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Haneefah   

Originally posted by RedSea:

Reer hargeisa are the majority of the folks that went to IVY league schools.

Compared to whom? Yarkan suu u qumanyahay bey marmar ka wareertaa, LOL.

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Abtigiis   

Contrary to the title, Somalilanders'ka dhinaca waxbarashadda lagguma xanto!

 

Haneefah, as much as I hate it, aniga iyo Red ba irbadu naguma fadhido, kol kol bay naga dhaqaaqdaa!

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When I went to Kenya last summer, I was one day reading one of the daily newspapapers with editorial cover of who who in Kenya - like the top 100 personalities.

 

Can you believe it there was no less than 7 ethnic somalis in top fifty. the top spot went to Mohamed Adem - CEO of Barclays Bank East Africa overseasing much of the banks activities in Aafrica.

 

There were others in investment Banking (CEO of Blair and something), Islamic Banking etc.

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Aaliyyah   

Masha Allah...

 

salaam..

 

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"None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself."

 

related by Bukhari and Muslim

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Fabregas   

Originally posted by RedSea:

Even a 16 yr girl straight from Hargeysa to the U.S was accepted to medical school right after she graduated from High School. Allow rer Hargeisa iidaa (and Burco offcourse) lool.

:D:D

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RedSea   

Dont hate folks, appriciate. Rer Hargeisa are bright and progressive people. :cool:

 

EDIT: U folks are bunch of dhagxaan. Loosen up, waan idinla kaftamaya. redface.gif

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^ REDSEA

 

sxb aan ku baro one of funniest maahmaah aan xamar ka soo bartay "habar weliba xaarkay dhashay bay xaayow tidhaa" roughly meaning qof weliba bahashiisa u carfoon :D

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Cabdow   

"habar weliba xaarkay dhashay bay xaayow tidhaa"

:D That is the funniest maah maah i ever heard..

 

Congrats to the brother, and also to those who have succeeded academically whether from South, North, bari or Galbeed. Kudos to them all!!

 

Ps. Northerners, faanka nagga kala aayara hade smile.gif

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Sophist   

I am always elated with glee to see a fellow nomad doing well. As many before me penned down, Alhamdulilah, Jamal isn’t unique or nadir in our quest to make something of ourselves in the West. Having said that, it is sad that material wealth and more importantly attendance at highly regarded institutions do not equate a true emancipation from our age old shackles that is clannism- we are all victims of this to certain extend; it is almost as though the disease is genetically passed on. However, experience thankfully points to another direction. The culprit seems to be the socialisation of the individual. In my experience, I have met handful Somalis who don’t suffer this illnes. The only common denominator is that they seldom socialise within our community.

 

Anyhow, good luck with the brother and I hope he inspires many of our young through his educational/material success inspires other- specially I hope they think "if a man who holds such rudimentary views politically can graduate from an Ivy league college, it is not beyond me".

 

Sophist

 

PS: Kaftan: Red Do you know where the most prominant Somali in the International arena comes from? I am not talking about Omaar! Let me give you a hint. It aint Hargeisa homie! His last name is Yusuf ;)

 

 

Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, the new member of the ICJ :D

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Aaliyyah   

^^well said.

 

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"None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself."

 

related by Bukhari and Muslim

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Originally posted by Sophist:

I am always elated with glee to see a fellow nomad doing well. As many before me penned down, Alhamdulilah, Jamal isn’t unique or nadir in our quest to make something of ourselves in the West. Having said that, it is sad that material wealth and more importantly attendance at highly regarded institutions do not equate a true emancipation from our age old shackles that is clannism- we are all victims of this to certain extend; it is almost as though the disease is genetically passed on. However, experience thankfully points to another direction. The culprit seems to the socialisation of the individual. In my experience, I have met handful Somalis who don’t suffer this illnes. The only common denominator is that they seldom socialise within our community.

 

Anyhow, good luck with the brother and I hope he inspires many of our young through his educational/material success inspires other- specially I hope they think "if a man who holds such rudimentary views politically can graduate from an Ivy league college, it is not beyond me".

 

Sophist

 

PS: Kaftan: Red Do you know where the most prominant Somali in the International arena comes from? I am not talking about Omaar! Let me give you a hint. It aint Hargeisa homie! His last name is Yusuf
;)

 

 

Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, the new member of the ICJ
:D

I believe he was a puntlander, reer bari?

 

http://www.hiiraan.com/comments2-news-2008-Nov-abd ulqawi_ahmed_yusuf_somalia_elected_to_the_internat ional_court_of_justice_for_a_term_of_nine_years.as px

 

But, one should be proud of one's own accomplishments instead of trying to take credit for other people's accomplishment with the reer hebel nonsense. Somali's need to drop that mentality.

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Sophist   

Protocol! I was just being silly!

 

Sophist.

 

PS: I have nothing to be proud about- I am not Hafidul Quraan. All the books I have read and the wealth I am creating waxbadan ii tari mayaan!

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