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Somalia/United Arab Emirates - Given the abhorrent sectarian strife in Iraq, one might envision federalism as the only reasonable way to stop the bloodshed and pinch down violence to its roots. But dividing the country into oil rich Shiite south and Kurdish north with a Sunni dominated waste land in the West and northwest will be a recipe for a more explosive situation. Oil will fuel a long struggle for survival.
Somalilia/United Arab Emirates - Americans are not the only ones obsessed with sex and politics. Sex has forever been the bane and blessing of humankind. It is the cause of man's fall. Kingdoms have been turned to dust because of sex. There have been epic conflicts and thousands of ship launched for the sake of a woman. Both female and male sexual organs have been worshipped at times. Holy places often bear the structure of female reproductive organs or are decorated with representations of them. Great works of literature such as Shehrazade's Thousand Nights and the Kama Sutra have been woven around sexual escapades.
Somalia/United Arab Emirates - For many years, Arabs saw the world through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Although the Arab people believed the Jewish lobby rather than the American voter shaped the American foreign policy towards the Middle East, American elections always evoked heated debates on the Arab street and in power corridors.
Somalia/United Arab Emirates - True to the superstition of the day, Friday the 13th of October 2006 was a day of bad luck for Somaliland press freedom. On this day, mobs of people, led by religious fanatics assembled in a public square in the second Somaliland city of Buroa, and burned editions of Haatuf, Somaliland's leading newspaper. This was the first time in Somaliland's living memory that forces of darkness tried to kill enlightenment.
Somalia/U.A.E. - Homosexuality is prohibited in Islam and the institution of marriage is sanctified. The Koran says that women and men are garments to each other. Prophet Mohammed recommended that any youth who could afford should marry or fast. He also recommended Muslim men to marry fertile women so that he could compete with other prophets with the number of his followers. Therefore, procreation seems to be the main objective of marriage in Islam and it is obvious that homosexuality will not increase the number of the faithful.
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