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Its forces have demolished Sufi shrines, Shia mosques, Christian churches, and ancient monuments they consider to be remnants of a corrupt and profane past.
Switzerland, the country that recently voted to ban the construction of minarets on mosques?
“Hotspot mosques” have long been in the sights of counter-terrorist researchers and police task forces.
Charting these families, mosques, and suburbs reveals networks that look just like disease maps, tracking the spread of a microbe as it travels along routes where it can infect others.
This is clear in Islamabad, where over the past two months, Kalashnikov-toting students have openly challenged the state, following a government order for the demolition of dozens of illegally built mosques and seminaries.
In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf’s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul-Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first stone at one construction site.
Holland After van GoghThe murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the ensuing arson attacks against mosques, churches, and Islamic schools have caused more soul-searching in Dutch homes in the last week than in the past two decades.
It can be given shape by, for example, training imams in Europe, by encouraging mosques to promote social cohesion in their neighborhoods, and by more active participation by Muslims in the public debate.
For example, the alleged 2003 coup plot was supposedly discovered when CDs containing detailed preparations (including assassination teams and plans to bomb two mosques) were delivered to a virulently anti-military newspaper.
A taped speech by the released head of the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Hafiz Saeed, was played on Kashmir Day at mosques in Rawalpindi.
Netanyahu’s Jerusalem policy is dangerous, but so is the Palestinian Authority’s game over their sacred mosques – Al Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock – on the Temple Mount.
Similarly, at the start of Ramadan, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who is also the custodian of the two holy mosques, made a powerful statement reclaiming the faith of Islam from those who would pervert it in the name of politics.
Their initial demand – the rebuilding of eight illegally constructed mosques that had been knocked down by Islamabad’s civic administration – became a call for enforcement of Sharia law across Pakistan.
But the rapid transformation of its demography brought with it hundreds of mosques with multi-barreled audio cannons mounted on minarets, as well as scores of madrasas illegally constructed in what used to be public parks and green areas.
I do not know how many Islamic leaders preach murder and mayhem in mosques and help recruit suicide bombers from among their congregants; but even if it is only a handful, they pose a question that must be answered.
Similarly, attacks against the West in mosques, however vicious, should not be banned, in contrast to open encouragement to join suicide death squads.
The model of incitement they had in mind is the same one that British Prime Minister Blair has publicly invoked: Muslim leaders standing up in their mosques and urging their congregations to go out and kill infidels.
Of course, with more than 2,200 Palestinians – mostly civilians – killed, over 10,000 injured, and thousands of homes, schools, mosques, and other structures destroyed, the war’s outcome can hardly be called a victory.
Moreover, the brutality of his fundamentalist Islamic State seems to many not so very different from the behavior of Saudi Arabia, which has spent decades spreading its Wahhabi fundamentalism through mosques and madrassas around the world.
The Brothers’ current prominence stems from their halo as the only opposition force that survived Mubarak’s oppression – if only because mosques were the only “political” clubs that the regime could not close.
The Brothers, with the help of a conservative society and the mosques, were prepared to seize power whenever the opportunity arose.
Hadi’s message helped to create a deep divide between the two “kinds” of Muslims, to the extent that villages would have two mosques, two cemeteries, and two clerics to lead prayers and officiate at ceremonies.
The master plan aims to transform the main battleground in Marawi City – which, prior to the siege, was known for its bustling trade, grand mosques, and dynamic madrassas – into a tourist destination.
Always keen to assert the freedom to insult Muslims, the Dutch Freedom Party wants to ban all mosques.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte defeated the anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders, who has called for closing Dutch borders, shutting mosques, and banning the Koran.
The seductive call of extremism will not be silenced with pleas to fundamentalist imams in European mosques to stop indoctrinating young Muslim men.
Soldiers have burned entire Rohingya villages, engaged in sexual violence, destroyed mosques, and provoked mass displacement.
The last ten days of Ramadan are i‘tikaf (collective seclusion), during which worshippers gather and spend nights in mosques and open areas.
Partly this was in reaction to the propagation of Wahhabi/Salafi theology in shiny new Saudi-financed mosques.
Saudi Arabia has even announced a temporary ban on non-compulsory umrah pilgrimages to Mecca, and has closed mosques.
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