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  [A-List] Iraq War Evokes Memories Of Vietnam
The normally bustling area around Karbala's Imam Hussein shrine, one of the holiest centers for Shiite Muslims, was silent except for intermittent blasts and machine-gun fire.
The U.S. military said three soldiers died from wounds suffered in rebel attacks Friday, one died in a vehicle accident and one from "natural causes." As of Friday, May 14, 775 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense.
In the Iranian capital, about 200 students threw stones at the British embassy and chanted slogans against the occupation of Iraq and torture of prisoners.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-May/048745.html   (5051 words)

  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jumu'ah
It is an obligation for men to pray the Friday prayer (Jumu'ah) in congregation (jama'ah) at a Mosque.
This prayer is shorter than the Dhuhr prayer to allow for the weaker seniors and juniors to participate, and it is preceded by a sermon (khutba) delivered in two parts by a speaker (khatib).
The sermon, which is a technical replacement of the two reduced raka'ahs of the ordinary Dhuhr prayer, is followed by a communal prayer, led by the prayer leader (Imam).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Friday_prayer   (398 words)

  
 MOSQUE : Encyclopedia Entry
A funeral prayer, or salat ul-janazah, is held for a deceased Muslim at the mosque, with all congregants present, including the imam, participating.
Unlike with the daily prayers, the funeral prayers are normally held outdoors in a courtyard or square close to the mosque.
The Shafi'i and Hanbali schools, however, argue that the appointment is not necessary and the prayer is valid as long as it is performed in a congregation.
bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Mosque   (7003 words)

  
 Iran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Iranian Prophet Zoroaster is considered by numerous scholars as the founder of the earliest religion based on revealed scripture.
The native speakers of Iranian dialects in Iran (70%) are ethnically and linguistically "Aryan", a term adopted in remote antiquity by speakers of the dialects as part of a national identity meaning noble/spiritual/elevated, as well as a racial designation.
Iranian culture was long the predominant culture of the Middle East, with Persian considered the language of intellectuals during much of the second millennium A.D. Nearly all philosophical, scientific, or literary work of the Islamic empires was written in or translated to Persian as well as Arabic.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Iran   (7411 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Regional : Middle East : Iran
The Iranian climate is mostly arid or semiarid, though subtropical along the Caspian coast.
Iranian budget deficits have been a chronic problem, in part due to large-scale state subsidies–totaling some $7.25 billion per year–including foodstuffs and especially gasoline.
Most Iranians are Muslims; 89% belong to the Shi'a branch of Islam, the official state religion, and about 10% belong to the Sunni branch (most of whom are Kurds), which predominates in most Muslim countries.
www.directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Middle_East/Iran.shtml   (3207 words)

  
 iranian.com: Laleh Khalili, Sketches of a war, still
He is now older, his skin leathery and deeply lined, and his forehead smudged by the blur of the prayer seal that only appears when you have spent much time bowed in front of God in a southerly direction, with your brow to the ground.
In those cities, the windows were “fled out” with dark paint or thick fabrics, bombing sirens were installed in all neighborhoods, and the inhabitants acquired the habit of listening for short-wave news of a pending attack, for siren wails, and ultimately for explosions.
Whereas ordinary graves are marked by a horizontal slab of marble and sometimes a vertical marker of stone, at the head of the graves of the nearly one million martyrs of the war stands a hejleh, a strange and macabre visual metaphor for a “wedding chamber” for a young man married to death.
www.iranian.com /LalehKhalili/2007/January/Sketches/index.html   (10058 words)

  
 .:: www.Nezam.org ::.  "  Islamic Government 32  "
Imam Khomeini's view of the Friday Prayer with its socio-political role as an issue of major concern related to the leadership and guardianship in Islam, is deep-rooted, comprehensive and illuminating which has contributed to the revival of this religious tradition in modern times.
Ritual prayers are considered to be the greatest and most significant acts of worship in monotheistic Abrahamic religions and their performance marks the fulfilment of the righteous' government)rule(and the beginning of the divine guidance of the pious.
Performing the Friday Prayer is considered to be one of the blessings of the establishment for the Islamic Republic of Iran all the big or small cities in various parts of Iran are enjoyed.
www.nezam.org /english/abstracts/032.htm   (2463 words)

  
 Scifispace.com's Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Forums > Iranians Going All Out To Protest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Iranians are big sweets eaters, often buying candies and pastries to bring to parties.
The Iran-Iraq war, current near-civil war in Iraq, tensions between Sunnis and Shia in the Gulf states, all point to the obvious: These two communities are, while both Muslim, mistrustful of one another.
Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the conservative northwestern city of Peshawar, announced the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school he leads would give a $25,000 reward and a car for killing the cartoonist who drew the prophet caricatures - considered blasphemous by Muslims.
www.scifispace.com /members/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3157.html   (4088 words)

