Dark Angel Sister,there is nothing wrong with asking a question as long as one is looking for the truth. I have nothing more to add,since the brothers and sister above have given you more answers than you probably need in the near future.

^^^^^ lol@kiosk.......this serious brother.If you thought DR Condolozza Rice was abook worm, wait till you meet this lady.It looks like the whole of her family is blessed with upward mobility.They just know how to get it right. If only she was in America.I will certainly gurantee you, the sister will be filthy rich by now.Too bad, she has to cash her paycheck in Shillings.

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^^Ok we are talking about high school.I think i got it. So what you're saying is, he is in high school and scholarship wise, he is as lucky as a high school football player heading for college,he must be popular then......

True dat,but hey i just felt like asking that rhetorical question.

^^ Oh i gott it.The brother is Ivy league bound?Damn! that is some serious chopping!

I can't take the test since i don't know anything about star trek and all that crap.I was never a fan of that sh!t......Thanks God we have ESPN.

Very sad indeed.Imagine if that was your sister!

What the hell is Eton.......Up in here, we call eton the super 10 heavy duty transmission of an 18 wheeler. Anyway whoever is gonna become a mechanic wish him the best.

Phanta sabaaxadeynayaan It took me ages to read that word.Even then, i had no idea whether you're talking about bullets or wrestling. Back to the topic,lets stop discussing issues related to this woman.She surely is one dumb woman that we don't really need.

Haddad Well, I think the mistake in the article has to be corrected in order to address it. You just felt like giving an opinion,or what else is bugging you dude?Sadly yours is not worth anything.I told you long time ago, that you should quit this whole Aljazeera thing.

^^^^ It's time to move on, and this story will one day be history.Actually,next time anyone is gonna narrate this story,he or she should start with " Once upon a time in a far distance land called S.Arabia or the desert......

Layzie girl When doing a quoation, you have to actually quote an actual fact that has been said, one time or another.(not anywhere in my posts did I outline an actual quote from the prophet) Hey my bad!Sometimes i pull the trigger and ask questions later.Anyway i do apologise if i have offended you.

