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Jasim Mohammed Jaafar
Jasim Mohammed Jaafar ( ar, جاسم محمد جعفر) is an Iraqi politician who served as Minister for Youth & Sports in Nouri al-Maliki's government. He was elected to the post by the Iraqi National Assembly on 20 May 2006, having previously served as the Minister for Construction and Housing in the Iraqi Transitional Government. Jaafar was born in 1958 in Tuz Khurmatu, Saladin Governorate to Turkmen parents. He went to university in Sulaymaniyah where he obtained a master's degree in civil engineering. He joined the opposition to Saddam Hussein in 1976 and was sentenced to death in 1981. He went into exile to Iraqi Kurdistan and helped found the Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman in 1991, becoming its deputy leader. References *Beehner, Lionel (May 12, 2005)IRAQ: Cabinet Ministers Council on Foreign Relations, accessed June 4, 2006. Ministers ''Iraqi Transitional Government The Iraqi Transitional Government was the government of Iraq from May 3, 2005, when it replaced the Ir ...
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Jasim ( ar, جاسم, also spelled Jasem) is a small city in the Izra' District of the Daraa Governorate in southern Syria. It is located 41 kilometers north of Daraa and is near the towns of Nawa to the south, Kafr Shams to the north, Inkhil to the northeast and al-Harra to the northwest. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jasim had a population of 31,683.General Census of Population and Housing 2004
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate.


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Iraqi Kurdistan
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Government Ministers Of Iraq
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Islamic Union Of Iraqi Turkoman Politicians
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or ''Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the main and final Islamic prophet.Peters, F. E. 2009. "Allāh." In , edited by J. L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . (See alsoquick reference) " e Muslims' understanding of Allāh is based...on the Qurʿān's public witness. Allāh is Unique, the Creator, Sovereign, and Judge of mankind. It is Allāh who directs the universe through his direct action on nature and who has guided human history through his prophets, Abraham, with whom he made his covenant, Moses/Moosa, Jesus/Eesa, and Muḥammad, through all of whom he founded his chosen communities, the 'Peoples of the Book.'" It is the world's second-largest religion behind Christianity, with its followers ranging between 1-1.8 billion globally, or around a quarter of the world's pop ...
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