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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (6850)	4/13/2007 2:21:14 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Cleric killed in Nigeria mosque news.bbc.co.uk President's warning A prominent Islamic cleric has been shot dead inside a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Ustaz Ja'afar Adam and one of his followers were killed at dawn prayers. He was once a key member of the Kano State government but has fallen out with the governor. The killing could be political, or a dispute between sects. The death comes as President Olusegun Obasanjo warned that the government will "deal firmly" with acts of fraud and violence in forthcoming elections. In a national radio and TV broadcast, Mr Obasanjo said "highly placed individuals" were encouraging violence. This is seen as a thinly veiled attack on Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who has fallen out with the president. 'Flashpoint' Haruna Idris, one of Mr Adam's disciples, told the AFP news agency that gunmen had shot the cleric twice. "The two assailants rushed out of the mosque and jumped into a car with a driver at the wheel and sped off," he said. The biggest issue in the elections is the future of my children, the future of Nigeria's children Eunice Folorunso Election voices Thousands of people had gathered at the mosque, AFP reports. Mr Adam has been buried. Police spokesman Haz Iwendi told the BBC News website that the killing "would not endanger tomorrow's elections in Kano." "The shooting did not come completely as a surprise because Kano has always been a flashpoint of violence," he said. Mr Adam is a member of the strict Saudi-backed Wahabbi strain of Islam and has also been involved in disputes with rival Islamic sects. Earlier this week, two policemen were killed and 40 AK-47 assault rifles were stolen from a vandalised police station in the Sharada area of Kano. BBC correspondents in Kano say already security has been beefed up in the north-western city with armed soldiers and riot police patrolling the streets. 'Thuggery' In his national address, Mr Obasanjo said: "It is a matter of great regret... that some supposedly highly placed individuals have been reported to be fanning the embers of discord, hatred, violence and destruction. Police are on the alert to guard against campaign violence "Let me assure all Nigerians that the federal government will leave no stone unturned in vigorously checking [any] sanctioning [of] acts of violence and thuggery and other excesses calculated to disturb the peace or disrupt the elections." Mr Abubakar is barred from running for president because of corruption charges, which he says are political. He has gone to court, seeking to be allowed to run but the case has not been decided, with just eight days to go until presidential elections. Mr Abubakar says Mr Obasanjo declared two days of public holiday on Thursday and Friday in order to further delay his court case. Mr Obasanjo says the holidays were to enable people to travel to where they registered to vote. Bomb More than 100 people have died in election violence across Nigeria since last November, according to a recent report by Human Rights Watch. Correspondents say tension is high in Ibadan, capital of south-western Oyo State, after killings at a political rally earlier in the week and extra soldiers have been deployed to the streets of the city. In nearby Ondo State, a bomb exploded at a campaign office on Thursday. No-one was injured, police told AFP news agency. Mr Obasanjo, who was re-elected in 2003, is standing down next month after eight years in power. State legislative and governorship polls will be held on Saturday while the presidential and national assembly elections are due on April 21. With Mr Abubakar's candidacy in doubt, the main contenders for president are the ruling party's Umaru Yar'Adua and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP).

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (6850)	4/14/2007 11:44:17 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Pak-Taleban shave wedding singers’ heads, moustaches The Penisulu Online: Qatar's Leading English Daily ^ \| 4/13/2007 \| AFP thepeninsulaqatar.com PESHAWAR, Pakistan • Taleban extremists shaved the heads and moustaches of a troupe of Pakistani singers, then clashed with a marriage party and took six hostages, officials and witnesses said yesterday. The Islamists intercepted the musicians overnight near the conservative northwestern town of Lakki Marwat where the group was due to perform at three weddings, local police said. After beating the troupe and smashing up their instruments, the militants then shaved the performers’ heads and moustaches, a witness said. Early yesterday the angry hosts of one wedding went after the Taleban and a clash erupted in which two local residents were wounded, police said. The militants then took some six people hostage, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, they said. Lakki Marwat lies some 160km south-west of Peshawar, near the lawless South Waziristan tribal district where the Pakistan army has fought pitched battles against Al Qaeda linked militants. Pro-Taleban militants have bombed music and video shops and barred hair salons from shaving beards in a bid to impose strict a Islamic code as in neighbouring Afghanistan during the 1996-2001 Taleban era. The practice of shaving people’s beards and hair is designed to humiliate them and is often used as a punishment in the devoutly Islamic tribal zones.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (6850)	4/14/2007 11:48:31 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

The story is a little dated, but is worth posting after reading the insanity of the beatings received by the wedding party. 'No nudity for sex'(Fatwa Issued For Nude Sex) News24.com ^ \| 09/01/2006 \| News24.com news24.com Cairo - An Egyptian cleric's controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars. According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University's faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), "being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage". The religious decree sparked a hot debate on the private satellite network Dream's popular religious talk show and on the front page of Sunday's Al-Masri Al-Yom, Egypt's leading independent daily newspaper. Suad Saleh, who heads the women's department of Al-Azhar's Islamic studies faculty, pleaded for "anything that can bring spouses closer to each other" and rejected the claim that nudity during intercourse could invalidate a union. During the live televised debate, Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa: "Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy." For his part, Al-Azhar's fatwa committee chairman Abdullah Megawar argued that married couples could see each other naked but should not look at each other's genitalia and suggested they cover up with a blanket during sex.