Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

Details about these issues can be found in the traditions of Islamic prophet Muhammad, so Qur ' an and Sunnah are in most cases the basis for.

In 2005, the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued the fatwā that the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that Iran shall never acquire these weapons.

However, these fatwās are not considered binding for the Islamic states.

Specific to the Islamic gardens are the mosaics and glazed tiles used to decorate the rills and fountains that were built in these gardens.

As mentioned above, these pronouncements contradict Islamic belief.

Islamic mathematics, in turn, developed and expanded the mathematics known to these civilizations.

Within the native culture, however, establishing a connection between English Language Teaching ( ELT ), patriotism and Muslim faith is seen as one of the aims of ELT, as the chairman of the Punjab Textbook Board openly states: " The board ... takes care, through these books to inoculate in the students a love of the Islamic values and awareness to guard the ideological frontiers of your students home lands " ( Punjab Text Book Board 1997 ).

Saudi Arabia attempted to compensate for its loss of prestige among these groups by repressing those domestic Islamists who attacked it ( bin Laden being a prime example ), and increasing aid to Islamic groups ( Islamist madrassas around the world and even aiding some violent Islamist groups ) that did not, but its pre-war influence on behalf of moderation was greatly reduced.

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Other lesser known groups include the Islamic Liberation Party, Al-Najun min al-nar and Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra and these groups have variously been involved in activities such as attempted assassinations of political figures, arson of video shops and attempted takeovers of government buildings.

Given that the Qur ' an is vague regarding the punishment of homosexual sodomy, Islamic jurists turned to the collections of the hadith and seerah ( accounts of Muhammad's life ) to support their argument for Hudud punishment ; these are perfectly clear but particularly harsh.

Wearing of amulets and devotional medals to provide protection or ward off evil is common in some cultures ; these may take the form of symbols ( such as the ankh ), stones, plants, animals, body parts ( such as the Khamsa ), or glyphs ( such as stylised versions of the Throne Verse in Islamic art ).

Scholars of Islamic studies often stress that these words are not synonymous.

It is possible that Jahangir might have seen these images in their Islamic persona, as the Qur ' an features such creatures, yet depiction of living things was haraam ( forbidden ), so the images could well have been created by a Christian artist.

This flowering of Islamic learning ceased centuries later when learning began declining in the Islamic world, after many of these libraries were destroyed by Mongol invasions.

The contents of these Islamic libraries were copied by Christian monks in Muslim / Christian border areas, particularly Spain and Sicily.

Modern Islamic libraries for the most part do not hold these antique books ; many were lost, destroyed by Mongols, or removed to European libraries and museums during the colonial period.

Some state governments controlled by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, including that of Terengganu, have passed Islamic laws, but these have not gone into effect due to opposition from the federal government.

Walid Amine Salhab asserts that Gerbert's reintroduction of the emphasis on these liberal arts in Europe was inspired by the educational institution of Cordoba in Islamic Spain.

Two later attempts represented the enthusiasm of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ; these were the Federation of Arab Republics which lasted five years and the Arab Islamic Republic which never emerged in practice.

Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians ( including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners ;), but also lauded as a " charismatic leader of immense popularity ", and a " champion of Islamic revival " by Shia scholars.

She writes that the " eradicationists " have responded to these criticisms by reaching out to the African communities and strengthening their relationships with local anti-FGM activists.

From these early influences individualist anarchism in different countries attracted a small but diverse following of bohemian artists and intellectuals, free love and birth control advocates ( see Anarchism and issues related to love and sex ), individualist naturists nudists ( see anarcho-naturism ), freethought and anti-clearical activists as well as young anarchist outlaws in what came to be known as illegalism and individual reclamation ( see European individualist anarchism and individualist anarchism in France ).

Proponents and activists of these tactics among others included Johann Most, Luigi Galleani, Victor Serge, Giuseppe Ciancabilla and Severino Di Giovanni.

