<cite> @Odey said:</cite> Dadkiina wax la qeebsada! As this has become a catch phrase for you, let me make a spelling correction before you repeat the same mistake again and again :-D It is NOT qeebsada, it is qaybsada

When is the match against Silhouette Island going to happen?

Islam, Saudi and apostasy Mohamed GhilanLast updated: 10 May 2014 Does Islamic law really proscribe the death penalty for apostasy? Just when we thought the term "terrorism" could not become more meaningless or manipulated, Saudi Arabia's government seems to have proved us wrong by recently adding atheism under the charge. Based on polls revealing that self-identified atheists constitute 5 percent of Saudi population, this makes for a staggering number of terrorists in the kingdom, most of whom maintain external religious observance in society while using online anonymity to express their true beliefs.However, this matter is not so straightforward. Nesrine Malik highlights in a recent article an often-ignored distinction between the private, and public, more political forms of atheism. Indeed, as Malik points out, in an ultraconservative country like Saudi Arabia where religion, tribe, family and politics, are interlinked and of utmost importance, to take an antagonistic stance against Islam necessarily entails an antagonistic stance against the fabric of society.It is a commonly held belief that Islamic law dictates the death penalty as an absolute punishment for apostasy. However, this reading of the Islamic Tradition relies on restricting the role of the Prophet Muhammad to that of a religious figure issuing timeless decrees. Such a restriction of the Prophet's role will undoubtedly give rise to numerous paradoxes, as it will decontextualise all his statements and actions in a way that not only makes Islam incoherent as a religion, but also incompatible with certain societal developments.Interpreting the scriptures Muhammad al-Shawkani (d. 1834), an authoritative Muslim scholar and jurisprudent, outlines in his critical appraisal of the principles of Islamic legal theory that Prophetic actions fall into seven different categories, not all of which can be used to issue absolute legal rulings binding upon all Muslims for all times. Lest one think that al-Shawkani being considered a reformer was concocting this categorisation anew, he cites a number of eminent earlier scholars who had preceded him in doing so by several hundred years.This is quite significant to take heed of in current discussions on Islamic reform. There is a tension between staying authentic to Islam while at the same time allowing for development of Islamic legal theory in a way that does not render claims of adherence to the religion meaningless.The death penalty for apostasy relies at the core of it on an authentically verified Hadith from Prophet Muhammad who said, "Whoever changes his religion kill him." This statement, however, would seem to contradict numerous verses in the Quran that guarantee freedom of belief, few of which include "There is no compulsion in religion" [2:256], and "Whoever so wills may believe and whoever so wills may deny" [18:29].How could one reconcile the Quran with the Hadith in this issue without committing an inconsistency whereby the Hadith is rejected out of hand, even though the same transmission rules for accepting veracity of any other Hadith were applied to this one? Moreover, one could ask whether it is an Islamic objective to artificially inflate the numbers of Muslims by including those who would not be so if they had the option.Although the above-mentioned Hadith is authentic, it is also established that Prophet Muhammad never ordered the death penalty to be carried out on people known during his time to have apostatised. Of such people was a Bedouin man who came to Medina (during a time of political and military power for Muslims) to announce his Islam, but apostatised and left the city a short period later without receiving any penalty for his subsequent rejection.Given how the Prophet treated individuals who entered and left Islam, and the numerous verses in the Quran guaranteeing freedom of belief, the Hadith decreeing a death penalty for apostasy becomes more puzzling. This can be resolved by turning to another authentic Hadith where this penalty is mentioned, but with a qualifier: "…the one leaving his religion and abandoning the group". In addition, another verse in the Quran, which can further resolve this conundrum speaks to a strategy adopted by a rival sect in Medina in one of their attempts to create a schism within the nascent Muslim community by pretending to enter Islam in the morning, then leaving it in the evening [3:72].Religion or politics?It is interesting to note here that prior to entering Islam, the two biggest tribes in Medina were engaged in a lengthy civil war that only ended when their allegiances were redefined from the tribal to the religious. If these new allegiances were jeopardised, it was highly likely to lead to civil strife and loss of life again. Hence, the Hadith about the death penalty is not about apostasy in the strict sense of no longer believing in Islam per se. Rather, it is about what can be considered in modern terms political treason.In his book The Empathic Civilization, social critic Jeremy Rifkin notes the evolution of human social units over time and how that affected our affiliations and allegiances. In our early history we began with blood ties, progressed to tribal allegiances, then to religious associational ties and finally today to national ties. Significantly, although the tribal allegiances in Medina were initially redefined on religious terms when Prophet Muhammad moved to Medina, he quickly commissioned the drafting of the Constitution of Medina, which forged a formal communal tie between everyone in the city irrespective of religious or tribal differences.The role of Prophet Muhammad cannot be reduced to a strictly religious one that merely delivers decrees, which can be decontextualised as if they were issued in a vacuum. Islamic law includes religious and political domains of legislation, and one has to be cognizant of where a particular ruling would fit. Contemporary Muslim scholar Abdallah bin Bayyah previously commented on a problem in how modern Muslims approach scriptural sources where they "misunderstand the text, ignore the context, and thus misapply the ruling".Those who support the death penalty for apostasy cite the 1978 overthrowing of Afghanistan's centrist governmentby left-wing military officers led by Nur Muhammad Taraki, whose new government formed close ties with the vehemently anti-religion Soviet Union. This new communist government in Afghanistan at the time began extensive land and social reforms that were resented by the devout Muslim population.This led to a number of uprisings and internal fighting that eventually prompted the Soviets to invade the country in 1979 to try and set up their own satellite government in place. The country has ever since been in non-stop turmoil. Still, even with this concern in mind, it should be pointed out that the support for this penalty is not about a change in belief as much as it is about a change in political allegiances.Whether these concerns are in the minds of the Saudi ruling family is yet to be established. Interestingly, their latest efforts to suppress political dissent come at a critical time for power transfer between the Al Saud family members while being surrounded by a turbulent political climate in the region. In anticipation of possible upcoming internal problems as a new generation of Al Saud takes over succession to the throne, it seems that the family is not sparing any measures to circumvent all possible means to creating unrest in the kingdom as they secure their future as its continuing rulers. Mohamed Ghilan is a neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, Canada, and a student of Islamic jurisprudence. He blogs here and has an active self-titled podcast on iTunes.Follow him on Twitter: @mohamedghilan Source: Aljazeera