You thought you was young and fabulous,guess what.This 25 yrs old lady in Africa has just raised the bar to an all time high.Read the article and click on the link below to see her face. For the guys who were talking about brains over beauty,here is a nice lady with all the brains that you can or can't handle.Wish you goodluck locating her Nothing about the 25-year-old slim, dark and bespectacled woman with braided hair gives the impression she is an extraordinary person. Angela Akoth poses with John Kanyahuma (left), ACCA’s head of corporate development, and Anthony Kariuki, the country manager. But the unassuming five-foot five-inch Angela Akoth Oketch is a world beater. In last year’s Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) examination, she scored the highest marks worldwide (99 per cent) in Paper 2.2 (Corporate and Business Law). In recognition of her outstanding performance, the UK-based association will formally award Akoth a certificate of merit and a cash token next month in London. What is more gratifying about Akoth’s achievement is that she did not attend class. She studied on her own, mostly after work and not even on a daily basis. And she is not too proud of the amazing achievement. "It feels good if a bit surprising because the paper was hard and I did not expect that kind of result. "But I’m happy; it is an encouragement. It sort of makes you feel you can do it," she tells this writer in an interview. Akoth, dressed in a brown skirt suit, a simple cream blouse and brown shoes to match, insists the examination paper was very hard and she only hoped to pass. "The pass mark is 50 (per cent) and I was hoping I would get that; that is how hard it was." When she learnt about her achievement in February through an e-mail notification, she only expected to be informed she had passed. "I opened my mail hoping I had passed the papers I had sat and the marks were there, written quite simply and that is how I got to know I had 99 per cent." She says she had put more hope in another paper (tax), "as I had done a bit of tax in my line of work". Akoth, who had been exempted from Paper 2.1 (information systems) because of her IT background, ended up passing the tax paper with a 64 per cent mark. In June last year, she passed papers 1.1 (preparing financial statements), 1.2 (financial information for management) and 1.3 (managing people). The next thing she did was to call colleagues and friends with whom she had sat the exam. "We hold each other up and on finding that they had also passed, we all gave a sigh of relief and that was that. We did not go into the issue of actual marks." Akoth works in a busy office (Price WaterhouseCoopers) and often misses classes. "I study on my own, but towards the end there is a revision course for about a month during which time the company will give you some study leave to prepare for the examination," says the young woman who sat her first ACCA exam in June 2004. The budding systems and processes associate is not even a bookworm — she does not have to burn the midnight oil to achieve the near impossible grades. "I do not study everyday and not because I return home at ungodly hours; it’s just not possible. And poring over my books after I get home is not for me either." Faced with a June exam, she would relax until around April when her tempo slowly picked up. But every time Akoth sits an ACCA exam, she is acutely aware that she is doing so together with thousands of others from all over the world. She knows that she is at a "slight disadvantage" because a lecturer has not taken her through the course. She is well aware that when one studies on their own, they have nothing to rate themselves against, but she still does it partly out of choice. Born and brought up in Nairobi’s Langata estate (she has lived in the same house since she was born), Akoth is the last-born with three sisters and a brother. There is a five-year gap between her and the third born. Her mother was a lecturer, her father a land surveyor. Two of her siblings are university lecturers and one is in business. "They are all so different and accomplished in very different ways and I have learnt different things from each of them. Being the last-born there were always set standards that I had to match or outshine." As a career choice, nothing was further from her mind than accounts when she joined university. She wanted to go into medicine but was admitted to an IT course. With time, she came to like the course and ended up graduating with First Class honours. After graduation, she worked at Strathmore University before joining PWC for a career in accounting/auditing. "I was a bit skeptical at first and I even wondered why they were taking me, when I was not the typical accountant type. But I talked to a number of people and they told me PWC liked the variation." Today, she works with people from all kinds of backgrounds including those who have studied anthropology. "They are very open, professional and are interested in one doing the job, not what they did in school." Currently Akoth’s focus is on systems and processes auditing. She gets to combine her IT background and accounting. She remembers her days at Karen C Primary School, Nairobi, with gladness. "From day one, I just liked school and apart from Kiswahili, I enjoyed all subjects. I do not know if primary school is like that any more," she laughs. She went to Kenya High School and got to meet people of different backgrounds from across the country and made many friends. "Those are friendships I cherish to date," she says. Her parents’ and siblings’ influence is clear. She keeps making reference to the things they have taught her many times. "My siblings have also been very influential; they are so far from the accounting profession, but they know it is important to me and important for me to pass the exams. They are always very encouraging especially in the trying times, just before the exams." Akoth is not a typical cold calculating accounts specialist. She has "many, many friends from all walks of life" with whom she does "a lot of things" over the weekends. She also reads quite a bit (not necessarily for ACCA) and watches movies regularly. In a few weeks’ time, when she takes a trip to London for the awards ceremony, and it will fit in well with her love of travelling. With the award behind her, she is intent on completing all ACCA exams. Whether she slips or not, she is determined to do her best. The ACCA is not the first award she has won. Previously, she has been awarded bronze and silver under the President’s Award Scheme. http://eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=17668

There is nothing wrong with a somali woman or man going to somalia to look for a husband or wife.Life is all about options.

Femme Apparently my name isnt sexy at all, for there is no Z in the list. That was u'r sharci name,now use u'r real name. Rudy Home boy,u used the wrong name.......now instead of u'r S.O.L logname,try u'r sharci name

I don't know about you guys,but i know who i'm and where i come from. If u want to know where your family came from,why don't you do some DNA research.Go and dig u'r great great great great grand father graves and check their DNA.Compare that DNA with yours.If u you think u is from Arabs or Africans repeat the process untill u get a match.Start with u'r family,followed by u'r clan,tribe,arabs,africans etc until u get a consistent answer to u'r question. Asking questions on the net is not gonna help you with anything,if anything u will be more confused than ever before.

I had no idea there were sisters and brothers here.Next time i hope nobody comes with his/her parents here.

