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| Iraq |
| IS bans Eid prayer in Mosul |
| 2015-07-11 |
| [RUDAW.NET] In its Iraqi stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) group is banning residents from performing prayers on one of the most important Moslem feasts, controversially claiming the practice does not belong in the religion. Ismat Rajab, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official for Mosul who now lives in the Kurdistan region, told Rudaw that the radical group has warned residents to avoid prayers for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in about a week. He said ISIS was claiming that the Eid prayer is not "originally an Islamic practice" and was not performed in Prophet Mohammad's time. Since the ISIS takeover of Mosul last year, the jihadis have been imposing new rules and regulations, backed by strict punishments that include the threat of death for offenders. Eid al-Fitr, also called the Feast of Breaking the Fast, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Moslems worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting. Although a religious practice, the prayer preformed on the first day after Ramadan also is a cultural event. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Start with firearms... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-07-11 10:44 |
| #2 was not performed in Prophet Mohammad's time. I think that we should encourage, and enforce where possible, this philosophy. Nothing that Mo didn't have can be used in any Muzzie area...........start with electricity... |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-07-11 09:49 |
| #1 No praying, no eatin, no drinkin it a Holiday. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-11 07:59 |