^Chimera - I'd like your take on how we resolve the current issues re Jubaland and federalism more broadly to get to the picture there. Hassan Shiikh has no idea the limits of the power of the Presidency in the new Somalia. When his delegation is 'deported' from a Somali city - that should give him pause to try to change his tactics. There is no imperial presidency - all he can hope to be is a compromiser-in-chief to knit together a divided country. Is it me - or has the ban on naming clans outright relaxed on SOL?

Haatu lost the plot when he said Faroole is an obstacle to peace. All the rest is malayacni.

I'm a few hours away - and Canadians are very scandal starved as compared to our southern neighbours so no surprise. But I was commenting on the one woman crusade that you've managed here on SOL. Hope the whole Conservative ship starts to go down.

Safferz - this scandal is your crack cocaine. The longer the video doesn't surface - the more likely Ford will keep his job.

There is serious violence and turmoil in the Muslim world - quite a bit of it coming at the hands of the West. Those of us in the community who are already mentally unstable and want to act out latch on this ferment as their 'cause' or reason for doing what they do. This so called 'Islamic motivation' is not entirely irrelevant but it has a particular context - mental issues. And this is totally ignored in the zeal to stigmitize Muslims.

Seriously guys. I think you're being way too harsh. They explained why there was a need for the use of the word Somali in the original article. They could do better with understanding the context that the word should be used in. But they recognized their mistake. In all my years on this site - I can't ever recall a newspaper in any other country hearing out and then apologizing for harm done to the Somali community through unfair reporting. Well done Canada. Well done Mr. Aidid - the Somali community in TO should be trumpeting his accomplishment and motivation - and showing youngsters the positive MALE role models in our community.

Oodweyne;948013 wrote: Haatu, Again if I am such a lightweight why Somalia is in the business of begging me to return? And why such insignificant folks as you think we are are forever chasing folks who should of seen us off long time ago if their bluster had any bite to begin with? And finally why if the earth tremble at the sight of you (which is the implications of of your assertions of how others are insignificant) do we have the spectacle of seeing those who thought of themselves in such lofty terms always ready borrow any passing muscle to make good on their bluster? No saxiib the quality of the pudding is in the eating. And in that sense each of us has being weighted and only one us has being found wanting when it comes to who is insignificant in the the calculus of power within the Somali peninsula. Poor Oody. I understand old-er men sometimes stumble but this is pretty bad. If you are so significant that the Somali Federal Government is chasing you - why is it then you chase poor nomads in Kalshaale and Buhoodle who are a subset of the clan you're trying to denigrate here? After all - would you really chase something so lowly? Walle talk about an open goal.

^There is no cay adeer. The point is rather simple. If you really believed this whole enterprise was doomed to fail and not representative then you wouldn't devote dozens and dozens of posts to making that same point endlessly. Your actions belie the arguments you post here. Clearly there is some delusional calculations afoot in that strange mind of yours.

^It's amazing if you think this whole thing is a non-starter with no real basis that you and your ilk spend so much time here repeating these same words endlessly. I suppose it's a coincidence too that the President also spends quite a bit of his valuable time lobbying against these efforts because he thinks it has little chance of viability. Delusional Incorporated and not too bright to boot.

This is a baaaad demo but this is a good demo: http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/70645-Somaliland-Thousands-Demonstrate-in-Support-of-Sovereignty-in-Brussel?highlight=brussels

Any government minister needs to know the limits of what he/she can achieve. She's doing a disservice by making this fantastical pronouncement. Somalia doesn't need people with their head in the clouds in positions of power.

At the end of the day - he is going to run into the limits of his power in a new Somalia. You can dictate to any region or city anymore. Those in Hiiraan or Bay who might accept his candidates for government today will tomorrow demand that they choose their own representatives and build their own regional government. As it is - he's got so much to do on the security front - it's a wonder why he's opening up a can of worms unnecessarily.

