Anyone muslim or know anything about the sudan culture?
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He should marry his girlfriend and come clean to his family.  They'll be angry at first...but thats understandable.
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Darfur is on the west side of Sudan.  There is oil in Southern Sudan.  There are religious implications such as Christians vs. Muslims and cultural implications as well. There have been 200,000 deaths in the last 2 years, but just recently the deadliest tribe signed the peace accord, so there is hope.
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I know a little about your culture.  A little, bear with me. Queen Noor, King Hussein, Ruins of Petra, some Bedouin moving about, ancient Moab(maybe?)  But yeah, I would like to know more about your culture.  I would love to visit Jordan.  Please click on my avatar to find my contact info.  I'll be glad to chat with you there, and you can give me help there!  Got it?
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I am already involved in the sudanese genocide in Dufor.It really broke my heart to see the story.\n\nOver a million blacks have been forced from their homes by Arab militias backed by the government, into camps if they aren't raped/killed on the way as tens of thousands have been. Now, the rainy season is coming which will worsen the sickness and malnutrition already rampant in the camps and make it tougher for aid to get in.\n\n I have sent a small but helpful donation.I wish I could go there and do some hands on help...especuially with the children who are homeless and in trouble.\n\nA big thank you for posting this and making others aware!!!
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I know quite much about muslims and their beliefs.\nThe religion was founded by the Prophete Mohammed, who lived in Saudi-Arabia around the year 700. The holy book is the "Quaran". Islamic people should pray (in the direction of Mekka, their holy town) 5 times a day. Once in your lifetime, you should visit Mekka as a pilgrim. There is a month called "Ramadan". The date changes every year (because of the Islamic calendar).\nTheir "church" is called "Mosque", "camii" as the Turkish say, "dzamija" as the Bosnians say.\nI know many Muslims from Turkey, Bosnia, Albania, Makedonia, also from Chechnya and Pakistan. There are some which are very strict, the women have to wear scarves and so on, and there are also some who are not that religious.\n\nIn general, I think it isn´t Ok when some people say "Moslem=Terrorist". There are also Christian fanatics, Jewish fanatics who can´t tolerate other religions.
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Africa is an enormous continent ,with many countries .\nthe North is mostly Islam,and from the center down it is different religions .Christianity in parts ,the most of them being in South Africa.there are many cultures represented ,including Hindu.Voodo.african religions ,and various types of Christianity .\n\nIslam is probably the most numerous if you considder the whole of Africa.
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It's not just muslim women.  It happens in countries like Sudan and Somalia.  The term for it is female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM). There are several different types done, ranging from the removal of only the clit to the removal of the clit and labia. What type is done depends on the country and the location (rural vs urban).\n\nit's a practice that has nothing to do with Islam, but rather is a pharonic practice from Ancient Egypt.  Pharoahs used to do this to women in their harems to discourage sexual interest/pleasure, and therefore keep the women faithful to the Pharoah.\n\nUp until about 2000 it was still widely practiced in Sudan, but now, there are a lot of educated people speaking out against it, and a women's university in Khartoum (Afhad University) does awareness campaigns to try to stop it.  It's really an awful practice, and causes a lot of infections and complicated pregnancies for the women who have it done to them.\n\nI had a friend in Sudan who remembers having it done when she was a small child (like 8 yrs old) and didn't really know what they did to her or that she was missing anything until she went to university and they were studying female anatomy and she was like, "I don't have all that stuff.  What's wrong with me?" She told me she felt like something was stolen from her.  What's worse is that her father brought her back to Sudan from England for a visit, and it was her Sudanese grandmother who insisted that "no man will want her if she's not circumcised".
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Actually, I'm not sure if the general population in Japan knows about what's happening in Sudan.  Although I don't watch the Japanese news all the time, I haven't seen any mention of Sudan when I have been watching.  And a quick search of the English version of the Daily Yomiuri online (one of Japan's biggest newspapers) gave only one result for "Sudan" under news.  It was an article about a professor of English having his students reading news articles for practice - here's what it said:\n \n"Although the seminar students have a high level of English ability, summarizing articles on unfamiliar topics was difficult, Sugita said. Reading articles on such topics as the conflict in Sudan illustrated how difficult some topics could be without background knowledge."\n\n...which also seems to imply that the Japanese people simply haven't heard anything about Sudan.\n\nI admit I could be wrong...however, the news here does seem pretty limited sometimes.  I've heard that there are strict government controls on what can and cannot be reported, which might have something to do with it.
