Villagers fight developer's bid for mosque
MOMBASA, Kenya, July 6 Worshippers at a village mosque in Kenya are fighting a developer's plans to tear the house of worship down and build a shop on the land.
"This is the only place of worship in Bonje. Muslims will have nowhere to say their prayers," the imam, Ustadh Rajab Tayari, told The Nation, a newspaper in Nairobi.
The developer has offered either financial compensation or a new mosque at another site. But the villagers say that the building is convenient for everyone in Bonje, a village near the port of Mombasa.
Edwin Chabarri, the district officer, visited Bonje and told the villagers Thursday that the developer has a valid title to the mosque site. He advised them to use the courts and warned them not to take the law into their own hands.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - ZAMBIA: THE NAME OF ALLAH FOUND EMBLAZONED IN A RAW SLAB OF MEAT
Allah inscription on meat shocks Mazabuka resident
Mazabuka, June 20, ZANIS---A Mazabuka resident in Southern Province has been gripped with shock and fear after discovering an inscription of '' ALLAH'' in the meat he bought from one of the leading super markets. Narrating his ordeal to ZANIS in Mazabuka today, Mr Samad Seedat said he could not believe how the inscription of the name of ALLAH, the god moslems worship could be found in the meat. Mr Seedat who displayed the piece of meat inscribed ALLAH in Arabic language said yesterday that he informed elders during a Moslem daily prayer meeting held at the district Mosque in Namulonga of his ordeal who later assured him of more blessings to come. He said, he now feels relieved after speaking to the highly respected Muslim elders called '' MUFTY or MOULANA based in Lusaka who equally encouraged him and assured him of blessings too. Mr Seedat said the MUFTY said the inscription of ALLAH which means god, meant ALLAH is there and he should believe in him.
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1) Allah inscription on meat shocks Mazabuka resident
Mazabuka, June 20, ZANIS---A Mazabuka resident in Southern Province has been gripped with shock and fear after discovering an inscription of '' ALLAH'' in the meat he bought from one of the leading super markets. Narrating his ordeal to ZANIS in Mazabuka today, Mr Samad Seedat said he could not believe how the inscription of the name of ALLAH, the god moslems worship could be found in the meat. Mr Seedat who displayed the piece of meat inscribed ALLAH in Arabic language said yesterday that he informed elders during a Moslem daily prayer meeting held at the district Mosque in Namulonga of his ordeal who later assured him of more blessings to come. He said, he now feels relieved after speaking to the highly respected Muslim elders called '' MUFTY or MOULANA based in Lusaka who equally encouraged him and assured him of blessings too. Mr Seedat said the MUFTY said the inscription of ALLAH which means god, meant ALLAH is there and he should believe in him.
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1) Allah inscription on meat shocks Mazabuka resident
Thursday, April 19, 2007
DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - SPAIN/MOROCCO: SPAIN WORRIED ABOUT MOSLEM JIHAD ATTACKS FROM MOROCCO & NORTH AFRICE
MOROCCO: ISLAMIST TERRORISTS 'COULD TARGET SPANISH INTERESTS'
Madrid and Rabat, 19 April (AKI) - Security at Spanish embassies, consulates and schools in Moroccan cities could be stepped up in the coming days amid fears they could be soft targets for Islamist terror attacks, according to unnamed security force sources quoted by Spanish daily ABC. Security officials are said to be especially concerned to safeguard the Spanish consulates in Tangiers, Rabat, Casablanca, Agadir and Tetouan which are all located in busy central areas, as well as the brand new Spanish embassy in Rabat.
Since the start of this week, student at the Spanish school in Rabat have to show their passport to be allowed on the premises. The authorities in Morocco have however been on alert for some time: after the deadly 2004 bombings of commuter trains in the Spanish capital, Madrid, investigators came into possession of a note signed by a radical Islamist group threatening Spanish interests in North Africa.
Despite fears of a widening conflict stoked by the suicide bomb attacks last week in Casablanca and in Algiers that left dozens dead and hundreds injured, Spain has retained the 'medium' alert level it introduced on 15 February at the start of the trial of 29 suspects for the Madrid train bombings. Most are of North African and many of Moroccan origins.
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1) MOROCCO: ISLAMIST TERRORISTS 'COULD TARGET SPANISH INTERESTS'
Madrid and Rabat, 19 April (AKI) - Security at Spanish embassies, consulates and schools in Moroccan cities could be stepped up in the coming days amid fears they could be soft targets for Islamist terror attacks, according to unnamed security force sources quoted by Spanish daily ABC. Security officials are said to be especially concerned to safeguard the Spanish consulates in Tangiers, Rabat, Casablanca, Agadir and Tetouan which are all located in busy central areas, as well as the brand new Spanish embassy in Rabat.
