Nin-Yaaban;837777 wrote: Post some pictures. The link is not working. my link is working, might be your browser, couldn't do pictures.

BELGİN TAN Pink metrobus will make us all prostitutes Have you heard that “pink metrobuses” have been suggested for Istanbul? Metrobuses in Istanbul have proved to be excellently efficient ways of transportation (See the box below). Reserving my right to change my opinion completely the opposite way, the metrobus system in Istanbul, for the moment, is nice, clean, modern, fairly new and quick. Unsurprisingly, they tend to get terribly jammed at rush hours. As such, women-only pink metrobuses have been suggested for rush hour. The aim is for female commuters to travel comfortably, away from the “evil” of men. Hürriyet photo I’m quoting daily Hürriyet’s supplement Kelebek columnist Drita Draz, from her column the other Sunday (http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/pazar/20248625.asp): “The inventor of the pink metrobus could only be a member of the Women’s Branch of Saadet Partisi.” (The Felicity Party is a pro-Islamist, conservative party from whose ashes the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was born.) Drita Draz continues: “This person probably wanted a house with pink shutters in her first teen years but it did not happen. There could not be any other explanation than this.” Her punch line is here: “Any woman who does not choose to ride the pink metrobus will immediately be deemed “loose” right there on the spot. If not so, then I know nothing about this country.” (Her name is an Albanian female name, so I assume she has Albania/Kosovo origins, hence the explanation for her “cool, outsider point of view.” I don’t know for sure. ) She wishes that all the metrobuses, whatever color they are, should put on condom ads, so that God prevents us from this kind of unnecessary production… Back to the subject of women deemed “loose” on the spot. Turkish urban society is being formulated exactly as Drita Draz describes it. There are certain ways to act and certain ways to dress so that you can be a “decent” woman so that men respect you and keep their distance. In their language, it means that they do not dare harass you… (You know, the world turns based on the norm how much men get aroused). Oh God, this line of reasoning heads directly for dangerous waters… Not that I am afraid to swim in dangerous waters, but this is for a later discussion… Back to the pink metrobus. Here are some web comments Drita has included in her article. It is these comments that keep my hopes alive for this society: * kutup_zencisi: You should make the pink metrobus drivers wear Pink Panther outfits, so that the picture is complete! You have turned my dear Istanbul into Disneyland... * ardaekim: If the pink metrobus has an accident, then the dead will go to a pink cemetery. * semioticus: To suggest “Pink metrobus against harassment” is to say “Those riding normal buses deserve harassment.” In any incident, they will say, “She should have taken the pink one.” * zekikayahan: The pink metrobus is not enough. There should be pink planes, pink trains and pink ships. Maybe we will also have pink courts so that child molesters get what they deserve. * sgkacar: Instead of creating pink metrobuses to prevent sexual abuse against women, find the hornies and paint them pink. Metrobus in Istanbul Even though the metrobus system in Istanbul is constantly under fire for being the “wrong” system for the city, generally speaking, they are popular and meet the demand of the majority.

hope somalis don't mess this time,this a chance once in blue moon.

and pink roads!

''''And hypocrisy, according to the Quran, is worse than disbelief. It is the number one thing that Muslims need to avoid. '''''

