However, i ' thar is also still an Islamic ideal to which all Muslims should strive to adhere at all times.

It is a popular Buddhist and Hindu name, but popular also among Muslims in Indonesia.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

There are also some Protestants, Bahá ' ís and Muslims.

During 1992 and 1993, Croatia also handled an estimated 700, 000 refugees from Bosnia, mainly Bosnian Muslims.

However, there is also a minority view within some Muslims that capital punishment is not justified in the light of Qur ' an.

The invading Muslims besieged the city of Toulouse, then Aquitaine's most important city, and Odo ( also called Eudes, or Eudo ) immediately left to find help.

The Ismaili Muslims also stress a distinction between the inner and the outer.

Together with Loyola and five others, he founded the Society of Jesus: on 15 August 1534, in a small chapel in Montmartre, they made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and also vowed to convert the Muslims in the Middle East ( or, failing this, carry out the wishes of the Pope ).

During Ramadan, Muslims are also expected to put more effort into following the teachings of Islam by refraining from violence, anger, envy, greed, lust, profane language, gossip and to try to get along with fellow Muslims better.

In the United States, private or cultural intolerance of women wearing the hijab ( Islamic headcovering ) and political activism by Muslims also has been labeled " secular fundamentalism " by some Muslims in the U. S.

The Christian kingdoms to the North had also, at times, treated Muslims harshly.

Over the following decades, Muslims faced the same fate and about 60 years after the Jews, they were also compelled to convert (" moriscos ") or be expelled.

Hobart also has smaller communities of Hindus, Muslims and Bahá ' í, with a Bahá ' í Centre of Learning, located within the city.

Along with the desire for independence, tensions between Hindus and Muslims had also been developing over the years.

Hausa is also widely spoken by non-native Gur and Mande Ghanaian Muslims, but differs from Gaananci, and rather has features consistent with non-native Hausa dialects.

The Council of Europe also created the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, which has produced country reports and several general policy recommendations, for instance against anti-Semitism and intolerance against Muslims.

The Congress may be viewed as the most secular party with a national agenda ; however, it also practices votebank politics to gain the support of minorities, especially Muslims, through appeasement and pseudo-secularist strategies.

Qutb preached that Muslims must engage in a two-pronged attack of converting individuals while also waging jihad to forcibly eliminate the " structures " of Jahiliyya – not only from the Islamic homeland but from the face of the earth.

Muslims also believe in " the punishment of the grave ," which supposedly takes place between death and the resurrection.

For example, they had to pay the jizya, a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males, and they were also forbidden to bear arms or testify in court cases involving Muslims.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

Muslims believe these depictions lead to sculptural pieces, which then leads to worship of that sculpture or " idol ".

A Shia sect of Muslims believe that it will be found by Mahdi near the end of times from Lake Tiberias.

Sunni Muslims believe and confirm that Muhammad's father-in-law Abu Bakr was chosen by the community and that this was the proper procedure.

Shi ' a Muslims believe that Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of Muhammad, should have replaced Muhammad as Caliph and that Caliphs were to assume authority through appointment by God rather than being chosen by the people.

In the Qur ' an, it is stated that ( 2: 62 ): " Surely, those who believe, those who are Muslims, Jewish, the Christians, and the Sabians ; anyone who ( 1 ) believes in GOD, and ( 2 ) believes in the Last Day, and ( 3 ) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from their Lord.

The Qur ' an gives clear instruction on many issues, such as how to perform the ritual purification before the obligatory daily prayers, but on other issues, some Muslims believe the Qur ' an alone is not enough to make things clear.

For example the Qur ' an states one needs to engage in daily prayers and fast during the month of Ramadan but some Muslims believe they need further instructions on how to perform these duties.

antichrist ), according to Islamic tradition contained within the sahih ( correct ) hadith ( records of traditions ), which Muslims believe to be authentic and reliable narratives of the sayings and practices of Muhammad.

Islamists have asked the question, " If Islam is a way of life, how can we say that those who want to live by its principles in legal, social, political, economic, and political spheres of life are not Muslims, but Islamists and believe in Islamism, not Islam?

Many Muslims believe as Saudi Prince Saud al Faisal did that the hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth obtained from the Persian Gulf's huge oil deposits were nothing less than a gift from God to the Islamic faithful.

" Despite Afghanistan's great poverty, they had little interest in social, economic and technological development – at one time explaining that " we Muslims believe God the Almighty will feed everybody one way or another.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

A 2007 survey of British Muslims showed that 61 % believe homosexuality should be illegal, with up to 71 % young British Muslims holding this belief.

Muslims believe that Allah ( God ) will hold every human, Muslim and non-Muslim, accountable for his or her deeds at a preordained time unknown to man.

Muslims believe that he preached the same monotheistic faith as his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael.

The Qur ' an makes it clear that Jacob was blessed by God as a prophet and, therefore, Muslims believe that his father, being a prophet as well, also knew of his son's greatness.

Muslims believe that God is eternal, transcendent, absolutely one ( the doctrine of tawhid, or strict or simple monotheism ), and incomparable ; that he is self-sustaining, who begets not nor was begotten.

Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places before, including through the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus.

Thus, in Surah 3: 52 of the Qur ' an, Jesus ’ disciples tell Jesus, " We believe in God ; and you be our witness that we are Muslims ( wa-shahad be anna muslimūn ).

Muslims believe that this is just one of the many signs that proves that Jesus is the Messiah.

The Qur ' an states Jesus the Son of Mary ( Arabic: Isa ibn Maryum ) is the Messiah or " Prophet " sent to the Jews, and Muslims believe Jesus is alive in Heaven and will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist ( Arabic: Dajjal ).

Mainstream Muslims believe that at that time Isa will dispel Christian and Jewish claims about him.