the british are a gullable lot, leading ppl to fear that a strike by Saddam Hussain within 45mins of activating his weapons of mass destruction can impact the uk (even though Iraq is like 5000 miles away). They used this tactic just to make it look that the war was justified. I was watching Spooks on BBC 1 the other night and could not believe what i was seeing, a young asian man who has been encouraged to blow up an infant school, the school is evacuated and he ends up blowing himself up along with his father who was trying to stop him doing so. Another obvious tactic by the media in frightening the viewers which will result in the belief that this is enevitable in the uk.

Just have a look at the UK, we have loads of local organisations doing this, that and the third claiming to be helping our young ppl. When in truth many are just using the funding given to them for their own benefit and have no interest in helping these youth. Having difficulty in taking a group of youngsters on a trip from an annual budget of £40,000 is just one example, oh where did the money go? Farah asked "Do we lack current educators that control and produce intellectual property of extraordinary breadth and depth?" This is very true, many of these potential educators of our youth today are doing their educating in many-a-merfish from Sydney to T.dot believing that they are 'past it' and the knowledge that they do have is not relevant today. As to whether we can tackle these problems, we are somalis, we never do things together, we do them seperately as individuals or individual groups. Looking forward to more posts on thi, gr8 topic farax!

what can he do if fegie doesnt want him any longer, but i still think he will stay, he is bigger than the club and if he stays do u think fergie can keep him out of the team? i dont think so, the fans are already unhappy with the manager! I read that real madrid are also in the hunt for his sig, why go to barcelona??? no champ league, heavily in debt and poor players at the mo,

"it think, he is condeming all forms of terorisim, eg suicidal bombings. Islaam does not support it, and nor should we" thats not exacly my view having read and heard scholars speak on the issue. Personally, i am for the freedom of all those being oppressed. But does that mean i am a terrorist or simply wishin for a better life for my bros and sisters? Using helicopter gunships to kill innocents and calling it a pre-emptive strike, i that not classed as terror. As for america, i think we all know it's intensions and agendas with regard to the middle east. The recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has re-united the muslim ummah a gr8 deal and many of these states have began to realise that they are expandable. Anyway thats my piece and if this Man Of Freedom is a fedral agent looking for potential terror thoroughbreds, then plz disregard the post!!!!

MOF, sorry bro but i dont understand yr topic, plz explain more!

thanx for the reminder rahima!

jazaallahkara brother and may allah grant us all the wish of visiting in our life times, ameen ps i am hoping to go to umra soon insha-allah, maybe in the two weeks i have off in the new year, any one here wishing to do the same?

PPl are different, are brought up differently, grow up differently, mature, develop they own take on issues and communicate this in they own unique way. Now if we all thought the same and had the same opinions on matters, acted the same, responded the same. Maan we would like robots. So what we dont agree on politics, when a person disagrees with u its because he/she is from this tribe or that part of the country. When they agree with u then its, oh they are thinking independently and are rational in their reasons why. Give me a break bruv!!!!!!! "we (most of us) think with our clans, not independently; we relate the sympathies of our clans, but not that of other side; we arrive at convictions, but they are drawn from partial view of the matter at hand..."

lol@gediid, ka yar ka gale ninyoho Wages for unskilled workers in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, in the north, which now considers itself independent of Somalia, are twice the rate in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city. Pro-somalia posters are surfing the net in search of articles written by kafurs who have their own angenda on such issues with the hope of finding small issues which can support their argument against Somaliland when in truth they are not in a position to argue. Keep it tho, this is entertaining!

1 piece of advice, just dont get on the underground at rush and in the heat of summer!!! U will be sweating buckets!!!!!!

maan dont even get me started!!!!!!! The level of hypocracy coming from the pro-unification crew is amazing. As Bashi put it :"southerners gradually came to dominate the new state's economic and political life--a hegemony that bred a sense of betrayal and bitterness among northerners" 1) The concentration of business and commerce in the south meant that southerners dominated the economics of somalia while at the same time imprisoning wealthy northern business men who had enough clout to be able to influence certain markets. 2) The political life dominated by the south was straight up DICTATORSHIP aint gonna get into another pointless argument (i think the faraxs in the merfish have more sense and passion about our homeland than many on here) ps my house is in order, is yours????? thought so!

shyhem, baby boy aint got nothin to do with what a somali youth is facing, there might be a few similarities. Coming accross many youths on a regular basis who have all these problems, the majority i feel want to achieve something for themselves but get cought up in a cycle of bad freinds,the harsh reality of society (post school society not very freindly), b-boy image, girls, crime etc etc. Many of these do NOT come from broken homes, many of them are mama boys turned thugs due to peer pressure (attention seeker types). But when u ask these youths they like oh it wasnt my fault, this happened. Like a typical somali we are never to blame and blame others. They dont listen (only a few do) untill they see and admit that they aint goin nowhere, thats when they can start thinking more positively about the future.

Elections in Somalia? Looks like the legacy of democracy in Somaliland is bearing fruit in the south, long may it continue. There is a tendancy amongst us all that we do not believe in certain things untill it is demonstrated to us that it works. I aint hating and by no means trying to be negative, but still hope all is well in the end, the catching up process has begun then. Somaliland is near enough the finish line with regard to democracy while Somalia still has maybe another 4 laps of the 800m track, then we may end up in the same place!!! Good Luck!!

lets just hope there is some sort of system or infrastructure to enable us to re-build wherever! Questions like: Where will the money come from? (private/public) How will this be collected? Who decides where to re-build? (the govt or tribal leaders?) What is the decision process in relation to which contractor will do the work? Do we have the patience? (we all want to re-build our towns/villages/cities but can we wait for the money to be distributed?) all these questions will need to be answered if and when a re-building process takes place!

one thing u should never do in football is believe the hype, this kid my have talent but will he fullfil it?

maaaan that the the most boooring final since Marselle vs red star Belgrade back in 1991!!!! Damn u italian teams, weldone to Milan!

at least hes african!!!!!!!

my prediction is also a very entertaining match with Juve sneaking it 2-1 But Shuji, William Hill is just down the road, 2 bad i have no money!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nigis balde baan hidhaa!

the last i heard the somali rep was sacked from FIFA for accussing Sep Ballter (FIFA Prez) offered him bribes in the last vote on where the 2006 world cup should be staged.

now that the prem season is over, theres only one place left for promotion. My 2nd team Sheff United vs Wolves. Tuff match but i hope utd are promoted, think they deserve it after the season they have had. Mon Sky Sports at 2pm!!!!!

lol@no pub teams like that guy on the beer advert, HAAAAAVIT!

I missed this one too! Zizou- no doubt about that Overated: becks,totti,gerrard,rio,figo(just a little),crespo,..........

looool i can see this being a 'larger lout' classic!

2. YOU JUST BOUGHT A NEW CAR BUT YOUR PUSHING A RENTAL THE NEXT WEEKNED... 19. your dad swears he was a superstar soccer player loooolzzzzzzz!