Rudy again: if the civil war never happened so please remember this. If you lived like me in Holland you would know these type of pictures of a ''farmer girl'' or a ''this'' or a ''that'' etc etc ocuppations is normal and it's what governments do when making textbooks because ''staged'' images are more appealing than the ''real deal'' Ebyan, MMA, Chubacka thanks

That's a Byzantium Church which the Ottomans turned into a Mosque and who eventually inspired Ottoman architecture

today if the civil war never happened and you didn't end up in China or Cleveland? (image i put together for illustration) Were/are your families back home Nomads,Farmers or coastal people?(or simply boring Urban city ones) and which occupation attracts you the most?(i forgot fishing) Mine were a combination of all i have several uncles who were farmers and my father and mother lived in the capital but i also had relatives who were proper nomads I think nomadic life attracts me the most, it looks so peacefull and chill, what about you?

Kassim Mosque, Singapore An’Nur Jamek Mosque(Malaysia)

New golden age for Mosques? Faisal Islamabad(Pakistan) Masjid Istiqlal, Indonesia

You know these type of discussions turn Persians,Turks and other non Arab muslims like Somalis and Malaysians into Atheists and Zorastrians etc etc because to the ignorant westerner ''arab'' = ''muslim'' therefore Turks and Persians and others are accussed of being groups of people that were brainwashed by arabs because today in the case of the Iranians (''the descendants of the Sassanids'') they claim off all the historical figures in their ancient history they feel the closest to Imam Ali(an Arab) and profess that prophet muhammad(an Arab) peace be upon him is the messenger of Allaah swt when these type of sinister Ethnic divide and conquer games are played it can have a real destructive impact on the ethnic groups it's being projected at This probably occured in Sunni Iran 15th century A.D before the rise of the Safavid dynasty who's founder was probably being spoonfed with this type of crap that they had to be different from ''Arab'' muslims because they were the real historical Empire builders and therefore superior and tada!! there you have it Shi'ite Islam To me the ordinary Arabs of today living in the Arabian Felix are noble groups of people but with bad rulers, just because they are no longer top dog doesn't mean people should look down upon them there is no problem with multiple ethnicies claiming there an ''American'' same goes for ''Arab'' both are Heterogeneous sobriquets the former covering geography the latter being a linguistic category it has allready been proven through genetics that Somalis are indiginous Horn of Africans with their language being classified as Cushitic, part of the larger language family called afro-asiatic Personally i respect any Somali that loves Somalia and it's people and who seeks to play an active role in it's recovery, wether they call themselves Celts or Mongols it matters not to me I myself am a descendant of King Wiilwaal himself and proud son of Queen Araweello

Dabshid more ethnic Somalis died in the civil war than the whole population of all these minorities in Somalia combined and these Somalis suffered the same atrocities so nothing special about their cases The so-called qabiil i come from is dissed 24/7 on the net all kinds of hate is spewed to that clan name on multiple forums because of the Bangladeshi imposter's actions but the strange thing is, when reading those comments i feel nothing, i do not feel insulted, my identity is simply intact but if someone badmouths ''Somali'' or ''Somalia'' it becomes serious and i rampage bassicly my Qabiil is Somali. Anyone that askes me that question in real life will receive the same answer, not because i'm a ashamed or anything like that but simply because i don't identify myself under such myopic names ''Somali Musalman''

There are 11 or 12 Somali members 6 of them being really active on that forum there are 2 Ethiopians with 1 being really active and 1 or 2 Eritrean, so it makes sense there are to many ''Somalis'' on non Somali forums on the net this is counter productive cause when there together they going to feel as if there on a ''Somali forum'' and take all their garbage and put it out in the open forgetting there on a forum that is being shared by other groups now you have non Somalis talking about Hawiiya,D-ir,I-saq,D-arod because of these silly Somalis and their af xumo(very shamefull) that is why i don't post on forums with to many Somalis unless it's a ''Somali forum'' So it's not that horners are obsessed with Somalis it's the Somalis that put the spotlight on themselves

I don't know wether anyone of you have seen the funny movie ''The Terminal'' with that refugee who had to sleep on the airport for months, here is the real guy who had to live on a French airport for 16 years because of ''missing paperwork'' and etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merhan_Karimi_Nasseri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal

Originally posted by Abdi_Xaafid: quote: Mosque next to a Supermarket next a Pharmacy? Just incase of fighting in the masjid, there you go you have pharmacy to stop the bleeding. ah i see so if two love birds acted like westerners and decided to meet in the shopping center the local sheikh next to the S.center would intervene and kick butt huh? genius! i take back my previous comment Originally posted by Northerner: ^^I think there is a slight difference between the KL towers and this project in Hargaisa dont you think Letterman? a Project like the KL towers was a gigantic one and it was completed in a short period of time, it is because of this that i made the comparison. But i really hope these plans materialize and spill over and influence other Somali cities Insha-allah