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Today Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom.\n\nNubian Wedding near Aswan, Egypt\nIts people spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a Nilo-Saharan subfamily which includes Nobiin, Kenuzi-Dongola, Midob and several related varieties in the northern part of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. A variety (Birgid) was spoken (at least until 1970) north of Nyala in Darfur but is now extinct. Old Nubian was used in mostly religious texts dating from the 8th and 9th centuries AD. It is considered ancestral to modern day Nobiin.\n\nPre-history\nThe earliest cultures of Nubia left no writings and are unreported in the annals of other nations. The first noticeable cultures in Nubia include first the Badarian culture, then the Amratian and finally the Gerzean. From the Gerzean the first native culture developed known as the A-Group, which began roughly at the same time as the First dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC. It consisted of semi-nomadic groups who subsided by herding sheep, goats, and some cattle. It is known from its distinctive burial rituals and pottery. Prehistoric tools discovered in Nubia date to circa 65,000 BC, found along the Nile Valley.\nThis culture began to decline in the early-28th century BC. The succeeding culture is known as B-Group. Previously, the B-Group people were thought to have invaded from elsewhere. Today most historians believe that B-Group was merely A-Group but far poorer. The causes of this is uncertain, but it was perhaps caused by Egyptian invasions and pillaging that began at this time.\nAs trade between Egypt and Nubia increased so did wealth and stability. By the Egyptian 6th dynasty, Nubia was divided into a series of small kingdoms. There is debate over whether these C-Group peoples, who flourished from c. 2240 BC to c. 2150 BC, were another internal evolution or invaders. There are definite similarities between the pottery of A-Group and C-Group, so it may be a return of the ousted Group-As, or an internal revival of lost arts. At this time, the Sahara Desert was becoming too arid to support human beings, and it is possible that there was a sudden influx of Saharan nomads. C-Group pottery is characterized by all-over incised geometric lines with white infill and impressed imitations of basketry.\nA contemporaneous but distinct culture from the C-Group was the Pan Grave culture, so called because of their shallow graves. The Pan Graves are associated with the East bank of the Nile, but the Pan Graves and C-Group definitely interacted. Their pottery is characterized by incised lines of a more limited character than those of the C-Group, generally having interspersed undecorated spaces within the geometric scheme.\nFrom the C-Group culture, the first kingdom to unify much of the region arose, the Kingdom of Kerma, named for its presumed capital at Kerma. When Egyptian power revived under the New Kingdom they began to expand southwards. By the end of the reign of Thutmose I in 1520 BC, all of northern Nubia had been annexed.
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This is an old African tradition it has nothing to do with Islam on the other hand male circumcision is an Islamic practice
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Glad to answer you, \nTo know about Islam please visit those sites:\nhttp://www.discoverislam.com/\nhttp://www.islamhouse.org/en/index.php\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/\nhttp://www.todayislam.com/\nhttp://www.islamic-message.net\nhttp://thetruereligion.org/modules/news/\n\nWhat we eat ,we eat nearly every thing except few things you could know about them from here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halaal\n\nWhat we believe in mainly we believe in God as the creator of every thing, Mohamed was the last prophet of god,And that the Qu'ran is our holy book and to know more about it: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam#Beliefs\n\nFor what we wear,For men there' no problem with any thing, for women, we wear Hejab, and it's just a scarf which covers the hair, and any cloth which covers the whole body except face and hands and these clothe shouldn't describe the body, to know more about it:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejab\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_clothing\n\nWe celebrate with 2 main holidays " Eid El Fetr And Eid El Adha" To know about them and their meanings:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_holidays\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Adha\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan\n\n Hope this could be useful to you, and please ask for any thing else if you want and add it as additional details.
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Islam followed by Christinaity.
