Religious links
About which religion is the oldest.
Nice post about finding the burial site of a woman-shaman in Israel.
Neo-pagans praying at the Parthenon.
Giraffe milk has been declared kosher.
A magi priest who got himself into lots of Sasanian royal inscriptions. Iranian tradition was that Alexander burnt the sole complete copy of the Zoroastrian scriptures.
The notion of jihad as “healing”.
About the legacy of Islamic Jew-hatred. Ibn Warraq on Islamic Jew-hatred. Remembering the young Jewish couple murdered in Mumbai who founded the targeted Jewish centre there. Israeli victims at Mumbai were tortured the most. About the ideologies of South Asian jihadi groups: The Markaz/Lashkar/Jamaat-ul-Dawa movement construes Muslim territories under non-Muslim occupation in the broadest sense. “Muslims ruled Andalusia (Spain) for 800 years but they were finished to the last man. Christians now rule (Spain) and we must wrest it back from them. All of India, including Kashmir, Hyderabad, Assam, Nepal, Burma, Bihar and Junagadh were part of the Muslim empire that was lost because Muslims gave up jihad. Palestine is occupied by the Jews. The Holy Qibla-e-Awwal (First Center of Prayer) in Jerusalem is under Jewish control. Several countries such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, Sicily, Ethiopia, Russian Turkistan and Chinese Turkistan … were Muslim lands and it is our duty to get these back from unbelievers. Even parts of France reaching 90 kilometers outside Paris and some of the forests and mountains of Switzerland were home to Muslim mujahidin but are now under the occupation of unbelievers.”
Hitler was quite interested in the concept of jihad, found the example of the Armenians of interest all of which had postwar resonances. Measuring Islam against Umberto Eco’s characteristics of “Ur-Fascism”.
April 2007 survey of opinion in (pdf) Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia. 74% approve of strict application of Shar’ia in all Islamic countries and 65% support the unification of all Muslim countries into a single Caliphate. Large majorities disapprove of attacks on civilians.
Nice post about finding the burial site of a woman-shaman in Israel.
Neo-pagans praying at the Parthenon.
Giraffe milk has been declared kosher.
A magi priest who got himself into lots of Sasanian royal inscriptions. Iranian tradition was that Alexander burnt the sole complete copy of the Zoroastrian scriptures.
The notion of jihad as “healing”.
About the legacy of Islamic Jew-hatred. Ibn Warraq on Islamic Jew-hatred. Remembering the young Jewish couple murdered in Mumbai who founded the targeted Jewish centre there. Israeli victims at Mumbai were tortured the most. About the ideologies of South Asian jihadi groups: The Markaz/Lashkar/Jamaat-ul-Dawa movement construes Muslim territories under non-Muslim occupation in the broadest sense. “Muslims ruled Andalusia (Spain) for 800 years but they were finished to the last man. Christians now rule (Spain) and we must wrest it back from them. All of India, including Kashmir, Hyderabad, Assam, Nepal, Burma, Bihar and Junagadh were part of the Muslim empire that was lost because Muslims gave up jihad. Palestine is occupied by the Jews. The Holy Qibla-e-Awwal (First Center of Prayer) in Jerusalem is under Jewish control. Several countries such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, Sicily, Ethiopia, Russian Turkistan and Chinese Turkistan … were Muslim lands and it is our duty to get these back from unbelievers. Even parts of France reaching 90 kilometers outside Paris and some of the forests and mountains of Switzerland were home to Muslim mujahidin but are now under the occupation of unbelievers.”
Hitler was quite interested in the concept of jihad, found the example of the Armenians of interest all of which had postwar resonances. Measuring Islam against Umberto Eco’s characteristics of “Ur-Fascism”.
April 2007 survey of opinion in (pdf) Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia. 74% approve of strict application of Shar’ia in all Islamic countries and 65% support the unification of all Muslim countries into a single Caliphate. Large majorities disapprove of attacks on civilians.