Tag: islam
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#MorningMonarchy: September 28, 2017
Rescheduled doomsday, cannibal couple and cult music + this day in history w/the Omaha race riots and our song of the day by Prolly Knot on your Morning Monarchy for September 28, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 14, 2017
Edible merch, too many obituaries and movie ‘Millions’ + this day in history w/Sputnik & Laika and our song of the day by Thundercat on your Morning Monarchy for April 14, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: July 22, 2016
Presidential branding, Billion Dollar Shave Club and RIP VCR + this day in history w/King David Hotel bombing and our song of the day by Breakdown Brass on your Morning Monarchy for July 22, 2016.
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The Medieval Christian King Inspired by the Muslim World
“If I had been present at the Creation,” the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, “Many faults in the universe would have been avoided.”
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Kurdish Muslims abandoning Islam for Zoroastrianism
The small, ancient religion of Zoroastrianism is being revived in northern Iraq. Followers say locals should join because it’s a truly Kurdish belief. Others say the revival is a reaction to extremist Islam.
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Religious Children Are Mean
Controversial new research is claiming what many already feared: religion makes you mean.
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How Did God Get Started?
from bu.edu: One day in the Middle East about four thousand years ago, an elderly but still rather astonishingly spry gentleman took his son for a walk up a hill. The young man carried on his back some wood that his father had told him they would use at the top to make an altar,…
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Can ISIS ever be defeated?
from newantisemitism.com: It is with bewilderment, disgust and fear that our global community has become an audience to the bloody carnage inflicted by ISIS within the boundaries of their ever-growing “Caliphate.” On February 17, they set 45 people on fire in Iraq, adding to the gruesome death toll of the last few months. It wasn’t long…
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Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts
from www.nlm.nih.gov: In the field of materia medica and its applications, Islamic writers surpassed their earlier models, primarily because their broader geographic horizons brought them into contact with drugs unknown to earlier peoples, such as camphor, musk, sal ammoniac, and senna. In later Arabic works, medicinals were used that came from as far afield as…
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Freemasonry and Islam: What do they share?
from dailygrail.com: The topic of Freemasonry is a vast and complex subject, it encroaches on the history and culture of every past, present society and undoubtedly it will even impact future civilizations to come. One could spend an entire life time researching and delving into the inner mysteries, symbolism and rituals of this ancient order;…
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Alchemy and Sufism
from henrybayman.com: It is known that alchemy originated from Hermeticism. Some have even considered the two synonymous. We have also seen that Sufism is the contemporary form of Hermeticism. This suggests that there should be some affinity between Sufism and alchemy. In the present article, we focus on this subject. The first famous Moslem alchemist,…
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Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?
from BBC News: Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof. An architecture competition has been held and the…
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Israel Police, Protesters Clash at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
from dailystar.com.lb: Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians Tuesday in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound of Jerusalem’s Old City, ahead of a parliamentary debate on Jewish access to the site, holy to both faiths.
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Muslims Flee Christian Militias in Central Africa Republic
from goddiscussion.com: Christian militias are brutally attacking Muslims in Bangui with both villages and towns being affected. Whole villages are being deserted as Christians are burning and looting Muslim’s houses and mosques. Now, tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing the violent areas and into neighboring countries in hopes for safety.
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#Egypt’s Christians Stunned After #Coptic Church Shooting
from chron.com: Egypt’s Christians were stunned Monday by a drive-by shooting in which masked gunmen sprayed a wedding party outside a Cairo church with automatic weapons fire, killing four people, including two young girls, in an attack that raised fears of a nascent insurgency by extremists after the military’s ouster of the president and a…