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LEADING NEWS SOURCE FOR TURKEY AND THE REGION Login | Become a member | I forgot my password HOMETURKEYECONOMYWORLDSPORTSLIFEARTS/CULTUREOPINIONVIDEOPHOTOBLOG Sub Categories: » HOMEPAGE / OPINION/ MUSTAFA AKYOL Sunday,June 3 2012, Your time is 00:58:07 The freedom to sin In a recent piece of mine (titled “Can Islamists be liberals?”) I mentioned “the freedom to sin.” Some readers have asked what exactly I mean by that. So, let me try to explain. In fact, the term “Freedom to sin” is the title of one of the chapters of my book, “Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty” (WW Norton). In it, I explain why we modern-day Muslims need to rethink the means of the Quranic duty of “commanding the right and forbidding the wrong.” I argue that Muslims need to make a clearer distinction between “crime” and “sin,” and stand against the latter only through civil means such as preaching. This argument does not arise from distaste toward Islamic piety, as it would come typically from a secularist. Quite the contrary, my argument for “freedom to sin” arises from a care for Islamic piety, for I have seen that it comes only through sincere belief and not coerced behavior. This is best exemplified by the “religious police” in Saudi Arabia. This institution coerces every individual on Saudi streets to conform to what it perceives as Islamic norms. All women are forced to veil themselves, for example, and all shop owners are forced to close their doors during the times of prayer. The result is that every Saudi citizen appears fully pious. However, it is also well-known that some Saudis often fly to European capitals, to throw off the veils and wear mini skirts, and to hit the wildest night clubs, in order to indulge in all the sins that they can’t access at home. And while it is their civil right to do that, this phenomenon indicates that the regime-imposed piety in Saudi Arabia might be creating more hypocrisy than genuine piety. And hypocrisy, according to the Quran, is worse than disbelief. It is the number one thing that Muslims need to avoid. Observations like this have gradually persuaded me that genuine piety arises only through personal choice, and that choice only becomes possible when there is freedom. “Freedom to sin,” in other words, is the necessary medium to be sincerely pious. But what about the Quranic duty of “commanding the right and forbidding the wrong,” that basis for both the Saudi religious police and other authoritarian-minded Muslims? In my book, I address this question as well, by going back to the history of Quranic exegesis (tafseer). As I note, the Quran is far from being specific on what to “command” and what to “forbid,” and its earliest interpretations were much more modest and limited in the scope that they attributed to the obligation. For example, Abu al-Aliya, an early commentator on the Quran, argued that the verse specifying “commanding the right” was in fact simply “calling people from polytheism to Islam.” The parallel duty, “forbidding the wrong,” he believed, was all about “forbidding the worship of idols and devils.” As time went by, however, the scope of “commanding the right” and “forbidding the wrong” expanded more and more. This was the interpretation of medieval Islamic scholars, who thought in a political culture where individual freedom was less valued than communal harmony. But times are changing, and new interpretations are coming. One example is a 2008 statement by Dr. Ali Bardakoğlu, a theologian and the former head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs. “We only communicate the known rules of Islam,” he said. “It is free to observe or not to observe them, no one has the right to interfere.” In my view, Bardakoğu was totally right. And his approach to religiosity is what Muslims need in the 21st century — especially if they want to nurture genuine piety rather than hypocrisy. May/19/2012 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-freedom-to-sin-.aspx?pageID=449&nID=21093&NewsCatID=411

Wadani;837676 wrote: Why do africans always defer to non africans. Why are they always overwhelmed and in awe of others? Somalis should be grateful to Turkey, but not At the expense of their honour and identity. Personally im against using all non somali names, even arabic ones, unless they're well known islamic names. eg names of Allah, Prophets & khulafaa ar-raashidiin. Can u imagine an Arab named Mahad or Cawaale, or a Turk named Moqadishu? we don't need any foreign names including arabic..you could be muslim & still called Warfa. we lost our names & culture long time ago,time to rehash.

I met one somali girl in the 90s by the name Istanbul.She was from Mog.

Let fake unionists try & try again til they lose the little that's left into more fragmented independent enclaves. This article is on the money.

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qaar baa turki tegay oo dad tahriibiyay.Waxaan maqlay qofkiiba waxay ka qaadeen $2000. ardaydii la qaadayna qaar badan baa baxsaday. xiin baa xagaa qabtay??

Somali philosopher;836994 wrote: nin kuu digay kuma dilin ninkii soo joog laga waaayo sooo jiiifsaa laga helaayaa. its reer xamar that is the correct spelling. all of them mean check yo self homie It's reer xamar??!! :D:D no it's old somali saying not from xamar...waar dadkan yaa afsoomaliga baray!

