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Job interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police, a labour tribunal has revealed.
Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajwa, 36, is fighting the Shin Bet’s refusal to approve his appointment as an imam in a case that has lifted the lid on Israel’s secret surveillance of the country’s Islamic leaders.
At a hearing last month, a senior government official admitted that 60 undercover inspectors were employed effectively as spies to collect information on Muslim clerics, reporting on political opinions they expressed in sermons and relaying gossip about their private lives.
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 Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwiy, currently heads the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), and is the president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). Many scholars consider him to be a mujtahid of the Modern Age.
Al-Qaradawi who is active in the field of da’wah and Islamic Movement was born on 9th September, 1926 in the Safat Turab village in Egypt. He was orphaned at the age of two when he lost his father and was raised by his uncle. He read and memorized the entire Qur'an by the time he was nine years old.
Thereafter the esteemed Alim proceeded through stages of an illustrious journey of seeking knowledge and gained global recognition from international Islamic sources as follows:
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By Cnaan Liphshiz , Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press
Haaretz Wed., March 10, 2010
The European Parliament on Wednesday urged its 27-member states to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes committed during last year's late-winter conflict in Gaza.
The resolution backed the findings of a UN-appointed expert panel chaired by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, which concluded that both sides committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the war that began in December 2008 and ended in January 2009.
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PARIS – Amid a heated debate about the Muslim veil, the French Catholic church warned Monday, February 1, against banning face-veils, calling on the European country to respect rights of its Muslim minority.
"The result could be the opposite of what is desired and lead to a reaction that increases the number of women wearing this garment,” said Bishop Michel Santier, the top French Catholic official for interreligious dialogue in a statement cited by Reuters.
He said that very few women wore face-veil in the country.
“We should in our country respect the rights of all believers to practice their faith,” Santier said
A French parliamentary panel recommended last week slapping a partial ban on face-veils in hospitals, schools, public transport and government offices. |
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