If you can go onto You Tube and look for " Andy MacLachlan" you will see a close neighbour and friend of mine doing an amazing thing with a chain saw.
Dave McEwan Hill
Chainsaw massacring a stub of wood :P. Fine looking owl though.
What happens to all the wood shaving? Seems a bit of a waste if u ask me.
The owl sells for plenty. The wood chips go into Andy's stove to heat his house.
Hey guys!
Has anyone read about the lesbian wedding in kano?
The lady who got married to 4 ladies last weekend, all hausa films actresses
I really find it amazing, especially that it took place in the heart of kano.
How true is't please?
Though the lady husband :o Aunty Maidugri has denied the allegation.
Myself ina kika buya?
Yes I heard it on the BBC. I dont know what to think personally. I tend to believe the ladies though. I think it is the height of recklessness for them to stage a same sex wedding in a region like Kano state. For that alone, i am doubtful that they did do it. Bayan haka, zato zunubi a kace. If the calendar and what was written on it were the only things upon which to indict them, then I think 'yan hisbah ba su da aikin yi. They should be scrapped.
Hi Husna!
Inna nan, sai dai yar tafiya.
Ai naje cikiyar yan uwa duk naga cigiyarku, shine nace bari in amsa kira da sauri.
I hope all is going well with you.... Thanks! :)
Hhm! But husna what do you make of all the walima and the 2000 guests that attend the ceremony, and all the souvenirs with her picture and that of the four ladies around her distributed?
Ai yan hisba didn't know because everything was very secretly organised, but later someone tip them up, they went too late and meet the venue empty, they destroyed it and now searching 4 groom and her brides who are in hiding at the moment.
Kai Allah ya sawake, Wai yayan Hausa kenan... to dan Allah su kuma wacce tarbiya zasu kuyawa yaran dake kallansu, suna sha awarsu?
Kuma dai ya kamata film industry din su koresu, koda zance ba gaskiya bane.
Hehe, ba ma sai an kore su ba, sun gudu da kansu!
I heard it on da news and gosh...
If it's true then it's just ridiculous! How could they even think about it?
But if it's a joke? Then it's an expensive joke. Should even be joke of
the year. I must admit, my fist reaction was bursting into uncontrollable
laughter! I thought it was just a practical joke. But man! Nigerians, Na wa for us o!
Kuma wani abu wai harda kwasar mata hudu at a time, shoulder to shoulder da maza kenan lol
Toh suma mazan ai one at a time sukeyi ko.... Kai wannan abu da yawa yake, Allah dai yasa ba gaskiya bane.
na fi zaton shegantaka ce kawai, not as in real marry u kno what i mean.
Rashin bulala ne!!!!
To dai let us give them the benefit of the doubt since they were not caught in flagrante delicto!!! :o :o :o
To kunji dai ko?
An karyata labarin an ce sharri ake wa matan, kuma yanzu shugaban yan hisbah sai kame kame yake yi don saboda tabargazar da mutanen nasa sukayi
I knew it was a bunch of crap the moment i heard the rumour, but u never can tell, you know there is no smoke without fire either? So definately they shud have been sumthin of the sort, i also think its a method of business, possibly some people find out about the lesbian activity goin on, not really marriage and decided to create drama in order to sell their calenders, just like wut happened when a picture of a premature dog photographed and rumoured to be a woman transformed by God for tossing the qur'an, i know of the person who started that rumour, he sells calenders. Smart Business strategy ehn?
Quote from: HUSNAA on May 09, 2007, 07:37:07 PM
To kunji dai ko?
An karyata labarin an ce sharri ake wa matan, kuma yanzu shugaban yan hisbah sai kame kame yake yi don saboda tabargazar da mutanen nasa sukayi
Let me stir up some trouble now. U know the fascinating thing about this
whole issue? Homosexuality is Haram in Islam, everyone knows that. I'm not
trying to criticise the Hisbah force, but why is it that when they heard about
these women, they started searching for them with the intention of killing them,
whereas if you go to the streets of Kano there are Yan Daudu, men that are
very publicly open about it and you dont hear of them being hunted down to be
arrested or killed. I'm not commending the whole act, I'm just saying they are both
crimes that should be treated fairly and justly regardless of whether the culprits
are male or female.
Really a bunch of crap, some kind of publicity stunt 4 sure.
And shame on the Hisba for their failure to get it right, what will they say had they killed them?
Well fatee i guess that is bcos a woman sin is more greater then that of a man ???
Is so easy in our society for a woman to be accused of this and that well the men are right in the
corner doing triple then that.. Hhm! ???
The problem with hisbah members is that they are also a bunch of crap. They are not educated in the Islamic policing of public affairs. They behave exactly like the touts who immediately go into action the moment there is any public disorder.
