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Folk Dancers at "Sufi Night" at PNCA

ISLAMABAD: Popular qawwals, folk singers and dancers enthralled the audience of twin cities on Friday night in a musical evening entitled ‘Sufi Night’ at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).

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Erol Can (left), an anesthesiologist, and Bingur Sonmez, a cardiac surgeon play for a patient. (Photo: Matthew Brunwasser)

By Matthew Brunwasser ⋅ April 25, 2012

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Muslim youth in India dissociate from terror: Sufi cleric

By IANS,

New Delhi : The realisation that jihadis are using Islam to create an environment of terror is leading Muslim youth in India to dissociate themselves from violence and radicalism, says a leading Islamic scholar and cleric.

“The followers of Islam have no link with the minions of terror,” said Hazrat Maulana Syed Mohammed Ashraf Sahab Kichhouhhawi, general secretary of the All-India Ulama and Mashaik Board.

Addressing a gathering on “Sufism and Indian Islam” at the Vivekananda International Foundation late Monday, he said, “The Wahabis (ultra-orthodox Muslim) were using biased literature to propagate their theorised monotheism which has currently become the reservoir of terrorism the world over.” [more…]

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Religious scholars in Pakistan say suicide bombers are likely to suffer eternal damnation rather than go to paradise because their acts, blowing themselves up and others invite the wrath of Allah.

Here is a true and brave stance by Imams in Pakistan! Insha’allah this movement will spread. What they are saying is absolutely correct.

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)

4/5/2012

Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Suicide bombings kill innocent Muslims, they declare

Islamic clerics are denying suicide bombers their last rites. The killing of others and themselves is completely un-Islamic, they say, contrary to the popular misconception that such bombers act on the pretense that such acts will get them into heaven.

Religious scholars in Pakistan say suicide bombers are likely to suffer eternal damnation rather than go to paradise because their acts, blowing themselves up and others invite the wrath of Allah.

Religious scholars in Pakistan say suicide bombers are likely to suffer eternal damnation rather than go to paradise because their acts, blowing themselves up and others invite the wrath of Allah.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – “Most suicide attackers act on the misconception that their acts receive the pleasure of Allah, but the fact is they are killing and injuring innocent Muslims,” Maulana Muhammad Rehman, a prayer leader in a mosque in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas says.

In addition, religious scholars in Pakistan say suicide bombers are likely to suffer eternal damnation rather than go to paradise because their acts, blowing themselves up and others invite the wrath of Allah.

The seven agencies of the FATA bordering Afghanistan are the breeding ground for young suicide bombers who are trained and indoctrinated by the Taliban before being sent out to commit violent acts abroad.

“According to Prophet Muhammad – peace be upon him – killing one person amounts to killing the whole of humanity because there is no way to forgive killers,” Maulana Rehman told journalists.

Read the whole article at Some Islamic clerics take hard line on suicide bombers – International – Catholic Online.