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Taliban Rebels Publicly Humiliate a Shiite Traveler for Not Fasting in Ghor

15th April, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban has reportedly tortured a Hazara Shiite traveler in the city of Firuzkuh, the capital of Ghor province, for not fasting during Ramadan. According to locals and eyewitnesses, the Taliban rebels arrested the man, while having lunch at a restaurant. He was humiliated in the public in the center of Feruzkuh Bazar. In

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Ethnic descrimination, Ghor, Hazaras, Life under Taliban rule, Ramadan, Shiites |
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Eid to fall on Sunday, May 24, 2020

22nd May, 2020 · admin

India.com: The higher judiciary council of Saudi Arabia has announced that no moon has been sighted today. Thus 30 days of fasting will be completed. Eid-Ul-Fitr 2020 will be celebrated on May 24. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Muslims and Islam | Tags: Eid, Ramadan |
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Taliban Rejects Afghan Truce Calls During Ramadan

23rd April, 2020 · admin

By Ayaz Gul VOA News April 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban has turned down calls for a cease-fire in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins Friday. The Afghan government and others had hoped to enable health officials to better respond to the “common threat” of the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesman for the Islamist

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Posted in Peace Talks, Political News, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Ramadan, Taliban prisoner release, Taliban War on Muslims |
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COVID-19 Threatens Centuries Old Ramadan Traditions

23rd April, 2020 · admin

Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News April 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The coronavirus outbreak threatens to upend faith-based traditions that have gone on for almost 1,500 years. The world’s nearly 2 billion Muslims will not be able to hold communal feasts and prayers that are a hallmark of Ramadan, their holiest month, starting this week. The pandemic

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Posted in Muslims and Islam | Tags: Ramadan |
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UN’s Afghan Mission Concerned About ‘Increased Violence’ During Ramadan

13th May, 2019 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 13, 2019 KABUL — The United Nations’ Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “grave concern” about the impact on civilians from an “increase in violence around the country” during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. In a statement on May 13, UNAMA condemned the Taliban for attacks which

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, NATO-Afghanistan, Security, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ramadan |
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U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks Suspended For First Day Of Ramadan

6th May, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 6, 2019 Peace talks between U.S. negotiators and Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, have been interrupted to mark the beginning of Ramadan. The two sides are apparently at loggerheads over the key sticking point of when foreign forces might leave Afghanistan. The two sides have been involved for much of

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Posted in Peace Talks, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ramadan, Taliban War on Muslims |
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Iran Lauds Afghan President’s Ceasefire Initiative

9th June, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani praised his Afghan counterpart for announcing a temporary ceasefire in the war on armed militants in the holy month of Ramadan. In a meeting with his Afghan counterpart in China on Saturday, President Rouhani hailed Ashraf Ghani’s initiative for ceasefire, expressing the hope that internal dialogue in Afghanistan

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Posted in Economic News, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Chabahar, Ramadan |
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China Steps Up Uighur Crackdown During Ramadan

3rd June, 2018 · admin · 8 Comments

Rikar Hussein VOA News June 2, 2018 The government in China is further tightening its grip on minority groups in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as it continues to use its deradicalization campaign to suppress local residents, Uighur leaders and human rights activists warn. China started a

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Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Human Rights, Islamophobia News, Muslims and Islam | Tags: Ramadan, War on Islam |
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Alaska jail sued for feeding Muslims pork, starving them in Ramadan

24th May, 2018 · admin

Press TV May 23, 2018 Muslim inmates at a jail in the US state of Alaska are being “starved” and given pork products during Ramadan, a new lawsuit claims. For one thing, Muslim prisoners are given food with substantially lower calories compared to other inmates, said the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the federal

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Posted in Human Rights, Islamophobia News, Muslims and Islam | Tags: Ramadan |
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Eastern Afghanistan Blasts Kill 8, Injure 40

19th May, 2018 · admin

Zia Urahman Hasrat VOA News May 19, 2018 NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — A series of explosions killed at least eight civilians and wounded more than 40 others in eastern Afghanistan, provincial authorities told VOA. Attaullah Khogyanai, provincial spokesperson for eastern Nangarhar province, told VOA the explosions occurred in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, at night at a cricket

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Jalalabad, Nangarhar, Ramadan |
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