Mewat gang rape victims narrate ordeal, seek CBI probe

Edit DNA India 08 Sep 2016
--> Azaan Javaid . Thu, 8 Sep 2016-08.05am , New Delhi , dna. Few seconds into narrating her ordeal the 20-year-old girl, allegedly gangraped in Haryana's Dinger Heri village, broke down. The girl was however not the only one to weep ... "Four to five men came into our room and one of then and grabbed me and took away my dupatta ... Deceased Rashidun sister Zubaida while speaking to dna said, "I gave my sister the last shower ... ....

‘Will your sons be next suicide bomber?’ Major Gaurav Arya mocks Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin

Edit DNA India 06 Sep 2016
--> dna Web Team . Tue, 6 Sep 2016-11.20am , dna webdesk. The Hizbul Mujahideen chief had threatened to turn Kashmir into a 'graveyard of Indian forces' ... He had told TOI ... “We will have to display our might ... Mission over ... After Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), the Rashidun Caliphate (the four rightly guided Caliphs who ruled the empire of Islam after the last prophet), Imam Hussain’s sacrifice is the stuff of legend and stardust ... Gen ... ....

So called Islamist violence is ‘in part a product of Western disdain’

Edit Kashmir Observer 05 Aug 2016
Would you write that again now, after the Paris attacks?Karen Armstrong. Yes, most certainly ... 193) ... Muhammad (Pbuh), by uniting the Arabian Peninsula, which had previously consisted of warring tribal societies, and imposing the Pax Islamica there; and the first caliphs, the Rashidun, in the cultivated lands of the Middle East.Another difference between East and West is the lack of separation between state and religion in the Arab world....

Iraq and Najaf’s Forgotten Christian Heritage

Edit GlobalResearch 17 Mar 2016
Today, the city of Najaf is a religious tourism hub for Shiites around the world. The city is home to the sacred shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi-Talib — the fourth of the Rashidun Caliphs — built nearly 700 years… ... ....

Worrisome column

Edit The Miami Herald 28 Jan 2016
Darius Assemi’s excellent Jan. 25 article, Muslim immigrant ... What then?. Assemi asserts peace will never be seen in the Middle East without restoring such organic frontiers. History teaches otherwise ... with the Rashidun Caliphate, and ending with the 1923 defeat of the Ottoman Caliphate ... Tavernier ....

Exclusion, assimilation, repression: 14 centuries of Islam in China

Edit South China Morning Post 19 Dec 2015
Islam and Muslims have been in the news lately, for all the wrong reasons ... As head of a diplomatic mission dispatched by the Rashidun Caliphate, he was received by Emperor Gaozong of the Tang dynasty, in AD651 ... Some estimates put the number of Muslims in China today at 20 million. ....

Uzbek Militant: Jihad Has No Age Limit

Edit Radio Free Europe 16 Sep 2015
An Uzbek militant who claims to be fighting alongside the Taliban-aligned Imam Bukhari Jamaat in Syria has attempted to justify the use of children as fighters on the battlefield ... Dead At 14 ... "The son of Caliph Umar was 10 years old when he went to jihad," the militant said, referring to Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph, or ruler, of the Islamic Rashidun Caliphate, an empire established in the seventh century ... ....

Islamic State may finally efface the traces of lost empires at Palmyra (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)

Edit noodls 26 May 2015
(Source. UNSW - The University of New South Wales) ... OPINION ... When I asked him for the meaning of the term, he said it was when there is a disaster then things get much worse ... Ancient Palymra ... Phillip George ... The Assyrians, Hebrew tribes, the Seleucid Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, Crusaders, the Rashidun Caliphate, Ummayad and Abbassid Empires, the Maluks, the Ottoman Empire, Arameans and Amorites ... EPA/STR....

The Arab world’s multiplying flags

Edit The Economist 01 Apr 2015
THERE are gale-force winds blowing across the Arab world­—and ever more flags fluttering in them ... The Abbasid lot who succeeded the Umayyads used black, because the prophet and the first four caliphs (known collectively as the Rashidun) flew it as their banner....

Islamic State and the Internationalization of the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars>

Edit Huffington Post 25 Jan 2015
This week we begin a new series on the Islamic State and its impact on the contemporary Middle East. The series is drawn from an upcoming book. Islamic State ... Abu Bakr 632-634, Umar ibn al-Khattab 634-644, Uthman ibn Affan 644-656, and Ali ibn Abi Talib 656-661 are referred to as the Rashidun or "rightly guided caliphs," both for their piety and for the fact they were the only caliphs who actually knew Muhammad while he was alive ... A U.N....

House OK's funding to repeat Damascus Massacre

Edit WorldNetDaily 10 Dec 2014
10, 1860 ... Sounds like a newspaper headline of today, doesn’t it? ... Syrian Christian leaders visiting members of Congress just this year said Christians were treated more fairly under the Baath Party than they had been since 634 when Muhammad’s successors, the Rashidun Caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar ibn Khattab, invaded the Levant (what is today Syria, Lebanon and parts of Jordan and Israel.) ... Mark Twain further wrote in his book.....

What's the appeal of a caliphate?

Edit BBC News 26 Oct 2014
In June the leader of Islamic State declared the creation of a caliphate stretching across parts of Syria and Iraq - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named himself the caliph or leader ... And when the Prophet Mohammed died in 632 the title was bestowed on his successor as the leader of the Muslim community, the first of the Rashidun, the four so-called "Rightly Guided Caliphs" who ruled for the first three decades of the new Islamic era ... ....

THE NEW CALIPHATE AND THE CRISIS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty An anachronistic ...

Edit The Telegraph India 09 Sep 2014
An anachronistic new political entity has risen over the horizon in West Asia or the Middle East ... Muslims regard the first four Caliphs, Al Rashidun or the Rightly Guided, all companions or relatives of Prophet Muhammad, with considerable pride since it was during their reign that Islam achieved its apogee in terms of territorial expansion and conversion of the conquered people to build the Islamic Ummah....
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