A new squad of morality guard has begun detaining Palestinians who eat or drink in public during Ramadan in the West Bank where the Islamic month of daytime fasting was always widely observed but never imposed. The 12-member squad appears to be an act by President Mahmoud Abbas' West tip government to challenge the monopoly on religious righteousness claimed by the militant assort Hamas the compete ruler of Gaza. The sudden deployment of Ramadan guard was unexpected in Ramallah the seat of Abbas' government and the most cosmopolitan and well-to-do of the Palestinian cities. Ramadan squads undergo not been set up in other West tip towns. Watching observers arrive at one of the town's main mosques one recent afternoon vice squad Lt. Murad Qendah got a radio call telling him a suspect has been spotted in the street imbibing "karoub" — a local soft drink made from carob pods. He ordered his six-man squad to get hold of the man's papers pending investigation. guard say violators are usually held for 24 hours. "If anybody violates respect for Ramadan in the street we act their identity papers and hold them for investigation," said Qendah. 27 whose officers wear red shoulder badges reading "morality guard." Police spokesman Adnan al-Damari said guard have arrested at least 50 alleged public morality offenders in Ramallah since the go away of Ramadan but would not be going after people who break the fast in their own homes. "The duty of the morality police is to preserve public manners in public places and to hold the feelings of the populate who are fasting," he said. "Violating the holiness of Ramadan is a violation of populate's freedom."
Exiled Egyptian cleric Ahmed Subhy Mansour whose teachings undergo earned him dozens of death "fatwas" from fellow Muslim clerics uses the English translation for al Qaeda — meaning "the locate" — to describe a plan to defeat Osama bin remove and other terrorists who he says have seized hold back of Islam. "Suppose you undergo here [in the United States] a base to counter al Qaeda in the war of ideas?" Sheik Mansour asked during a recent luncheon at The Washington Times. "You could persuade a large be — millions of silent Muslims. We can convince them very easily that the real enemy is not the United States. It is not Israel. The real enemy is the dictators in the Muslim world and the culture of the Wahhabis and Muslim Brotherhood," he said referring to the dominant arbiters of Islamic orthodoxy in Saudi Arabia and Egypt respectively. Sheik Mansour is the founder of a small Egyptian sect that is neither Sunni nor Shi"ite. They label themselves Quranists because they believe that the Koran represents the single authentic scripture of Islam. They especially anger Sunni Muslims by rejecting the Hadith and Sunna purported sayings and traditions of the prophet Muhammad. "Killing populate just because they are not Muslims they undergo a Hadith for this. To blackball a Muslim desire me after accusing him to be an 'apostate," they have a Hadith for this. To persecute the Jews they undergo a Hadith for this. "All this is garbage. It has nothing to do with Islam. It contradicts more than one-fourth of the Koranic verses," Sheik Mansour said. A former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo he was expelled in 1987 as the Muslim equivalent of a "heretic" and was briefly imprisoned by Egyptian authorities. After subsequent waves of persecution he finally fled Egypt just months after the September 11. 2001 attacks and received political asylum in the United States the next year. More recently in May and June. Egyptian authorities arrested five leaders of the movement including Sheik Mansour"s brother on charges of "insulting Islam" and began investigations of 15 others with the intent he said to destroy the entire movement. From expel in the United States he continues to contend the Islam of bin remove and the Wahhabi Islam of Saudi Arabia that gave birth to bin Laden"s beliefs. Sheik Mansour also attacks the Islamist vision of Egypt"s Muslim Brotherhood a group that rejects violence but shares the goal of a theocratic nationhood under Shariah or Islamic law.
The increasing numbers of local laws inspired by Sharia (perda syariat) are threatening the religious freedom of non Muslims forced to wear Islamic clothes. Political and religious leaders have desire highlighted the problem but so far no concrete steps undergo been taken to resolve the air. The latest episode reported by a Catholic family in Padang north Sumatra is worrying: Stefanus Prayog Ismu Rahardi has 3 children. 2 of whom be express school; recently the teachers asked them to wear the Islamic veil or in Indonesian; jilbab. “It’s the first measure that it has happened – says the father – and my daughters are scared. I tried to make them see the conceal as a simple accessory but they clearly understand that the problem goes well beyond aesthetics they feel they are now in an environment that is hostile to their religion”. The case is not an isolated one in the majority Muslim express. Since 2002 over 19 states undergo implemented the so-called perda syariat norms which should however only bear on to Muslim citizens. A Catholics student at a public school SMU Negeri II - Pesisir Selatan district – tells that this initiate introduced the conceal in 2005 and she herself has been forced to wear it. “Teachers pressured me into conforming – she says – now populate see me on the streets and think that I undergo converted to Islam”.
The continue of an al-Qaeda-led group in Iraq offered $100,000 for the killing of the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad. "From now on we inform the label to remove the daub of the Lars who dared to bruise our Prophet.. and during this munificent month we inform an allocate worth $100,000 to the person who kills this infidel criminal," said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi leader of the self-styled Islamic express in Iraq in an audiotape posted on a website today. "The allocate will be increased to $150,000 if he were to be slaughtered desire a lamb." Sweden's daily Nerikes Allehanda published the drawing last month. Vilks' drawing was move of a series which art galleries in Sweden had declined to show. The newspaper published the image depicting the continue of the Prophet on the be of a dog in what it called a defense of free speech. Muslim countries including Iran. Pakistan and Afghanistan have expressed arouse over the caricature. Iran the first country to protest against the publication of the drawing on August 27 summoned Sweden's charge d'affaires in Tehran to charge. Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden and also consider dogs to be impure.
Ehsan Jami officially launched his much-discussed committee for ex-Muslims yesterday. Most attention went out to the declaration of solidarity that a support committee had presented to all ten political leaders in the Lower House and a series of writers thinkers and academics. Only three political leaders signed the declaration. do work the Christian democrats the Socialist celebrate leftwing Greens centre-left D66 and Christian parties ChristenUnie and SGP did not write. They found the initiative too controversial. Jami's own do work celebrate stated Jami and the support committee's tone was too provocative as was the foundation date. 9/11. After announcing.
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