-A- You are not particularly romantic, but you are interested in action. You mean business. With you, what you see is what you get. You have no patience for flirting and can't be bothered with someone who is trying to be coy, cute, demure, and subtly enticing. You are an up front person. When it comes to sex, it's action that counts not obscure hints. Your mate's physical attractiveness is important to you. You find the chase and challenge of the "hunt" invigorating. You are passionate and sexual as well as being much more adventurous than you appear; however, you do not go around advertising these qualities. Your physical needs are your primary concern. So true,I don't like wasting my time on girls who have no clue about what am into.Its either my way or the Freeway.

Sofine ...I'M HERE TO CHANGE SOMETHING BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS? First and foremost please stop using capital letters unnecessarily.It makes you sound like you're screaming for attention. Secondly,i don't know where u live, but u kinda sound like Dubya talking about "the lord told me i'm here on a higher purpose like regime change"and that is scaring the hell out of me. Anyway, wish you the best and with that i say be all you can be.

So plzz i rather have the (Yo YO) and even live Poor for the Sake of ma happines Stop lying to yourself.You will never be happy if u decide to live in abject poverty.Yours, certainly will be ruled by the principle of misery needs miserable companions. The major cause of deppression is stress,and by now u should be aware, that financial problem leds to a stressful life. A Stressed and deppressed woman or man for that matter,doesn't look happy to me. **My bad, i'm off topic**

Read on preachers,this might make sense to all of you. The Saudi Executions: Un-Islamic and Extra-judicial Killing By Abdul Wahid Sheikh Osman Introduction It may seem quite disingenuous to some that so many Somalis have expressed sadness, outcry and anger regarding the recent Saudi executions. No foreign friend or foe has ever inflicted upon us as much misery and destruction as we, Somalis, brought upon ourselves. Therefore, if we, Somalis, are, indeed, serious about restoring our dignity and protecting our citizens and natural resources from the injustices and toxics of the foreigners, let us put our house in order and build a nation state that would safeguard our rights at home and abroad. This short comment is not intended to discuss the position or view of the western legal systems towards the punishment imposed on these six young men. Suffice to say that the methods by which these executions are carried out amount physical torture and are contrary to the Bill of Rights, Charter of Freedoms and other safeguards enumerated in the constitutions, statutes and laws of the Western countries. Instead, I will attempt to examine whether or not these punishments are reflective of the Islamic legal doctrines and injunctions. The Islamic Law and the Saudi Executions Since the majority of the provisions in the Saudi Penal Code are based on Islamic law, at least in theory, I would like to examine the Saudi actions under both the strict interpretations of the classic Islamic Law and in light of the expositions by the early Islamic Jurists. According to the statement by the Saudi Interior Ministry, the six Somali gangsters were convicted of “abducting and robbing taxi driversâ€. Thus, there were no allegations of murder in the statement. Now, based on the above facts, the only possible crime, under Islamic law, which these men can be charged with and which they might be found guilty of is the crime of Hirabah, a crime similar to the Highway Robbery. Linguistically (Arabic), the term Hirabah comes from the root Hariba, a verb that means to become angry and enraged. By derivation the noun harb (pl. hurub) means variously “war†and “enemy. In Islamic legal terminology, the term Hirabah is broadly defined as “spreading mischief in the land,†but its precise meaning is “killing by stealth and targeting a defenseless victim in a way intended to cause terror in society.†This crime , being one of the Hudud crimes, and its punishment is described in the holy Quran as Surah al-Maidah 5 verse 33-34 states “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crufication, or the cutting off the hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter. Except for those who repent before they fall into the power: In that case, know that Allah is Oft-Forgiving and Most Merciful†The Jurists from the four major schools of jurisprudence in the Sunni Islam have interpreted the punishment contained in the above verse as following: (A) A Jail time or discretionary punishment (Ta’zir) not leading to death penalty but might include exile will be imposed where Hirabah was committed without seizure of property or causing death. (B) First strike: With amputation of the right hand from the wrist and the left foot from the ankle where property was seized, but death was not caused. © In the event of a Second strike, that is where the Hirabah is committed for the second time, the offender will face the imputation of the left hand from the wrist and the right foot from ankle. (D)Where murder occurs in the course of committing Hirabah but no property was seized, the offender will face the death penalty. (E) The most severe punishment will be imposed where the offender commits murder and seizes property, in which case he will face death penalty and or including crucification. In the absence of any credible and fair sentencing guidelines, appeal process and competent legal defense in the Saudi justice system, the Saudi executions are, therefore, from Islamic law perspective, unusual, appallingly inhumane, cruelly disproportionate punishment to the crimes allegedly committed by these young men. I am not questioning the solemn duty of the Saudi government to protect its citizens and maintain law and order rather, my point is that even under the most strict Islamic law interpretations, the charges brought against these young men carry maximum punishment of amputation of their hands and legs and NOT executions. I wonder if the Saudi authorities would find the guts to impose the same punishment had the offenders were its own citizens or those of powerful foreign country, a sad fact that speaks volumes about the state of administration of justice in the Muslim world today! Abdul Wahid SheikhOsman is an Adjunct Professor at the Law School of the University of Minnesota and a regular contributor Here is the link,be warned some of u may not stomach the graphic contents of this link. http://www.somalicenter.com/2005/apr/op/Saudi%20Executions.htm

