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  • 5
    Feb
    2013
    6:04pm, EST

    4 arrested in Egypt after shoe thrown at Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets people as he visits the Al-Hussein mosque, named after Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hussein ibn Ali, in old Cairo on Feb. 5, 2013. Ahmadinejad was both kissed and scolded on Tuesday when he began the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

    By Ayman Mohyeldin, Correspondent, NBC News

    CAIRO -- Egypt's security arrested four men who were protesting outside a Cairo mosque, where the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was praying.

    The men, including a Syrian, belong to the ultra-conservative Sunni Salafist movement.

    One man threw a shoe at Ahmadinejad, a Shiite, who was never in any danger.

    The Al-Hussein Mosque is revered by Shiite Muslims, who are widely disliked by conservative Sunni Muslims, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi was previously a member of the Brotherhood.

    Many Sunni Muslim groups have denounced the Iranian president’s visit to Cairo and have called on Egypt’s government to prevent Ahmadinejad from visiting any religious sites that are significant to Shiite Muslims.

    Ahmadinejad met with Sunni Islam's most senior scholar at Al Azhar shortly before he went to pray at the Al-Hussein Mosque.

    145 comments

    I remember from when Bush got a shoe thrown at him, that showing the bottom of your shoe to somebody in the Muslim community is just about the most offensive and disrespectful thing that can be done. Ahmadinejad has killed people for less in Iran, wonder what Morsi will do.

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  • 1
    Nov
    2012
    8:04pm, EDT

    Sayed Mustafa / EPA

    Afghanistan in blue

    A burqa-clad woman begs at the Blue Mosque believed by some Muslims to be the site of the tomb of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, in Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan, Nov. 1, 2012. According to historical documents, Imam Jaffer-I-Sadiq ordered Abu Muslim I Khurasani to bring the sacred coffin from Najaf in Iraq to Mazar-I-Sharif, where it was buried in the seventh century. The sacred coffin was recognized in the twelfth century and Afghan King Sultan Sanjar-I-Salgioqi built a shrine around it. Over time the building was destroyed and hidden for two and a half centuries.

    Related Article: In Afghanistan, a growing number of insider attacks

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    Call your tavel agent...take off your shoes, book passage to Istanbul to see the Blue Mosque there. Then venture into Afghanistan to see that particular Blue Mosque. What you will not see in Afghanistan is Bamiyan complete.

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  • 13
    Mar
    2012
    11:08am, EDT

    Yves Logghe / AP

    A sandal is seen in the Reda mosque in Brussels, Belgium, on March 13, 2012. A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said.

    Imam dies in arson attack on Belgian mosque

    Reuters reports from Brussels — A man threw a petrol bomb through the window of a mosque west of Brussels on Monday, killing the imam and injuring a second person, Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure reported.

    The newspaper quoted police as saying a suspect was detained after the attack in Anderlecht.

    Belgium has a Muslim population of about 500,000 out of a population of nearly 11 million and there are occasional acts of violence between communities, particularly in areas such as Anderlecht. Read more.

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    Stunning Photo! WOW! Yves Logghe

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  • 15
    Jan
    2012
    12:46pm, EST

    Central Asia's largest mosque ravaged by fire, 1 person killed

    Mukhtar Kholdorbekov / Reuters

    Smoke rises above the Khazret Sultan mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan, Jan. 15. The mosque, which is regarded as the largest in Central Asia, was on fire on Sunday and 20 vehicles were involved in the firefighting operation.

    AP reports the blaze was likely caused by welding equipment that set fire to scaffolding installed beneath the central dome of the mosque which is still under construction.

    EPA

    People watch as firefighters try to extinguish the fire on the Khazret Sultan mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan, Jan. 15.

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    Too bad it was empty. Islam is a plague on this planet.

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  • 30
    Dec
    2011
    12:21pm, EST

    Adnan Abidi / Reuters

    Muslims offer evening prayers inside a mosque in New Delhi, India. Dec.30.

