the third pillar of islam is called the fasting of the month of ramadan. now this is the ninth month of the muslim calendar, and the muslim calendar, we must know, is a lunar calendar, so this month obviously rotates in different seasons. and this is the fasting throughout the whole of this month from dawn to dusk, which means from dawn time, the person must not eat- from the time of dawn, he must fast from eating and drinking or any kind of bread and the wrong things: back biting, telling a lie, stealing, and all those kinds of things. so this is the whole month of islam must fast. the fourth pillar is called the zakat, which means sharing one's wealth with the poor, with the needy, and this is the best kind of sharing, and it is on one's annual savings- it is not on the income, it is not a tax, rather, it is a really just obligation for sharing the wealth with those who do not have it from those who have it and who have savings. so it has a different rate according to different kinds of wealth- for example, the gold, the silver- so there are different wa

fighting those organizations still since two thousand and five i've been involved in the work to ramadan foundation a foundation has been doing but what i find even more appalling is this near obsession i would belittling islam and somehow creating a you know a clash of cultures a clash of religions we want to live in peace the christians the jews the muslims people of no faith want to been living in a tolerant society and as roger rightly so it's the last majority of people. that identity is a major issue of free how do you see the is ok you guys i want to raise i mean just as a fascinating point i was going to with respect to the lady in paris rachael why did it when i went to go everywhere but what about the identity issue here because i think it's interesting enough that i'm i'm very left in many things here but it's a good pick roger brings up a very good point is that you know the identity issue to some belong to the right it should go on to everyone here and the right is taking it in a way down their path for a variety of reasons but identity itself is a very much in danger in eur

university and in manchester we have mohammed saffi key is the chief executive in founding member of the ramadan foundation all right folks this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want raj i want to go to you first before we get to before the program started you asked if we were going to talk about if the man on trial in norway is insane or not how would you describe that because and looking at the trial i think it's really spooky looking at this trial because he seems to be outwardly a very normal mild mannered person and he has he's able to he's admitted to this really ugly massive crime and he still sits there like you could be sitting next to him in a bus. well i think what we're witnessing on my ass is thanks to the wonders of television is the state of mind of a fanatic or fanatical racist in this case could be a fanatical anything really i think a fanatic creates a sort of psychosis for himself which is very different from normal forms of insanity he has created an imaginary universe which is divided into good and evil is called a manichean worldview and he puts himself

munching his way through a bag of crisps, and i said to him, purely frivolously, "you could do with ramadan lasting all year round, couldn't you, kemal?" it was quite witty, really. and now his dad has said that i singled him out because of his religion, and apparently i've traumatized him about his weight. which is down to a glandular disorder it seems, which presumably compels him to thrust pies down his throat. and that was it. the governors won't take it seriously. the governors?! he wrote to the l.e.a., so it has to go to the governors. but they'll just kick it into the long grass. i can't believe that you were trying to keep this quiet. i was gonna tell you when it was over. brilliant. so now i've got two members of my family lying to me! i didn't want to worry you. ( thudding, screaming upstairs ) we should be sharing these things, pete. i know, i know. you're right. um... what? there was... an incident that was vaguely similar last year. how similar? similar in that it was another completely baseless complaint. and it went to the governors. ohh! i mean, you just can't make jokes the

uprising, there have been protests after friday prayers every week and during the muslim holy month of ramadan there was protests everyday so certainly we're expecting large numbers of people to take to the streets on friday just based on what activists are saying and, you know, this is always the concern that the assad government had if we look back at the arab league monitoring mission in january, for example, we saw many, many more people take to the streets because they felt that perhaps with the presence of these monitors in their mid-it is security forces might not be as brutal as they have been in the past. the syrian national council, which is is de facto political opposition group, has called on people to take to the streets in syria to test the cease-fire and to see if assad will keep his guns as silent as they have been today. >> warner: has the assad government given any indication as to whether it will allow those protests to go forward? >> the interior ministry has said that protests... peaceful protests are part of a constitutional right of every syrian and it said that presiden

uprising, there have been protests after friday prayers every week and during the muslim holy moh of ramadanre was protests everyday so certainly we're expecting large numbers of people to take to the streets on friday just based on what activists are saying and, you know, this is always the concern that the assad government had if we look back at the arab league monitoring mission in january, for example, we saw many, many more people take to the streets because they felt that perhaps with the presence of these monitors in their mid-it is security forces might not be as brutal as they have been in the past. the syrian national council, which is is de facto plital oppotionro, has called on people to take to the streets in syria to test the cease-fire and to see if assad will keep his guns as silent as they have been today. >> warner: has the assad government given any indication as to whether it will allow those protests to go forward? >> the interior ministry has said that protests... peaceful protests are part of a constitutional right of every syrian and it said that president bashar al-a