I don't mean to put forward calling ourselves Somalian, I prefer Somali myself. My point was that I don't understand why we lash out/make a fuss whenever someone says Somalian instead of Somali when it isn't wrong or offensive. You'll see it a lot on social media, people overreacting and getting...
You make it sound as though they call us something entirely different to what we call ourselves; like it is the case with Egyptians, who call themselves "Misriyiin". If that were the case I would wholly agree with you in the need to correct them and assert our identity. But what we're discussing...
It's only the standard in English and according to how their language works. It's not like they singled us out or intended it as an insult; we can see that it's just a pattern in their language that has grammatical meaning. This is why it doesn't make sense for us to be offended/triggered by it...
Do you mean when people say "Som-alien"? Lol, that's so childish being offended by it is ridiculous. You're better off ignoring underage trolls like that.
Not really, England/Pakistan doesn't end with an i or an a, but Somalia does. People whose countries end with those letters are more likely to have demonyms that end in -an, -ian or -ean. So calling someone from Somalia "Somalian" is not like calling someone from Pakistan "Pakistanian". :icon e...
...Somalian?
Whenever someone says Somalian you will always find someone pointing out the "mistake" and often angrily exclaiming "It's Somali not Somalian" :mad:
My thread title probably triggered some.. but why? Why do we detest being called Somalian as if it's a slur or something? It's just...
She was probably psychologically & emotionally scarred. Being forced into a marriage that turned abusive, and then left alone at a young, tender age to look after very dependent minors, including an infant. Where was her family?
The tabloids published my teenage tweets and implied I'm a fanatical Muslim – so let me set the record straight
Full article - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/fanatical-muslim-tweets-islam-zamzam-ibrahim-student-politics-this-is-the-truth-a7821591.html
The moment I read the OP my troll-radar went off. Not only does the scenario sound so fake, but you ask "would you consider her" to SSpot Faaraxs knowing full well what their reaction would be :childplease:
And sure enough, in came the usual suspects, tripping over themselves in their...
Most decent people would want that, but getting what you want doesn't make things 'fair'. You're complaining about one bias and running towards another.
Pray you don't end up in that predicament in the first place instead of stressing over it. Don't enter into a marriage thinking about divorce.
Yes, one of the conditions is as long as she doesn't remarry. Otherwise custody is rightfully hers.
Some parts or all over the country? I don't see how this works considering how the Somali household is set up. Generally Somali men respect the role of the mother and her part in bringing up the...
Western? I was talking about Islamic law. Women have greater right to custody in Islam as well.
Islamqa: In principle custody belongs to them :damnmusic:
Why do you often calaacal about squeeze in divorce and child custody laws into random threads you join?
The scholarly consensus is that the mother has more right to custody.
It's also very scary. The pre-Islamic Arabs didn't bury their infant daughters for no reason. It was fear, shame and their cultural views on women that motivated their crime. It all starts from somewhere.
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