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The alternative, for those who are always asking about alternatives, as if we were replacing one totalitarian government with another, is always the ballot box. What’s more important, and what is true in any region in the Arab World, is that foreign intervention is a small detail in the ...
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Daesh hardly need any introduction; many readers might know the organisation by the acronyms more commonly used by non-Arabic speakers: ISIS or IS. This latter-day ‘caliphate’ is busy preparing the ground for the annihilation of all infidels and apostates, and putting anyone who doesn’t ag...
Each time a husband was “martyred”—meaning killed in battle—she was passed on to another. “How do you feel about that?” I asked. “It was fine because I was following the word of the Prophet,” she replied, speaking as if by rote. She showed no emotion. “All of this is ...
Behind the Saracens, the Moors and the Arabs, medievalpeople were only given to see the archetype of‘them’, notwithstanding the respec-tive identifications or allegiances to the Fatimid caliphate, the Cordoban emirate, oran autonomous pirate base. It was a strategic ignorance, insofar as ...
Islam is incompatible with Western culture, history, judicial system, and civilization. Remember, our judicial system based on Judea-Christian values. Islam objects these values and Koran calls for extermination of Christians and Jews. Muslims objective is creation of global Caliphate and establishing ...
Clocks of one sort or another have been around for thousands of years A clock is any free-standing device or instrument for measuring or displaying the current time. The English word “clock” comes from the Celtic words clocca and clogan, both meaning “bell”. A chronometer is an ...
4. Mosque-Mosque is another prominent symbol of Islam. In Arabic it means “a place of prostration”. It’s a place where a Muslim offers prayer to Allah. Mosques have a unique architectural style. Some of the distinctive features of a mosque are, a dome which signifies Allah’s universe...