`Eid Al-Fitr Unites Spanish Muslims
Mujahid
By Al-Amin Andalusi, IOL Correspondent
MADRID, November 13 (IslamOnline.net) - Unlike in previous years, the
Muslim community in Spain will celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the
end of Ramadan, on the same day on Sunday, November 14.
Most Muslim immigrants in Spain follow their homelands in defining the
start of the holy fasting month, `Eid Al-Fitr and `Eid Al-Adha.
Many Arab and Islamic countries, including Egypt and Morocco, joined
hands in observing the beginning of the dawn-to-dusk fasting month on
Friday, October 15.
These countries announced Friday, November 12, that `Eid Al-Fitr will
fall on Sunday, which also marks the beginning of the feast in Europe,
according to the German-based Muslim Council for Crescents.
Moroccan Calendar
Muslim immigrants in Spain have for years been following Morocco in
deciding on the start of Ramadan, `Eid Al-Fitr and `Eid Al-Adha, says
IslamOnline.net Correspondent.
Most of the Muslim immigrants in the European country hail from
Morocco and most immigrants' societies are dominated by the Moroccans.
Many Muslim groups, however, have tried to unify the Muslim community
in Spain on celebrating religious occasions but Muslim immigrants,
mostly Moroccans, insist on following their homelands.
"It is not easy for me to celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr at a different day
than my family in Morocco," Saed Duzeeri, a Moroccan living in Spain
for more than ten years, told IOL.
"It is a psychological thing. I can not just ring my family to
congratulate them on `Eid Al-Fitr while they are still fasting or vice
versa."
The major influence of the Moroccan community in Spain is also so
evident in the northern Moroccan cities of Ceuta and Melilla,
currently under Spanish occupation.
The two cities are populated by thousands of Moroccans who have the
Spanish nationality and insist on following their homeland in
observing religious occasions.
Some Spaniards, hailing from Morocco, have also assumed leading posts
in the two cities and impose the Moroccan calendar on the Muslim
community in the occupied cities.
Mosques
Spain has a Muslim community of about one million out of a total
population of 40 million. Some 94% of the Spanish people are Christian
Catholics.
In the capital Madrid alone, there are at least 100,000 Muslims.
Attempting to preserve their identity, each Muslim ethnic group builds
its own mosque.
Most of these mosques are nothing but small prayer rooms, forcing
worshipers to pray in the streets, especially during Ramadan and `Eid
Al-Fitr.
During the dawn-to-dusk fasting month, mosques teem with worshipers,
especially in the areas densely populated by Muslims.
Spain recognized Islam through the law of religious freedom, issued in
July 1967.
In 1989, the Union of the Islamic Association was set up, comprising
15 bodies to be merged later with the 17-strong Union of Islamic
Society under the umbrella of the Islamic Commission of Spain.
Since 1992, consecutive Spanish governments have attempted to
integrate the second generation of Arab and Muslim immigrants into
society by inking an agreement with the commission to teach them
Arabic and religion.
The agreement set a mechanism to include the Islamic religion in the
curricula of institutes and schools where Muslim students are
enrolled.
But authorities have recently placed mosques and Muslim worshiping
places under close scrutiny under the pretext of curbing "radical
imams".
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Siegfreed
lecherous pedophile
muhammad (piss be upon him) fourteen hundred years ago
Anyone that truly believes that an evil, murdering, thieving, raping, child
molesting monster like mohammad was a prophet of a god is a vile coward.
Comment: When Muhammed was about 50 years old he had dreams of marrying a
child, Aisha, who
was only about 4-5 years old. How do we know this? Muhammed lived about 570
A.D. to 632 A.D.,
he became 62 years old. Hadith tells us that when he first slept with Aisha
she was only nine
years old, and that she then remained with him for the last nine years of
his life. 62-9=53,
so Muhammed was 53 years old when he first slept with the 9-year old child
Aisha, who played
with dolls... When he dreamed of marrying her she was six years old, or
younger, so Muhammed
was about 50 years old then. Why would a 50-year old man want a young child?
"...The Prophet (Muhammed) said to her (Aisha), 'You have been shown to me
twice in my dream.
I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and someone said (to me). 'This is
your wife.' When I
uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, 'If this is from
Allah, it will be
done.'"
(Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 5:58:235)
When she was 6, Muhammad asked Abu Bakr, Aisha's father, for her hand. Abu
Bakr thought it was
improper, because, as he said "I am your brother"; Muhammad brushed aside
Abu Bakr's
reservation by saying that it was perfectly lawful for him to marry Aisha
[ Ref: SAHIH BUKHAR
I7:18].
"The Prophet (Muhammed) married her (Aisha) when she was six years old and
he consummated his
marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for
nine years (i.e.,
till his death)."
(Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 7:62:64)
The 3 year waiting period probably had to do with the fact that at that time
Aisha had
contracted some disease, whereby she, temporarily lost her hair. Aisha was
then socially and
psychologically still a child as is evidenced by the fact that she was still
given to her
toys, she was unaware of what was happening around her, and her playmates
behave as would the
children at present times [Sahih Bukhari 8:151,5:234].
"Narrated 'Aisha: 'I used to wash the traces of Janaba (semen) from the
clothes of the Prophet
(Muhammed) and he used to go for prayers while traces of water were still on
it (water spots
were still visible).'"
(Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 1:4:229)
Comment: This hadith shows that, in contrast to what some people claim, the
relationship
between the old man Muhammed and young Aisha was more than the
"father-daughter" kind.
"Narrated 'Aisha: I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the
Prophet (Muhammed), and
my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to
enter they used to
hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me."
(Hadith: Volume 8, Book 73, Number 151)
Comment: I'm not sure what the word "enter" refers to here...
"Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: When I got married, Allah's Apostle
(Muhammed) said to me,
'What type of lady have you married?' I replied, 'I have married a matron'.
He said, 'Why,
don't you have a liking for the young virgins and for fondling them?' Jabir
also said: Allah's
Apostle said, 'Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you might play with
her and she with
you?'"
(Volume 7, Book 62, Number 17)
Comment: Muhammed obviously prefered girls so young that they were still
playing, i.e. he
prefered children, and he seemed surprised that his friend Jabir bin
'Abdullah didn't.
From Khomeini's book, "Tahrirolvasyleh", fourth volume, Darol Elm, Gom,
Iran, 1990 :
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However he
should not
penetrate, sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the
child then he
should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however
does not count as
one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the
girls sister. [...]
It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin
menstruation at her
husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his
daughter so young will
have a permanent place in heaven. How it all began ( a long time ago in the
isolated deserts
of Arabia) :
Where sex is akin to a crime, silence is admission of your guilt. What a
corruption of
"fitrah" (human nature).
What religion condones the destruction of childhood? What are we who daily
avow our undying
love for Allah to do against a system that ruthlessly oppresses its youngest
and brightest ?