Italy doesn't have that many immigrants compared to other large EU countries - Uk, France, Germany etc. Additionally - Italians have been emigrating from their country in large numbers for decades - most often the poor and working class from the South. There is little case for them as a society to be as racist as they are.

^It's nothing to do with leftist progressives. If 92% of ppl are all alike and you're worried about the 8% who are different then math proclaims you a racist not leftists.

^Wadani - there was no ad hominem - you're commenting on your personal reaction to racism when this article addresses the phenomenon of racism. Kyenge was at the forefront of a dramatic demographic shift in Italy. As recently as 1991, just 1 in 100 residents held a foreign passport. Today, it’s 1 out of every 12. So 91.7% of the population is native Italian - and they should be 'worried' about keeping their country 'authentic' and 'true to it's unique history and culture' and having 8.3% of the population as foreigners is 'unrestrained multiculturalism' I think your comment about Somalis being racist is bringing itself out ma istiri?

Alpha Blondy;946993 wrote: ^ someone ought to be more aware, ma istidhi? see Nash, C. Waryaa - just because u stumbled upon that in your library building endeavors doesn't mean squat.

xabad;946992 wrote: I'm already home. damn foreigner. I sense a bruised ego, were you called a monkey. Are you currently living in Somalia? And when you were learning English did you do it in Somalia? I don't know where these self-hating Somalis come from. Where's al Shabaab when you need them.

^Simian = ape-like. Can't recall Irish being called that.

Wadani;946981 wrote: +1. Only a self-confident man can swallow this pill. I've always felt like this, and that's y racism never bothered me. I was once working at a store and a white lady started calling me a nigger and all sorts of other nonsense. I didn't even get worked up one bit, because I know im not a nigger and that she's conflating my history and current reality with that of others. It's like in those movies where the action star goes to the bar and is called out for a fight by some random bikers/thugs. Notice his reaction...he just calmy tells them he doesnt want any trouble. That's because he's a confident man who has nothing to prove, and knows that the thugs in their ignorance are underestimating who he really is. That's how all Somalis should be when dealing with racism. Just dont let it phase u, because u r SOMALI!!!!! My goodness talk about confusion. You're confusing racism - a horrible, conceited, arrogant mentality that denigrates and debases other human beings with your reaction to it. You can react as calmly as you like - but if you believe that racism is just fine and dandy- then you are severely lacking in more ways than one.

^AL - Reer Waqooyi are straight up - you do look somewhat simian - if remember your giant sunglasses youtube vids from old correctly.

^Why don't u apply that to yourself and go home then? Damn foreigner.

Wadani;946972 wrote: This. Blacks are hated everywhere, but PC culture has prevented such blatant discrimination and maltreatment from pouring out into day to day interactions. Instead, in places like Canada, USA and Western Europe, what we have is an implicit and yet very insidious type of racism that manifests itself in the form of institutionalized exclusion and constant micro-aggressions against minorites by the dominant Whites. I'd rather have exclusion than being called monkey on the streets on a day to day basis.

^There is PC free and then there is vulgar and nasty - calling a government minister and doctor being fit to be a housekeeper is the latter.

“There’s the idea that black people stink,” says Jean Zongo, 28, the son of African immigrants. There was a period when he was younger, Zongo was afraid to take the bus at night, for fear of encountering racial violence. More than once, he has climbed aboard to hear a group of young men grunting like monkeys. It’s a charmless display of racism that has migrated from Italy’s soccer stadiums — where Mario Balotelli, the Italian football star of Ghanaian heritage, has famously faced chants of “There’s no such thing as a black Italian” — to youth culture at large. Zongo has traveled to France, Spain and England. Only in his own country, he says, is he made to feel second class. “[Discrimination] is present in just about every aspect of life, in every circumstance,” he says. The question you should be asking is not that Somalis are also racist which they are but what makes Italy different from its European neighbors.

What a sad country - and these folks have always been in line trying to emigrate to other countries.