Some of these agents included exiled communists and Socialist party members, labor activists, anti-Nazi prisoners-of-war, and German and Jewish refugees.

In 2008, the organizers of an APA panel on the relationship between religion and homosexuality canceled the event after gay activists objected that " conversion therapists and their supporters on the religious right use these appearances as a public relations event to try and legitimize what they do.

The Salem Radio Network syndicates a group of religiously oriented Republican activists, including evangelical Christian Hugh Hewitt and Jewish conservatives Dennis Prager and Michael Medved ; these are mostly distributed in a 24-hour network format among Salem's own stations, and they generally earn ratings much less than their syndicated counterparts.

Later, radical activists Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and three other members of the " Chicago Seven " were convicted of crossing state lines with the intent of inciting a riot as a result of these confrontations, though the convictions were overturned on appeal.

Its excesses damaged the credibility of these activists for more than a generation in the eyes of Hong Kong residents.

In April, 1960 activists who had led these sit-ins held a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina that led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).

Upon returning to Cairo, he ordered one of the largest political crackdowns in the history of Egypt, with the arrests of over 20, 000 people, mostly members of the Brotherhood, but also Communists, Wafd activists, and sympathizers of these groups within the military leadership.

Local politicians and activists have long denounced the refineries for the amount of air pollution they generate, but in recent years these protests have been muted as the Port of Los Angeles has become the region's dominant polluter.

Adair built up a close relationship with these far right activists, even wearing an England shirt during UEFA Euro 2000 that one of the members had given him.

Because the death squads involved were found to have been soldiers of the Salvadoran military security forces, which were receiving U. S. arms, funding, training and advice during the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations, these events prompted some outrage in the U. S. Human rights activists criticized U. S. administrations for denying Salvadoran government links to the death squads.

Regular, even daily emails to Dow representatives from hired security analysts list the YouTube videos liked, Twitter and Facebook posts made and the public appearances of these activists, including the Yes Men.

During Young's last two administrations there was opposition among some neighborhood activists to these large construction projects.

Cases of police corruption with hidden bank accounts and retaliation against journalists who attempt to uncover these cases have occurred such as in June 2012, when Indonesian magazine Tempo had journalist activists beaten by police.

During these years, the NDP began to bleed support and activists to the Greens who reached 5 % in the polls in the fall of 1997 and 11 % by the fall of 1998 ; however, by far the majority of the NDP's former voters deserted the party for the centre-right BC Liberals.

American Indian and human rights activists have referred to these as " Medals of Dis-Honor " and called for the awards to be rescinded, but none of them have ever been revoked.

In the later 20th century, BDSM activists have protested against these conceptual models, originally derived from correlative to the philosophies of two singular historical figures and implying a clear pathological denotation of the authors ' controversial mores and essentially Nihilistic lack of ethical convictions.

In these late years, Lafargue had already distanced himself from any form of political activity, living on the outskirts of Paris in the village of Draveil, limiting his contributions to a number of articles and essays, as well as occasional contacts with some of the most outstanding socialist activists of the time, such as Karl Kautsky and Hjalmar Branting of the older generation, and Karl Liebknecht or Vladimir Lenin of the younger generation.

Both of these groups trace their origins to antisemitic activists, like Gerald L. K. Smith, and have interacted with the Ku Klux Klan.

Out of these ideas and activities came a new generation of activists including, perhaps most notably Keir Hardie, a Scot who had become convinced of the need for independent labour politics whilst working as a Gladstonian Liberal and trade union organiser in the Lanarkshire coalfield.

Some activists have criticized these long-term plans as catering to the needs of visitors at the expense of city residents, asserting that Muni's resources would be better spent on a seventh light rail line running along ( or under ) Geary Boulevard into the densely populated Richmond District.

activists were arrested, on charges including criminal damage, assault and breach of the peace ; these charges were dropped on the opening day of their trial.