Khalil el-Moumni - Khalil el-Moumni Khalil el-Moumni is a Moroccan imam who preaches at the An-Nasr Mosque in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He has been a center of controversy for his views on homosexuality, which brought him into open conflict with the murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. Reportedly he had been banned from preaching in Morocco in 1991 on account of his fundamentalist opinions. On the 3 May, 2001, he appeared on the Dutch television program Nova to discuss the rising incidence of anti-homosexual violence by Moroccan youths. He said that "if the sickness of homosexuality spreads itself, everyone can become infected". "That's what we are afraid of... Who will still make children if men marry among themselves and women too?". Later, various sources reported statements from sermons of his.
Islamic views of homosexuality - are discussed by Muslims in forums where it is safe to do so. Homosexuality in the Qur'an The Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation of the Qur'an states: "We also sent Lut: He said to his people: Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you? For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." (Qur'an 7:80-81) "Of all creatures in the world, will ye approach males, and leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, ye are a people transgressing (all limits)!" (Qur'an 26:165) Also see Al-Shu'ara' (starting at 165) : Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, And leave those whom Allah has created for you to.
Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands - same-sex couples to make their partnership official, are open to opposite-sex couples as well. There was strong opposition from fundamentalist religious groups to the introduction of same-sex marriage, e.g., see Khalil el-Moumni. Individual churches have retained the right to decide whether or not to conduct such ceremonies; in practice many have been willing to do so. While regional government offices are obliged to perform civil same-sex marriages, some uncertainty has remained about whether individual officials have the right to refuse to perform them. The rules about nationality and residence are the same as for any other marriage in the Netherlands: at least one partner must either have Dutch nationality or reside in the country. There is no guarantee that a same-sex marriage will be recognised in other countries. Most likely it.
Pim Fortuyn - one time as "Marxist". He was a focus of controversy for his hostile views on Islam and his anti-immigration positions. He was opposed to Muslim immigrants such as Khalil el-Moumni, who he said refused to integrate into Netherland's society and formed a threat to the country's tolerant culture. He has been called a right-wing populist, but he himself rejected this label and distanced himself from right-wing politicians active in Austria and France. He could perhaps be described as a nationalist, but on cultural and not racial grounds. Biography Fortuyn was born on February 19, 1948, studied sociology in Amsterdam, and later worked as a lecturer at the Nijenrode Institute and University of Groningen. In 1988 he moved to Rotterdam, becoming director of an organisation administering student transport cards. From 1991 to.
Homat el Diyar - Homat el Diyar Homat el Diyar is the Syrian national anthem. The lyrics were written by Khalil Mardam Bey (1895-1959) and the music by Mohammed Flayfel (1899-1985)..
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History of Ottoman Egypt - which led to grievous ill-usage. In 1609 something like civil war broke out between the army and the pasha, who had on his side some loyal regiments and the Bedouins. The soldiers went so far as to choose a sultan, and to divide provisionally the regions of Cairo between. them. They were defeated by the governor Mahommed Pasha, who on February 5, 1610 entered Cairo in triumph, executed the ringleaders, and banished many others to Yemen. The contemporary historian speaks of this event as a second conquest of Egypt for the Ottomans. A great financial reform was now effected by Mahommed Pasha, who readjusted the burdens imposed on the different communities of Egypt in accordance with their means. With the troubles that beset the metropolis of the Ottoman empire, the governors.
Cairo - To the west is the city of Giza and the ancient necropolis of Memphis on the Giza plateau, with its three large pyramids including the Great Pyramid of Giza. To the south is the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. The city contains the Museum of Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil and his Wife. Cairo is the only city in Africa with a metro system. History Founding Era of Westernization The first hints of westernization began under the successors to Mehemet Ali this included a railway connection to Alexandria in 1851. The period of great change really began under Isma'il Pasha in 1863. The construction of the Suez Canal brought westerners to Egypt as did the booming cotton trade. A network of gas lighting was installed by a French company and.
List of painters - Guardi, (1712-1793), Italian painter Olaf Gulbransson, (1873-1958), painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) US painter Heinz Guth (1941 - ) Herman Gvardjancic, (born 1943), painter. H Frans Hals (1580-1666) Richard Hamilton (1922-) Wilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916) Nina Hamnett, (1890-1956), Welsh painter Herman Han, Polish painter Marsden Hartley, (1877-1943), American painter Hans Hartun (1904-1992) Childe Hassam, (1859-1935), American painter Francesco Hayez Jan Davidsz de Hem (1606-1683) Jan Jozef Haar, Polish painter Mikolaj Haberschrack, Polish painter Rudolf Hausner, (1914-1995), painter and graphic artist Robert Henri, (1865-1929), American painter Henry Heerup, (1907-1993), Danish painter Karol Hiller, Polish painter Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) David Hockney, (born 1937), English painter Howard Hodgkin (born 1932) Ferdinand Hodler, (1853-1918) Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, (1776-1822), poet, composer, and painter Vlastimil Hofman, Polish painter William Hogarth, (1697-1764), artist Hokusai, (1760-1849), painter and ukiyo-e artist.
