Ramadan: faith and piety

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• AJARA SAMANTHA 11 years ago

  ISIS captures 88 Eritrean Christians in Libya, and slaughtered them
  
  
  The ISIS terror group kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a people-smugglers' caravan in Libya last week, a U.S. defense official confirmed Monday.
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  ISIS captures 88 Eritrean Christians in Libya, and slaughtered them
  
  
  The ISIS terror group kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a people-smugglers' caravan in Libya last week, a U.S. defense official confirmed Monday.
  
  The defense official confirmed initial reports of the mass kidnapping to Fox News after seeing a recent intelligence report. The independent Libya Herald newspaper reported that the convoy was ambushed by militants south of Tripoli before dawn this past Wednesday morning.
  
  Meron Estafanos, the co-founder of the Stockholm-based International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, told the paper that the group of migrants included "about 12 Eritrean Muslims and some Egyptians. They put them in another truck and they put 12 Eritrean women Christians in a smaller pick-up".
  
  Estafanos said that the militants had initially stopped the truck and demanded that the Muslims on board make themselves known. Everyone who responded was asked about the Koran and their religious observance in an attempt to catch Christians pretending to be Muslims.
  
  The main body of the group was put back on the original truck. As the militants drove the vehicle away, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported that at least nine men attempted to escape by diving off the back of the truck. Estefanos said three of those who had escaped were safe, but still trying to get out of Libya. The fate of the others was not known.
  
  Libya has become a jumping-off point for thousands of migrants from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa who attempt the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to southern Europe. However, Libya's ongoing instability has led to an increased presence by ISIS and other terror groups, increasing the risk for Christians and other non-Muslims attempting the crossing.
  
  In February, Libyan militants proclaiming loyalty to ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Two months later, another video showed the militants shooting and beheading an indeterminate number of Ethiopian Christians. Estefanos told the Libya Herald that the video released in April had been edited and that 64 people had been massacred, including several Eritreans.
  
  "Ever since the kidnapping by ISIS in Libya last February," she said, "many are taking different routes. Some go from Khartoum [Sudan] to Turkey, then Greece. Others are now leaving via Khartoum to Cairo, then Alexandria and from there by boat to Italy. I think we will see an increase towards Turkey and Cairo instead of Libya".
  
  ISIS on Tuesday also claimed that it seized a power plant near the Libyan city of Sirte, which supplies central and western parts of the country with electricity, Reuters reports.
  
  "The plant ... was taken," ISIS said in a message on social media, while forces loyal to the self-declared government that controls Libya's capital, Tripoli, fled the area, a military source told Reuters. The source said three soldiers were killed in the attack.
  
  Libya is divided between rival governments and hundreds of militias in the aftermath of its 2011 civil war that ousted dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
  
  The violence has impacted the country's oil revenues heavily. U.N. envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon has warned that the countr

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• CITIZEN 11 years ago

  BIG LIES......
  The fasting start before 5:00AM NOT 6:00AM.
  
  Depending on the season, it is normally from 4:30AM to 4:50AM. It is you who is rather ignorant. Even the fajr prayer which is observed a couple of minutes after ...
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  BIG LIES......
  The fasting start before 5:00AM NOT 6:00AM.
  
  Depending on the season, it is normally from 4:30AM to 4:50AM. It is you who is rather ignorant. Even the fajr prayer which is observed a couple of minutes after the fasting meal is done around 5:15 to 5:30AM. Please learn well before you criticize. Muslims are well aware of their religion. Don't criticize base on rumors and non-veridical premise.
  
  Concerning your last claim, I will not answer you till you argue like an intellectual. just listen to what you wrote....
  
  "Have you read that your prophet Mohammed cut a pregnant woman into two pieces on alledged charges of adultry? Did Mohammed punish the man? What sort of justice was that?"
  
  The whole paragraph has no meaning. You mixed the whole point up to the extend that I can even deduce what you wanna say.

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• MAN O MAN !!!!!!!! 11 years ago

  You fill your belly up to 4.29 AM and 4.30 AM Muslims begin to fast. Is that the case?

  You fill your belly up to 4.29 AM and 4.30 AM Muslims begin to fast. Is that the case?

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• CITIZEN 11 years ago

  If you think it is nothing just try it one day. Action is better than words. You can eat the whole food in the world and try to fast just for one day. From dawn to sunset. After fasting for one day, you will salute a muslim w ...
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  If you think it is nothing just try it one day. Action is better than words. You can eat the whole food in the world and try to fast just for one day. From dawn to sunset. After fasting for one day, you will salute a muslim who fast for 30 days.

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• CITIZEN 11 years ago

  LIES.... you people fast either half day or you take water during the fast. There is no religion on earth who fast like muslims do. I have a lot of christian friends. They do not fast through out the day when they do. Stop de ...
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  LIES.... you people fast either half day or you take water during the fast. There is no religion on earth who fast like muslims do. I have a lot of christian friends. They do not fast through out the day when they do. Stop deceiving yourself. Even the sunday church service how many are able to attend? not to talk about fasting. The fact is that fasting in christianity is optional, so can not dare compare.
  
  Jesus said ""Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone" mark 10:18
  
  Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father." mathew 20:23
  
  Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'" Luke 4:8
  
  “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already burning!” Luke 12:49
  
  “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword" Mathew 10:34
  
  For I have come to turn "'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--Mathew 10:35
  
  He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one." Luke 22:36
  
  "But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me" Luke 19: 27
  
  Wake up, only God can save. Jesus use to worship God. He asked you to worship God.
  
  By the way was Jesus a Jew or a Christian. For your knowledge Jesus has did not name you christians, so for Jesus there is no religion called Christianity. Go back and the true name of the religion Jesus practiced if you think you are intelligent.

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• Danquah 11 years ago

  Even as you pray in your mosques,you have knives on you.It's only Mohammed's god who will listen to you but not the Omnipotent God who created Heaven & earth.There is nowhere in the Christian Bible that God promised Christian ...
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  Even as you pray in your mosques,you have knives on you.It's only Mohammed's god who will listen to you but not the Omnipotent God who created Heaven & earth.There is nowhere in the Christian Bible that God promised Christians 72 virgins,no!.Except in Mohammed's Quran.This is why we're not serving or worshipping the same God.
  Christians serve the God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob while Muslims serve the god of Mohammed.Where that god is located,I have no idea.Mohammed was just a revolutionary and power drunk! .

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• MASUD,UK 11 years ago

  SENSELESS COMMENTS BY LOST PEOPLE,MAY YOU GUYS WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER.

  SENSELESS COMMENTS BY LOST PEOPLE,MAY YOU GUYS WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER.

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