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demographics are destiny
On the lamb….A rather ingenious, but vaguely anti-semitic piece to come out of Haaretz in Israel. And they wonder why less than 5% of Israeli’s read it and its going broke. For external consumption to a base of Heidegger style … Continue reading
waiting for god-oh!… a matter of memory
What is a jew? The question is more easily posed than responded to, or at least those responses differ in an agree to disagree manner. That could be predicted in avance, given that Jewish history has never conformed to reasonable … Continue reading
all the way down to nothin’ mostly
the Prophet armed. The ambivalent relationship between the Sword and the Word… Mohammed began to send raiding parties against Meccan caravans. Booty was his first source of income and allowed him to build up a treasury. His first real battle, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Terror Theme Park Lebanon, Islam Origins, John Phillips photography, Khalil Gibran, Life of Mohammed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammed against Mecca, Mohammed at Badr, Mohammed at Uhud, Mohammed captures Mecca, Mohammed defends Medina siege, Mohammed truce with Quraishites
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sacred war & the prophet: keep the blade sharpened
The Prophet Armed. Rock the Kaaba.Islam is the only one of the world’s great religions to have been founded on the Sword as well as the Word. It began with The thirty-nine …. Southern Arabia was a remote and backward … Continue reading
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Tagged abu-Talib and Mohammed, Al Quds March London, Anita McNaught, bashar assad, david yerushalmi, Iran Qods Day, Isalmic Human Rights Committee, Ismail Haniyeh, John Phillips photography, Khalil Gibran, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Malik Al Kurdi, Mohamed Morsi, Mohamed Morsy, Mohammed birth and origins, Mohammed black stone Kaaba, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, shmuly yanklowitz
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Yet their brows touched heaven
The blur of identity is fundamental to the Arab consciousness and the history of the Arab peoples has been a perennial struggle to resolve it: an alternation of confusion , self-awareness and doubt, mixed with something that transcends frontiers and … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Jahiliyah The Ignorance, Arafat meets Pope John Paul II, Arafat visits John Paul II, Army of Islam Salafi, Caliph Omar, Charles Doughty, Itamar Marcus, John Phillips photography, Lawrence of Arabia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Morsi, Patriarch Sophronius, Richard Francis Burton, Steve Runciman, Temple of Solomon, The Arabia Felix
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blurs of identity
What is an Arab…. You cannot tell him by his face, or his dress, or his manner, or his religion, or even his color. He may live anywhere from the eastern deserts of Iraq to the Atlantic shore of Morocco. … Continue reading
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