Imagine, in 2004 when there was that May religious riots and non muslims (and muslims) were attacked, these gangs of yan daba would stop a non Arewa looking person on the street and ask them to recite ayatul Kursiyy or the like thereof. After the person has successfully recited, they will turn round to someone in the crowd and say
'Dai dai ne'? in that uncouth unpolished intonation that is typical of some yan cikin garin Kano that hadnt had the benefit of any form of literacy.
Wato suma kansu they were tsan tsan jahilai in the addini and dont know the content of an ayat as general and widely known as ayyatul kursiyy, yet they demand it of others and God help the soul that cant recite it.
I'm afraid you are all mistakenly accusing the Hisbah force of doing wrong.
First of all Fateez: The hisbah force does not have a right to effect judgement on any person.Their duty is to guide,help and in some cases apprehend a criminal.You should also know that in the case of the lesbians the Hisbah didn't intend to kill anyone.What they did was to demolish the place where the said atrocity was committed.
For Myself: Please what did you think would have been the best way to tackle this issue?Would it have been better if the government just folded its arms or form a committee to investigate and look into the matter?what do you think the people would have said?In a state that is running on the sharia'a doctrine?
You have to look both ways.Lesbianism as we all know is the second gravest sin a person can commit after killing a human being.In this case the atrocity was highly publicized by the news media and all sorts of media like the poster people that Muda mentioned.I believe even if this were a joke it was a very expensive one and i believe the action the government took was perfectly in order. A tauna tsakuwa don aya ta ji tsoro.
For aunt Husnaa:I hate to disagree with you and Myself but the Hisbah members are not a bunch of crap.Infact i find it very bad you make reference to them like that.
Please tell me if anyone of you has ever heard where a hisbah official killed or helped in killing an individual.Comparing the hisbah members with those tsan tsan jahilai is VERY VERY WRONG.
You might not have come across an incident where the hisbah were very very helpful.I'll give you examples.Please go to the accident and emergency section of the Murtala Mohammad special hospital,you will see how very helpful the Hisbah members are. Also just last year,it was the hisbah members that helped control the worsening traffic situation in Kano state until the police saw that their(police) integrity was at stake because people tend to respect the hisbah members.(at least they don't indiscriminately arrest you for doing nothing and they don't ask for bribe)
Regarding their knowledge of Islamic policing,you would like to know that the board's members during set-up included officers from the Nigeria police and SSS as well as other forces in addition to well respected and educated Ulamas.If we were to give them the benefit of the doubt we wouldn't say the don't know anything regarding Islamic policing.
Please condemning their action so strongly will not help but show to the world that everything about Islam is bad.
Lol GNKK dont take it too personally :P :P :P :P :P ;D.
Quote from: gogannaka on June 01, 2007, 08:08:53 PM
I'm afraid you are all mistakenly accusing the Hisbah force of doing wrong.
First of all Fateez: The hisbah force does not have a right to effect judgement on any person.Their duty is to guide,help and in some cases apprehend a criminal.You should also know that in the case of the lesbians the Hisbah didn't intend to kill anyone.What they did was to demolish the place where the said atrocity was committed.
Gogannaka, according to how it was reported, people intended on killing them.
That was why they had to flee for their lives. Trust us northerners to take the
laws into our own hands. The way it was reported on BBC and Yahoo! The Hisbah
people that went in search of them had some cruel intentions. I even read somewhere
about them going to be stoned to death if found guilty. I know that may not have
been the case, but knowing my people only too well, there is a chance that may happen.
Besides, da point i was trying to make was that why was there so much hype about
these women when there are an daudu in the community? Arent they both guilty for the
same crime? Shudnt they be punished too?
Quote from: HUSNAA on June 01, 2007, 10:00:49 PM
Lol GNKK dont take it too personally :P :P :P :P :P ;D.
Hehe, true HUSNAA. Yi hakuri gogannaka. For all we know gogannaka may
be an undercover hisbah agent.... Gogannaka by day and Inspector Hisbah
by night! We didnt mean any harm, just trying to point out issues. 8) 8) 8)
Chei gogan, you are just not a farmer but also a lawyer ;D, I can now imagine you in suit...... lol
Hhmm! What i mean gogan is what about proper investigation before action?
You know is wrong passing judgement without trial and some time that exactly what the hisbas does.
As soon as they heard rumour, they waste no time appearing with their makamai to pass hukunci there and then,
which i think even according to Islamic law is wrong.
And I'm not condemning the hisbas all together, NO!
I know hisba body is gov. by well educated mallamai, but wadan nan na kasan
masu zartar da hukunci haka kurum, kuma kaima kasani.
