Word: koranic
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Every day Fathiyeh Qawasmeh, principal of the all-girl Islamic Charitable School, allows her students to choose a subject for a lecture at the 9:30 a.m. assembly. Yesterday's address was about the importance of statistics in science, and the day before was a lesson from the Koran. Today three girls talked to their classmates about a woman in Gaza and her four children, all of whom had been killed when their donkey cart rolled over an Israeli mine near an Israeli settlement in the dunes south of Gaza City. Qawasmeh knew she had to help her 735 elementary...
...especially interesiting that they incorporated different textual references,” Stein said, referring to the panelists’ allusions to the Bible and the Koran...
Asani said that, according to the Koran, it is not a sin to marry outside the Islamic faith...
...Koran, marriage is not a sacrament, it’s a social contract,” Asani said...
...blood of the martyrs as a precious asset to liberate the land,” and a better-known talk in a mosque in Johannesburg in 1994, in which he compared the struggle for “Palestine” to a story from the Koran which tells of a peace treaty signed by Muhammad with a strong enemy tribe. In the story, after building his strength, Muhammad abrogated the treaty, and then slaughtered the members of the tribe. The implication for the current situation is clear...