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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...
...died, Abdullah Franji, 14, was fasting in accordance with the rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed...
...commentary on suicide bombers, "Why We Blow Ourselves Up" [VIEWPOINT, April 8], psychiatrist Eyad Sarraj wrote that in the Koran, "God promised Muslims who sacrificed themselves for the sake of Islam" would not die but would "live on in paradise." This explanation highlights one of the most important reasons it is so difficult to attain peace in the Middle East: too many people misguidedly believe that something of a human being remains after death and that this something will experience pain and pleasure. The suffering resulting from this belief is unspeakably tragic. We need to strive for a better life...
...especially interesiting that they incorporated different textual references,” Stein said, referring to the panelists’ allusions to the Bible and the Koran...
...Koran, marriage is not a sacrament, it’s a social contract,” Asani said...