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  • 26
    Jul
    2012
    11:06am, EDT

    Bodos, Muslims seek relief from ethnic violence in Assam

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    Indian displaced villagers wait at a relief camp at Bijni village in Chirang District on July 26, after a week of clashes that left at least 45 people dead.

    Utpal Baruah / Reuters

    Villagers affected by ethnic riots walk through a paddy field to reach a relief camp near Bijni town in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on July 26.

    Anupam Nath / AP

    Urmila Gayari, a Bodo woman affected by ethnic violence, holds her two-year-old son at a relief camp at Bijni in Chirang District, Assam, India on July 26.

    Tens of thousands of Muslims and Bodos have fled their homes in India's northeastern Assam, and sought shelter in camps in larger towns. Roving armed bands have set ablaze hundreds of tin-roofed homes, many made of hay and clay, in the nearly week-long orgy of violence.

    • Refugees flee ethnic violence in India's troubled Assam
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  • 26
    Jul
    2012
    8:14am, EDT

    Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

    Observing Ramadan in Nepal

    The hands of a Muslim boy offering prayer at Nepali Jame Mashjid mosque in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 26, 2012, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

    See more pictures of Ramadan on PhotoBlog.

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  • 25
    Jul
    2012
    6:40pm, EDT

    Ethnic violence erupts in India's Assam

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    A house burns in Kachugaon village, Assam state, India during violent ethnic clashes on July 23.

    Reuters - Police shot dead four rioters in India's northeastern state of Assam on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain ethnic fighting that has killed 26 people and left remote hamlets in flames, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. Read More

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    An Indian woman cries as fire fighters try to extinguish fire on her house following ethnic clashes in Kokrajhar, Assam state, India on July 24.

    Utpal Baruah / Reuters

    An ethnic violence victim cries at a relief camp in Goshaigaon after her house was burnt during violence in Assam, India on July 25.

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    Victims of the ethnic violence in Assam line up for relief goods at a camp in the Kokrajhar district of India on July 25.

    Altaf Qadri / AP

    Muslims hailing from India's north eastern Assam state and living in New Delhi shout slogans during a protest against the ethnic violence in Assam on July 25.

    Anupam Nath / AP

    A Muslim man removes a tin sheet from his burnt house following ethnic violence in Kokrajhar, Assam state, India on July 25.

    Anupam Nath / AP

    Ela Brahma, a victim of ethnic violence, attends to her four-day-old baby girl at a relief camp at Kambari Beel in Kokrajhar, India on July 25.

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    Tragic. Things like this make me wish that I could help everyone in the world.

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  • 20
    Jul
    2012
    3:24pm, EDT

    Muslims devote to Ramadan worldwide

    Dita Alangkara / AP

    Muslim women perform an evening prayer, called tarawih, marking the eve of Ramadan at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 20, 2012.

    By Kyle Bruggeman, NBC News

    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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    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.

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  • 19
    Jul
    2012
    5:43pm, EDT

    Astronomers and scholars debate start of Ramadan

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    Saudis use a telescope to monitor the new moon of Ramadan as astronomers and scholars of Islam debate when the holy Muslim month of Ramadan begins, in the Saudi city of Taif on Thursday, July 19. The start of the fasting month, when the faithful abstain from eating from dawn to sunset, is determined by the sighting of the new moon.

    By Jonathan Sanger, NBC News

    On the eve of Ramadan, astronomers and scholars consult the sky to determine the precise starting date. Since the Muslim holy month starts at the sighting of the new moon, the exact date is not known far in advance. This has caused issues for some European Muslims. Jordanians begin Ramadan on Friday, while Muslims in the West Bank began Thursday.

    Mohammad Hannon / AP

    A Jordanian man looks at decorations for Ramadan in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, July 19. Religious authorities in Jordan declared that Friday will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan, a period devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection. Ramadan begins around 11 days earlier each year. Its start is calculated based on the sighting of the new moon, which marks the beginning of the Muslim lunar month that varies between 29 or 30 days.

    Nasser Ishtayeh / AP

    A Palestinian boy plays with fireworks as he celebrates the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, July 19.

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    Ok, I'm not being sarcastic here, but what if it's cloudy?

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  • 9
    Jul
    2012
    2:38pm, EDT

    Dado Ruvic / Reuters

    Victims of Ratko Mladic's slaughter in Srebrenica set to be buried

    A Bosnian Muslim man cries near coffins prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica on July 9. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.

    • Forensics work to identify remains in Bosnia; burial ceremony for victims next week
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  • 18
    Jun
    2012
    3:47pm, EDT

    Kashmiri Muslims celebrate Mehraj-u-Alam

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    Kashmiri Muslims pray at a wall at Hazratbal Shrine on June 18, 2012.

    Fayaz Kabli / Reuters

    A Kashmiri Muslim clerk displays a relic of the Prophet Mohammad to devotees during Meeraj-un-Nabi celebrations at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar on June 18.

    Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims thronged to the Hazratbal shrine on Monday to celebrate the Mehraj-u-Alam festival marking the ascension of the Prophet Mohammad to Heaven. The Hazratbal shrine houses a relic believed to contain hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed.

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    Kashmiri Muslims pray as a head priest, not in picture, displays a holy relic believed to contain hair from the beard of the Prophet Mohammed in the outskirts of Srinagar, India.

    Fayaz Kabli / Reuters

    A Kashmiri Muslim man prays as balls thrown by children aviate during Mehraj-u-Alam celebrations at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar.

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    I see a bunch of women out there. mehraj-u-alam must translate as the day women are allowed outside.

