muslimnews
Mon, 01 Jan 2001 06:13:16 -0800
With the Name of Allah, The Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer Muslim News Center Digest for: 6th of Shawal 1421 To read the entire stories and to read future stories daily as they are posted, point your web browser to: http://www.oneummah.net/news/ --------------------------------- Bush likely to face tough choices on Mideast --------------------------------- Posted Monday, January 1, 2001 by oneummah: By Norman Kempster WASHINGTON: In an unwelcome inheritance, President-elect George W. Bush will face a Middle East in crisis when he takes office, giving him little time to hone his own approach to half a century of conflict. --------------------------------- British Muslims Decide on Dates for Ramadan & Eid Based on Scientific Moonsighting --------------------------------- Posted Monday, December 25, 2000 by oneummah: (Q-News, UK, December 2000) Leading Imams and scholars representing all the country's leading school of thoughts have come to a unanimous decision over the normally controversial beginning and ending of the holy month of Ramadan. Over fifty Imams, after hours of scholarly deliberations, have issued a joint fatwa. --------------------------------- Iran threatens to retaliate if Israel attacks Syria or Lebanon --------------------------------- Posted Monday, December 25, 2000 by oneummah: (Kuwait) By Ibrahim Khalili If Israel were to attack Syria or Lebanon, Iran would retaliate in an "astounding and unexpected" way, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying in a statement published Saturday. ---------------------------------- Bomb Threat Against Mosque in Canada ---------------------------------- Tehran Times (Tehran) Posted Sunday December 31, 2000 - 05:38:07 PM EST Tehran - A bomb threat was made against a mosque in Canada on the day of the Feast of Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramazan. ---------------------------------- Number of Filipinos embracing Islam in Dubai increasing ---------------------------------- Kuwait Times (Kuwait City) Posted Sunday December 31, 2000 - 03:57:45 PM EST DUBAI - More than a hundred Filipinos in Dubai have embraced Islam since November and during the holy month of Ramadan this year. ---------------------------------- Quran Exhibition In Iran's Cultural Office In Damascus ---------------------------------- Iran News (Tehran) Posted Saturday December 23, 2000 - 12:16:38 PM EST Tehran - A Quran exhibition titled 'Progressive Trend of Quranic Scripts by Contemporary Syrian Calligraphers' was inaugurated at the cultural consular office of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus on Saturday, December 18, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. ---------------------------------- Millions Of Muslims Round The World Observe Qods Day, Which Was Heavily Censored ---------------------------------- Tehran Times (Tehran) Posted Friday December 22, 2000 - 04:06:37 PM EST Tehran - Millions of fasting Muslims around the world yesterday voiced support for Palestinians and the Intifada (uprising) at the end of their rallies on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramazan, observed as International Qods Day. ---------------------------------- Fatah official and Israeli militant shot dead ---------------------------------- Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine By Ali Albahrani Two prominent figures on opposing sides of the Middle East crisis were killed on Sunday, further threatening fading hopes for peace in the region. Israeli militant activist Binyamin Kahane, 34, son of the late right-wing extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, died along with his wife Talia when their car came under fire and overturned in the West Bank. Shortly afterwards, Dr. Thabet Thabet, a senior official from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction was shot dead by the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. Palestinian officials described the shooting as a "political assassination."