Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Death in Islam is the termination of worldly life and the beginning of afterlife. Death is seen as the separation of the soul from the human body, and its transfer from this world to the afterlife. [1][2] Islamic tradition discusses what happens before, during, and after death, although what exactly happens is not clear and different schools of ...
Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution ...
The persecution of Muslims has been recorded throughout the history of Islam, beginning with its founding by Muhammad in the 7th century. In the early days of Islam in Mecca, pre-Islamic Arabia, the new Muslims were frequently subjected to abuse and persecution by the Meccans (also called Mushrikun by Muslims), a polytheistic Arab tribal ...
By this point in time, chattel slavery was mainly legal in the Muslim world. By the Treaty of Jeddah, May 1927 (art.7), concluded between the British Government and Ibn Sa'ud (King of Nejd and the Hijaz) it was agreed to suppress the slave trade in Saudi Arabia, mainly supplied by the ancient Red Sea slave trade.
The Islamic State – Khorasan Province has committed bombing attacks against Hazara Shia civilians in Afghanistan. [15][16] On July 24, 2016, a suicide bombing occurred killing 80 Shias and 231 injured in Kabul during a protest. [18] On October 11, 2016, in Kart-e Sakhi, Kabul, 14 Shias were killed by a suicide bombing.
US intelligence agencies assessed a death toll between 100 and 300. The cause of the explosion is contested. Israel, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada said that their intelligence sources indicate the cause of the explosion was a failed rocket launch from within Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Hamas and PIJ ...
Common Islamic burial rituals. Burial rituals should normally take place as soon as possible and include: [5] Collective bathing of the dead body, [6] except in extraordinary circumstances, as in the battle of Uhud. [7] Enshrouding the dead body in a white cotton or linen cloth. [8] Funeral prayer (صلاة الجنازة).
The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. [ 1 ][ 11 ][ 12 ] It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidis are a Kurdish -speaking people [ 13 ] who are indigenous to Kurdistan who practice Yazidism, an Iranian religion derived from the Indo ...