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Vanity why else.

A couple of years on from now, the proposals will stop coming and im sure her being all alone will be a great comfort on those lonley nights.

Accepting proposals and settling down to the first guy that proposes doesnt necessarily ensure an end to loneliness.

Some of the most loneliest women I know are married.

Does anyone hav any photos of her?
(i'm kidding btw)

MuslimSisterAccepting proposals and settling down to the first guy that proposes doesnt necessarily ensure an end to loneliness.

Interesting...except thats not what i said.

Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan

The Malaysian carmaker Proton has announced plans to develop an "Islamic car", designed for Muslim motorists.

Proton is planning on teaming up with manufacturers in Iran and Turkey to create the unique vehicle.

The car could boast special features like a compass pointing to Mecca and a dedicated space to keep a copy of the Koran and a headscarf.

The idea came during a visit to the Middle East by a delegation of Malaysian politicians and businessmen.

Malaysian press reports say officials in Iran originally suggested the idea.

Safety features or fuel economy is one way of selling a car, but Proton thinks vehicles designed specifically for Muslims across the world represent a huge gap in the market.

Proton is the most dominant car on the streets here but the company has suffered recently after the government allowed more foreign cars to be imported.

The firm has been in talks recently with VW about a takeover by the German car giant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7089707.stm

The car has a compass... which you can buy for a few quid. It also has a space where you can put the Qur'an or your headscarf... which is aka the glovebox. Safety features and fuel economy... there's alot of cars which have that.

So is anyone interested in this car?... I know I'm not.

MuslimSisterPicky woman rejects 150 marriage proposals

A woman in Serbia has turned down more than 150 marriage proposals because she has not met the right man.

Milunka Dabovic got her first proposal at the age of 14 – a full 24 years ago.

'Some men won't take no for an answer,' said Miss Dabovic, who lives at home with her mother in Maskova.

'They even try to get my mother to try to make me accept. But the man I marry needs to be tall, handsome and be a hard worker with a good heart

Metro

Dunno why she was sad enough to keep count? :?

marriage is a once in a lifetime commitment for most of us. You wanna be sure that they are the "one" after all your gonna be spending the REST of your life with them.
So on this one occasion i think you can afford to be picky. If you reject a couple of proposals then fair dooos but 150 that is is just ridiculous.

Maybe she kept a record so she could get in the gueiness book of world records.

Seraphim A couple of years on from now, the proposals will stop coming and im sure her being all alone will be a great comfort on those lonley nights.

there is a simple solution for that.... buy a cat 😃

I'm half man.. HALF TREE

With his rootlike feet and gnarled hands, he is known as "The Tree Man".

Living in a remote village in the wilderness of Indonesia, 36-year-old father-of-two Dede has stunned medical experts.

Most of his body is covered in growths which have become so large and thick they look like twisted tree roots growing out of his skin.

Dede says his worst fear is that the cruel disorder will kill him before doctors have a chance to save him.

"I am scared that it will grow across my face and end up covering it all up," the former construction worker says. "I'm so afraid I won't be able to see, that I won't be able to eat."

Dede grew up in a tiny hamlet near Bandung, south of Jakarta, the capital of the volcanic island of Java.

He enjoyed a completely normal childhood, but just after he turned 15 he cut his knee in an accident on a building site.

The injury - not deemed to be at all serious at the time - was to change his life forever.

Within weeks, a huge growth had emerged from inside his wound.

He says at first he was not unduly worried, believing it was a wart which would eventually drop off.

But it didn't. And shortly afterwards, horrific welts started to spring up all over his body.

"The first one was cut off in an operation, but that didn't stop it. Instead it just grew back faster.

"Then it started on my foot, then my arms, then my other foot and then on my head," says Dede.

By the time he had reached his early 20s, he could no longer hold a tool and struggled to complete basic tasks. He was fired and has remained unemployed since.

His wife also left him, leaving him to raise their two children, Entis, now 18, and Entang, 16, on his own.

"I feel sad because my wife left me," says Dede. "And with my condition I cannot look after my kids. I miss working very much. But unfortunately I just can't do it."

Unable to work or earn a regular wage like his friends, Dede has been crippled financially ever since the shocking condition first took over his body.

And as a single father, he knows he is not only responsible for himself.

But just washing and getting dressed in the morning have become virtually impossible for Dede.

He has been helped by his brother-in-law Imun, his parents and his close friends, who club together to make sure Dede has enough money to feed himself and his teenage kids each month.

But his support network of friends and family have provided him with more than just money to survive.

Each morning, family members take turns to put his specially designed trousers on over his sprawling feet and help him lift a fresh shirt over his body.

