Archive for month: October, 2014

A MOTHER flying a black flag outside her family home in a quiet suburban street has told her neighbours: “We are not supporting Islamic State.”

Shazia Ramzan, 35, shocked her neighbours when she raised what looked like the black flag of jihad in her street.

Passers-by threatened to call the police after Prime Minister David Cameron said anyone seen with the Shahada flag should be arrested.

But mum-of-two Shazia said it was not the same banner used by the terrorist organisation – and she branded IS as “scumbags”.

She said: “We did not want to cause any grief by putting the flag up. But I’m scared that our house will be bricked.

“Islamic State are scumbags. Islam does not say what they proclaim; Islam is beautiful and a true religion when followed correctly.

“They are not Muslims. True Islam does not say anything Islamic State does.”

Shazia hoisted the Abbas flag at her semi-detached home in Newport.

The large flag honours Muslim martyr Al-Abbas with white lettering on a black background.

The flag looks similar to the one flown by jihadists – which reads “There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God”.

But Shazia and her family are Shias unlike Islamic State who are made up of militant Sunni fighters.

She added: “People see the black flags and Islamic State immediately comes into their heads.

“I just want them to know that we have nothing to do with IS.”

The Dutch government has banned the public display of the Isis flag but it is not currently illegal in the UK.

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Aspects of Imam Ali’s (AS) character in political, economic, scientific and educational arenas were discussed in a forum held on the second day of the 3rd edition of Qadir International Festival in the holy city of Najaf.

According to the website of Alawi holy shrine, “Al-Qarawiyyah” School of the holy shrine of Imam Ali (AS) hosted the forum on October 20.

It included four scholarly sessions attended by academic figures and scholars from Iraq and a number of other countries.

Imam Ali’s (AS) justice in government based on Shia and Sunni sources and Nabawi Hadiths, the Qadir event and Imam Ali’s (AS) viewpoints on political, social, economic and human issues were some of the themes presented at the sessions.

Addressing the forum, Qolamali Haddad Adel, head of Iran’s Academy of Persian Language and Literature, presented a speech on “Shia Thought and Its Role in Unity among Islamic Sects and Other Religions”.

“Imam Ali (AS), an Existence for the Whole Creation” by Muhammad Shaghir, Islamic philosophy lecturer of Beirut University, and “Harmony of Logic and Beauty in Imam Ali’s (AS) Sermons” by Hamed Naser Al-Dhalemi from Basra University were two other papers presented at the program.

Also in this program, Muhammadreza Al-Turaihi from George Town University discussed the relation between the Holy Quran’s verses and authentic Hadiths about Imam Ali (AS).

Titles of other papers presented at the forum included “Imam Ali’s (AS) Sermons”, “Imam Ali (AS) in Qadir event”, “Alawi Thought; Imam Ali’s (AS) Letter to Malik Ashtar”, “Ali (AS); Imam of Mankind”, “Economic and Financial Policy of Imam Ali (AS)”, “Quranic Verses Revealed about Imam Ali (AS)”, “Imam Ali (AS); Human Way of Life”, “Imam Ali (AS) and Islamic Government” and “Justice in Imam Ali’s (AS) Letter to Malik Ashtar”.

The 3rd Qadir International Festival was held from October 19 to 21 at Imam Ali’s (AS) holy shrine in Najaf.

It was organized by the Astan (custodianship) of Alawi holy shrine under the supervision of Iraq’s Shia Awqaf Office.

Some 100 scholars and religious figures from 33 countries participated in the international event.

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Students of Fudiyyah School Rijiyar Lemu in Kano has on Tuesday resume studies after fire incident on Monday that gutted classes and offices of the school.

The school, under the stable of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Zakzaky in Kano was razed by fire in the early hours of Monday (20/10/2014), in which some classes, staff room and store were burnt down.

While the fire razed structures in the school, fire fighters from the state fire service, youths from the neighbourhood and parents came to the rescue and put out the fire.

 The school headmaster, Malam Auwalu said, all equipments in the building were lost in the fire incident, which he said could not be quantified in monetary terms at the time.

Malam kabiru Yunusa Fagge of the Local Government Education Department confirmed the incident and called for tight security measure in the school to avoid future occurrence.

Management of the school expressed gratitude to all those who assisted in putting out the fire, and commended the cordial relationship between the school management and the community.

The cause of the fire incident was yet to be identified.

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Billionaire Saudi businessman Alwaleed bin Talal has admitted to the kingdom’s support for the ISIL Takfiri terrorists who fight against the Iraqi and Syrian governments.

The Saudi business tycoon, who is a member of the Saudi royal family, told CNN on Monday that “some extremists in Saudi Arabia” provided financial support for the terrorists.

Alwaleed, however, claimed that the oil-rich monarchy has now stopped funding the militants.

    “Unfortunately, some extremists in Saudi Arabia… did fund certain extremist elements in Syria,” said Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.

“But Saudi Arabia has taken very strict rules to stop that from happening. And yes, right now all this has been stopped completely,” he added.

The ISIL Takfiri terrorists, who currently control parts of Syria and Iraq, have committed widespread acts of violence, including mass executions, abductions, torture and forcing women into slavery in the areas they have seized in the two countries.

They have threatened all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Izadi Kurds and others, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq.

Since September 23, the US and some of its Arab allies — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates — have been conducting airstrikes against the ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.

The Western powers and their regional allies — especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey – have been supporting the militants operating inside Syria.

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Jewish settlers set fire to Palestinian olive trees to the west of Hawara village, south of Nablus city, at noon Wednesday.

Mu’een Dumeidi, the Hawara village council chairman, told the PIC reporter that scores of masked Jewish settlers, disguised as Palestinians, set 200 olive trees on fire.

He said that firefighters from nearby Burin village arrived to the scene and put off the blaze with the help of local municipality teams and civil guards, which helped block the spread of fire to nearby groves.

The mayor said that farmers did not harvest the burnt trees because they were still waiting for permission from the liaison office.

Jewish settlers systematically harass farmers in the village and assault their trees especially in the western areas and at olive harvesting seasons.

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