician raises a question that would, on its own and in the quiet of the seminar room, be legitimate for debate, they are adding to it. They should feel shame for their reckless spraying of petrol on a growing blaze. Instead they applaud themselves, and are applauded in the press, for their bravery in daring to say what needs to be said. In fact, the courageous politician would refuse to join this open season on Muslims and seek to cool things down - beginning with an explanation of how we got here. The elements include many of those that feature in any build-up of hostility to a single, derided group, here or across the world. The foundation is fear. Many Britons have since 9/11, and especially since July 7, come to fear their Muslim neighbours: they worry that the young man next to them on the train might have more than an extra sweater in his backpack. Next comes ignorance, a simple lack of knowledge about Muslim life which leaves non-Muslims open to all kinds of misconceptions. That feeds into a simple discomfort, personified, in its most extreme form, by a woman whose face we cannot see. What's more, the set of issues that Islam raises for Britain are ones that do not break down on the usual ideological lines, allowing liberals and traditional anti-racists reflexively to line up alongside Muslims. The veil, and the queasiness it stirs in many feminists, is one example. Faith schools are another, prompting the ardent secularist to feel a sympathy for the government position that ordinarily would come more slowly. The result is that the Muslim community finds itself suddenly friendless. When it came to opposing the war in Iraq, British Muslims had no shortage of allies, but they face the latest bombardment virtually alone. Muslims are not entirely passive in this drama. For one thing, the tiny handful of Islamist groups such as al-Ghurabaa or the Saviour Sect tend to confirm the wildest prejudices of those who fear Islam: they glorify those who kill civilians, they show contempt for democracy and declare that, yes, they are indeed determined to transform Britain into an Islamic state. Every time they open their mouths, life for Muslims in Britain gets harder. (Which is why the Today programme had no business giving over the prestigious 8.10am slot to Omar Brooks, whose sole qualification was his heckling of John Reid the previous day.) The majority of British Muslims could have done themselves a favour if they had found a way to show just how unrepresentative Brooks and his ilk are. How powerful it would have been if, after 7/7, hundreds of thousands of British Muslims had taken to the streets to repudiate utterly the four bombers who had killed in the name of Islam. The model might have been the 2000 Basque march in Bilbao in protest against ETA violence. Or perhaps the 1992 funeral of an assassinated anti-mafia judge in Palermo, which turned into a rally of Sicilians against the crime organisation. The slogan for the British Muslim equivalent would have been obvious: Not in our name. But Muslims would be right to reply that they should be under no more obligation to distance themselves from the 7/7 bombers than Britain's Irish community were expected to denounce the IRA in the 1970s and 1980s. And this, too, is a prime task for politicians and media alike - to distinguish between radical, violent Islamism and mainstream British Islam. Too often, the line between the two gets blurred, lazily and casually. Helpfully, the 1990 Trust yesterday published a survey which deserves wide dissemination. They found that the number of Muslims who believed acts of terrorism against civilians in the UK were justified was between 1% and 2%. Not good, but less than the 20% or higher found by some newspaper polls. The trust reckons those earlier polls asked a loaded question - and got a highly charged answer. Politicians and media need to be similarly careful when discussing multiculturalism, refusing to play to those who believe it means a licence to secession and Balkanisation. It doesn't. Multiculturalism means allowing every group its own distinct identity and, at the same time, seeking an integrated Britishness we all share. Tony Blair was correct yesterday to say that the goal, never easy, is "getting the balance right". Right now, we're getting it badly wrong - bombarding Muslims with pressure and prejudice, laying one social problem after another at their door. I try to imagine how I would feel if this rainstorm of headlines substituted the word "Jew" for "Muslim": Jews creating apartheid, Jews whose strange customs and costume should be banned. I wouldn't just feel frightened. I would be looking for my passport. freedland@guardian.co.uk

Before, during invasion pics by a Guardian photographer,,, Here

No sleep

Val, the guy is always on the look out for freebies

Dabshid, i dont think SL need to waorry. Why? There is a new player on the scene whos ready to take on the TFG and Puntland. SL should just wait and see what happens.

Blair pledge over execution case Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has spoken personally to Pakistan's president about the case of a Leeds man on death row in Pakistan. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, is due to be executed on 1 November for murdering a taxi driver in 1998. Prince Charles has been urged to cancel a visit to the country which will coincide with the scheduled execution. Mr Blair said the government would "continue to make representations up until the very last moment". Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are due to meet President Musharraf during their planned visit the country from 29 October to 3 November. Leeds MP Greg Mulholland said it would be "monstrous" for Mr Hussain to be hanged during the Prince's visit. 'State murder' He has written an urgent letter to the Prince asking him not to go ahead with the visit unless the execution is cancelled. He said: "For this unjust execution to go ahead anyway would be bad enough, but to do this when Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, is visiting the country would be monstrous. "I would urge His Royal Highness to cancel his visit if this terrible miscarriage of justice, the state murder of a man from Leeds, is scheduled to go ahead at that time. "Cancelling the visit will send a clear and powerful message to the Pakistani authorities." Mr Hussain's case has won the backing of UK and Euro MPs and Amnesty International, who have all urged President Musharraf to quash the penalty. Respect Party MP George Galloway had planned to fly to Pakistan on Monday to appeal directly to the president to quash the penalty, but cancelled the trip at the request of Mr Hussain's family. A spokesman for Mr Galloway said the MP continued to "support every effort that the family is making" and was still prepared to travel to the country "should it be felt all round that it would advance things". Mr Hussain has always claimed he was acting in self-defence, saying the taxi driver tried to sexually assault him. His conviction was overturned in Pakistan's High Court, but he was later retried by an Islamic court, which sentenced him to death. The decision on his fate follows three stays of execution ordered by President Musharraf.

Alxamdullilah, an abundance

watching my back!

^^true You can not deny that the mullahs in the north are becoming ever more sympathetic to the UIC. The newspaper was printing alot rubbish anyway. You think the british papers get hysterical check out the Somaliland papers.

I think it was 88 but not sure now. His life was spared during Ramadan

^^Looks like your in then

^^I think there has been an over-reaction by the Govnt and Media on the situation in the south. We will see what comes out of the meeting

^^What are the chances of this taking a trip across the red sea?

^^Maybe those same people did not believe the 'bringing Ethiopian troops to SL' story in the first place! Didnt really require a response did it. Stir away,,,