Word: somali
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...was upset by your choice of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch politician and director whose film Submission portrays a Muslim woman ritually abused by the men in her family. As a female practicing Muslim living in the West, I have found it frustrating that the Western media are obsessed with the "plight" of Muslim women. While there is progress to be made in women's rights in the Muslim world, change does not necessarily have to occur within the Western framework. Most Muslims find Hirsi Ali too extreme, though we don't agree with honor killings...
...bones and skulls and took them away as toys. Such horrors are all too common in Somalia. "For 14 years we have been living like this," says Dahir Ali Adow, 22, a student at Mogadishu University. "What we need is law and order to restore the peace." Many Somalis, and plenty of Western leaders, had hoped the anarchy would end after the formation of a new government last October, the result of two years of talks in neighboring Kenya between warlords and Somali clan elders. The new leaders promised it would bring security and prosperity to their war-torn East...
...matching donors to dozens of projects in five countries as well as to overall regional aid. That means persuading donors to fund not just the high-profile, big-ticket projects like clearing debris in Aceh and monitoring disease outbreaks in Sri Lanka but the small-scale tasks as well. Somali fishermen need $1.9 million to repair their boats; $750,000 would measure damage to coral reefs in the Maldives. Some countries will give the U.N. unrestricted aid, but for the most part, each project needs confirmed funding to begin...
...television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans and one Spanish-Moroccan - in addition to Mohammed B. The letter knifed into Van Gogh's body was typed and addressed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born member of parliament who wrote and narrated Submission, and contained threats against Hirsi Ali, Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary leader of the right-wing vvd party, and Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen...
...Last week's track-and-field events introduced some of the Games' most compelling losers. The women's 100 m included several much-photographed Muslims, three of whom finished last in their heats. The Somali and Bahraini ran in head scarves and didn't qualify for the next round of races, but they nevertheless set personal and national records, respectively. The Kuwaiti and Afghan sprinters crossed the line three seconds off the fastest qualifying time, yet they still made history as their countries' first female Olympians. Iraq's Alaa Jassim, whose 100-m training regimen was occasionally foiled by sniper...