Someone must be around if needs to go to the toilet.

Friends have even designed a huge stool so he can reach his food - but even this has to be spoon-fed to him twice a day.

Only smoking - he gets through 30 a day - can be enjoyed on his own, with a special cigarette holder.

Indonesian doctors tried to help him when he was younger with a series of painful operations, but to no avail. "When I was in hospital I had some of my growths burnt off and I was injected several times. I was also given some pills.

"But everything kept growing back after the operations, like just three weeks later. And they would grow back faster," he says.

Now medical experts in America say they may be able to help Dede by producing a cure specifically for him.

Dr Anthony Gaspari, chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the US, is fascinated by Dede's condition.

"I was absolutely stunned," said Dr Gaspari. "I'd never seen anything like this before.

"I've become really interested in his case because it's so absolutely unusual. The growths he has are just something we don't encounter in clinical medicine."

Dr Gaspari took samples of Dede's growths and has now been able to diagnose his condition.

He believes Dede has an extremely rare genetic disorder which means his immune system does not function properly.

This is why his body was never able to recover from the initial outbreak of the growths, which are actually warts, caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). Dr Gaspari is now working on developing a unique cure for him.

But Dede says: "I worry that this disease will be passed to my children."

And despite previous disappointments, Dede is hopeful that this time doctors can help him. "I'd love to be cured," he says poignantly. -MY Shocking Story: Half Man Half Tree is on the Discovery Channel on Thursday, November 15, 9pm.

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5860/treemanjf6.jpg

Eeeuuuu..........

When I first looked at that post I thought it was some fuzzy anthropomorphic tree poem.

Then I clicked on the pic... :shock:

ewww
that gve me a tingly feeling in my body
i feel weird nw lol

do towba. by the qadr of Allah (swt) that could easily be you. may Allah (swt) give him shifa.

Can some1 explain what his blonde highlights are trying 2 achieve? I feel terribly sorry 4 th guy tho, especially his wife leaving him. What a horrible thing 2 do

Naz
marriage is a once in a lifetime commitment for most of us. You wanna be sure that they are the "one" after all your gonna be spending the REST of your life with them.
So on this one occasion i think you can afford to be picky. If you reject a couple of proposals then fair dooos but 150 that is is just ridiculous.

Maybe she kept a record so she could get in the gueiness book of world records.

Seraphim A couple of years on from now, the proposals will stop coming and im sure her being all alone will be a great comfort on those lonley nights.

there is a simple solution for that.... buy a cat :D

Yes Naz, Marriage is a once in a lifetime commitment (or it should be for most of us). But heres the thing... there really is no such thing as "the one" (and im not talking about Keanu Reeves). Or if there is ... its sooo remote that the chances every woman will find "the one" is almost impossible.

So what do you do? Go for the next best thing ofcourse. And if in your case its a cat... then im sure thats puuurrrrrrfect. 😃

Oom Paul Meintjies made international headlines when he announced the world he would rise from the dead. After more than three years, he failed and is still not alive.

Nico Foulds, who kept Oom Paul’s body in his mortuary freezer says the family ows him storage costs. Meintjies’ widow, has refused to pay. The family opted to take the body away and Foulds delivered it to their home, where the rotting corpse stayed for three days, untill a neighbour complained.

Oom Paul was finally buried 56 days after he died. His widow, son and daughter are still waiting for him to rise from his grave in Hertzogville’s cemetery.

Seraphim

Naz
marriage is a once in a lifetime commitment for most of us. You wanna be sure that they are the "one" after all your gonna be spending the REST of your life with them.
So on this one occasion i think you can afford to be picky. If you reject a couple of proposals then fair dooos but 150 that is is just ridiculous.

Maybe she kept a record so she could get in the gueiness book of world records.

Seraphim A couple of years on from now, the proposals will stop coming and im sure her being all alone will be a great comfort on those lonley nights.

there is a simple solution for that.... buy a cat :D

Yes Naz, Marriage is a once in a lifetime commitment (or it should be for most of us). But heres the thing... there really is no such thing as "the one" (and im not talking about Keanu Reeves). Or if there is ... its sooo remote that the chances every woman will find "the one" is almost impossible.

So what do you do? Go for the next best thing ofcourse. And if in your case its a cat... then im sure thats puuurrrrrrfect. :D

yeah true there is no such thing as the "one" but you should have at least something in common (ok perhaps not agree on everything coz them marriage is jus plain borin). Not think oh im gonna get past my sell by date soon so i might as well settle down with some idiot who i cant stand the sight of.

ps Keanu Reeves is too pasty for my likin but saying that he didnt look too bad in speed lol.

