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Category Archives: History
The Origin Of Christmas
Christmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions. It is a day that has an effect on the entire world.
To many people, it is a favorite time of the year involving gift giving, parties and feasting. Christmas is a holiday that unifies almost all of professing Christendom.
The spirit of Christmas causes people to decorate their homes and churches, cut down trees and bring them into their homes, decking them with silver and gold.
In the light of that tree, families make merry and give gifts one to another.
When the sun goes down on December 24th, and darkness covers the land, families and churches prepare for participation in customs such as burning the yule log, singing around the decorated tree, kissing under the mistletoe and holly, and attending a late night service or midnight mass.
What is the meaning of Christmas? Where did the customs and traditions originate? Continue reading
‘To believe in a European utopia before Muslims arrived is delusional’
It is pernicious to regard prejudiced views within migrant communities as exclusive to either them or their cultures Continue reading
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Religion and Foreign Policy By CONN HALLINAN
Historian Bernard Lewis recently told the Jerusalem Post that Muslims “seem about to take over Europe” because Europeans have “surrendered” to Islam in the name of “political correctness” and “multi-culturalism.” Philosopher Francis Fukuyama argues that France’s opposition to the Iraq War was “in part to appease Muslim opinion,” and Omer Taspinar of the Brookings Institute claims that European Muslims “are becoming a more powerful political force than the fabled Arab street.”
“the fight in Iraq is between a “Christian nation” and “Satan,” and can only be won “if we come against them in the name of Jesus.” Continue reading
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Palestine – Pictorial history
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At least 1,700 Palestinians were slaughtered on Israel’s say-so, 25 years ago this week
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THE ARTS OF ISLAM – TREASURES FROM THE NASSER D KHALILI COLLECTION
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Muslim Rajputs – Who are they?
Muslim Rajputs (more commonly known as Musalman Rajputs within India and Pakistan) are Rajputs who practice Islam.
Rajputs (Urdu: راجپوت, Hindi: राजपूत) were the warrior and ruling clans of India during the classical period, i.e. 8-13th century. They originally hailed from the historical state of Rajputana, which is in Rajasthan.
The term Rajput is traditionally applied to the original Suryavanshi, Chandravanshi and Agnivanshi clans.
The 1931 census of British India was the last to record caste affiliation in a manner that provides reliable information on Rajput demographics. Any present-day estimates are therefore speculative; they also vary widely.
The 1931 census reported a total of 10.7 million people self-describing as Rajput. Of this population, about 8.6 million people also self-described as being Hindu, about 2.1 million as being Muslim and about 50,000 as being Sikh by religion. Continue reading
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Why the West has lost the ideological war against Muslims? – Abid Mustafa
“The West has spent the last two hundred years combating Islamic thoughts in the hope of dissuading Muslims from Islam. This campaign began with the orientalists who studied Islam and attacked its beliefs and rules.”
“The stark reality facing Western governments today is that the Muslim ummah (Muslim nation) has won the battle of ideas. The chapter of ideological struggle between the Muslim ummah and the West is more or less closed. But the chapter of political struggle between the ummah and the West is still open- albeit for limited period. This is because the West and their surrogates have no political legitimacy left in the Muslim world. These surrogates only survive because of dogged support from Western powers.” Continue reading
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Afghanistan & Iran in light of the Prophecies
Iran has been Shi`a for only last 3 centuries of its 12 centuries of its Islamic history. In this time the Safavids moved the capital to Isfahan , the place of Dajjal’s emergence. So successful were the Safavids in thwarting the Ottoman’s incursions into Europe that the Austrians prayed for their victories in their churches and its diplomats remarked, “Had it not been for the (Safavid) Shah, we would be reading the Qur’an today like they do in Barbary ( North Africa ).” Continue reading
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