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The last ten days of Ramadan are the most special of this holy month, where Muslims are called upon to reflect deeply in prayers lasting through the night. One of these evenings is known as the \u201cNight of Power<\/a>,\u201d when Allah is said to be most receptive to the prayers of his believers. And while warfare during Ramadan isn\u2019t prohibited<\/a>, the restraint practiced during the month is supposed to direct that fight inward, towards one\u2019s faults and impulses and away from fighting. \u201cIn the theology, what is called for is seclusion, not machoism and acts of war,\u201d says Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, an expert in Islamic law at Yale. But a series of bombings<\/a> in Turkey and Iraq \u2013 targeting Americans, British, and Jews but claiming mainly Muslim lives \u2013 have brought a somber mood<\/a> to the end of the holy month. \u201cMuslims are connected with Iraq and the world,\u201d said Imam Rafiq Mahdi, leader of Masjid al-Iman in Fort Lauderdale. \u201cAnd this Ramadan, a lot of people in Iraq have seen loved ones killed. And our soldiers there don\u2019t know who their friends are.\u201d But following the bombings in Turkey which claimed over 50 lives, some fear that a \u201c Ramadan offensive<\/a>\u201d from jihadist groups might become a new tradition. \u201cReligious sentiments are most intense during that last 10 days,\u201d comments Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr of George Washington University, \u201cand when someone wants to exploit it, that is the best time to do it.\u201d But warnings of possible attacks in the US \u2013 following calls by militant groups for US Muslims to vacate major US cities \u2013 didn\u2019t materialize. In the wake of bombings that shattered the Ramadan peace in Turkey, Turkish Muslims held \u201c peace protests<\/a>\u201d in the streets, and imams plan to use the upcoming Eid-al-Fitr holiday on Tuesday to renew condemnations<\/a> of terror. \u201cTerror, violence and anarchy have no connection whatsoever with Islam,\u201d reads a khutba<\/i> (sermon) that will be read throughout Turkey on Tuesday. \u201cOur religion clearly outlaws any kind of anarchy, sedition, enmity, cruelty, torture, terror or violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n

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