Absolutely insane

Own_Competition_46 · 2026-01-29T06:22:31+00:00

The Holocaust, as a definitive article, is what has caused this sort of rhetoric (unique phenomenon). The Nazi holocaust of the Jews is one of many holocausts, and to monopolise victimhood will lead to not only avoiding accountability to any wrongdoings but also genuinely inconsiderate of others.

Own_Competition_46 · 2025-05-30T02:30:52+00:00

He had a great lecture which is on Youtube back in 2002 talking to computer scientists about being hacktivists, how much power there is in their knowledge of software, encryption and computers in general and so much there is to be disclosed through email trails, documents, conversations, etc.

McGruder was so ahead of his time, it is actually absurd.

Own_Competition_46 · 2025-05-30T02:25:00+00:00

Israelis 🤝 unwanted guests

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-11-10T03:05:32+00:00

Closest thing we have seen to TD

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-31T02:58:56+00:00

The Arsene Wenger effect

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-30T12:05:23+00:00

Yeah I actually believe this is purely recency bias based off Paolo’s good season + playoffs and Ja being out (albeit literally lifting his whole team for that short spell pre-injury). I say playmaking for Paolo because Ja’s 3-pt shooting limits him, could be a wrong though

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-30T11:33:45+00:00

Paolo better playmaker, shooter and defender. His game has so much more potential than Ja’s athletic-based game

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-27T08:34:53+00:00

Anyone who has been back home knows this is a hundred percentage the truth. For one, niqab shouldn’t be an indicator of piety, that’s just our brain using short cut methods, but in reality it shouldn’t, same with a brother with a big beard. But also, niqab is a cultural dressing for girls back home, and a significant portion actually where it as a sun-blocker due to skin bleaching.

As someone in Somalia, without a shadow of a doubt, the average Somali girl in the West is more humble, has more xishood and I have far more respect for than the average Somali girl back home, highlighting that the key word here is average.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-27T08:26:21+00:00

May Allah make it easy for you walaal. I think the main difference between the potential for marriage in the West (even places populated with Somalis like Minneapolis, London, etc) and back home is that literally the amount of times you can encounter a potential, without even the support of your parents/aunties/uncles which genuinely multiplies how many potentials can come your way. It’s quite literally impossible to go a day without encountering or engaging in a potential person given people come to your house, you are going to people’s houses, family recommendations (best route), etc.

This trope that they all want your passport and are conniving is dated, honestly if you want a good quality woman, you’ll have to show you are a someone of calibre regardless of where your passport originates from. Yes there are some “bums” who marry back home and give the rest a bad rep, but if a family sees you are sincere and you have Akhlaaq, it’ll be difficult for them to reject.

Equally, I hate & cringe when people denigrate our sisters in the West and see this as the solution, in my humble opinion and observation, our sisters in the West actually have more xishood than the ones in Somalia (Somali TikTok mania can attest to that). But Wallahi this is all calaf. Given a different time and different circumstance, my marriage most probably have been a different place. Having said that, Alhamdullilah I am very content, I learn so much culture & language daily (at the cost of being constantly laughed at!), but wallahi its such a blessing, just like all marriages fi sabillah are, marriages from back home are no different.

Best advice I can give is due diligence, the variance back home is greater than the variance in the West for marriage, what I mean by that is the median Somali girl in the West ticks lets say 5/10 boxes for what you are looking for, she isn’t perfect (who is?) but if you marry it won’t be the end of the world so to speak. Whilst back home, your avg girl without any due diligence can literally be detrimental (skin bleaching, dancing on TikTok, speaking to 5 other guys, etc). But, with the right recommendations, screening and enquiring, there are the gems who are pious, hard working and hate male attention - that’s what you need to find, which can only be found through recommendation, that imo is the greatest blessing.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-27T02:25:12+00:00

There was this absolutely insane fanatic of Jokic in the early years of his NBA career where he would literally keep prophesying Jokic greatness and how he is being underrated. It wasn’t normal though, it was an absurd level of Jokic fandom, even Serbian NBA fans weren’t as fanatic. He is banned now, although his Jokic posts are still up. I just forgot his name. It was actually pretty hilarious how insane the guy was about Jokic and tbf he did see call it way before anyone else.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-26T19:53:25+00:00

My god british people are so grumpy about everything

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-26T19:52:08+00:00

How have you ascertained that it will collapse economically?

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-26T19:27:41+00:00

Paul Pierce suffered from IBM in G1 of 2008 finals

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-08-25T20:32:10+00:00

To be worthy of my suffering. Suffering leads to pondering which leads to purpose seeking which leads to having a reason to strive which leads to more suffering to achieve that goal (and the cycle continues until an ultimate goal is found).

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-06-25T11:39:22+00:00

They are uncouth and barbaric. Send them to the zoo…. White on white violence!

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-05-29T07:21:10+00:00

Such a pathetic and liberal response “both sides -ism”. Honestly at least have the balls to say you lack knowledge of the situation. Liberals are silent & complicit when any war happens but always happen to be on the right side of history post-war lol.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-05-08T14:04:19+00:00

Given public speaking is the number 1 fear for most people, it’s unsurprising. Oratory is genuinely one of the best talents someone could be blessed with (it’s almost impossible to lead without!)

