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Arson in Malerkotla: Punjab’s Muslim-majority town tries to get over unfamiliar communal tension

Edit Indian Express 01 Jul 2016
A temple and a masjid share a wall in Malerkotla ... But this week, Malerkotla is going through unfamiliar tension after pages of the Quran were found near a drain on Khanna Road ... How can someone attack an MLA’s home which has nothing to do with the Quran incident?” she said ... “In 2010, when copies of the Quran were allegedly burnt in US, there was curfew here for a day but things were normal after that,” said advocate Inderjeet Singh ... ....

Tehran hosts calligraphy-paintings exhibition

Edit Press TV 01 Jul 2016
The artworks depict Quranic texts on canvas, using ......

Libya: new testimonies reveal horrors inflicted on refugees and migrants by traffickers (Amnesty International United Kingdom Section)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jul 2016
(Source. Amnesty International United Kingdom Section). 01 Jul 2016, 1.00am. Dozens tell Amnesty stories of death, rape and starvation at hands of their captors ... He was still alive. He was a disabled man,' he said ... Then one of them felt sorry for me after I told him I have a family and he helped me memorise the Quran so they would let me go … they killed many people.' He was eventually able to escape after seven months in captivity ... (noodl....

Refugees and migrants fleeing sexual violence, abuse and exploitation in Libya (Amnesty International Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jul 2016
(Source. Amnesty International Australia). Horrifying accounts of sexual violence, killings, torture and religious persecution collected by Amnesty International reveal the shocking range of abuses along the smuggling routes to and through Libya ... Horrors along the journey ... Then one of them felt sorry for me after I told him I have a family and he helped me memorize the Quran so they would let me go…They killed many people,' he said....

UAE Friday sermon: A special night for prayer

Edit The National 30 Jun 2016
ABU DHABI // A special night is coming soon in which prayer is worth more than 1,000 nights at other times of the year, worshippers will be told on Friday ... Laylat al-Qadr is the night that the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Mohammed ... As the Quran says. "Indeed. We sent it down during a blessed night ... hdajani@thenational.ae ....

Women and their Ramadhan rewards

Edit The Jakarta Post 30 Jun 2016
The Quran mentions that from both men and women, Allah produces new generations ... Reading and studying the Quran or reciting prayers or dhikr (repetead chants as part of the confession of faith) are valuable ways to spend time, rather than sleeping and talking about others as Ramadhan is also the time to control our words. By reciting and appreciating the Quran each day during Ramadhan, Muslims actually converse with God ... ....

Malerkotla sacrilege accused worked at 300-yr-old dham

Edit The Times of India 30 Jun 2016
Chandigarh. A co-accused arrested in the Quran sacrilege incident in Malerkotla, which had led to clashes between factions of Muslims last Friday in Punjab, was working as a legal aid at a 15th century Vaishnava establishment called Darbar Shri Pindori Dham in Gurdaspur ... The establishment is spread over 5,000 acre land in a village Pindori ... The cops said they have also recovered a torn copy of Quran from Kumar's Audi ... RELATED....

PRESS RELEASE : MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOSTS IFTAR AT WISMA PUTRA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia). MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOSTS IFTAR AT WISMA PUTRA ... During the event, the Foreign Minister also took the opportunity to present Hari Raya gift packets to children from the Madrasah Tahfiz Raudhatul Baiduri and Madrasatul Quran Al-Ridzuan as well as members of the Wisma Putra staff. Putrajaya. 29 June 2016 ... (noodl....

Sharjah's Souq Al Jubail comes alive with storytellers and traditional arts

Edit The National 30 Jun 2016
The traditional Arab marketplace for years served as a vibrant hub for social and cultural expression and Sharjah's largest produce market has revived this concept this Ramadan ... Most importantly, most of his stories stress on a deeper moral lesson. "I tell stories from the Quran, Arabian Nights and history of the region," says Yousef, a seasoned Egyptian theatre actor and director who has lived in the UAE for 28 years ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4....

Book review: Mark Kurlansky's fascinating history of paper

Edit The National 30 Jun 2016
In a breezy tour across more than 3,000 years of history, best-selling historian Mark Kurlansky takes a humble, everyday object and tells a big story about human civilization. A popularising pioneer of a genre known as microhistory, Kurlansky has conjured worlds out of salt and cod ... Baghdad, situated on a river, was a natural site for such operations and became known for its quality paper, which was deemed fine enough for the Quran ... ....

Working through Ramadan

Edit Medium 30 Jun 2016
Muslims share lessons learned while fasting on the job. For Muslims working in non-Muslim work environments, observing Ramadan is an epic feat of self-discipline. Ramadan is an annual observance where Muslims fast (consuming no food or drink, including water) — from dawn to dusk for about a month. According to Islamic belief, this time commemorates the first revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... That’s it....

Masjid al-Aqsa in Islamic history

Edit Kashmir Observer 30 Jun 2016
Masjid al-Aqsa holds immense significance in Islamic religious tradition as well as history. It is known as the first qibla of Muslims—the direction toward which Muslims face to offer their salat—as well as the third holiest site in Islam ... A great deal of myth is interwoven into this narrative despite the fact that the temple was destroyed repeatedly by invading forces ... al-Khalil (Hebron) ... This is narrated in the Quran (2.142-43) ... ....

The unlikely godfather of the Islamic State

Edit CNN 30 Jun 2016
(CNN)ISIS, perhaps the most feared terrorist group in the world, traces its short history to a man who was a prison gang leader, a high school dropout and an alleged teenage pimp. His name. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi was "Hitler-like" and "incredibly brutal," said Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, a retired former director of the U.S ... Department of Defense ... There, he learned the Quran and used his charisma to recruit prisoners for Islamic jihad ... 1 ... 2 ... ....
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