24 January 2012 Last updated at 12:03 ET Share this pageEmailPrint 246 ShareFacebookTwitter The joys of investing in Somaliland Mr Yusef says potential profits are higher in Somaliland than London Continue reading the main story African Dream "How are you going to make money in a country that doesn't even exist?" That was probably the question that many people had at the back of their minds when Mohammed Yusef told them he would invest in Somaliland. Others perhaps did not even know Somaliland had declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and that, in spite of not having been recognised internationally, it does have - unlike Somalia - a working political system and a strong business sector. Mr Yusef of course knew. Although he now manages a very successful investment firm in the United Kingdom, Invicta Capital Limited, he has always kept in touch with the land where he was born six decades ago, while it still was a British protectorate. "If what my parents say is true, I always had a mentality for trade, for business, and it's not inconsistent with the family history because the family originated from a fishing village on the Gulf of Aden," he told the BBC's series African Dream. "My great-grandfather was one of those people that would trade with Aden." Mr Yusef was educated in the UK where he trained as a solicitor and practiced as a commercial lawyer before starting his own law practice specializing in commercial law, copyright and media law in London. In 1999 he founded Invicta, a private equity firm providing finance for the media, commercial property and renewable energy sectors which, according to its website, has raised over £1.4bn ($2.3bn) of investment capital. Minding the gap His Somaliland business is handled through a company called Prime Resources which has a staff of nine people in Hargeisa, the capital. Continue reading the main story Mohammed Yusef Age: 60 First business venture: buying and selling a film library Trained as a solicitor Practiced as a commercial lawyer before founding his own law practice in London Founded Invicta Capital in 1999 His Somaliland business is handled through a company called Prime Resources Prime has a staff of nine people in Hargeisa Somaliland profile Oil exploration starts in Somalia According to him, the firm has invested in mining, and oil and gas exploration and is about to embark on a $40m exploration programme. It is also evaluating business opportunities in Somalia in the agricultural and property sectors. "When I first started looking at investment in Somaliland even my professional colleagues would say: 'You're mad. This doesn't make any sense'," he remembers. "Not only did they confuse Somaliland with Somalia but it does have the problem of being an unrecognised country," he told the BBC's Mary Harper. "But actually nobody ever made money from following the herd and the most money is often to be made where there is a mismatch between what people perceive to be the place and the reality of what it is, and Somaliland is exactly in those kinds of circumstances where there is a huge gap between the reality and the perception." "So actually there is a method to my madness and it isn't inconsistent with the basic principles of business: Go find yourself a situation that nobody else has spotted and be prepared to hang on in there while everybody else catches up." "There is no inconsistency between what we look for when we invest in an opportunity here [in London] and what we look for over there, except that the potential rewards in Somaliland are far greater, ironically." The Hollywood connection Mr Yusef's first business venture was buying and selling a film library. "I was lucky in that I knew who my buyer was going to be, so it was one of those crazy situations where I knew I could buy for X and sell for Y," he said. "In many ways, it's the worst first lesson to have in business because you run away with the idea that business is actually quite easy." However, this experience was probably helpful to him when, later, he decided to specialise in structured film financing. Invicta has been involved in the financial side of many successful film projects, including Wallace & Grommit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Da Vinci Code and James Bond's Casino Royale. Although now he manages big money, Mr Yusef says that he started with very little. "I had enough capital to pay the rent of an office for six months. I think it was enough to pay the secretary and assistant. That was it. "But it didn't take much. It never takes much. Not having money is never really the obstacle, it's the excuse." 'Fascinating people' Mr Yusef says that for him one of the most exciting things about his business is meeting people. "You meet fantastic people, even the ones you don't like. They're fascinating". Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote The biggest driver for people in business, if you look at it, is the creative drive, to create something from nothing and step back and say: 'That was nothing then, look at it now'” He believes that it is often easier to get to know others in stressful situations because they cannot "keep their pretences up for very long". He also takes delight in the intellectual challenges offered by his job. "Every situation is different from the last. And the mistake often made is to assume 'Oh, I know how that story is going to end'. So there's always that tension - positive stress is what I call it - that keeps one going," he says. "After a while, it may sound a bit glib to say this, the money motive isn't the main driver. Once you've reached a certain level of security - you've paid the mortgage if you still had one and taken care of the basics of life, and you can afford one or two luxuries - people who accumulate businesses and business interests just to make more money are a little bit unwell, I think. "The biggest driver for people in business, if you look at it, is the creative drive, to create something from nothing and step back and say: 'That was nothing then, look at it now'. I'm sure that's the key motivator for most people who are successful in business." And what advice would he give to someone who wants to start in business? "Control your fear and never give up because you will fail more than you succeed, and I think that's the thing that my father taught me more than anything else, and that's that ultimately you will prevail if you take your losses as well as your successes and learn from the losses. We learn nothing from success and everything from failure. "I think the thing that separates the natural businessman and, let's say, a business consultant, is the tenacity that is required. Many people give up on their dreams and their ideas faster than they should, and even when they do fail, they should figure out why they failed and then look for the next opportunity." African Dream is broadcast on the BBC Network Africa programme every Monday morning. Every week, one successful business man or woman will explain how they started off and what others could learn from them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16603523

on his way to hargeisa meeting silanyo...Laaluushkiibu bartay.

that's great ,nothing to lose & much more to gain.

^^ calaacal.com:D

ElPunto;836658 wrote: ^The poor fake unionists are doing you and the Somaliland public a favour. Apparently your passport won't let you into Turkey. Just you beware. anotha euphoria that will die down in couple days .Back to square one & neva ending calaacal for fake unionists:D

Poor fake unionists, they dwell on triviality...waar iga taga............... they run away for weeks or even months if things don't work their way and fill the pages once hear the slightest they see advantageous no matter how ill informed ! where is xiin these days...?

watch out copy cats.

Nin-Yaaban;836408 wrote: If Mahubo was only this intelligent..... mahubo entertains on mogadishu T.V. and what's "elman" neva heard somali name like that. Great family.