List of assassinated persons - Emiliano Zapata, (1919), revolutionary. Venustiano Carranza, (1920), President of Mexico. Francisco "Pancho" Villa, (1923), revolutionary. Álvaro Obregón, (1928), President-elect. Leon Trotsky, (1940), Russian communist leader Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, (1994), Presidential candidate. Assassinations in Russia Peter III of Russia, (1762), tsar of Russia. Alexander II of Russia, (1881), Tsar of All the Russias. Dmitri Sipiagin, (1902), Russian Interior Minister. Vyacheslav Plehve, (1904), Russian Interior Minister. Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, (1904), Governor-General of Finland. Peter Stolypin, (1911), Russian Prime Minister. Grigori Rasputin, (1916), friar, adventurer, mystic wonder-worker. Count von Mirbach, (1918), German ambassador in Moscow. Nicholas II of Russia, (1918), deposed Tsar. Sergei Kirov, (1934), Bolshevik party leader in Leningrad. Valentin Tsvetkov, (2002), governor of Magadan. Assassinations in the United States Joseph Smith, Jr, (1844), Mormon leader, Presidential candidate. Henry Heusken, (1861), American.
List of people on stamps of Lebanon - of Greater Syria. The first Lebanese stamps in 1924 were overprinted French stamps. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 J 10 K 11 L 12 M 13 N 14 O 15 P 16 R 17 S 18 Z A Ibrahim Abd el Al (2001) Avicenna (1948) B Robert Baden-Powell (1962) Daniel Bliss (1966 airmail) C Elias Abu Chabke (2001) Camille Chamoun (1958 airmail) Fuad Chehab (1960) Daoud Corm (1974 airmail) D Fakhr al-Din II El Maari (1961 airmail) E Emile Eddé (1937) F Faisal II of Iraq (1957 airmail) Moustapha Farroukh (1974 airmail) G Bashir Gemayel (1988) Cesar Gemayel (1974 airmail) Gibran Khalil Gibran (1971 Airmail) H Elias Harawi Hussein I of Jordan (1957 airmail) J.
Khalil Gibran - Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran (born January 6 1883 in Bsharri, Lebanon, died April 10 1931 in New York City) was a Lebanese poet and artist. He emigrated to Boston, USA in 1895 with his mother, sisters and half-brother. The spelling "Kahlil Gibran" is the result of an error when he first entered school in Boston. He studied art in Boston and French and Arabic in Lebanon. He was a Maronite. In his early teens, Gibran was a protege of Boston photographer and publisher F. Holland Day. Bibliography Ara'is al-Muruj (Nymphs of the Valley, also translated as Spirit Brides, 1906) al-Arwah al-Mutamclrrida (Spirits Rebellious, 1908) al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira (Broken Wings, 1912) Dam'a wa Ibtisama (A Tear and A Smile, 1914) The Madman (1918) al-Mawakib (The Processions, 1919).
Kate del Castillo - is generally accepted as the year she was born. A participant in ten telenovelas, del Castillo made her acting debut in 1980 when she participated in a movie named El Ultimo Escape (The Last Escape). She was catapulted into fame in 1991 when she starred as Leticia in Muchachitas, a soap opera that reached wild popularity all over Latin America. Muchachitas reached the top audience spots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Peru, and among hispanic audiences in the United States. Among the other soap operas and movies she made are Ramona, and El Derecho de Nacer (The Right to be Born). In 1996, she married soccer player Luis Garcia, who was very famous in his own right and a member of the Mexican national soccer team. Th marriage did not last.
Kirellos VI of Alexandria - to become a monk in July 1927. He passed his probationary period, and on February 24, 1928 took his monastic vows and assumed the name Mina El-Baramosy. In 1947, he built the Church of Saint Mina the Martyr in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. He became Pope of Alexandria, on May 10, 1959 (Coptic calendar: 2nd of Beshans, 1675). On June 28, 1959 he appointed Archbishop Gathlik for Ethiopia. In November 1959 he laid the foundation stone of the Big Monastery of Saint Mina in Mariuot Desert. In January 1965 Kirellos presided over the Committee of Eastern Orthodox Churches in Addis Ababa, the first (Masconic) and (Non-Khalkadonic) synod of these churches held in modern times. In June 1968 Kyrillos received the remains of Saint Mark the Evangelist, which had been absent.
