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IS 'bans extra evening prayers during Ramadan'
2015-06-22
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An imam in the Iraqi ministry of religious affairs has said the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has banned extra evening prayers during Ramadan in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
because it considers them heresy.

Shiekh Saadoun al-Nuaimi told the Kurdish news agency, BasNews: "IS inquisitors religious police have banned tarawih prayers because they are a 'religious innovation' created by Saudi holy mans that under no circumstances will be allowed.

"IS has threatened all imams and mosques in Mosul that they will be flogged if they hold tarawih prayers."

The evening prayers are observed throughout the month and include 10 days of "seclusion" at the end of the month, when some people sleep in the mosque overnight.

The extra prayers are observed by Sunni Moslems. The majority of Islamic scholars agree that they are not compulsory. Shia Moslems do not observe the prayers.
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