Haddad That's not a proper way of thinking. So what's the "proper way" of thinking my highly learned fellow.You see commoners like me,have hard time following the proper procedure.I hope, u will be helpful in matters regarding the "proper way".May i add,You are highly appreciated in that capacity. There are no real criminals who rob others for fun. Really There are a myriad of reasons why a real criminal would rob others; fun isn't one of them I had no idea about that.So where do u get u'r statistics from.I'm hope u are not suggestating you is a criminal, for i have no idea how u come up with that conclusion.

I did see what the admin erased, and yes you did insult me shyhem in the worst possible way.I never would have thought that a muslim brother would say the stuff you said about me. Please read your signature again and reflect on it this time. [ Wow, wallahi thats straight from Konstantin Stanislavski school of acting.I can't believe u pulled that on me.U surely know how to present yourself in grand court as an innocent victim.Why can't u ask the admin to retrieve what they deleted and we will see which part is realy that offensive that u had to mention "muslim brother" U want to know what i said.This is what i said When a girl is given attention by young boys driving their momma's mini van, she suddenly thinks she all that I hope you're not complaining about how i wrote u'r name, there was nothing fishy about it.I just censored the last part, for i couldn't be bothered to write it all.That is it. There you go again attacking my character and accusing me of being loose. People who have just read this might not get it---but in your last post, that has been kindly deleted by the Admin, you were reffering to me. Holly molly, who said u are loose.I'm now pissed off and i don't like to be pissed off.You are now accusing me of big crimes i did not commit.Please stop this false accussations!!What you're doing is nothing short of character assasinations and i do not appreciate that. If u are saying the truth,you wouldn't have waited for the Admins to delete it, instead of directly quoting me and fighting back.Why don't u just admit u saw nothing,hence the need to fabricate u'r own stories. But you have a character problem Shyhem and frankly, I feel pity towards you. You are too insignificant for me to bother to reply to from here on. Character problems kulaah,you are the shrink now ehh.Tell me,what other assumption can u easily predict.Since when did u become the compassionate conservative?What pity are u talking about?Oh please baby,nobody has asked for u'r sympathy here. Woman you're so full of yourself, and u need to keep it to yourself.

Admin Its like that ahhhh?I think its time i organised the tea party revolution,definately someone is abusing his/her power.I now understand why pple in Somalia are not interested in forming a gov't.It sucks to be on the recieving side, and to add an insult to the injury i haven't had invested in technoology that will have allowd me to fight the admin fairly. Originally posted by Ay Kutubeey: Shyhem tolow maxaad meesha kusoo qortay, admin xataa waad soo kicisay There was no name calling and I didn't use the f-word,B-word and N-word as in Nayaa,but i did call the sister abaayo. Let's just say i talked about agirl and young boys driving their momma's mini van. Femme Damn u must be so naive, i kinda feel like u'r maacalin dugsi.I won't mind wiping u with my cimmamad (turban){excuse my spelling}.