Jorge Porcel - by many fans, critics and colleagues alike as the greatest comedian ever from that country. He is nicknamed El Gordo De America or America's Fat Guy (America in that case meaning every territory from Argentina to Alaska). Porcel made a total of 48 movies, starting with 1962's Disloque En Mar Del Plata, and ending with 1988's El Profesor Punk. Many of these 48 movies were collaborations with another famous Argentinian comedy actor, Alberto Olmedo, who died tragically in 1988 after falling off a twelfth floor. Among the movies they did together was 1986's Rambito Y Rambon: Primera Mision. (Little Rambo and Big Rambo: First Mission) Porcel most of the times played characters that would have possibly enraged many of today's feminists, but he also played transvestites and other types of men.
Jose Miguel Agrelot - was employed by don Tomas Muniz, who was the father of Tommy Muniz. That was the period when he started playing his now classic character of Torito. Agrelot worked on a show named El Colegio de la Alegria (The College of Happiness). Soon after, he moved himself and his Torito character to rival radio station WKAQ-Fm, where he starred alongside Luis Vigoreaux in a show named Torito & Company. Agrelot's show with Vigoreaux had wild success, and they toured most United States cities with a large Latin American population, bringing their show to theaters all over the states. Torito returned to El Colegio de la Alegria when that show made its transition to television. Agrelot has also acted in shows in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. He has done extended tours of.
Johann Caspar von Orelli - compilation from the works of earlier commentators, shows great taste and extensive learning, although hardly up to the exacting standard of modern criticism. Inscriptionum Latinarum Selectarum Collectio (1828; revised edition by W Henzen, 1856), extremely helpful for the study of Roman public and private life and religion. His editions of Plato (1839-1841, including the old scholia, in collaboration with AW Winckelmann) and Tacitus (1846-1848, new ed. by various scholars, 1875-1894) also deserve mention. He was a most liberal-minded man, both in politics and religion, an enthusiastic supporter of popular education and a most inspiring teacher. He took great interest in the struggle of the Greeks for independence, and strongly favoured the appointment of the notorious JF Strauss to the chair of dogmatic theology at Zürich, which led to the disturbance of.
José Cecilo del Valle - philosophy and law at the Universidad de San Carlos. He was admitted to the bar on September 1, 1803. He became known for his well reasoned arguements and decisions and was nicknamed "El Sabio" ("The Wise"). Del Valle was appointed a judge in 1806, and became a professor at San Carlos in 1812. Del Valle authored the Central American Declaration of Independence, declared on 15 September, 1821. Central America was soon afterwards annexed to the Mexican Empire of Augustin de Iturbide, and del Valle was for a time imprisoned. When Mexico was declared a Republic, Del Valle was instrumental in getting Mexico to recognize Central American independence, which was again achieved in June of 1823. Del Valle was one of the drafters of the new nation's Constitution (which notably abolished slavery.
Jornada del Muerto desert - taken by the earliest European settlers, by horseback, oxen and foot, led to what is now the State of New Mexico, in the U.S.. It covers harsh territory, called to this day, in Mexico, El Fronterizo, 'The Frontier'. The name doubtless was applied to the valley surrounding a major river, called Rio Bravo, now called the Rio Grande, in the U.S. After this journey, these earliest Spanish settlers encountered, not the Seven Cities of Cibola, but the humbler walled villages of the Pueblo dwellers, who had a well-developed agriculture and a peaceable tradition, and enslaved them. They stood the situation for twenty years, and then arose in revolt. According to the lore of this area, even the sacrifice of a maiden failed to improve the situation. It is said that they.
John Trudell - introduced him to the musical world. His first album was AKA Grafitti Man in 1986; more recent endeavors include Blue Indians (1999) and Bone Days. Trudell has also dabbled in acting, with small roles in Thunderheart (1992) and Smoke Signals (1998). Discography 1983 Tribal Voice 1986 Original A.K.A. Graffiti Man 1987 ...But This Isn't El Salvador 1987 Heart Jump Bouquet 1991 Fables and Other Realities 1992 ''Child's Voice: Children of the Earth 1992 A.K.A. Graffiti Man 1994 Johnny Damas & Me 1999 Blue Indians 2001 Descendant Now Ancestor 2001 Bone Days (produced by the actress Angelina Jolie).
