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...Muslim world once again, enslave it and loot the rest of its wealth. A great part of the force that carried out the attack came from certain gulf countries that have lost their sovereignty. Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him. The situation is serious. The rulers have become powerless. Muslims should carry out their obligations, since the rulers of the region have accepted the invasion of their countries. These countries belong to Islam and not the rulers...
Fasting for Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam. HIS President Aamir A. Rehman '99 said that while fasting has no direct correlation to the revelation of the Koran, the practice has a basis as a method of worship in earlier religions, like Yom Kippur in Judaism...
...month of Ramadan (whenever it falls) has significance to Muslims because it was during this period that Mohammed first revealed the Koran, the holy book of the Islamic people. To commemorate this revealed, it is traditional to read part of the Koran for an hour each day throughout the month until it is finished...
...Friday Pakistan's lower house of parliament voted to make the Koran supreme law, clearing the way for a fundamentalist takeover of a country already made unstable by U.S. sanctions. Should the bill pass the upper house of parliament, it will grant unrestricted power for the state to enforce Islamic law, rolling back what meager secular checks currently exist. The bottom line, according to Pakistani analyst Paula Newberg, will be a severe reduction in civil liberties (i.e. freedom...
...beards, for example: in Afghanistan, members of the ruling Taliban militia will grasp a passerby's facial hair in their fist. If the beard is shorter than the Taliban's fist, the offender is publicly whipped. But next door in Iran, Shi'ite Muslims believe that according to the Koran, a beard can be a stubbly 1 cm long. Nawaz Sharif, whose chin is cherub-smooth, was asked if he too would grow a beard. No, he replied, nor will women in Pakistan be forced to veil themselves or stay indoors. Some women are skeptical. "It's a terrible thing...