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Video posted online shows 2 women being beaten, thrown into the sea for allegedly flouting rules by dining in a cafeRights groups strongly condemned a Muslim mob attack on two women in Indonesia for allegedly eating in a cafe during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and criticized police for not arresting the suspected attackers. A total of 89 organizations and 122 eminent citizens including Catholic youth groups signed a joint statement on April 19 to slam the incident saying that “persecuting women in the name of religious morality is an act that tramples humanity.” “In fact, no religion teaches...

Hundreds of Arab rioters clashed with security forces in Jerusalem - three were arrested and further arrests are expected and bottles and stones were thrown at police officers and passers-by At the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem, hundreds of Arabs riot (Sunday, April 3, 2002) and confront the police. Some even beat cops. Police forces arrested three rioters who threw stones and objects at police officers and passers-by. The police were prepared in advance with increased forces in the area, in the shadow of the current wave of terrorism. A police spokesman said that "while many policemen are working to enable...

TEL AVIV, May 15 (Reuters) - The Eurovision Song Contest has found few fans in a famous mosque in the Israeli host city, where worshippers have complained that the gaudy festivities are disrupting their observances of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A "Eurovision Village" pavilion set up on the Tel Aviv beachfront to host parties is located directly opposite the century-old Hassan Bek mosque, named after an Ottoman governor and frequented by Israeli Arabs from nearby Jaffa. The 41-country songfest has been a focus of pro-Palestinian boycott calls, and some Muslims fasting daily as part of Ramadan resent the...

An angry mother has accused a primary school of denying her child water on one of the hottest days of the year for fear of upsetting pupils observing Ramadan. Kora Blagden, 32, claimed a teacher at her son Luke’s school refused to let the 10-year old drink from his water bottle because it was unfair to fasting classmates. Many pupils at Charles Dickens Primary School, Portsmouth, Hampshire, are fasting during Ramadan, which means they refrain from taking food or water between sunrise and sunset for around 30 days, depending on the moon. Mother-of-four Kora said: 'Just before bedtime me and...

Briton fined Dh3,000 for insulting Ramadan on Facebook Awad MustafaJul 20, 2011  DUBAI // A British woman who expressed her hatred of Ramadan on Facebook and called her colleague a "dictator" and a follower of Osama bin Laden on the site, has been fined Dh3,000 by a Dubai Court.EG, 31, a trainer, was charged at the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours with insulting the Egyptian MJ, 35, online.In her statement to prosecutors, MJ said that on the evening of September 4 she saw a "disrespectful" status update about Ramadan on EG's Facebook page. She said she was moved to "chat" with...

On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I want to extend our best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem. Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God. This is a time when families gather, friends host iftars, and meals are shared. But Ramadan is also a time of intense devotion and reflection – a time when Muslims fast during the day and pray during the night; when Muslims provide support...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack is hosting a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Obama was also to highlight the contributions of American Muslims at the Tuesday evening event in the State Dining Room. The guest list included Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, ambassadors from Islamic nations and Muslim community leaders.

Source: http://truehardfacts.blogspot.com _________ Monday, October 23, 2006 Muslim "Youth": Just before having the feast-meal at the end of Ramadan, why don't we halt "infidels" a pregnant woman on the escalator of the subway? Muslim "Youth": Just before having the feast-meal at the end of Ramadan, why don't we halt the "infidels" including pregnant woman on the escalator of the subway?Oct, 23, 2006 Noon time Two French Jews are using the escalator of the Metro in Marseille, three Arab Muslim youth all ready to join the meal at the end of their "holy" Ramadan.But hey, they are not yet ready, they...

A hungry man who tried to eat a swan while fasting during the Muslim festival of Ramadan was today given a two-month jail sentence. Shamsu Miah, 52, killed the mute swan at a boating pond in Llandudno, north Wales, on September 25 - only the second day of his fast. It is unclear whether he bit through the swan's neck or stabbed it with a knife, Llandudno Magistrates Court heard. Miah was arrested after a dog walker spotted him carrying a dead swan in a plastic carrier bag shortly after midnight. When he was challenged by police he told them:...