    Muslims pray in New Delhi mosque

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  • 15
    Sep
    2011
    3:18pm, EDT

    Bernat Armangue / AP

    Palestinians work to maintain "The Dome" mosque in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Sept. 15.

    Mosque receives maintenance in Gaza Strip

    By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor

    I like the light, color and shapes in this image.

    2 comments

    1. Who's paying for it? 2.When will they allow the repair of synagogues and churches in this splendid egalitarian "We're-not-apartheid" society?

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  • 29
    Aug
    2011
    9:45am, EDT

    Mohammed Ameen / Reuters

    A man inspects bloodstained copies of the Koran after a blast occurred inside Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad's Ghazaliya district on Monday, Aug. 29. A suicide bomber posing as a beggar detonated his explosives inside a main Baghdad Sunni mosque on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, including an Iraqi lawmaker, and wounding more than 30 others, hospital and local officials.

    Suicide bomber attacks Iraq mosque; 29 dead

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    AP reports -- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque Sunday night, killing 29 people during prayers, a shocking strike on a place of worship similar to the one that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war five years ago. (Read more).

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  • 5
    Nov
    2010
    10:15am, EDT

    Adress Latif / Reuters

    Ajmal, 12, injured in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque, awaits treatment at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar November 5, 2010. A suicide bomber demolished a mosque in northwest Pakistan as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 66 people after a relative lull in militant violence, provincial government officials said.

    A. Majeed/ AFP

    Pakistani villagers clean the interior of a mosque following a suicide bombing inside the premises in Akhurwall village, part of the semi-tribal northwest area of Darra Adam Khel, on November 5, 2010. A suicide bomb destroyed a Pakistani mosque on November 5, killing dozens of people during the main weekly prayers and trapping human remains under a collapsed roof and pulverised rubble.

    At least 66 killed in mosque bombing

    This is just tragic. Click here for the full story.

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  • 30
    Sep
    2010
    11:30am, EDT

    Douglas Curran/AFP-Getty Images file

    Hindu youths clamour atop the 16th century Muslim Babri Mosque in this December 6, 1992 file photo five hours before the structure was completely demolished by hundreds supporting Hindu fundamentalist activists. In 1947 India and Pakistan were ripped savagely apart. In 1997 there are a growing number of people who would like them stitched back together again. The trauma of partition persists and fears seemed to be underlined by the evocative image of Ayodhya, when the mosque was torn down amid claims that it had been built on the site of a former Hindu temple built where Lord Rama was born.

    Mukesh Gupta/Reuters

    A family watches a TV news channel in a room in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, September 30, 2010. More than 200,000 police fanned out across India and temporary jails were set up as the government prepared for possible Hindu-Muslim riots over one of the most divisive court cases in the nation's history. The government has appealed for calm once a court in Uttar Pradesh state later on Thursday rules which religion owns the site of a 16th century mosque, a flashpoint that flared in 1992 and triggered some of India's worst riots that killed about 2,000 people.

    A nation holds its breath

    As if the Indian government doesn't have enough to worry about with the Commonwealth Games, today's ruling by a court on the future of the site of the Barbri Mosque has the nation's security forces on edge. It may take the wisdom of Solomon to keep the peace between Hindus and Muslims.

    AYODHYA, India — The site of a demolished mosque in India is to be divided between Hindus and Muslims, an Indian court ruled Thursday.

    The court in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh gave the Hindu community control over the section where the now demolished Babri Mosque stood and where a small makeshift tent-shrine to the Hindu god Rama rests.

    Muslims revere the compound in Ayodhya as the former site of the mosque, built in 1528 by the Mughal emperor Babur, while Hindus say it is the birthplace of Rama and contend that a temple to the god stood on the site before the mosque.

    Hindu mobs demolished the mosque in 1992, triggering some of India's worst riots. About 2,000 people died because of the violence.

    1 comment

    2000 dead because of a simple disagreement between two religious beliefs. Does anyones still wonder why religious belief is a dying custom, worldwide? The wealthy use it to control the uneducated, poor, slaves. The slaves just hope for the best. Free yourself! Believe in science and practice its met …

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