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Muslim boy Sabir Ali, aged 8, looks across Kathmandu from a balcony during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at the Jamia school in the Nepali capital on July 27, 2012.
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Mohamad Udin Sekh, aged 12, a Jamia school pupil from Janakpur village in eastern Nepal.
Narendra Shrestha of the European Pressphoto Agency reports — The fasting month of Ramadan is a testing time for the young students of the Jamia Gaushia Ahsanual Barkat Islamic boys' school in Kathmandu, because they have to refrain from consuming food and drinking water from sunrise until sunset. About 30 students from around Nepal as well as neighboring India are accommodated, many of them from poor families.
Their everyday ritual for the month begins at around 3 a.m. when they wake and freshen up for sehari (or suhoor), their morning meal. At around 4:30 a.m. they attend morning prayer, a process that is repeated at 1, 5, 7 and 8 p.m.
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Schoolboys read textbooks at the Jamia school.
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Boys attend the afternoon prayer.
During the day the students attend their regular classes but according to Mohamad Aslam, a school official, the boys are less interested in studying than usual and the teachers do not force them to attend. Hence, most of the time they play, chat and read the Quran. After sunset, they sit together for aftari (or iftar), the evening meal.
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A schoolboy sleeps with an Islamic textbook covering his face.
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A group of boys play in a courtyard of the Jamia school.
Each student pays 2,000 to 3,500 Nepalese Rupees ($22 to $39) per month to cover tuition, food and accommodation at the school, which offers education from nursery to eighth grade. Apart from Islamic studies, Urdu and Arabic language classes, the school also provides English and math classes. After completing their education, two students each year get the opportunity to travel to Egypt for higher education.
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The boys pray before eating 'aftari' (or iftar), the evening meal with fruits, vegetables and sweets, which breaks their daily fast.
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The boys prepare to go to bed.
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"Hence, most of the time they play, chat and read the Quran. After sunset, they sit together for aftari (or iftar), the evening meal."
As many Muslims are not there in Nepal, this Ramadan style soap opera is going on!
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.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
Just watch for their hating, killings and charity dances in Egypt with Morse as front end for MB, Salaffi and others.
We don't see any breaks in killing non-Muslims and Muslims even during their holy Ramadan month.
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!
Better wake up before it is too late on inventions of problems by followers of Islamic cult!
Do they follow a word of what they say or write?
Whom are these people fooling?
I have a question... Did mohammad set up the time frames for people to face Mecca and pray at these certain times or is this man made insanity?? If you ask me all this is insane..They act like they are kind,peaceable people but in reality they are exactly as Jonathan says..Evil!!!
I also picture all these little boys with weapons of destruction in just a few years...Maybe with bombs tied around their waists blowing people up..What a sweet picture and article of these sweet little tykes!!
This story is crap and imaginary one!
MSNBC should maintain some standards and not publish these sorts of imaginary BS stories, which are completly opposite of realities.
By now most non-Muslims know the dangers from followers of Isalmic cult!