It is obvious the creepiest guys in the video are all black. Given such a high proportion of scumbags in the African American community, I don't understand why human rights activists whine about "locking up the black man". A quick glance at prison reports will also give you a clue about the nature of these black men. American prison reports are full of sexual slavery, gang rape, brutality, and other horror stories.

<cite> @Zakina said:</cite> Salaamu caleykum, Im just looking for some quick help in translating something from somali. Does anyone know what this means?; Hogaanka hawlaha xabsiyada ciidanka asluubta Thanks 1. Hawlaha xabsiyada- means prison services. 2. Hoggaanka hawlaha xabsiyada- means central committee 3. Xabsiyada ciidanka asluubta- means prisons run by the correctional police. So in my opinion you could loosely translate it as: Central committee of the prison services under the jurisdiction of the correctional police.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Somalia/Somaliland are like an old married couple, and no matter how much they bicker and fight, they'll always get back together :D Ditoore Ken; given that non of the officially divorced couples in our poor, rude, and violent neighbourhood got back together, I don't think this dysfunctional and separated Somali family will be any different.

<cite> @Odey said:</cite> Bang your head on the wall some more will you Why should I? I will simply keep sharing what your koonfuria has to offer until we get what we want. It is called self-interest :-D Horta ma maqashay maahmaahda ah: Hadba sidii loo jabo ayaa loo dhutiyaa :-D

The guy(Ilaahay xajkiisa ha ka aqbalo) is like any other Somalilander who because of our country's unrecognised status use foreign passports to travel. It is not a big deal to use koonfurian documents until our own documents are recognised. Personally, I prefer Ethiopian, Kenyan, or the other African passports but koonfurian passports will also do. Inshaallah, once Somaliland is recognised internationally, those passports will clog our landfills and sewage pipes. I think our government should put in place a contingency plan to recycle those papers for use in newspapers and other purposes before the public discard them carelessly.