Naz

yeah true there is no such thing as the "one" but you should have at least something in common (ok perhaps not agree on everything coz them marriage is jus plain borin). Not think oh im gonna get past my sell by date soon so i might as well settle down with some idiot who i cant stand the sight of.

ps Keanu Reeves is too pasty for my likin but saying that he didnt look too bad in speed lol.

Yeah ofcourse you should both want the same things in life. And defo hav something in common. Just dont expect to find some1 perfect ... bcoz no ones perfect. But if your gonna be tooo picky (he's gotta be such a hight, hav such amount of cash, be a doctor, etc etc) then you maybe waiting a long time. Im saying this to both guys and girls.

But then again if you marry at the early age of 19 you'll be horrified @ who you married by the time you're 23. So get married somwhere in your mid 20's. The theory is you'll hav developed what little brains you had to begins with. And hopefully youre comfortable enough to stand living with someone else too.

Naz
ps Keanu Reeves is too pasty for my likin but saying that he didnt look too bad in speed lol.

I only mentioned Keanu Reeves bcoz i was making a point about finding the one. Keanu was refered to as "the one" throughout the matrix trilogy.

But i see now that it was too hard an illusion.

Alas, never mind.

😂

@ Seraphim - i wouldnt know what your talking about. I have seen matrix trilogy but dont remember much of it coz its just borin with a capital B. The graphics are really good but no storyline.

Naz@ Seraphim - i wouldnt know what your talking about. I have seen matrix trilogy but dont remember much of it coz its just borin with a capital B. The graphics are really good but no storyline.

You mean you couldnt understand the storyline.

Its okay... alot of people didnt understand it.

I tell you what. Heres a ball why dont you go see how many times you can bounce it without stopping... theres a good girl.

😃

A t the crown court in Preston on August 10, a trial involving two Asian men caused unusual interest across a number of cities in the north of England. The defendants, Zulfqar Hussain and Qaiser Naveed, were each sentenced to five years and eight months for abduction, sexual activity with a child, and the supply of a controlled drug.

It was a very uncomfortable scenario, not least because many of these crimes had an identifiable racial element: the gangs were Asian and the girls were white. The authorities, in the shape of politicians and the police, seemed reluctant to acknowledge this aspect of the crimes; it has been left to the mothers of the victims to speak out.

Maureen’s daughter Jo was one of Hussain and Naveed’s victims, having been groomed by them and a number of other Asian men when she was 14. Jo went missing from her Blackburn home 90 times during the six-month period in 2005 that she was in Hussain and Naveed’s clutches.

“I was told by one police officer that he did not ‘want to start a race riot’ by arresting Pakistani men for sexual offences,” Maureen said. During the six months that Jo was in the clutches of these men, they raped, beat and abused her to the point where, says her mother, she did not even know who she was any more. Eventually, after she was attacked by Hussain and Naveed with an iron bar, Jo somehow found the courage to report them to police, and they were arrested. The case took 16 months to come to court. In the meantime, other pimps, undeterred by the impending trial, continued to go about their business.

Gemma cannot remember ever being happy, although her mother, Anni, says she was a contented child until she reached the age of 13. That was the day she fell out of puppy love. It was the day that Amir, her 24-year-old boyfriend, chose to brutally rape her.

Gemma had been introduced to Amir by a 15-year-old boy at her Blackburn school. A shy girl with little confidence, she was extremely flattered when she was charmed and actively pursued by the boy, who was thought of by many of the girls at her school as a “dish”. When Gemma became enamoured of her new boyfriend, he introduced her to his 24-year-old “cousin”, who began plying her with cannabis and alcohol. She initially enjoyed feeling “grown-up” and rebelling against her parents. Soon, Anni noticed dramatic changes in Gemma’s behaviour and appearance.

Despite evidence from rigorous research by organisations such as Crop that the gangs are largely made up of men from the Pakistani Muslim communities, many are determined to downplay this. “What we’re dealing with is gross criminality,” says Kosaraju. “That should be confronted whatever the race of the perpetrator

As well as simple opportunism, pimping of white females by black and ethnic-minority men can be a type of revenge against whites. “My parents ran a grocery shop,” says Hussein, who admits to being part of the pimping gangs in the late 1990s. “They had hardly any money, even though they worked their backsides off. White people treated them like shit, like they were their servants.” Hussein says he took “great pleasure” in having young white girls at his beck and call, knowing their parents would be out of their minds with worry. Although Hussein was reported to the police, he was never arrested for any crime, and is now working in Leeds.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2538090.ece

A pregnant teenager was stabbed to death in her bedroom in a ferocious and sustained attack by her husband's secret lover, a court heard.
Harmohinder Kaur Sanghera, of Solihull, West Midlands, stabbed her boyfriend's wife in "jealousy and desperation", Manchester Crown Court heard.

