definitely khat!

lol@email hostage. maybe you met this guy on singlemuslims.com and exchange emails.

got it. give me some time and i'll forward you links and stuff. cheers. would be a pleasure to have you here.

^ I might be able to help? send me your CV and cover letter and i'll hook you up brovs. here in somaliland, you could easily start on UN Pay grade 3.

its 12:05 HMT. I started at 10:30 and will be finishing at 13:00. this is not good.

Cesária Évora, who brought the music of the tiny Cape Verde islands off Senegal to a worldwide audience, died on Saturday in Mindelo, on São Vicente, her native island in Cape Verde. She was 70. Her death was announced by her managers. She had a stroke in 2008 and a heart attack in 2010. After another stroke this year, she announced her retirement. Ms. Évora’s music was in a style called morna, which is sung in taverns on the Cape Verde islands: slow, pensive ballads with an underlying lilt, suffused with sodade, the Cape Verdean creole term for a nostalgic longing that pervades music across Portugal (where the word is saudade) and its former empire. Ms. Évora sang about love, sorrow and history, including slavery, in a husky, dignified, unhurried contralto that brought warmth and gravity to songs by Cape Verde’s leading poets. She also sang in her country’s more upbeat styles, coladeira and funaná, but her serenely sorrowful mornas were her legacy. She always performed barefoot, a gesture of solidarity with poor women. A concert review in The New York Times described her as “a Yoda of melancholy” onstage. Ms. Évora was born in 1941, grew up in a poor family and was reared in an orphanage after her father died when she was 7. She began performing as a teenager at sailors’ taverns and on the ships that stopped at the harbor in Mindelo. Her local reputation spread; she performed on Cape Verdean radio, and two of her broadcast concerts were released as albums in Europe in the 1960s. Ms. Évora abandoned music in the 1970s, unable to make a living. But in 1985 she re-emerged on an anthology of Cape Verdean singers recorded in Lisbon. In 1988 a Cape Verdean producer based in France, José da Silva, brought Ms. Évora to Paris to make an album. Her studio debut was “La Diva aux Pieds Nus” (“The Barefoot Diva”), which fused morna and coladeira with Caribbean, Brazilian and European pop. Ms. Évora drew a following among Cape Verdean expatriates in Europe, but it was not until she returned to unembellished morna with her third album, “Mar Azúl” (“Blue Ocean”) — a 1991 collection recorded with acoustic instruments — that her music began to reach a broader audience. French listeners and radio stations embraced her music’s kinship to cabaret chansons. She performed at theaters and festivals to growing audiences. Reports of her fondness for cigarettes and Cognac burnished her reputation; a few years later, she would give up drinking but not smoking. Her 1992 album, “Miss Perfumado,” sold an impressive 300,000 copies in France alone. Concerts at large theaters in Lisbon and Paris were sold out, and her touring circuit expanded across Europe and into the Americas. Her 1995 album, “Cesária,” was released internationally and brought Ms. Évora her first Grammy nomination. Her album “Cabo Verde” won four Kora awards, a pan-African prize, and was also nominated for a Grammy, as was “Miss Perfumado,” belatedly released in the United States in 1998. In 2003 Ms. Évora’s “Voz d’Amor” won the Grammy Award for best contemporary world music album. Ms. Évora toured the world through the 1990s and 2000s, expanding her repertory with Cuban and Brazilian songs on “Café Atlántico” in 1999, and collaborating with Bonnie Raitt, Caetano Veloso and the Cuban musicians Chucho Valdés and the Orquesta Aragón on her 2001 album “São Vicente di Longe.” Her final studio album, “Nha Sentimento” in 2009, introduced tinges of Arabic pop to her music from the Egyptian composer and arranger Fathy Salama. With Ms. Évora’s prominence, a younger generation of Cape Verdean musicians embraced morna and performed it internationally. Ms. Évora was a direct mentor to Fantcha, who toured the United States with her in the late 1980s, and an indelible influence on Lura, Mayra Andrade and Sara Tavares. When Ms. Évora announced her retirement this year, she told the French newspaper Le Monde: “I have no strength, no energy. I’m sorry, but now I must rest.” She is survived by her children, Eduardo and Fernanda, and two grandchildren. The government in Cape Verde declared two days of national mourning in her honor. -------------------------------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/arts/music/cesaria-evora-morna-singer-from-cape-verde-dies.html?_r=1 God Bless her soul. A woman whose music truly touched my soul. RIP. I first heard Cesaria on charlie gillets's world of music on the bbc world service and have since download her entire work.

