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...moon that signals the start of the next lunar month; it's celebrated by a huge festival called 'Id al-Fitr (the Feast of Fast-Breaking) where entire villages celebrate together. While Muslim leaders in Italy who criticized Mourinho's decision to pull his player argued that the "mental and psychological stability" achieved through the discipline of Ramadan outweighs the physical strain of the fast, for Muntari, 'Id probably can't come soon enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do Muslims Fast During Ramadan? | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...Muslim leader in Italy, Mohamed Nour Dachan, lashed out at the coach of the defending Serie A champions. "I think Mourinho should talk a little bit less," Dachan, president of the Italian Union of Islamic Organizations, told Sky Italia television. "We know from sports medicine that the mental stability of an athlete lets him give so much more on the field, and a player observant in Christianity, Judaism or Islam definitely has a very tranquil psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer Star Benched for Fasting During Ramadan | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...saying their speed and stamina were indeed affected by the Ramadan fast. But Tirelli, a professor of integrated sports technique at Milan's Catholic University, warns against reducing athletic performance to a series of statistical charts. "It's right that we respect the values of science," he says. ""But mental strength, determination and, yes, religious force, for one month's time, can easily overcome the deficit in proper nutrition." (See a TIME video on Lebanon's landmine soccer team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer Star Benched for Fasting During Ramadan | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...civil rights victories included successfully fighting to protect the Voting Rights Act, increasing the minimum wage in the 1990s, and passing the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, a bill that held personal significance due to his older sister Rosemary's mental disability...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...Karroubi wrote a letter to Rafsanjani detailing allegations from witnesses and victims. "Some of the detainees claim incarcerated girls were raped so harshly until their uteruses were torn apart, while young boys were sexually abused so savagely that they are suffering from serious depression as well as physical and mental traumas," Karroubi wrote. "Those who have been subject to these embarrassing tortures have been threatened with death if they disclose details." Since then, Karroubi has collected evidence of the abuse, and on Aug. 19 he called for a meeting of the three branches of government to review the charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Karroubi Tries a More Confrontational Approach | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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