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...Cambridge Islamic Community is presently celebrating Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. During Ramadan, which began last Wednesday, Muslims commemorate the revelation of the Koran to Mohammed by abstaining from food, drink and sexual activity from sunrise to sunset...
...event, the amputations are reportedly being ordered by members of the ruling Baath Party rather than by religious courts, as called for in the Koran. Max Van Der Stoel, a Dutch human-rights monitor for the U.N. in Iraq, who has documented the abuses, says Hussein's real intent is to stifle popular opposition...
...terrorists' first concerns was to see that all the women, including the stewardesses, were veiled in the fundamentalist Islamic fashion: those who had no scarves were given cabin blankets. The men recited verses from the Koran and tried to reassure their Algerian compatriots, but, in the words of one passenger, "terrorized" non-Algerians. "They had a kind of art in their terror," an elderly Algerian man told the TF1 television network after the rescue. "Twenty minutes of relaxation and 20 minutes of torture. You never knew what was next...
...speech also outlined basic Islamic spiritual beliefs and the nature of gender according to the Koran...
Western delegates generally hailed the CNN footage as much needed publicity for a long-overlooked custom that is common in Egypt and other parts of Africa, though it has no roots in the Koran. But the Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving...