Swing by ceedh office while you are at lol. Aaliyah. If you reread the the thread, the conversation moved from original point which had some letigimacy. This was not about revert bashing.

Come on Wadani, you and your Somalis are indeed the biggest criminals:-) Aaliyah....We are fine with it as long as you are part of this criminal enterprise.

Hajj for honeymoon, that's original. Aaliyah....I didn't say most reverts are criminals. Wadani....Asian guys are pissed about that. Narhiah....Is it Islamic to call Somalis biggest criminals. I guess every Somalí but you mase you are not Somali. Don't pull the deen card when it comes to reverts and in the same sentence insult Muslim Somalis.

Hajj for honeymoon, that's original. Aaliyah....I didn't say most reverts are criminals. Wadani....Asian guys are pissed about that.

Hard to stop an individual no matter how good security services are.

Aaliyah....I think GG is saying there's subset of women who retire common sense when it comes to marrying reverts, in other words, they go out above and beyond to please these reverts while ignoring their own needs. Somali men are not afforded the same courtesy or might even denigrated. Things like marrying someone who just did a stint in prison makes no sense. She condemns her and her kids to poverty as criminals are unemployable.In any case, I guess it's their life at the end. On the positive side, atleast our girls haven't labelled like Asian chicks dating white guys, a phenom in the states. Asian girls are...

That was part of it.

Read what wrote.

Apo..I hope it works out for her, a lot of women stay in unhealthy or even abuse relationships to salvage what they can or try to proof others wrong.

I know one of the women in the article. I am surprised that she went back but kudos to them.

Apo....They are divorced?

Turkey envy? Turks have perfected the concept of soft power and turn into it an art-form. If their experiment in Somalia succeeds, others might flow suit.

With Somalia's UN-backed government consolidating its hold over the capital, Mogadishu, and other areas from al-Qaeda-linked militants, many women are returning to help rebuild the country, reports the BBC's Kate Forbes. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this Air Africa flight to Mogadishu," the Kenyan stewardess booms over the plane tannoy. Absolutely no-one pays any attention, with passengers preferring to root through the overhead lockers or stand talking in the aisles. The plane is full of familiar accents: British, Canadian and American. Open your eyes and you see it is packed with Somalis, mainly women, going to a "home" they barely know. Click

Ouch@nuune, you guys must have wronged these girls. I am just imagining the look on Ajanabis faces, a Somali Marriage event with a harem of Somali women and no men, There was kid in Boston who run off with Indian guy but they met through a website. The mother was devastated..

lool@Nuune, good luck to them all. Is the event for Somalis only? Wadani....some of the children born out of these relationships are very Somali, more Somali than Somalis. Saxansaxo....some religious centers create cults obsessed with marriages, to the point, common sense goes out of the door. We are hijacking the thread, a thread dresses of all things loool

Nuune...The whole affair is so fast. I can't hate on the reverts though. I gotta know what they tell these Xalimos. One thing is sure, they use religion very effectively and women used it as shield. The most surprising story I heard was this woman who married revert within week of meeting him and moved in with him and his other wife in two bedroom apartment. I mean that's some serious game on the guy's part or serious self-deception or delusion on hers. Needless, she was divorced with kid. N they have networks, it's usually women married to reverts that encourage other women,alot time to their own detriments. On plus side, there are many good couples who marry for the right reasons and are very involved with their respective communities.

^You make good point, come to think I have never seen a big wedding involving a Xalimo and revert. It's always low key. I guess the accommodating goes one way. The weddings have happen so fast, meet this morning and in bed together by nightfall.

I would like to think Somalia is that capable but it seems this was foregone conclusion since Hilary wagged her finger at the miserable bunch we called leaders. Somalia will score if they know how to take advantage of this opportunity. We will see if Xasan, Saacid and Jawari are up to the job. The good news so far is that they are not at each other's throat as was the tradition in the past.

Foreign Minister on the US recognition of the Somali Government

Foreign Minister Press Conference

Oodweyne, As far as I know, AS hasn't issued any threat nor has it been known to target Brits . The rescue debacle by the French was good propaganda but nothing more. Their man power and resource is poured into the South apart from the few in Golis mountains giving headache to Faroole's admin. Unless there's some intelligence to suggest Somaliland is being infiltrated by AS, this whole thing is unwarranted. On the larger point, it looks like there's new scramble for Africa and former colonial powers are dividing the continent along their spheres of influence in the former colonies. The rush for Africa's resources is on!

Oodweyne..This is unfortunate and unwarranted!

Hayeeey xuuux mooge

Highly unlikely.

What terror threat? A bit of over reaction considering there are no actual threats.