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  • 17
    Feb
    2013
    3:13pm, EST

    Victims of Pakistan bomb attack mourned

    Arshad Butt / AP

    Pakistani relatives of Saturday's bombing victims mourn next to the bodies in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, Feb. 17. Angry residents demanded government protection from an onslaught of attacks against Shiite Muslims a day after scores of people were killed in a massive bombing that a local official said was a sign that security agencies were too scared to do their jobs.

    Dozens of people including schoolchildren were killed Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said.

    A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb, which caused casualties in Quetta's main bazaar, a school and a computer center. Police said most of the victims were Shiites.

    -- By Gul Yousufzai, Reuters

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    Naseer Ahmed / Reuters

    A man prepares graves for the burial of victims.

    Naseer Ahmed / Reuters

    A girl cries during the funeral for victims of Saturday's bomb attack.

    Musa Farman / EPA

    A Pakistani paramilitary soldier inspects the belongings of a boy at the scene.

    Yslb Pak / Zuma Press

    Fire rages from destroyed buildings Feb. 16 at the site of the attack.

    Naseer Ahmed / Reuters

    Smoke rises in a Shiite Muslim area after the attack Feb. 16.

    Sixty-four people including schoolchildren died Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority. NBC's Lester Holt reports.

     

    6 comments

    Pakis. no mourming , you should be proud to supporting terrorists ...... Feed the snake & one day it will bite you back.

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  • 20
    Jan
    2013
    10:31pm, EST

    Abir Abdullah / EPA

    Sea of humanity obscures view of train in Bangladesh

    Muslims at Airport Railway station return home on an overcrowded train after attending the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) on the third day of the second phase of the largest congregation of Muslims in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 20. More than two million Muslims from home and abroad observed the three-day long congregation with prayers on the river bank of Turag.

    2 comments

    I agree wantnot! This group of people is on the scale of Lincoln. Hard as I tried to pick out the "Tan Man" in the crowd, I just couldn't find him. He has to be there, he's the real King of this government. The President is just his wing man. LOL I was busy at work for the speech, but when I came ho …

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  • 17
    Jan
    2013
    12:06pm, EST

    In rain-soaked protest, cleric demands resignation of Pakistan's president

    B.K. Bangash / AP

    Pakistani Sunni cleric Tahirul Qadri addresses a rally from a bullet-proof container, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Jan. 17.

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    Supporters of Pakistani cleric Tahirul Qadri chant slogans at a protest rally in Islamabad on Jan. 17.

    B.K. Bangash / AP

    Supporters of Pakistani Sunni cleric Tahirul Qadri, celebrate the deadline that Qadri gave to the government for negotiation during a rally in Islamabad.

    Zohra Bensemra / Reuters

    A supporter of Sufi cleric and leader of Tahirul Qadri leans against a container blocking a road to prevent them from reaching the parliament building during the fourth day of protests in Islamabad on Jan. 17.

    Muhammad Tahirul Qadri is calling for the immediate resignation of Pakistan's president and cabinet and the installation of a caretaker administration in the run-up to elections due in the next few months.

    Qadri issued what he called a final warning to the government as supporters listened to his latest speech during heavy rain in the heart of the capital.

    "Now I give an ultimatum that the president and his team must come for dialogue in one and a half hours and it's the last peaceful offer to them," said Qadri, who returned home from Canada a few weeks ago and became a media sensation with calls for a new political landscape. Continue reading complete article.

    -- Reuters

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    • Declaring victory from behind bullet-proof glass, Pakistani cleric ends protests
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    Slideshow: Pakistan: A nation in turmoil

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.

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    5 comments

    I would like to call for the resignation of Pakistan as a nation and Islam as an organized religion. Anyone with me?

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  • 3
    Jan
    2013
    10:14am, EST

    Winter-only weddings - Bulgarian Muslims say 'I do'

    Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

    Fatme Ulanova stands during her wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in southwestern Bulgaria, on Jan. 2.

    Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

    Fatme Ulanova, 20, and Djamal Sirakov, 23, stand with with euro banknotes hung on their garments as presents during their two-day wedding ceremony in the Bulgarian village of Ribnovo.

    Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

    Bulgarian Muslim women look at the dowry during a wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo in Bulgaria.

    Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

    Bulgarian Muslim women look at the dowry during a wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in southwestern Bulgaria, on Jan. 2.

    Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

    Bulgarian Muslim women dance during a two-day wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo on Jan. 2.

    The people of this Bulgarian town of Ribnovo are famous for performing their unique wedding ceremonies in winter time only.

    The inhabitants of the mountain village of Ribnovo are Bulgarian-speaking Muslims, sometimes referred to as "Pomaks" or "people who have suffered". Muslim Bulgarians are descendants of Christian Bulgarians who were forcibly converted to Islam by the Turks, during the 14th, 16th and the 18th century.

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    This is the official page :)

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  • 24
    Nov
    2012
    3:33pm, EST

    Bloody displays as Shiites flagellate themselves for Ashoura

    GRAPHIC WARNING: This post contains graphic images which some viewers may find disturbing. 

    S.sabawoon / EPA

    Afghan Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves during an Ashoura procession in Kabul on Nov. 24.

    Each year during Ashoura, Shiite Muslim men & boys whip their backs with chains and cut their heads with knives, drenching themselves in blood to mourn the loss of one of the faith's most revered figures, Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala.

    Thaier Al-sudani / Reuters

    Shiite Muslim worshippers, covered in their own blood from self-inflicted wounds, hold knives during a procession to mark the Muslim festival of Ashoura in Baghdad's Sadr City on Nov. 24.

    Thaier Al-sudani / Reuters

    An Iraqi Shiite Muslim child gashes his forehead with a sword during a ceremony marking Ashoura in Baghdad's Sadr City on Nov. 24.

    Murad Sezer / Reuters

    Turkish Shiite women during an Ashoura procession in Istanbul on Nov. 24.

     

    Dar Yasin / AP

    Blood runs down the face of a Kashmiri Shiite Muslim as he participates in a procession in Srinagar, India, on Nov. 24.

    Related content:
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    More stories on religious practices on PhotoBlog:

    • Hindus worship the sun god as night falls during Chhath Puja
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    • Coptic Christians seek solace in their faith, while facing turmoil in Egypt

    26 comments

    What do shocking, senseless, scarring displays such as this say about us as a human race? . . . it says we really haven't crept up the evolutionary ladder as far as we'd thought we had. It's hard to imagine so-called "adults" doing this sort of thing to themselves, much less allowing their children  …

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  • 5
    Nov
    2012
    12:26am, EST

    Farooq Khan / EPA

    Kashmiri Muslim women pray as holy relic is shown

    Kashmiri Muslim women pray as a head priest (not in picture) displays a holy relic, believed to be the hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, Nov. 4, where Muslims are holding special prayers to observe the Martyr Day of Hazrat Usman Ghani, the third Khalifah (Caliph) of Islam.

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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

    1 comment

    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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  • 29
    Oct
    2012
    6:20pm, EDT

    Muslim Rohingyas endure ethnic violence in Myanmar

    Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

    A Muslim woman collects water outside her village, which was partially burnt in recent violence, in Mrauk Oo, Myanmar, Oct. 29, 2012.

    Associated Press reports — Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government Monday for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has displaced more than 28,000 people over the last week.

    The crisis, which first began in June, has raised international concern and posed one of the biggest challenges yet to Myanmar’s reformist President Thein Sein, who inherited power from a xenophobic military junta last year.

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    A Muslim woman collects pieces of metal from the rubble of a Muslim quarter of Pa Rein village that was burned in recent violence between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas in Myauk Oo, Myanmar, Oct. 29.

    Getty Images

    A Muslim woman holds her child in a Muslim quarter of Pa Rein village, Myauk Oo, Myanmar, Oct. 29.

    Related Articles:

    • Myanmar revises down death toll in sectarian violence
    • Muslim survivors of Myanmar’s sectarian violence relive ordeals
    • Muslim Rohingyas under “vicious” attack in Myanmar: rights group

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    1 comment

    May the Buddhists prevail against the evil Muslim extremists trying to inflict their Shari Law on others! God Bless the Buddhists of Myanmar in their fight to eradicate the extremists Muslim vermin from this world!

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  • 26
    Oct
    2012
    3:30pm, EDT

    Muslims continue hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims have their heads shaved during the annual haj pilgrimage on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 26, 2012.