The guy who posted this article by the Guardian manipulated the title to make it look as is Silaanyo is wrong to be inspired by those two regions. The majority of the Scottish people rejected independence because unlike the people of somaliland the Scots benefited from the union and continue to benefit from their membership of the UK. On the other hand the people of Catalonia are being actively prevented from voting on independence by the Central government in Madrid which has threatened the government in Barcelona with legal action if it embarked on such a move. I think some honesty in reporting is needed whe you want people to take you seriously as a Blogger or a budding journalist.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Well then it's responsibility of Djiboutians, Somalilanders, Khatuumites, and Puntlanders to pool their resources together to stabilize South Somalia. Diaspora Somalis can assist with funding and finances. There are millions of Somalis in the diaspora, and all we need is a small contribution from each Somali family to help fund this Stabilization Project. We can easily work with elements in the South who agree with us. The majority of H-Block Somalis would get on board with this project. They genuinely want to see a peaceful and stable Somalia. Instead of relying on selfish foreigners to solve our own problems maybe the solution to Somalia's problems should come from Somalis themselves? If Hargeisa and Berbera were in chaos I would advocate the very same thing, and I would never ever try to disassociate myself from the events in Hargeisa. Not everyone is as genuine you are Dr Ken. The problem is not Somaliland refusing to help but it is the politicians of Somalia accepting that offer of help. Since the nineties Somaliland maintained that if the politicians of Somalia accept the sovereignty of Somaliland then our government would do whatever it can to help stabilise Mogadishu and the south. But unfortunately insead of thanking us they did whatever they could to sabotage our own stability and security.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Tallabo, Don't try to disconnect yourself from the people of South Somalia. Don't try to disassociate yourself from the events in South Somalia. They're your people too. You need to change your mentality. You are right Dr Ken, they are my sisters too and I never dissociate myself from the suffering of the people of the South, but responsible is divided and it is men like Dalmar and his fellow mooryaans who are responsible for the security and welbeing of our sisters and mothers in Mogadishu and elsewhere in the South. But sadly, by the looks of it they can't even look after themselves and need Ugandan and ebola infected West Africans to protect them from Alshabaab.

Don't worry about me boy, 0 year old Somali sisters are in danger of being raped by the AMISOM who are also running over Somali aunties and uncles with their tanks on the streets of Xamar.

No I am not in a Bantu protected EU funded sorryland but accessing a privately owned, commercially oriented, open forum on the internet while enjoying the safety of London.

<cite> @Dalmar1 said:</cite> The only kind in Somalia to be known to bacaac obsessively 24 Hours from old to young is your kind, all around the world, physical or cyber its bacaacictraaf this bacaacictraaf that nonsense. I think you guys have bigger problems like regaining your freedom from your Bantu colonial masters and helping rape victims in Mogadishu than worry about Somaliland, don't you?

<cite> @GaroweGal said:</cite> The territorial integrity and Sovereignty of the Somali state is enshrined under both national and international laws, so the notion that Silaanyo and his drenched and deluled folks have a right to secede from the rest of Somalia is incomprehensible and frankly laughable. Actually no one in the international community is laughing other than you guys in your unfortunate episodes of schizophrenic attacks.

They should have just spoken in English, there is nothing with it.

<cite> @Dalmar1 said:</cite> Talaabo as an member of Xamar Clan, you and your SNM will never break Somalia apart, and we will always work against your project, a desperate project that steals other clan’s land making you minority clan into a majority. No single clan will ever become a seperate country Bacaac... keep barking.

<cite> @Odey said:</cite> Sadly for Silaanyo, a major seismic survey was undertaken by TGS seismic and the data did not bring back anything promising. Generally when new data is brought to the market, it creates a a lot of activity and is bought by everyone, yet this data hasnt sold for years now. That tells you something- nothing interesting there. The region offshore Somaliland in the red sea is relatively young and doesn't Look promising. So, bless him, he is trying to keep the dream alive but nothing is coming. Onshore, the only area worth looking is not his clan area. The province of sool is the only region within reach that has anything promising and that is fast slipping from him because one cannot drill in areas whose people aren't on board. The region is also quite dry and without many the sources. The human capital is small in numbers and that too isn't much help. The political climate is not in his favour either. A giant is awakening in the rest of Somalia. The federal govenment is gaining more clout daily and all roads are leading there. The world is more engaged than ever before and the FGS is pressing ahead on a united Somalia and the world is listening. The dream that has lasted 24 years is coming to an end. It is only natural that the die hards in that region want to hang on to the deep sleep and keep dreaming, but the realists are beginning to see. Solution ?....... Dadkaaga wax la qeybso intii goor goor tahay I think the only dreamer here is you. If as you claimed Somaliland has neither natural resources nor a useful human capital, why is then Koonfuria so obsessed with it? Why don't you and your follow koonfurians let this small patch of dry and worthless corner of Africa with few nomads living on it go its separate way and keep all the wealth and blessing in the South for the people of that region alone? I am sure if you guys leave us alone to get on with our lives everyone will be happy. The koonfurians will get to enjoy all their oil, gas, mineral, fish, and agricultural wealth alone without worrying about sharing anything with the poor folks from the North; and the Somalilanders will be content with the little they have and will never bother you.