  
 [A-List] Iraq: Insurgents, Militia Launch Attacks Across Country
The US military also announced the deaths of five soldiers: three from rebel attacks Friday, one in a vehicle accident, and one from what was described as natural causes.
They were answering a call at Friday prayers by a sheik aligned with Sadr.
Friday exchange of gunfire in Najaf damaged the golden dome of the holy shrine of Imam Ali (AS).
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-May/048738.html   (3526 words)

  
 Iranian Alert -- September 22, 2003 -- IRAN LIVE THREAD PING LIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
An Iranian official in Vienna said last Monday that Iran is fully committed to its NPT responsibilities, not because of its contractual obligation, but also because of its religious and ethical considerations, and it is to officially respond to the resolution in a matter of few days after its study.
Iranian reformists want to get a handle on the nuclear issue in part to pre-empt a deal among the United States and other Western powers that would allow the current leadership to remain in power in exchange for it relinquishing its nuclear weapons program.
Iranian sources had, just after the end of formal hostilities in the Coalition war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, indicated that they would put an initial fund of US$50-million in cash into destabilizing Iraq, along with considerable Iranian intelligence and special forces manpower, backed by Iranian radio propaganda.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/986876/posts   (18255 words)

  
 List of current Iranian Friday prayers Imams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of current Iranian Friday prayers Imams, sorted according to the city:
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
This page was last modified 13:13, 16 December 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_current_Iranian_Friday_prayers_Imams   (95 words)

  
 It's Not the Vote that Counts
Public meetings - like Friday prayers - are very essential "tools" in the anti-occupation campaign: most of the imams made their statement on the election issue.
This was followed by several arrests of imams, like an imam from Anbaar province who was arrested due to his "anti-election" statements.
They are taking part in the current Iraqi political system and therefore they are involved in the election campaign.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/election/2005/0201counts.htm   (1303 words)

  
 Holy Crime, crime of clergy, clergical crime, Ecclesiastical crime, spiritual,purity, innocent, Iran, Iranian, Persia, ...
The Friday prayer leader of Esfahan, Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri, has resigned in protest against the state of the country, endemic mismanagement and corruption, and what he describes as the broken promises of the revolution.
Praise be to God and prayers and peace on his prophets and messengers, especially the Seal of the prophets and the noblest among them about whom He said: Were it not for you, the universe would never have been created.
And prayers on his trustee and successor, Ali, the Lord of the Faithful, and the immaculate imams, and his sons, especially the last [Imam Husayn] with whom God wishes to bestow justice to the same extent as there is injustice on this earth.
www.holycrime.com /CrimeNews2.asp   (1820 words)

  
 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 24 November 2006. :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it
In a dispatch posted at 8:02pm Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier Shi'i sectarian gunmen attacked the al-Faruq Sunni mosque and set the muezzin of the ash-Shaykh 'Ali Ahmad Mosque on fire as he was reciting the cal to prayer on Friday night.
Ten mortar rounds had blasted into the area of the mosque and the association was calling on local residents to arm themselves and come to the defense of the mosque and the association.
In a bulletin posted at 2:44pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance fida’i fighter blew himself up in the midst of a group of Iraqi puppet troops and puppet police in Tall 'Afar as they were gathered on a square in the city where cars are sold.
www.uruknet.de /?p=m28533   (5073 words)

  
 Penraker
Here is a list of actual attacks, all of which took place right after 9/11.
A Bush administration official said the Iranian military officials held in custody were suspected of being members of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Iranians have gotten their spies into the United States and Europe, according to this.
www.penraker.com   (18675 words)

  
 Israel and the occupied territories
Under current Israeli law, property disputes involving religious institutions are handled by the executive branch of the government.
However, according to current government figures, only 3 percent of civil service employees were from the Arab sector.
Currently, this amendment applies only to construction workers, according to the June internal regulations of the industry, trade, and labor ministry.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61690.htm   (19486 words)

  
 IRIS: Information Regarding Israel's Security
The Iranian government financed a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 Americans in Saudi Arabia and must pay $254 million to the victims' families, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Two Iranian government security agencies and senior members of the Iranian government itself provided funding, training and logistical help to terrorists who carried out the attack on a dormitory that housed U.S. Air Force pilots and staff in Saudi Arabia, Freeh testified.
The court had to see that the men were back in their prison cells at Durham in time for prayers and on one day the court did not sit because it was a Muslim holy day....
www.iris.org.il   (4475 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Iraqi forces captured militant leader after deadly Baghdad clash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi forces backed by U.S. aircraft battled militants Friday in a Shiite stronghold of eastern Baghdad, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.
Tit-for-tat attacks on houses of worship have stoked tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, especially after the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, an act that triggered reprisal violence against Sunni mosques and clerics.
A Sunni cleric was abducted Friday in Baghdad, said Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samaraie, head of the Sunni Endowment, the state agency responsible for Sunni mosques and shrines.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,640193060,00.html   (991 words)