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    A Muslim pilgrim prays during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mina, Oct. 26.

    Associated Press reports — At sunset of Oct. 25, pilgrims headed to Muzdalifa, where Muslims believe prophets before Muhammad once prayed. There, they collected pebbles walking or driving to nearby Mina for Friday's symbolic stoning of the devil that marks the start of Eid al-Adha, or feast of the sacrifice, when Muslims slaughter lambs to feed the hungry.

    They made the 8 kilometer journey from Mount Arafat by foot and bus caravan, where they will spend the night, as the Prophet Muhammad did during his own pilgrimage. Millions of people will sleep there in tents.

    Hajj rules - based on centuries of interpretation of the Sunna, the traditions of Muhammad - are extremely elaborate. Pilgrims must all gather at certain sites at specific times. Some rites are repeated, others are partially repeated and some performed only once.

    Many pilgrims being their journey in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina with a visit to Muhammad's mosque, where he is buried. They then head to Mecca and perform a set of pre-hajj rituals, including circling the Kaaba counterclockwise with their hearts tilted toward it - the same rituals that conclude the hajj for many. Full story…

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    A Muslim pilgrim sleeps next to hair from those who shaved their heads during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 26.

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims cast seven stones at a pillar that symbolizes Satan during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 26.

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims cast seven stones at a pillar that symbolizes Satan during the annual haj pilgrimage in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 26.

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    5 comments

    I am Somali born into a Muslim family and I have to say ...my heart sinks at how our people's mind ever came to be dominated/contaminated by these religions...but then they were people who were meagerly living off the land with little potential to develop sophisticated culture....that offers little  …

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  • 25
    Oct
    2012
    8:18am, EDT

    'Mountain of Mercy': Hajj pilgrims make early-morning ascent

    Alaa Badarneh / EPA

    Muslim pilgrims arrive to pray at the Mountain of Mercy (formally known as Mount Arafat) during the Hajj, in Arafat, Saudi Arabia, on October 24, 2012.

    As the sun rose on Thursday morning, hundreds of Muslim pilgrims prayed on a rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, located on the Plain of Arafat near Mecca.

    Saudi authorities say around 3.4 million pilgrims — some 1.7 million of them from abroad — have arrived in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for this year's hajj pilgrimage. 

    Hassan Ammar / AP

    Muslim pilgrims pray on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012.

    Hassan Ammar / AP

    A pilgrim cries as he prays at sunrise on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy on Oct. 25, 2012.

    Hassan Ammar / AP

    Pilgrims climb the Mountain of Mercy on Oct. 25, 2012.

    Hassan Ammar / AP

    Muslim pilgrims head to Mount Arafat ahead of the hajj main ritual in the holy city of Mecca on Oct. 24, 2012.

    Click here to see previous PhotoBlog posts on the hajj.

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    47 comments

    Muslims only believe in receiving mercy for themselves, but certainly never show any mercy to anyone else. What a sham.

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  • 25
    Oct
    2012
    5:40am, EDT

    Muslims prepare for Eid festival

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    Pakistanis walk in a livestock market set up in a field, for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, during the sunset on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on Oct. 24, 2012.

    Mohammad Sajjad / AP

    A Pakistani man is reflected in a mirror while trying on a traditional hat, as he and others buy new clothes for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Peshawar, Pakistan on Oct. 24, 2012.

    Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images

    Palestinians gather at a sheep market in Bethlehem on Oct. 24, 2012, ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

    Eid al-Adha, the "Feast of Sacrifice", marks the end of the annual hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca and celebrates Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to God. -- Agence France Presse

    See previous PhotoBlog posts on Eid and the hajj.

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    Ha ha

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  • 24
    Oct
    2012
    1:00am, EDT

    Muslim pilgrims gather in Mecca for hajj

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba and pray at the Grand mosque during the annual hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, ahead of Eid al-Adha which marks the end of hajj. On October 25, the day of Arafat, millions of Muslim pilgrims will stand in prayer on Mount Arafat near Mecca at the peak of the annual pilgrimage.

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    5 comments

    May ALLAH accept their hajj pilgrimage, grant them forgiveness, and reward them for their efforts and keep them all safe during the hajj rituals.

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