Since the start of this week, student at the Spanish school in Rabat have to show their passport to be allowed on the premises. The authorities in Morocco have however been on alert for some time: after the deadly 2004 bombings of commuter trains in the Spanish capital, Madrid, investigators came into possession of a note signed by a radical Islamist group threatening Spanish interests in North Africa.
Despite fears of a widening conflict stoked by the suicide bomb attacks last week in Casablanca and in Algiers that left dozens dead and hundreds injured, Spain has retained the 'medium' alert level it introduced on 15 February at the start of the trial of 29 suspects for the Madrid train bombings. Most are of North African and many of Moroccan origins.
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1) MOROCCO: ISLAMIST TERRORISTS 'COULD TARGET SPANISH INTERESTS'
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
DAR AL HARB / ISLAM - AFRICA: TRACKING JIHADISTS IN THE SAHARA
Tracking Down Jihadists in the Sahara
By Thierry Oberle
Al-Qa'idah is reinforcing its presence in Africa thanks to mobile bases that have been set up in the Sahel. The organization relies on the support of Algerian Salafi fighters to export jihad throughout the region. Algeria's GSPC [Salafi Group for Call and Combat], which has become Al-Qa'idah in the [Lands of the Islamic] Maghreb, is using the northern region or Mali as a sanctuary that is now the focus of Washington's fears.
Kidal, what the Pentagon calls the "new front of the war against terror," is reminiscent of the Desert of Tartars. The Touareg capital (a small town of a few thousand inhabitants) is surrounded by walls of black stone. It has a small fort, a former penal colony, a dreary vestige of French occupation and, in a pool in the prefecture's garden, a crocodile of an uncertain age that was bequeathed by a colonial civil servant.
In order to go to Kidal, you have to follow the route taken by the caravans that, at the time of Saharan trade, linked the Malian city of Gao to the Algerian town of In Salah. The trail, which is used by smugglers travelling at breakneck speeds, branches off towards the east in a path that disappears in the loose stones all the way to its final destination. The Algerian border is a few hours away by truck. Nothing grows here other than scrub. A military airplane lands once a week, weather permitting. There are no commercial flights. The landing strip serves as a meeting place for the local goats. It is barely distinguishable from the wide open spaces that extend into the horizon.
As in Dino Buzatti's novel, the enemy is invisible. Yet, Al-Qa'idah columns crisscross this part of the Sahara that Washington qualifies as "an emerging centre of terrorism". The United States, which is engaged in a partnership programme with the armies of neighbouring countries, is trying to set up an operational command on the African continent to counter this as yet diffuse threat.
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1) Tracking Down Jihadists in the Sahara
By Thierry Oberle
Al-Qa'idah is reinforcing its presence in Africa thanks to mobile bases that have been set up in the Sahel. The organization relies on the support of Algerian Salafi fighters to export jihad throughout the region. Algeria's GSPC [Salafi Group for Call and Combat], which has become Al-Qa'idah in the [Lands of the Islamic] Maghreb, is using the northern region or Mali as a sanctuary that is now the focus of Washington's fears.
Kidal, what the Pentagon calls the "new front of the war against terror," is reminiscent of the Desert of Tartars. The Touareg capital (a small town of a few thousand inhabitants) is surrounded by walls of black stone. It has a small fort, a former penal colony, a dreary vestige of French occupation and, in a pool in the prefecture's garden, a crocodile of an uncertain age that was bequeathed by a colonial civil servant.
In order to go to Kidal, you have to follow the route taken by the caravans that, at the time of Saharan trade, linked the Malian city of Gao to the Algerian town of In Salah. The trail, which is used by smugglers travelling at breakneck speeds, branches off towards the east in a path that disappears in the loose stones all the way to its final destination. The Algerian border is a few hours away by truck. Nothing grows here other than scrub. A military airplane lands once a week, weather permitting. There are no commercial flights. The landing strip serves as a meeting place for the local goats. It is barely distinguishable from the wide open spaces that extend into the horizon.
As in Dino Buzatti's novel, the enemy is invisible. Yet, Al-Qa'idah columns crisscross this part of the Sahara that Washington qualifies as "an emerging centre of terrorism". The United States, which is engaged in a partnership programme with the armies of neighbouring countries, is trying to set up an operational command on the African continent to counter this as yet diffuse threat.