  
 On the Ground in Iraq | The New America Foundation
Iraq's Sunnis, unsurprisingly, felt intimidated, and they increasingly came to view Shias as Iranians or Persians, refusing to recognize that Shias were the majority or that Shias had been singled out for persecution under Saddam.
In the first months after the war, Sunnis and Shias formed united committees, held joint prayers, and rejected sectarianism; by 2004 it was apparent that civil war was on its way.
We should follow our imams and listen to their sermons but we should not be against the religion.
www.newamerica.net /publications/articles/2006/on_the_ground_in_iraq   (6568 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
Friday prayers in Baghdad led to yet another firefight today after a fiery sermon condemning the siege of Falluja.
Two people who'd been attending the prayers were killed and seven people wounded.
Now the Iranians last month did test a new Shahab III missile, which is said to have a range of 2,000 kilometers, and that's the missile that would presumably have a bomb put on it if that -- if a bomb were to be developed.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0411/19/lol.02.html   (2924 words)

  
 Current TV // Blog // ajbintl
Yet, here we are at Current, enabling a guy like Zouheir to get his story out for the first time.
I linked Zouheir up with Andrew Fitzgerald from Current Journalism, and bam!, we've got pods coming out of Gaza at a time when foreign journalists simply are not making it in.
I was in Gaza last May on a morning that Fatah gunmen kidnapped a Hamas militant on his way to morning prayers, slit his throat, and dumped his body at a gas station.
www.current.tv /blog/index.htm?type=user&val=ajbintl   (1916 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The exercise: start in 1959 and extrapolate forward from "actual" current events and trends in Church spirituality, governance and culture at that point in time and weave an altentate history of the Catholic Church, al la Henry Turtledove or Paoul Anderson.
Unlike most Protestants, who believe that the Faith of Jesus Christ is completely perspicuous and can be apprehended in an unmediated way by recourse of individuals to the holy Scriptures, the Church teaches that even Scripture is part of, and a witness to, the Tradition which preceded it in the economy of salvation.
This being so, it is the task of the Church's magisterium alone to interpret this current of revelation....
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=traditionalists   (1553 words)

  
 Iraq: the Way Forward—Lessons Learned from the Third Wave of Democratization [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, ...
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Each expert’s bio page contains his or her contact information, professional and educational history, links to publications and current research, a downloadable one-page biographical narrative, a high-definition photo.
Africa (8/9): Princeton N. Lyman and Patricia Dorff argue that there are reasons beyond humanitarian issues that the U.S. should pay attention to Africa, on washingtonpost.com.
www.cfr.org /publication/9283/iraq.html?breadcrumb=/issue/publication_list?id=79&page=2   (3056 words)

  
 The Cool Blue Blog
The imam is Ahmad Suliman Stiti, a Hamas activist.
When you hear of the current civil war in Palestine, know that it is a struggle between people who would make peace with Israel, and Hamas, who never ever will.
It seems that news of the Amazing Flying Imams has made its way to Iran where the reporting is a little less guarded than in the US.
coolblue.typepad.com /the_cool_blue_blog   (8853 words)

  
 The New Yorker : fact : content
One Friday brought thirty-two bodies, including two foreign engineers—one German, one Dutch—who had been gunned down by insurgents on a road south of Baghdad, and two Iraqi journalists shot to death by American soldiers as they drove away from a checkpoint.
A round sticker was affixed to the wooden front door of Shaker’s house; it bore an image of Ayatollah Sadr, along with a quotation, from one of his sermons, insisting that women be veiled.
One Friday not long after the Ashura bombings, I went with Shaker to hear prayers in Kadhimiya, an old Shiite neighborhood in the northwestern part of Baghdad that is famous for its gold shops.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040517fa_fact   (8572 words)

  
 directopedia : Directory : Sports : Soccer : AFC : Iran
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 Scifispace.com's Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Forums -> Iranians Going All Out To Protest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Iranians Going All Out To Protest, by renaming Danish pastries
I'm sure that you've been hearing a lot about the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers.
When you go a restaurant on the weekends and it's busy they start a waiting list.
www.scifispace.com /members/forums/index.php?showtopic=3157   (4506 words)

  
 www.nezam.org
Islamic Government and the Performance of the Friday Prayer
In the first section of his treatise, he has proposed five arguments, discussing them in detail.
They have written even separate treatises on the issue in question.
www.nezam.org /persian/magazine/032/english.htm   (2463 words)

  
 Iraqi Forces Capture Wanted Extremist, U.S.-Backed Iraqi Forces Capture Wanted Extremist Leader; 30 Fighters Killed or ...
(AP) Iraqi forces backed by U.S. aircraft battled militants Friday in a Shiite stronghold of eastern Baghdad, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.
_A car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque as prayers were ending in the northern city of Sinjar, killing eight people and wounding 48.
Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue and Qais al-Bashir contributed to this report.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/07/ap/world/mainD8IN6JUO1.shtml   (1117 words)

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