If no Somali is involved in this atrocity, it will be only a matter of time before Somalis take the centre stage given the huge and growing number of mostly young men and women joining terrorist groups or are sympathetic to their evil causes.

A Bulgarian man paralysed from the waist down in a stabbing attack is walking again thanks to treatment pioneered by leading Jewish neuroscientist. Darek Fidyka is believed to be the first patient to recover from a complete severing of the spinal nerves. He suffered his injury in 2010 and has now regained sensation in his lower limbs and is able to walk with a frame. Surgeons using methods grounded in the work of Professor Geoffrey Raisman, who used cells from Mr Fidyka’s nose to help regenerate the severed tissue. Raisman, head of the Institute of Neurology at University College London, said he believes the treatment “will result in a historic change in the currently hopeless outlook for people disabled by spinal cord injury.” The grammar school-educated son of a Jewish tailor from Leeds, Raisman was persuaded by his father to read medicine after he was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University. Research conducted by Raisman at Oxford showed for the first time that the brain and central nervous system have a capacity to regenerate following trauma. Raisman told reporters that the patient is “able to resume much of his original life, including driving a car” and is “absolutely delighted.” http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/leading-jewish-neuroscientist-helps-paralysed-man-walk/

Tell him about the French and Spanish empires, the Greek, Roman, and Persian empires before them, the Mogul empire, the Soviet Union, the Dutch colonies, the Portuguese colonies, even tiny Belgium had its day in the sun.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Watch this short video saaxib, it goes into further detail and says it much more eloquently than I. Shaykh Yasir Qadhi is great here The guy is talking nonsense. You just wasted few minutes of my time with this video. <cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> BTW Tallaabo; lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery, committing murder, and other such crimes have existed as long as humanity existed. What kind of rationale is that to justify homosexual behavior? What a ridiculous comparison!! The crimes you mentioned are committed by both heterosexuals and homosexuals and have nothing to do with the topic at hand which is sexual attraction between who humans. Lying and cheating do not need the deployment of sex hormones like testosterone and oestrogen in the body, whereas sexual attractions between two humans or two animals are underpinned by such major physiological mechanisms. Ditoore, you really need to put some thought into your arguments instead of regurgitating the garbage naïve Muslim preachers and the Christian fundamentalists spout to justify their oppression of a large segment of humanity. <cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> And also, we're not animals we are human beings. Yes we are not animals but we are not made of plastic either. We are physiologically similar to the animal kingdom. Indeed we share over 99% of our DNA with the chimpanzees and over 96% with a host of other animals and invertebrates. So whatever natural tendencies animals have humans also usually possess the same tendenies. That is why new medicines and cosmetics are fist tested on animals before human trials are conducted. But we are different to the animals in respect to our ability to control many of our actions which are not driven by basic, powerful, and involuntary biological mechanisms such as the urge to eat, to drink, and yes to mate. <cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> There's a different standard expected of us as human beings. Some animals kill the offspring of their rival males, so would that be okay if human beings do the same thing? In some insect populations, the female KILLS the male after she mates with him, and then she eats him up. So would that also be okay if human beings did the same thing? It's not a good argument Tallaabo. The animals behaviours you have mentioned have no relevance in this discussion whatsoever. These strange behaviours within the animal kingdom are purely survival instincts which are used to keep their species reproducing. Obviously, humans are endowed with a more powerful brain so we do not need to do such things. However, we share a lot with these animals and insects including sexual attraction which underpins the reproduction of every animal and insect. These attractions are mostly for the opposite sex but a significant minority of humans have it for the same sex. We also share the desire to favour our own children over our rival’s children although of course no murder is involved in most cases.

The west have tried to treat people of homosexuality for centuries because they thought it was a disease which could be cured. To this day fundamentalist Christians mostly in the USA are abusing little kids because they can't accept that homosexuality is a natural part of the human being. Thankfully, the majority of the world's population and every respectable scientific and medical institution have now come to the inevitable conclusion that homosexuality existed as long as humanity existed and will continue to exist no matter what, is not a disease, is a different variant of the overall human sexuality, is also present in the animal kingdom, is not "curable", and that there is nothing wrong with being a gay or lesbian.

Those who are celebrating this man are doing so because of clan connections. Tribalism has blinded the Somalis and darkened their soul.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Read the article I shared Tallaabo, it goes into the issue in detail I have read it and it confirms what I said and what the hadiths said i.e. Aisha(RA) was six when she was married to the prophet(SCW) and 9 when their marriage consummated.