Sana Ali, 17, of Bury, Greater Manchester, received 42 wounds.

The court heard Ms Sanghera, who denies murder, had been having an affair with Mrs Ali's husband Sair since July 2005.

Mr Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, told the court that the relationship continued despite the Alis' arranged marriage in December last year.

Mr Wright said Mrs Ali's murderer had deliberately lifted her top and stabbed her in her abdomen at her Throstle Grove home. She was 11 weeks pregnant.

"The deeply personal element points unhappily, and unequivocally, to the identity of the killer being the defendant," he said.

He said the relationship between Mr Ali and Ms Sanghera, a 23-year-old dentistry student in Birmingham, ended after the attack in May this year.

Mrs Ali was born in Pakistan and had been considered to marry her cousin who was also a Shia Muslim, the court heard.

Mr Ali and Ms Sanghera, a Sikh known as Mindy, started a relationship in 2005, but hid it from his parents.

Mr Wright said: "He did not tell the defendant he was engaged to be married.

In December 2006 when Mr Ali got married Ms Sanghera became suspicious and Mr Ali told her he was engaged.

In March Mr Ali told her his wife was pregnant, but Ms Sanghera said she would become his second wife.

The pair had a muta marriage ceremony - a temporary arrangement which means they could live as husband and wife for a specified time.

http://forum.mpacuk.org/showthread.php?p=446839#post446839

Seraphim

Naz@ Seraphim - i wouldnt know what your talking about. I have seen matrix trilogy but dont remember much of it coz its just borin with a capital B. The graphics are really good but no storyline.

You mean you couldnt understand the storyline.

Its okay... alot of people didnt understand it.

I tell you what. Heres a ball why dont you go see how many times you can bounce it without stopping... theres a good girl.

:D

lol
ripppppppped

Matrix 1 was good: action-wise. it was ok: story-wise. Th 2nd two were ok: action-wise & BORING (naz is correct) story-wise. Infact, they were worse than boring: they were TERRIBLE!! (& yes, i did understand what was going on).

Seraphim

I tell you what. Heres a ball why dont you go see how many times you can bounce it without stopping... theres a good girl.

:D

that would require intelligence. Your gonna have to give me a simpler task.

Naz

Seraphim

I tell you what. Heres a ball why dont you go see how many times you can bounce it without stopping... theres a good girl.

:D

that would require intelligence. Your gonna have to give me a simpler task.

You know i wouldnt take the mick if i knew you'd enjoy it.
:roll:

:? huh
I didnt take your comment to heart if thats what your thinking.

Naz:? huh
I didnt take your comment to heart if thats what your thinking.

hmmm

no thats not what i said at all.

^^^
ok let me try again

you - trying to be funny
you - expecting me to retaliate
moi - did not retaliate
you - confused why did she not retaliate

am i close now?

^erm why use french in the middle of that its usually a term used to immitate a tv character because of the posh like language intepreted by script writers they say "moi" wen referring to me it would have been better if you had finished in french rather than one word but anyhoo nevermind.

Women get 'virginity fix' NHS operations in Muslim-driven trend

Women are being given controversial "virginity repair" operations on the NHS, it emerged last night.

Taxpayers funded 24 hymen replacement operations between 2005 and 2006, official figures revealed.

And increasing numbers of women are paying up to £4,000 in private clinics for the procedure apparently under pressure from future spouses or in-laws who believe they should be virgins on their wedding night.

Doctors said most patients are immigrants or British of ethnic origin.

Dr Magdy Hend, consultant gynaecologist at the Regency Clinic, Harley Street, London, who started hymen reconstruction more than 18 years ago in the Middle East and the Gulf, said: "In some cultures they like to see that the women will bleed on the wedding night. If the wife or bride is not a virgin, it is a big shame on the family."

Dr Hend said he was surprised by the "very good response" to the service and said there is "big competition on the market".

Most of his clients, he told More4 News, are in their teens or early 20s.

"They might be British of ethnic background, they might be immigrants, or some people come from abroad, Asia, Middle East, the Gulf, and they don't want to have it done back home," he added.

Isabelle Levy, an author who studied the issue for her book Religion in the Hospital, said young Muslim girls are "modern and they have adventures like other Europeans - which never happened in the past.

"But on the other hand, fundamentalism is spreading and these girls are getting sent back to their countries of origin to marry. And they will be rejected if it is found out that they are not virgins."

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