Dubai: An Australian manager and a Filipina receptionist are pleading guilty to hugging and kissing in public besides consuming liquor, a court heard yesterday. The 37-year-old manager and 35-year-old receptionist confessed to the Dubai Court of Appeal yesterday that they committed an indecent gesture in public after they were caught hugging and kissing during Ramadan in a coffee shop. The Dubai Court of First Instance earlier sentenced the defendants to one month in jail for kissing and hugging in public and fined them Dh1,000 for consuming liquor. The manager told the judge that he does not have a liquor permit...

VANDALS splashed blood on a wall and left a pig's head at a mosque under construction in the eastern French city of Belfort, a security official said today. France has Europe's largest Muslim community, numbering about five million, and mosques are occasionally vandalised. Today marks the festival of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. Eric Krust, deputy chief of public security in the Territoire de Belfort department said the pig's head was left on a windowsill along with splashes of blood on an area five metres long and 2.5...

SAN DIEGO - Muslim business leaders in a San Diego neighborhood cheered Wednesday to find banners celebrating the holy month of Ramadan hanging from light posts as they drove to work. The 16 green and white banners were restored following protests over a city decision to remove them.

Two articles of interest from the DhimmiWatch website: "Atlanta, GA, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Muslim students in Georgia's largest school district would be excused for Friday prayer under an agreement between Muslim leaders and school officials." And another on a similar situation in the Delaware public schools...

Stung by widespread negative media stereotypes, many of America's Muslims will take to mainstream movie theatars in New York and elsewhere to mark the end of their holy month of Ramadan with a groundbreaking, full-length animated feature called "Muhammad: The Last Prophet."The November screening of the children's film coincides with Eid al-Fitr, the feast that concludes Ramadan. Distributors of the film are taking their cue from Christian filmmakers, although no one connected with the 90-minute cartoon expects its limited run to duplicate the half-billion-dollar success of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."

ANKARA (AFP) - The administration of a Turkish province has declared that a centuries-old tradition of pre-dawn drum-beating to wake Muslims up during the holy month of Ramadan is a breach of human rights and should be abandoned. The Human Rights Board at the office of the governor of the southern Mersin province -- comprised of the governor, other senior local officials and civic groups -- said that drum-beating in the early hours of the day was disturbing for children as well as sick and working people. The decision was made at a meeting called after several citizens lodged complaints...

Jacksonville, OR, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- President George Bush sent greetings Friday to Muslims in America and around the world at the start of the Ramadan season. ~~~snip~~~ Ramadan commemorates the revelation of the Koran to the prophet Mohammed. The remembrance season features fasting, prayer and charitable works.

CAIRO, Egypt - Millions of Muslims denied themselves food, cigarettes and water before setting off on an all-night ritual of feasting, family gatherings and entertainment Friday, the first day of Islam's holy month of Ramadan. The disparity between nighttime and daytime during Ramadan astounds foreigners, delights merchants and disgusts clerics who urge piety 24 hours a day. The Ramadan rituals stem from the belief that the first verses of the Quran, Islam's holy book, were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad during these four weeks in the 7th century. To honor the revelation, observant Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and...

In a display of political correctness, San Jose, Calif.'s police chief has promised to observe the Muslim month of Ramadan. Chief Rob Davis told the San Jose Mercury News that he was inspired after speaking to 7,000 Bay Area Muslims last year at the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy month of fasting. He will join local Muslims in going without food and drink from sunrise to sunset during the monthlong observance of Ramadan because he realized during his speech that they were hungry when he was not. He said they were celebrating an experience he knew nothing about. "It just...

A CAR bomb that ripped through a hotel on the Red Sea coast of Egypt's Sinai desert early today was one of three explosions targeting tourists, killing at least 35 people dead and wounding scores more. The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel was claimed by the previously unknown "World Islamist Group", in a telephone call to AFP in Jerusalem. "Jamaa Al-Islamiya Al-Alamiya (World Islamist Group) claims responsibility for the explosion at the Taba hotel, carried out in revenge for the Palestinian and Arab martyrs dying in Palestine...

While I am a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and of St. John the Baptist parish in Schenectady, once again this year, I will fast at least one day during the holy month of Ramadan in the Islamic lunar calendar. (This year, Ramadan lasts from Oct. 15 through Nov. 14.) From early dawn until dusk turns to dark, nothing will pass my lips, neither food nor drink, neither medicine nor toothpaste. While fasting, I will pray. I will remember, in my hunger and with the bad taste of "fasting breath" in my mouth, those who go hungry involuntarily and...