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In Islam, the Hajj commemorates a number of events in the life of Abraham and his family in Mecca. Abraham is a prophetic figure and patriarchal father who features in the holy scriptures of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. These are sometimes collectively known as the Abrahamic faiths and are all based upon the belief in one God. \n\nDuring his life, Abraham endured a succession of trials of his faith in God. One of the most significant began with his and his family's departure from Palestine to Arabia to protect his wife Hagar and son Ishmael from the seething jealousy of his first wife Sarah. Upon God's command, Abraham left Hagar and Ishmael with provisions in a desolate desert valley in Mecca, trusting that God would care for them. \n \nThe Sa'i - Pilgrims rush between Safa and Marwah \nWhen their provisions ran out, Hagar desperately searched for water for her son in the harsh desert conditions. She ran frantically between the hills of Safa and Mawah before eventually collapsing in despair and beseeched God to help her. Miraculously, a spring of water soon gushed forth at Ishmael's feet and is known as the Zam Zam well. Pilgrims to this day re-enact her desperate search for water by walking seven times between the knolls of Safa and Mawah called the Sa'i. \n\nIn time, passing traders and nomads stopped in the desert valley and requested Hagar's permission to water their camels. When Abraham returned, he was astounded to see his wife running a well, trading water with passers-by. As the traders and nomads decided to settle in the valley, the small settlement grew into the city of Mecca and the well of Zam Zam proved to be a lucrative water source for thousands of years.\n\nOn another of his visits, God ordained Abraham to build a dedicated place of worship for him and to call all believers on an annual pilgrimage there. Together with Ishmael, Abraham built a 50-foot high cubical building known as the Ka'aba on a sanctified place first established by Adam. This building still stands today and pilgrims circumnavigate it when performing Tawaf.\n\nThe most testing trial of Abraham's faith was God's command for the patriarch to slay his own son. After much agonising and an encounter with Satan which culminated in the stoning of the Devil, Abraham agreed to obey but God spared him and accepted the sacrifice of a ram instead. This is the basis of the Stoning of the Pillars ritual in Mina during the Hajj.\n\n \nThe Ka'aba today \nDuring their lifetimes, Abraham and Ishmael maintained the Hajj but within centuries, the worship at the Kaaba descended into paganism and the worship of many Gods. Over 300 hundred idols were placed in the Ka'aba and much singing, dancing, nudity and immorality occurred around it. Eventually, God sent down another Prophet to restore the Kaaba and the Hajj to their correct paths.\n\nIn 632CE on his return to Mecca from exile in Medina, Mohammad embarked on a journey with thousands of his followers. Taking Mecca with little resistance, Mohammad destroyed the idols, reclaimed the Ka'aba and restored the Hajj rites to their original purity and devotion to one God alone. Mohammad also imbued the Hajj ceremonies with remembrance of the Prophets divinely dedicated lives.\n\nOn Mohammad's Farewell Hajj in 632CE, 200,000 followers assembled to hear his vision of an all-encompassing political, social, economic and spiritual Islam. Delivering his sermon on Mount Arafat, Mohammad espoused a belief in one God, the equality of all Muslim believers, the sanctity of life, property and honour, women's rights and the notion of the Ummah. \n\nNow, millions of pilgrims assemble to hear sermons at Arafat during the zenith of the Hajj on a pilgrimage serving to test one's faith in God, family and the physical and spiritual self.
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Well the answer to your question is going to be two fold, first yes there is a Senegal Faisal Islamic Bank of Senegal, Dakar.  It's rather easy to find on line, but there are no links or phone numbers, just broken links, which isn't a good sign.\n\nSecond, the obvious question is, if this is about an e-mail you received from some stranger telling you a story about lots of money that could be yours, it is completely untrue.  Also the name Aisha Mohammad appears to be a reference to one of Muhammeds wives more then a real name.  If there is a way for money to be made in Senegal, believe me they will make it and they won't bother to send you an e-mail about it.
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Mohammed's (PBUH) parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his uncle. As his uncle was a pagan, it is likely that his parents were too, although Mecca was a religiously diverse place. There were Jewish and Christian tribes in Arabia at the time of Mohammed, and other tribes that were pagan and some that were Zoroastrian.
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If you need more info and wanna learn religion of islam, please visit www.themuslimcommunity.com , its a good islamic forum <<< you can ask question's to people there on the forum, they will answer your question regarding islam
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sudan: The Sudanese Government, using Arab "Janjaweed" militias, its air force, and organized starvation, is systematically killing the black Sudanese of Darfur.\n\n+\n\nOsama: In 1991, Osama Bin Laden moved to Sudan. His stated objective was to use his money, power and expertise in construction to help Sudan. He was attracted to Sudan because it claimed to be a purely Islamic state.\n\n=\n\ngenocide......