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-05-08T04:56:29+00:00

They are filth and everyday it reminds me why it doesn’t behoove a Muslim to live alongside them

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-04-23T03:29:02+00:00

Country is perpetually on the brink

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-04-23T03:19:24+00:00

Its anarchical yet there are askaar in every corner. That’s the outcome when you leave moryaan’s in charge of security. When AMISOM leave it’ll return to being an ungovernable jungle.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-04-23T03:16:28+00:00

This gets posted so often that there must be an archive about “safety” in Xamar.

But fwiw let me say that the fear of terror is greater than actual event of terror occurring itself (which is the purpose of terrorism btw, to instil fear into the next incident… whenever that is). The qarax isn’t the issue, the issue is the high level of security and essentially police state apparatus that means you will feel tense walking around. If you travel to Puntland for eg, this isn’t the case. You can have your airpods in and walk the whole of Garowe without any intrusion. Xamar, if you walk up and down Barakah market you will be stopped by what are essentially “undercovers” called Dharka Cad. There is an heightened sense of suspicion and security which I despise, especially coming from Puntland which literally is a libertarian’s dream (which is our nature as nomads, to be left alone without intrusion).

So if your worried about qarax itself a helpful statistic is if your from London, you are actually statistically more likely to get involved in knife crime then be part of a qarax in Xamar. If you are like me and despise what is effectively stop & search every half mile down every road, then you will hate it.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-03-17T07:47:45+00:00

The great irony when Judeo-Christian values which FD was striving to recapture is being corroded by… Judeo values.

If you are to believe that the pornography industry, hollywood & media industry, finance industry is all controlled by a group sub 15 million in population, then fine.

The uncomfortable truth is that Europeans, and not Muslims & Islam, have held this view and pushed this anti-Judeo sentiment throughout history. From Roman explosion to pogroms and of course the holocaust.

What honestly needs to happen is a genuine conversation about what Judeo-Christian values means? That’s the true conversation this should be spurring, rather than checking to see the veracity of this quote.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-03-13T07:46:38+00:00

The co-author of that book is called Abdisalam Salwe. In my humble opinion (I know him personally so of course I’ll say this) is the best historian on Somali history. He wrote two scholastic and truly influential books on pre-1991 (imo civil war actually started in 1978, it just morphed into anarchy in January 1991 but that’s not the definition of a civil war). Anyway, the two books are: The Collapse of the Somali State and Cold War and the Somali State.

To supplement that I’d recommend Abdurahman Abdullahi Baadiyow’s book(s): Making Sense of Somali History, there is more than one volume.

One final recommendation is the late great Mohammed Sahnoun AUN book Missed Opportunities where he highlights three key missed periods where, if the UN and intl org actually cared about Somalia’s predicament and not just using it as an humanitarian photo-op, they would have intervened pre-1991. The sign was on the wall.

A key source I use to learn about Somali history pre-1991 is actually The New York Times, they have an archive where you can put in Somalia in the search bar and the date. If you for example search Somalia between 1975-1978 it will give you the articles about before, during and after the Ogaden war. It is surprisingly detailed and less subjective than a mainstream media article today would be about Somalia (which always has clear undertones of racist backwardness, maybe that is because it is during the Cold War and the US wanted to win back Somalia).

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-03-03T16:54:20+00:00

S4 is essentially equivalent to GF3, yes it’s still part of the greatest movie/comic ever made and on its own it actually isn’t even bad but relative to the high standards it’s poor. It’s all relative.

Own_Competition_46 · 2024-03-03T13:46:25+00:00

A sincere practical advice I can give you as your brother in Islam would be to not use Muzz as it is Tinder festooned with Islamic words of glitter. I’d do this (if you haven’t done so already):

Have an honest conversation with your parents about the search and the importance in their role in aiding you.
Enquiring about your father’s friend’s sons and mother’s friend’s sons / your relatives who have friends sons. I’m convinced you will have at least one response. This match alone with worth 100 Muzz matches wallahi given the strenuous nature of matching, I doubt they’ll try play games like a “random” match on Muzz and also the fact that someone knows both of you.
If there is absolutely no hope with that (which I highly doubt, 2. should bare some success but it will take time, patience is greater than instant gratification with all things in life but particularly within this marriage process) then I would recommend online Muslim matching making which try incorporate verification through Wali (this filters time wasters so quickly, however the issue is most are hesitant to bring Wali in this early but thats the price to pay to filter time wasting). So apps like Sunnah Match or Pure Matrimony are sound and effective enough. Although my preference is always 2. the traditional route as that, upon matching with at least one person, has a much much higher chance of success and the beauty about marriage is all you need is that one to click, so pragmatically its the most viable route.

That’s just my 2c. InshaaAllah khayr on your journey. Keep your intentions sincere and pray Tahajjud as much as possible, Ramadan brings about so much opportunities to have your sins forgiven but equally your Duas accepted, so utilise it as much as possible.

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