Mosque next to a Supermarket next to a Pharmacy? what were they thinking? Petronas twin towers were build in a year same with the Tapei Tower if these projects have not been completed then these images are nothing but sim city 5 ''the Somali special edition'' if there real then Masha-allah

If i had 35 thousand soldiers with the mentality of Me East Africa would be under my new Empire

^I have no idea sis

Evil Empire's soldiers Dancing what a funny style(especially the end)

This beautiful Somali girl is in the video-min 01:26

This became clear when Italy and Britain, signed a treaty (the Ilig Treaty) with the Daraawiish on 5th March 1895. there were no such treaties signed untill May 1905 before that the British undertook four disastrous campaigns against the Sayyid and there was no such thing as British or Italian Somaliland untill 1921 and 1927. Those treaties he did sign were intended to buy time as he was purchasing during this so-called time of peace more weapons than before aswell as recruiting more men for battle. He made alliances with the Ottomans and Germans and drove the British to humiliating small pockets of coastland

Lost territories? Sorry not interested! When this nightmare is over and a real patriotic government I.A arrives it should forget about this foreign policy of more land, instead it should fly in all non professional(as in non entrepreneurs) civilians(Mothers and children,elderly) from Kenya and Ethiopia and transport them in a Israeli fashion to the motherland Somalia, and educate the younger generations in multiple sectors this in turn will enabe Mother Somalia to spark a boom in Science and Technology in the future The Somali peninsula is ~10 times the size of the korean peninsula which has ~6 or ~7 times the population of Somalia so it can handle newcomers and it's not like the two countries there from are capable of feeding them, no on the contrary there cowardly neglecting them on purpose. There are large areas all across Somalia where no soul lives but are perfectly inhabitable. Therefore ambitious city plans need to be made where Somali urban planners create beautiful yet affordable blocks of houses. Every region needs to be given something iconic where a citizen from a different region will be able to identify it by i.e Somaliland becomes the epicenter of Soccer,Science&Technology -Puntland becomes the center of Somali Entertainment (as in Somali Music& Film aswell as something for Somali kids like a Somali disneyland(it's do-able).) - Central Somalia should become an Islamic center the way Damaaj is an Islamic center for Yemen and the South should inherit it's previous position as Somalia's Political center and not to forget Somalia's Business hub for local/ Somaliland and Puntland entrepreneurs This government should focus on all it's potential money making rescources and exploit it in a benificial matter, hydro-Dams which were under construction but were stopped because of the instability in the 90s should be completed so our Farming sector can expand to the point Somalia is capable of feeding itself and then some. The Fishing industry - the rich marine that comes through our waters anually needs to be tapped to it's fullest and for the oilsector the government should make deals with countries that do not set pre-conditions or seek to meddle with our Domestic affairs. The recent deals consisting of 12 million heads of livestock worth 1/2 billion a year is a good start but the Government should explore new partners in other areas of the world so it can maximize the export of these large herds of cattle,sheep and Camel which Somalia seems to have plenty of. It should after this build a large concrete fence around it's long Border and leave the Arab League and the African Union and look for more stronger alliances, only then can we secure a safe future for our children and their children's children, it was a brave adventure what the previous governments undertook but history makes it clear Mother Somalia and her children will always be on their own in the end So let's turn inwards the way the Ming dynasty did in the 16th century and prosper like we have never prospered before.

I like this Chris Floyd!

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: One of its names is buulo [the name it is known in Shabeelladda Hoose], which is the title. Magacyo kale ayaa loogu wacaa, which currently aanan xasuusan. Yes, their feet dancing resembles that American tap dancing which was the last couple decades popularized by the late Gregory Hines. LOL i always wondered why the audience on the background clapped in that tv-show with the two gays and 1 girl everytime he tapdanced, now i know

I usually see a old Somali lady who lives next to us when i come from the gym carrying heavy groceries and i run for assistance :cool: but i think Somali elders should be granted aliyah back to the homeland that's where they belong!

It's interesting, how when Somalia was dubbed the ''great hope for Africa'' or ''Africa's paradise'' in the 60s and 70s Malaysia and Somalia had the same GDP per capita and the same standard of living, then one of them was cursed with a dictator and another with a great leader with mindblowing reforms that transformed Malaysia into an Asian & Muslim Juggernaut What i have gathered from the Malaysian brothers i converse with is that the Malaysian state wants to spark another Muslim golden age and the introduction of a possible unified Islamic currency that will rival the dollar and these Space adventures are examples of this policy Wish them well!

warning beginning is dirty!

Listen after the 12th minute say what???? :confused:

could some of you Minnesotan bro's and sista's take pictures of those Somali malls,restaurants etc etc there?