Archive for December, 2007
By Rukshana Choudhury
The Saudi Government is encouraging Saudi students not to join the University of East Anglia after a spate of racist attacks.
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By EILEEN SULLIVANAssociated Press Writer
, Staff Writer
The hefty baskets filled with chocolate, nuts and munchies and delivered Tuesday to 20 Wake County schools were not Christmas or New Year’s gifts.The local chapter of the Muslim American Society raised more than $2,000 to prepare the baskets, given to teachers and school administrators to celebrate Islam’s holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, which begins today.
Continue reading ‘Schools get taste of Islamic holiday spirit’
The Associated Press
SMITHFIELD, N.C. - Hundreds of Muslim families don’t have a place to perform a religious ceremony to start the three-day Islamic holiday, Eid al-Adha.A Johnston County judge refused Tuesday to lift a ban on a farmer to host a mass slaughter of lambs on Wednesday, the first day of a holiday also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.
Continue reading ‘Judge bans mass lamb slaughter on first day of Islamic holiday’
, Staff Writer
SMITHFIELD - A tangle between a farmer and the state has left hundreds of Muslim families without a place to perform the ritual slaughter of lambs today at the start of the three-day Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha.Late Tuesday, several Muslim families from Wake and Johnston counties asked a Johnston County judge to lift the ban he put on Princeton farmer Eddie Rowe to host a mass slaughter today. They urged Johnston County Superior Court Judge Tom Lock to turn to the highest law of the land — the U.S. Constitution — to eliminate what they consider a hindrance on their religious practice.
EID AL-ADHA South Florida Muslims celebrate start of Eid al-Adha Eid al-Adha, the Islamic holiday of sacrifice, began Wednesday, and Sunday more than a dozen South Florida mosques will host a daylong Eid festival in Hollywood’s Topeekeegee Yugnee Park.
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Imam Foad Farahi, at the Shamsuddin Islamic Center, says he was pressured to agree to be deported to Iran.
Continue reading ‘IMMIGRATION : Cleric claims he was pressured to leave’
