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Calm urged amid Iraq shrine bombs

Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 14:24 GMT 15:24 UK

 

Political and religious leaders in Iraq have appealed for calm after

an attack on one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, the al-Askari

shrine in Samarra.

Blasts destroyed two minarets of the shrine, which houses one of two

tombs in the city for revered Shia imams.

 

Iraq's most prominent Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani,

condemned the attack but urged people not to respond with violence.

 

The bombing of the shrine's dome in 2006 was followed by a wave of

attacks.

 

That incident is widely believed to have set off a continuing spiral

of sectarian violence in which many thousands have died.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6749007.stm

 

 

Lebanese MP dies in Beirut blast

Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 17:40 GMT 18:40 UK

 

The powerful blast occurred near Beirut's popular beachfront

An anti-Syrian MP is among at least 10 people killed in an explosion

in Beirut's waterfront area.

 

Walid Eido died in the blast, in the mainly Muslim Manara

neighbourhood, his party's television station and officials said.

 

At least 10 other people were wounded, emergency services said.

 

Mr Eido is the third member of Lebanon's anti-Syria parliamentary

majority to be killed in a bombing in the past two years.

 

A number of other high-profile anti-Syrian figures have been killed

in Lebanon since 2005.

 

The latest blast comes two weeks after the UN Security Council voted

to set up a tribunal to try suspects in the death of former Lebanese

Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killed in a car bombing in Beirut two

years ago.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6749663.stm

 

 

Hamas battles for control of Gaza

Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 18:02 GMT 19:02 UK

 

Militants from the Palestinian faction Hamas are pushing back rivals

Fatah in the Gaza Strip after several days of heavy fighting in which

60 people died.

 

Hamas said it had gained control of much of southern Gaza after

pushing Fatah gunmen out of the north.

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has warned of a

collapse in Gaza unless the fighting stops.

 

The fighting has spilled over into the West Bank with a gun battle

breaking out in the northern town of Nablus.

 

Hamas appears to be winning this bitter battle for all-out control of

Gaza, says the BBC's Katya Adler in Ramallah, on the West Bank.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6748811.stm

 

 

Gunmen kill Afghan school girls

Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 13:15 GMT 14:15 UK

 

Two gunmen on a motorbike have killed two school girls and wounded

six others as they left their school south of the Afghan capital,

Kabul, officials say.

 

The attack in Logar province came at about midday as pupils were

leaving.

 

Officials say the gunmen waited for the girls before spraying bullets

into the all-girl school and escaping. It is not clear who carried

out the attack.

 

Correspondents say it is thought to be the first time school girls

have been targeted in this way.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6744931.stm

 

 

Recruiting Taleban 'child soldiers'

By Syed Shoaib Hasan

BBC News, Tank

Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 11:31 GMT 12:31 UK

 

Children in Tank, a remote town at the centre of Taleban activity in

north-west Pakistan, are going missing.

 

It is a disturbing phenomenon that Tank shares with other towns on

the edge of Pakistan's tribal belt.

 

Reports says the children - some as young as 11 - are being kidnapped

by pro-Taleban militants.

 

Most people in Tank are unwilling to admit it is happening and few

will talk about it.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6731389.stm

 

 

" Allah has given frequent warnings against Evil and want of Faith in

all ages, through Signs and through inspiration - the latter ( " the

Word " ) being even more direct and personal than the former. Those who

did not heed the warning found to their cost that it was true, and

they perished. Such contumacy is the rejection of Truth only yields

when the actual penalty is in sight....

 

If Faith results from an active exertion of our spiritual faculties

or understanding, it follows that if we let those die, Allah's Signs

in His Creation or in the spoken Word which comes by inspiration

through the mouths of His Messengers will not reach us anymore than

music reaches a deaf man....

 

The Furqan, the Criterion between right and wrong, has been sent to

us from Allah. If we accept guidance, it is not as if we confer

favours on those who bring us guidance. They suffer unselfishly for

us, in order that we may be guided for our own good. On the other

hand, if we reject it, it is our own loss. We have a certain amount

of free will, and the responsibility is ours and cannot be shifted to

the Teachers sent by Allah. "

 

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an

 

 

" Generally, Muslims are taught not to use their minds in religious

matters. This teaching is spread through some false hadith.

Purportedly, the use of the mind in religious matters would lead us

astray. If the mind may not be used in religious matters, why may it

be used in other matters? Are religious and secular matters to be

kept separate? Indeed, this is what has paralyzed the intellects of

Muslims in comparison with others. The minds of Muslims have been

dead for a thousand years, killed by these false hadiths. On the

contrary, the teaching of the Quran give the mind a noble place. God

deems human beings who do not use their minds worse than animals!

(7:179) God bars those who do not use their minds from the fold of

the faithful. (10:100) "

 

Dr. Rashad Khalifa, Ph.d, (Masjid Tucson, USI, Tucson, AZ, USA.)

 

 

" Because the Ottoman state was based on the principles of the

religion it began everything with madrasa education. In madrasas

today, Arabic, sarf, nahw, logic, fiqh, badi', bayan, ma'ani are

taught. They teach them in order to understand the religious books

which are in Arabic correctly. They say that the gate of ijtihad have

been closed. The majority of those who got education in the madrasa

have remained on the first steps of these branches of knowledge.

[Even] one out of a hundred hodjas does not know how to read and

write correctly. Many of the hodjas, whose lives elapse in the

madrasa, cannot pass beyond reading and writing as if it were a sea

without shores, and the meaning remains unknown to them like the

poles. They are lazy, ignorant and fanatical. I wish their fanaticism

were for something which they knew. They are fanatical in defending

something which they do not know. And their purpose is to exploit

Muslims and live comfortably. Though these hodjas are ideally and

morally ignorant, they are in the disguise of religious scholars.

There are real scholars among them. It is a debt for us to respect

them. Today, there is nothing left of Islam in madrasas. Pulpits,

made in order to teach the religion, decency and the Qur'an, are used

for nothing but deceiving Muslims. "

 

Waqf Ikhlas, Istanbul, 21 June 1995.

 

 

 

" The world is in turmoil today. People everywhere are anxious about

the future. What they need is the soothing, uniting, elevating

spiritual message of Sahaja Yoga. They have to be enabled to

experience " Self Realization " and thereby attain inner

transformation. Only then will they begin to regard all human beings

as members of one global family regardless of their race, culture

etc. Only then will they discard hatred and violence. Sahaja Yogis

have a momentous responsibility at this crucial time in human

history. They have to spread Sahaja Yoga in all the parts of the

world by written and spoken word.... For this purpose, a well thought

out approach is required. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Formation of WCASY - December 2003

 

 

" Today, Sahaja Yoga has reached the state of Mahayoga, which is en-

masse evolution manifested through it. It is this day's Yuga Dharma.

It is the way the Last Judgment is taking place. Announce it to all

the seekers of truth, to all the nations of the world, so that nobody

misses the blessings of the Divine to achieve their meaning, their

absolute, their spirit. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

" The main thing that one has to understand is that the time has come

for you to get all that is promised in the scriptures, not only in

the Bible but all the scriptures of the world. The time has come

today that you have to become a Christian, a Brahmin, a Pir, through

your Kundalini awakening only. There is no other way. And that your

Last Judgment is also now. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

 

 

" The Day of Judgment appears across the spectrum of world religions

in various shapes and forms. In Islam, it is said that a denial of

its coming is a direct denial of the foundations of Islamic

conviction. "

 

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