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  • 31
    Mar
    2012
    9:35pm, EDT

    Hadi Mizban / AP

    Relatives of Shaima Alawadi gather around her body during her funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, March 31. Alawadi, an Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday.

    Iraqi-American woman found beaten in her California home laid to rest in her native Iraq

    "The martyr (Alawadi) used to love all; she made no distinction between religions," Alawadi's father, Nabil, told Reuters.

    "Her husband told me that someone threw a note saying, 'go back to your own country, you're a terrorist' ... Who is the real terrorist, Shaima, or them," he said.

    -- Reported by msnbc.com news services

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  • 24
    Feb
    2012
    12:35pm, EST

    12 die in Quran-burning protests in Afghanistan

    Ahmad Masood / Reuters

    An Afghan boy who works at a bakery watches a protest outside his window in Kabul on Feb. 24. Twelve people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest day yet in protests that have raged across Afghanistan over the desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book at a NATO military base with riot police and soldiers on high alert braced for more violence.

    Parwiz / Reuters

    Afghan men shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration in Jalalabad province on Feb. 24.

    Slideshow: Protests erupt over Quran burning

    Parwiz / Reuters

    Angry afghans attacked U.S. bases after reports of Quran desecration.

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    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Twelve people were killed Friday during protests in Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Quran at a NATO base, officials said, despite Thursday's written apology from Barack Obama.

    Seven people were killed and 50 wounded in the western province of Herat, while two more were killed in Khost in the east. Three people were killed earlier during protests.

    On Thursday, two U.S. soldiers were shot dead during a protest by a man wearing an Afghan government soldier's uniform, as a letter from Obama apologizing for the Quran burnings was delivered to Afghan president Hamid Karzai. Advertise | AdChoices

    The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan says the Qurans and other Islamic texts were sent to a burn pit by mistake.

    Continue reading.

    -- msnbc.com news services

    Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images

    Afghan demonstrators shout anti-US slogans during a protest against Koran desecration in Kabul on Feb. 24.

    Gunfire broke out in the capital of Afghanistan, where thousands of demonstrators protested against the U.S. for burning Qurans. NBC's Atia Abawi reports.

     

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  • 15
    Feb
    2012
    9:16pm, EST

    Scenes from the old city of Sanaa

    Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters

    Sanaa is an UNESCO World Heritage site and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

    Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters

    A craftsman works outside his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district in Sanaa on Feb. 15.

    Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters

    A man reads a Koran inside an old mosque in Sanaa's Old City district on Feb. 14.

    Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters

    Men chew qat, a mild stimulant, inside a shop in Sanaa's Old City district on Feb. 15.

    Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters

    A shoe salesman sits inside his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district in Sanaa.

    Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters

    A vendor selling donkeys waits for customers in his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district.

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    Why is any of this important????

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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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  • 13
    Dec
    2011
    10:09am, EST

    Surviving a suicide bombing in a blood-stained, bright green dress

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    Twelve-year-old Tarana Akbari after visiting her sister who was wounded in a bomb attack against Shiite Muslims, in a hospital in Kabul on Dec, 8. Akbari was photographed crying surrounded by injured and dead relatives after surviving a bomb blast on Dec. 6 near a shrine on the Shiite holy day of Ashura. Afghanistan said the death toll from bombings targeting the Shiite Muslim holy day of Ashura, which raised fears the nation could face an eruption of sectarian violence, has climbed to 80. The twin blasts have prompted fears that Afghanistan could see the sort of sectarian violence that has pitched Shiite against Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan.

    Massoud Hossaini / AFP - Getty Images

    Twelve-year-old Tarana Akbari kisses her grandfather's hand as she walks on the yard with the help of her uncle (right) outside her home in Kabul on Dec. 10.

    By Natalia Jimenez, NBC News

    By now, you may have already seen the photo of Tarana Akbari reacting as she is surrounded by the bodies of her relatives, victims of a suicide bombing on a Shiite Muslim shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan on Dec. 6. The photo of the 12-year-old girl in her bright green dress, covered in blood became the defining image of the day's attacks, which resulted in the deaths of over 70 people, both young and old. It appeared the next day on the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

    We now know her story. Akbari spoke about her experience to Agence France Presse, recounting the horror and fear she felt last Tuesday. That morning, she especially chose her custom-made, bright green dress for the occasion of Ashura; green is a holy color in Islam. She says:

    Suddenly there was an explosion. It was as if the world had overturned, as if all the walls had collapsed on me. Little by little, I started to recognize my relatives. I screamed and I was watching as they died.

    Akbari lost seven relatives in the attacks, including her 7 year-old brother, and her two sisters are still in the hospital. She was also injured, according to the Telegraph, and spent three days in the hospital due to shrapnel wounds. When she went to visit her family's grave, she was walking with a limp.

    Massoud Hossaini / AFP - Getty Images

    Twelve-year-old Tarana Akbari looks on at her family grave yard in Kabul on Dec. 10.

    The photographer, Massoud Hossaini, who took the picture of Akbari on Dec. 6, was also interviewed by AFP. When the bomb went off, he instinctively ran in the opposite direction of the fleeing people and ended up in the same spot where the suicide bomber had been, surrounded by dead bodies. Although in a state of shock, he knew he was witnessing something that needed to be documented:

    I was hoping just to reflect the real pain to everybody else, to everybody who is watching my photos. Doesn't matter [if] they are Afghans, they are American, they are Muslim, they are Christian, they are whatever. Just wanted that they know what my people are feeling now.

    While still haunted by the visions of that day, he felt some solace knowing his image was widely published and helped bring attention to the suffering in Afghanistan.

    For more images from Afghanistan, see our slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroads.

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    Heaven, help us all!

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