Miami man shot dead eating a man's face may have been on LSD variant Witness describes incident as 'really, really horrific' as police and doctors suggest attacker was on drug called bath salts Share 2717 Email Richard Luscombe in Miami guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 May 2012 13.56 EDT Traffic on Miami's MacArthur causeway, is backed up Saturday during the police investigation. Photograph: Marsha Halper/AP A man shot dead by police as he ate the face of another man may have been under the influence of a potent variant of LSD called bath salts, investigators believe. Homicide detectives looking into Saturday's gruesome incident on a Miami causeway suspect that Rudy Eugene, 31, may have overdosed before chewing on his victim's lips, ears, eyes and nose and ripping off strips of flesh with his teeth. An eyewitness said that Eugene was "like a zombie", tearing off almost all of 65-year-old Ronald Poppo's face and growling like a wild animal at an officer who shot him. Eugene was naked and Poppo was wearing only a shirt when police arrived, possibly a result of the delirium-inducing drug, which is similar to cocaine and other forms of LSD. It can raise users' body temperature significantly and make them feel they are burning up inside. "When a person has taken all of his clothes off and become violent, it's indicative of this excited delirium that's caused by overdose of drugs," Armando Aguilar, head of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, told the city's WSVN news. "What's happening is, inside their body their organs are burning up alive." Doctors at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, where Poppo remained in critical condition on Tuesday, support the theory of drug-induced psychosis to explain Eugene's bizarre behaviour. Paul Adams, an emergency room doctor, said that synthetic stimulant drugs such as bath salts, named for its powdery substance, can make users feel invincible and give them superhuman strength, but can also trigger aggression, extreme paranoia and hallucinations. "It's the new designer drug," he told the Guardian. "It causes a state of excited delirium, raises the body temperature and causes irritability and confusion, which is heightened when combined with a lack of adequate hydration. You find yourself not making sense, and you don't control your emotions or your actions." Bath salts, an increasingly popular drug, are responsible for rising numbers of hospital admissions and calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, which leapt from 304 in 2010 to more than 6,000 in 2011. A single fix for inhalation can be obtained for as low as $15, drugs experts say. Eugene, who had a number of arrests for marijuana possession and one for assault, and Poppo, who also had an extensive history of arrests, were homeless and living on the streets close to the MacArthur causeway where a cyclist saw them fighting and called police. An officer who arrived quickly at the scene opened fire after Eugene ignored a command to leave the other man alone. Detective William Moreno of the Miami police department said homicide detectives were trying to piece together the events leading up to the attack. Eugene, he said, continued to chew on his victim's face even after he was shot, and it took five further shots to disable and kill him. Security video from the adjacent Miami Herald building showed the victim writhing in agony after Eugene was dead. Larry Vega, the cyclist who called police, gave a grisly account of the encounter and said he may seek counselling to help him get over what he saw. "The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" he told WSVN in an interview. "He just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin. The police officer came over, told him several times to get off, and an officer climbed over the divider and got in front of him and said: 'Get off!' "He told him several times and the guy just stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled. The guy, he was like a zombie, blood dripping. It was intense. "The closest thing I've seen to it? The Walking Dead. I never thought I would see someone eating someone. It was really, really horrific." Former classmates of Eugene, who graduated from North Miami Beach High School in 2000, were surprised to learn he was involved, remembering the former American football player as a polite man always willing to help somebody in need. "The Rudy we know was a nice gentleman with a warm smile and funny. He's not like that at all," Victoria Forte told the Miami Herald. Javier Ortiz, the Miami police union's vice-president, told The Guardian: "It's the most bizarre thing I've ever come across, to see the condition of this poor man who has had his face completely eaten. "We don't know what drugs he might have been on or whether the guy was mentally ill, but there's no doubt had the officer not shot the man, the victim would have died, and there'd have been a good chance the subject would have turned on the officer."

Somalian president escapes rebel attack on motor convoy President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed unharmed in attack on outskirts of town between Mogadishu and rebel stronghold Share 4 Email Reuters guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 May 2012 14.45 EDT Somalia's president, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, is escorted by military officers after visiting the town of Elasha, near Mogadishu. Photograph: Elyas Ahmed/EPA Somalia's al-Shabaab rebels ambushed an armoured convoy carrying the country's president during a rare overland trip outside the capital, an eyewitness said. President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was unharmed in the attack which occurred on the outskirts of Elasha town, located between Mogadishu and the former rebel stronghold of Afgoye, about 18 miles north-west of the capital. The fighting split the convoy. Bullets struck several African Union (AU) peacekeeper vehicles but none were damaged. Fighting lasted 30 minutes and forced the AU to fire shells to subdue the attack. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/29/somalian-president-rebel-attack-convoy

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