Alhamdulillah. If this can be practiced globally, Insya Allah, there can be peace everywhere and get rid of the Zionists.
Christians have joined their fellow Muslims in Ukraine to help rebuild the country's oldest mosque, during the holy fating month of Ramadan.
MOSCOW — Christians have joined their fellow Muslims in Ukraine to help rebuild the country's oldest mosque, during the holy fating month of Ramadan.
"Christian brothers offered their help to rebuild the Khavidrali Mosque," Rashid Brakhin, head of the Union of Muslim Minority in the city of Kharkov, where the mosque is located, told IslamOnline. net Tuesday, September 26.
"There is only one God and that is enough for us," he added. "They are helping to build the house on Allah."
Founded over 100 years ago, the mosque was flattened by Soviet forces in 1936 on claims that it hindered the flow of a local river in Kharkov.
Above the decorated minaret of the mosque lies a crescent directed towards the Ka`bah in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, the direction Muslims worldwide take during prayers.
Ukraine is home to some two million Muslims making up 4% of the overall 48 million population.
Ukrainian Muslims are of diver roots, hailing from the Crimean Tatars, Azeri people, Chechens and Arabs.
Full swing
Ukrainian Muslims have swung into action with the start of Ramadan on Sunday, September 24, to rebuild the mosque.
The reconstruction is expected to complete in two or three years' time mainly because of lack of finances.
For the time being, Muslims decorated the mosque with flowers, festoons and silver crescents.
They also hurried up with setting up makeshift windows made of plastic to protect the faithful from the freezing cold at night.
There are up to 200 mosques and 20 Islamic centers in the country which remained under the Soviet Communist grip until the collapse of the Soviet Union, after which it won independence in August 1991.
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A Muslim cleric is reported to have been shot dead by gunmen in Russia's southern spa town of Kislovodsk
A Muslim cleric is reported to have been shot dead by gunmen in Russia's southern spa town of Kislovodsk.
The country's Interfax news agency quoted police as saying the assailants fled late on Monday after killing the imam of a mosque in the doorway of an apartment block where he lived.
A police officer was also wounded when trying to stop two armed people in the street.
Kislovodsk, like many parts of southern Russia, has a strong Russian nationalist Christian community which eyes with suspicion the growth of a Muslim population arriving from the impoverished Caucasus region.
Ethnic tensions in many parts of Russia have become a cause of concern for authorities, alarmed by the increase in racist attacks.
Analysts have said that by the year 2020, one in ten Russians could be Muslim.
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MELBOURNE, Florida Shots were fired at a mosque in this Florida city as worshippers celebrated the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but no injuries or arrests were reported, author
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2006
MELBOURNE, Florida Shots were fired at a mosque in this Florida city as worshippers celebrated the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but no injuries or arrests were reported, authorities said Saturday.
A member of the Islamic Society of Brevard County stepped outside of the mosque Friday night to use his cell phone when he heard several gunshots, the Melbourne police department said.
The member, who was not immediately identified, took cover behind a wall as several rounds struck the building's south side, police said. He then ran inside and told mosque members, who called police.
Authorities searched the surrounding area for suspects but found none. The FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force were helping with the search, police spokeswoman Jill Frederiksen said Saturday.
Police were not releasing many details of the shooting because the investigation was ongoing, Frederiksen said. Detectives were working to determine a motive for the shooting.
Melbourne police have coordinated with the Islamic Society to begin extra patrols around the mosque.
Ibrahim Hooper, national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that while no motive had been determined by police, the shooting fit a pattern of incidents at mosques this year.
Those include leaving a bullet-riddled Quran outside of a mosque in Chattanooga, Tennessee, vandalism at an Indiana mosque and other incidents against mosques in Maine, Arizona and Maryland.
"Worshippers of the mosque would obviously be disturbed if (religion) was the motive for the attack," Hooper said Saturday.
The council planned a Saturday news conference to ask authorities to classify the shooting as a hate crime.
Melbourne is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east-southeast of Orlando on the Atlantic coast.
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