Inallah wa Inallah-e-rajoun

can we really be sure that's a woman? lets not be too early in condemning the police.

congrats nuune.

tired and not bothered today.

A £5,000 reward is being offered by police after the body of a Muslim woman was found in a hospital mortuary, covered with rashers of bacon. The desecration was discovered when the family of the grandmother, aged 65, was waiting to see her body after she lost her fight with cancer. The Metropolitan Police's racial crime task force was called in to investigate the incident, at Hillingdon Hospital in west London, and an extensive inquiry was launched. It is strictly against the Muslim religion to touch or eat pork and the woman's family, who do not want to be identified, have been left deeply traumatised. Detective Chief Inspector Tony Hester, of Hillingdon police, said: "This is a particularly grotesque act which has outraged the family as well as the whole community. "Because of the nature of the incident a criminal investigation was immediately initiated and is still ongoing. DCC4 - Racial and Violent Crime Task Force - was involved in the initial investigation and officers from the Community Safety Unit are in constant liaison with them. "We are also, of course, keeping the family and local community informed of developments." The crime was discovered as staff arranged for the body to be viewed by family members. Police have viewed CCTV footage and speaking to staff and others captured on video outside the mortuary. Forensic experts have also examined the bacon and the gown the woman was wearing. A member of the woman's family told BBC London News the incident made them feel "physically sick. It was like a horrible nightmare. I get flashbacks, my brain goes numb. "I witnessed her passing away and then for me to witness that again, it's traumatic. I feel emotionally raped." The woman's daughter said it was like a nightmare that was still deeply affecting the family. "I thought someone who did this hated Muslims especially. I don't know why they chose my mum. "In life you expect a lot of things, but something so shocking, you couldn't even think it up in the worst horror movie. Evil, evil, people." David McVittie, chief executive of Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust, expressed sympathy for the family and said everything would be done to find out who was responsible. "I am extremely sorry for the distress that the family of the lady concerned suffered as a result of this despicable incident and for any distress it has caused to the Muslim community. "I am shocked and outraged that such a thing has happened and will not rest until we have found the perpetrators of this crime." The £5,000 reward has been offered by Scotland Yard and the hospital. The family is being represented by human rights solicitor Imran Khan. Anyone with information is urged to come forward to the community safety unit at West Drayton police station on 020 8246 1766 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. ------------------------------- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/muslim-womans-body-found-in-hospital-morgue-covered-with-bacon-745706.html?fb_action_ids=10150417926162499%2C325867014108660%2C10150430928478100%2C10150406843755824%2C10150430822088100&fb_action_types=news.reads&fb_ref=U-dv_ffx3u5dO74WMvI8DfhY-CFCONX01FRS-34376XXX%2CU-Hduo8ar28t554w8kI0lDfX-CFCONX01FRS-34376XXX%2CU-kfbEM4fPfo0E4QhyKwr_cQ-CFCONX01FRS-34376XXX%2CU-iChe7hh2i7gL4GIqIVl9Cd-CFCONX01FRS-343yjXXX%2CU-BYjqdemvuus14DmwIqvCIv-CFCONX01FRS-343yjXXX&fb_source=other_multiline#access_token=AAADWQ6323IoBABeWFeKW5dFdgUUYnY0uZBVmPZAbAZCZB9rM4S3uBkXGnhq8VRSuCU0Torjk169a6jaVsLHBAvVERWRZAhPhDmKdDPZCfehwZDZD&expires_in=7070 ----------------------------------------------- the uk is nearing its very end as a tolerant, multicultural and diverse society. though i doubt if these buzzwords ever meant anything.

obviously some strains of the khat leaf are more potent than others but that 'gaangayte' you consume is dangerous somaha? saxil? adeer nagada dee!

ng, do you think these dangerous effects are place-specific?