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Pertinent Links:
1) Tracking Down Jihadists in the Sahara
Thursday, March 22, 2007
DAR AL ISLAM - BOTSWANA: SEPARATE CLASSES FOR INFIDELS AND MOSLEMS
Al-Nur defends separate classes for Muslims
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
STAFF WRITER
The principal of Al-Nur English Medium School, Majid Khan, has defended the separation of Muslim and non-Muslim learners at the institution. He denied that the recent decision to introduce a timetable that separates non-Muslim from Muslim learners was driven by religious reasons.
He explained that the move is informed by the choice of subjects by primary school pupils and secondary school students. Under the new school timetable, Muslims would undergo Islamic teaching in the morning when other learners take secular subjects from Monday to Thursday. In the afternoon session, the Muslims will be taught secular subjects while the rest of the learners go home.
Khan was responding to a questionnaire after it was alleged that the new system separates learners taking Islamic subjects in the morning and those not taking the subjects. It was alleged that the learners not taking the Islamic subjects would knock off early while those taking Islamic would be engaged in the afternoon during the secular subjects which they would not otherwise have had time to take in the morning. The question was whether or not the learners benefited equally or a certain group was given more preference over the other.
"It is important to emphasise that we do not have a Muslim and non- Muslim syllabus. What we have is a global syllabus in terms of which Muslim and non-Muslim learners may elect to take subjects offered," Khan said. He explained that the two-stream timetable should be seen in the context of allowing for the simultaneous teaching of Islamic and secular subjects.
"The reason for the introduction of the two-stream system was to give due consideration to our non-Muslim students whose numbers have grown considerably since last year and now stands at 50 percent in the secondary division," Khan stated.
He asserted that in the past, the arrival and departure times of the non-Muslims were the same as those of Muslims. The current system allows for better time management and more constructive usage of time, the school principal said.
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Botswana:
Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name upon independence in 1966. Four decades of uninterrupted civilian leadership, progressive social policies, and significant capital investment have created one of the most dynamic economies in Africa. Mineral extraction, principally diamond mining, dominates economic activity, though tourism is a growing sector due to the country's conservation practices and extensive nature preserves. Botswana has one of the world's highest known rates of HIV/AIDS infection, but also one of Africa's most progressive and comprehensive programs for dealing with the disease.
Christian 71.6%,
Badimo 6%,
other 1.4%,
unspecified 0.4%,
none 20.6% (2001 census)
Pertinent Links:
1) Al-Nur defends separate classes for Muslims
CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
STAFF WRITER
The principal of Al-Nur English Medium School, Majid Khan, has defended the separation of Muslim and non-Muslim learners at the institution. He denied that the recent decision to introduce a timetable that separates non-Muslim from Muslim learners was driven by religious reasons.
He explained that the move is informed by the choice of subjects by primary school pupils and secondary school students. Under the new school timetable, Muslims would undergo Islamic teaching in the morning when other learners take secular subjects from Monday to Thursday. In the afternoon session, the Muslims will be taught secular subjects while the rest of the learners go home.
Khan was responding to a questionnaire after it was alleged that the new system separates learners taking Islamic subjects in the morning and those not taking the subjects. It was alleged that the learners not taking the Islamic subjects would knock off early while those taking Islamic would be engaged in the afternoon during the secular subjects which they would not otherwise have had time to take in the morning. The question was whether or not the learners benefited equally or a certain group was given more preference over the other.
"It is important to emphasise that we do not have a Muslim and non- Muslim syllabus. What we have is a global syllabus in terms of which Muslim and non-Muslim learners may elect to take subjects offered," Khan said. He explained that the two-stream timetable should be seen in the context of allowing for the simultaneous teaching of Islamic and secular subjects.
"The reason for the introduction of the two-stream system was to give due consideration to our non-Muslim students whose numbers have grown considerably since last year and now stands at 50 percent in the secondary division," Khan stated.
He asserted that in the past, the arrival and departure times of the non-Muslims were the same as those of Muslims. The current system allows for better time management and more constructive usage of time, the school principal said.
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Botswana:
Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name upon independence in 1966. Four decades of uninterrupted civilian leadership, progressive social policies, and significant capital investment have created one of the most dynamic economies in Africa. Mineral extraction, principally diamond mining, dominates economic activity, though tourism is a growing sector due to the country's conservation practices and extensive nature preserves. Botswana has one of the world's highest known rates of HIV/AIDS infection, but also one of Africa's most progressive and comprehensive programs for dealing with the disease.
Christian 71.6%,
Badimo 6%,
other 1.4%,
unspecified 0.4%,
none 20.6% (2001 census)
Pertinent Links:
1) Al-Nur defends separate classes for Muslims
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