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Muslim women perform an evening prayer, called tarawih, marking the eve of Ramadan at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 20, 2012.
Across the world Muslims are dedicating time to prayer, Quran reciting and fasting from dawn to dusk during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Ali Jarekji / Reuters
Injured Syrian men, who said their injuries were inflicted by Syrian security forces during the violence in their country, pray at a shelter in Amman, Jordan on July 20.
Chris Helgren / Reuters
Muslims attend Friday prayers at the courtyard of a housing estate in east London on July 20.
Ammar Awad / Reuters
Palestinian women pray outside the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on July 20. Israeli police said Palestinian males over the age of 40 would be permitted to enter the compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday.
Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Pakistanis attend the daily Asr prayer, or afternoon prayer, in Islamabad on July 20.
Louafi Larbi / Reuters
A man vacuums before Friday prayer at the Houda Mosque in Algiers on July 20.
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Did you see above pitchure muslims brain washing there children so much for ramada coyote
Yep taking a break to get ready for another year of blowing up everyone they don't like—Allah is great..
Wherever the followers of Islamic cult are there it is bad news for non-Muslims.
When most don't care for religion much these days, followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days of rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims.
We see Muslims inventing problems in most of the non-Muslim nations.
Even in the US, we can notice these actions!
When Muslims form more than five percent, downhill march starts.
Muslims are inventing problems in Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, India and other places.
When they form more than 30 percent then it is Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Lebanon (few decades back)
In Muslim majority nations, they kill each other! Examples are Mali, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq and other places.
In these nations, Sunnis can't even tolerate a people of a different Muslim sect like Shiites, Sufis and others!
Better wake up before it is too late on inventions of problems by followers of Islamic cult!
Here Saudis and Pakis are primarily responsible for 80 percent of world problems due to Islamic radicals and terrorists.
LOL....
Beautiful faces, beautiful people. Customs and rituals are slowly disappearing as organized religion finds its way back to the root of spirituality. Why not quietly observe the beauty of things.
So you bemoan organized religion finding its' way back....It's been around almost as long as there have been people.Have you been around 10,000 years or more? These people'beautiful' are part of a religion/culture who subjugate women.Let me help you-SLAP- make me food
Ah really because organized religion is trying to take over America. Wow. Religion is a lie and needs to be removed from all things state. For that fact there is no proof of any god ever. Get a clue! I guess you like to be told as a women what to do with your body how piss and when by male centered religions . They have S and M bars for that sort of thing . Try that ! Its safer! LMAO!
Religion is opium of masses.
But many followers have become extreme heroin addicts.
Sunni Saudi Arabia does not permit churches and other non-Muslim religious places. At the same time, Sunni Saudis, UAE, Kuwaiti and other ME rich sharks have been funding Sunni Islamic radical Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques all over the world.
These Salaffi and Wahhabi radical mosques have become centres of hate preaching and killer training places.
In Saudi Arabia itself, fate of Shiites, non-muslims and women are horrible.
Look at Syria. Are they going to take breaks in killings as it is Ramadan?
Pakistan was founded in 47 as a pure Islamic nation.
Right from 47 itself, Pakis started massive genocides of minorities.
Pakis have become so religiously intolerant that they can't even tolerate their own minority Muslim sects like Shiites (18 percent), Sufis and Ahmedias and minority tribes.
Minority sect mosques are blown up irrespective of whether it is Ramadan or any other day right on Fridays. After bombing them even the hospitals are blown up to kill those injured.
These very Pakis have invented Islamic radicals and terrorists, gave them support and then exported them on a massive scale all over the world.
Examine the Islamic radical and terrorism problems invented by them all over the world.
More extremist a religion or ideology, faster is the decline and death.
Islam has to reform with times. If it fails to do then it will follow the natural course like communism.
The biggest enemies of Islam are going to be the very Islamic radical and terrorist Frankenstein monsters they have been inventing, supporting and exporting.
In Pakistan, each Islamic militant group is busy killing the other one or doing jihad!
I wonder why it is that,during Ramadan, MSNBC runs two or three stories everyday, but during Easter, I have to search real hard, or go to Fox news, just to find one story ? Is Islam now the official religion for MSNBC?
Who cares its all bull@!$%#!
hill is waiting too many people in that world
Calm down people. Hate has made you blind and it hasnt helped so far.
There is a group of Muslims that you dont like, not the entire Muslim world. If they are all the same then have a look how easy it was for Holms to kill in a cinema and which can be done by Muslims on a daily basis but no thats not what Islam preaches, no matter how much youd love to believe it does , and those that pick Quranic verses between lines have sadly fooled too many and hasnt helped either.
Islam hasnt come on 911 but 1400 years back by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) the direct descendent of Abraham which also makes him a cousin and faily to Prophet Jesus (pbuh) . He is mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible in Songs of Solomon 5, 16
Wr worhsip Allah, this word appears 70 times in the Hebrew Bible.
"We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them: and to Him we surrender (become Muslims)" (Quran: 2:136).
QBhatti a prophet is a prophet a messenger is a messenger bibles and korans were writen by war lords its against the divine law to make anyone pray for any thing in this world. maby you fell off yor donkey banged your head==coyote
Not donkey but seventh century desert camel!
One has to understand that times are changing fast. We are in IT age.
All big sayings/shoutings/screamings/dramas and dances like we are "love", "peace", "charity" people mean nothing unless at least five percent is followed.
Islamic radicals are not able to tolerate moderate Sufis in Pakistan, Mali and other places.
Also comparing apples and oranges mean nothing.
If one compares what other religious groups did centuries back with what many Muslims are doing these days and advance conclusions, it makes no sense either!
Empires built by the seventh century highly corrupt, autocratic, despotic and bigoted Sunni Saudis and co and their lobbyists are not going to last long.
There are limits to high oil price manipulations with invented wars like Iraq, Syria and Iran in future.
Certainly, there are limits to all madness including religious madness. Past histories have shown them.
Ahhhhh Ramadan. Fasting? Rather switching day with night. Sleep all day. Eat all night. Do you know that food consumption goes up during this "eating" month.... also stomach problems. If you want to do Ramadan fasting make sure the whole world knows (and if you want to eat, just do it in hiding...as I have personally witnessed many, many times) And if you ask me if there is any spirituality involved in fasting...sorry, there's none. You might hear "we fast to feel how the poor feels" and we do it by eating more @ night and even wake up before sunrise to eat some more.