Juxa;764861 wrote: Alpha don't let people get to you. True power is being in control most of the times. Also cowdi bileyso lol@juxa, i was kidding eedo.

Gambia's Fatima Bensouda has been formally elected chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Bensouda was the only name put to the 120 member states in Monday’s election at the United Nations headquarters. The appointment of an African comes at a time when the ICC is almost exclusively focused on the continent. Bensouda, currently deputy prosecutor, will take over in June from Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the outspoken Argentine who has issued warrants against the likes of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner in New York said Bensouda brings a "calming influence and stability" to the job. "She was questioned about the number of different cases that are coming up within .. the court [and] she was very knowledgeable on all of those," she said. African nations frequently complain that the ICC has unfairly targeted them - all seven cases investigated by the court are in Africa - and the African Union pointedly pressed for Bensouda's appointment. Diplomats who took part in the selection process praised Bensouda's independence, determination and qualifications. "I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride," Bensouda said in a recent interview with the AFP news agency. Challenging post Many analysts say the ICC has become increasingly political and more susceptible to pressure which will be a challenge for Bensouda. Richard Dicker, Human Rights Watch's international justice specialist, said that in its first decade of existence "the ICC profile has been lifted on the world stage to a new level". Al Jazeera questions ICC on Africa policy He added that "as governments have recognised the role of the ICC in crises and conflicts, some have treated the court as an instrument to be invoked to achieve certain political ends". Dicker said this trend is growing and will test the mettle of the new prosecutor and judges who will also be elected in New York this week. Pressure also comes from major powers, with the US, China and Russia all trying to influence the court to varying degrees, even though they are not members, diplomats said. However, Stephen Lamony, an Africa specialist for the Coalition for the ICC, a group of non-government groups that back the court, said Bensouda's appointment may not increase the court's acceptance within Africa. "There are issues that different states have," he said. "The fact that the next prosecutor comes from Africa will make it more difficult for her, because she will face different pressures." Some African nations have pressed for the UN Security Council to suspend the genocide action against Bashir, while Kenya lobbied fiercely against the investigation into its own unrest in 2007 to 2008. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/12/20111212174036623874.html -------------------------------------------- very cynical move by the ICC -black, muslim and a woman.

N.O.R.F;764879 wrote: ^Not really. I see where he is coming from. The problem I have with his request here is wuxu iska dhigaya that he doesn't know about the problems qaad has caused the community. well you're just as pathetic as each other. taking pity on the devil is pathetic and you look like a Muppet for doing so. of course, ng knows the dangerous of khat. although your claim about the women was way off the mark. ng has once again undermined you and made a mockery of your topic. a silly attempt to redeem your failures norf.

I warned you norf, any discussion with ng is futile and a complete waste of time.

norf, don't justify yourself to ng. he is a certified khat-head. any anti-khat measure sends shivers down his spine.

lol@power hunger what can you recommend? this is a worrying cilaad for me!

almost everyday walahi. i think i'm going to kill someone one day. i cant be trusted with knifes or any sharp objects..... don't be surprised to see me on the headlines one of these days. the other day, i went shooting with an AK47 and was tempted to shoot everyone dead.... its not so much the killing i get the kick from but the power to kill and taking lives. lol. i'm worried.

^ come on malika! these are constructive discussions walahi. its not all talk you know. some of these sessions have been life changing. have you ever been to harseldon merfesh anyways? its clean, people look good and it has wireless internet connection, not to mention the leather sofa's and amazing all round service.

you haven't answered the question? would you kill your babies if you lost it somehow? does the thought every run through your mind malika?

off the topic..... a hot chick i've been courting recently sent me a message just right now. 'jus give me a ding dong wen u want me to cum should i read anything into that? lol.

N.O.R.F;764839 wrote: Alpha, what on earth does all that mean? lol@norf, why are you acting like a simpleton.....''basically, i don't want khat banned because i like it and enjoy having nice sessions discussing somaliland politics at harlesden merfesh''