I've been thinking how these Hizba-boys are recruited. Is it based on their knowledge or what or do they go through some trainnings? I dont think some of them can recite even Fatiha.
Iam not saying they are not good. I just wanna suggest extra effort should be put in the recruitment process. they should be given some training u know; education wise and manner of interacting with people. I think their manner of approach is very rude, which I believe is unislamic
Ka ji IBB kuma.
Babu dan hisban da bai iya karanta Fatiha ba.
I am quite surprised at you ppl's rating of the Hisba (and Husnaa i'm not taking it too personally).
Ina jin dai ni dai the Hisbah ppl i've come across are just too good ne kawai.
Fateez dama yan daudu lesbians ne?
Ni har mantawa nake da su ma.Na ga alama sana'ar daudu ta yi tsami yanzu.
Ba'a ganin su a gari yanzu.
Myself,i cannot be a lawyer.I can hardly speak in public :-[
I'm Glossophobic :(
I think Hisbah has been streamlined then GGNK. Initially when Hisbah was new, they behaved like a bunch of thugs, u know the smallest trouble they will take the law into their own hands. Women bore the brunt of it. Remember ma wai an ce one local famous Sheikh used to chase karuwan da su ke tsaya wa by Daula Hotel or so, with a whip. Dont know how true that was.
Anyway, Yan Daudu are supposed to be homosexuals. I think in the Nigerian context though not every dan daudu is a homo, its just a behavioral trait that they act and sound like women. I think some even did it so that they could attract customers to their food joints because yan daudu were famous as cooks. They knew how to make a mean dish stew or what ever local dish. When I was very young I used to see some yan daudu who lived nr my grand mother's house. To us they were just ppl who spoke like women and wore wrappers; there was nothing extraordinary about them after that, except that they had a bukateria and the ppl of the unguwa would buy food from them. It was much later in my life that I came to know what the function of a dan daudu really was. But that early memory of those transgenders went a great way to making me not very averse to yan daudu really. Also having spent a great deal of my youth outside of Nigeria, I had a lot of exposure to trans sexuality at a much earlier age and it used to fascinate me, how men would want to turn into women. I remember that when I used to catch the bus to school, there used to come on board, this very very tall woman with exquisitely shaped but muscular legs. She was always impeccably dressed and groomed, lips rouged bright red, painted nails long and tapering and hair in place, high heels all the time and a faux fur coat. I remember that I could never look at her but that the idea that she was previously a man would come into my mind, or that it was a transsexual man. Men who want to become women, always over do it on the dress front.
Transsexuals (those who would like to be of the other sex) and cross-dressers (men who like to dress in woman's clothing) are not neccesarily homosexual in what is a very complicated area of human sexuality. I had always believed "dan dauda" to refer to homosexual men (ie men attracted sexually to other men). The word homosexual also refers to women attracted to other women. Most cross-dressing men are attracted to women sexually and many macho and very masculine appearing men are in fact homosexual.
Trans-sexuals are an unhappy bunch as they are basically people trapped in a body of the wrong sex. Operations to change the sex and sexual organs of these people are fairly common but very often do not give them the peace they seek.
Whatever the sexuality of anybody they are as God made them. It is impossible to change your sexuality though perfectly possible for you to conceal the true nature of it or to control it. All peoples, no matter their sexual orintation, deserve respect, understanding and love like anyone else and it is not for us to judge them unless they involve in violent, illegal or predatory behaviour against other people's will or against children.
Amazing videoblog i came across today between the buffalos, lions and the crocodiles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
Lol Mufi sorry... some one beat u to it!! Abdulgee or someone else directed us to the video three months ago I think it was. It should be, bcos MYSELF hadnt disappeared from the forum then. Thanks anyway... ;D ;D
Hi Guys! Got this amazing pictures claiming to be Mysterious Tree in NALGONDA India.. ???
But how convincing?
(http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/mysterious-tree1.jpg)
It look like ordinary baobab tree from the distance.. Doesn't it?
Now take a closer look
(http://gita-khanna.sulekha.com/mstore/Gita-Khanna/albums/default/tree3.bmp)
(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn241/MNECTAR/mys_tree_M_nectar.jpg)
(http://illakiyaa.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/9.jpg)
(http://illakiyaa.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/8.jpg)
(http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/mysterious-tree4.jpg)
HHhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... Illusion? ???
a mixture of reality, arts and illusions.
Ikon Allah!
The sculptures must have been carved into the tree, since it is so big. I bet it was done some hundred or more yrs ago so that ppl of nowadays find it almost religious. Nothing to get too spiritual about.
PS Muhsin remember Allah Ya Hana making images of living things so that should tell you that these are not natural in themselves but manmade.