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...n develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charle...

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...aper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the h... ... the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8... ...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ... human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West Little more than a century after the dea... ...n a century after the death of Muhammad (c570–632), Allah and the laws of Islam held sway:  From Arabia across northern Africa to Spain.  Thr... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...nglish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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...ions and transmutations of Byzantium, of the Turks, of a vile mix of Orthodoxy and Islam (though they collaborated with their Moslem minority durin... ... Ditore, the Albanian language daily. The Albanians are not a devout lot, but even Islam had its political manifestations in Kosovo. The 1981 ... ...ivilization, not merely of meddling ignorantly and sacriligeously in the affairs of Islam (and the rest of the world). They fervently believe that A... ...lements) because it constitutes "Narcissistic Supply". Bin Laden (and by extension Islamic fundamentalism) is the narcissistic complement of the St... ... the wreath of martyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno...

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...d States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant E... ...e List, Mr. Blair Narcissism, Group Behavior, and Terrorism The Iraqi and the Madman Islam and Liberalism Back to the Table of Contents! Containing t... ...integrate tomorrow - China would assuredly follow. Back to the Table of Contents! Islam and Liberalism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also Read The Crescent ... ... the Cross - A First Encounter The Crescent and the Cross - The Communities of God Islam is not merely a religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremo... ...ed distance from such carnal matters. These are religions of "heaven" as opposed to Islam, a practical, pragmatic, hands-on, ubiquitous, "earthly" ... ...ures Why America is Hated In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover, ... ...II. Just War or a Just War? In an age of terrorism, guerilla and total warfare the medieval doctrine of Just War needs to be re-defined. Moreover,... ...hen ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prevail? Enter the medieval doctrine of "Just War" (justum bellum, or, more precise...

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...aper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the h... ... the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8... ...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ... human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West Little more than a century after the death... ...n a century after the death of Muhammad (c570–632), Allah and the laws of Islam held sway:  From Arabia across northern Africa to Spain.  Thr... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...glish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...e end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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... Localul nup ţial are doi str ăjeri la intrare, cu halebarde ca-n castelele medievale, decor ro şu. Femeile în rochii sari, b ărba ţii la costume. M... ...ost capitala unui regat mare musulman între 1211-1556. Turcii au introdus islamul şi-au format un sultanat musulman la Delhi, în 1206. 11 ... ...ismul este un sincretism între mi şcarea Bhakti (din hinduism) şi Sufi (din Islam). Bhakti înseamn ă devo ţiune unei singure zeităţi, iar Sufi(sm)... ...vo ţiune unei singure zeităţi, iar Sufi(sm) o form ă special ă de misticism islamic. În acest caz sikhismul este un paradox religios fiindc ă une şt... ...ă une şte / împreún ă credin ţe şi practici religioase opuse; hinduismul şi islamul. Primul templu Sikh a fost construit la Katarpur. Exist ă cca.... ...icane în India, la Delhi, Bombay, Madras şi Calcutta. În 2003, terori şti islamici antrena ţi în Bangladesh, au atacat Consulatul American din Cal... ...ă, german ă, francez ă şi italian ă. Celebrele temple erotice Temple medievale în Kajuraho, mari sau mici. Intrarea 5 $ sau 250 rupii pentru ... ... o familie de emigran ţi români din Cincinnatti (Ohio). Momente din via ţa medieval ă imortalizate în stânc ă, timp înghe ţat din sec. X-XV. Templ...

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...u chief claimed one to two million in his wars. About 3 million died in the Islamic slave trade and almost as many in the slave trade in the western ... ...ivilized as “reactionary.” I would never have expected Ray to duplicate the Medieval approach to religion that the Polish and German popes have been ... ...reason that so many people are moving into more fundamental religions, into Islam, ‘born again’ evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics li... ...regimes that he thought were antagonistic to his beliefs. Bush attacked an Islamic country, ostensibly to rid them of a sadistic dictator and to spr... ...econd coming of the 12 th imam. He clearly hoped to establish a more rigid Islamic regime. Along this line he fired a number of experienced diplomat... ...r of experienced diplomats and bank directors. He wanted all the power of a Medieval religious king. While he was elected democratically, democracy ... ...te when he proposed his theory of planetary motion. Of course at that time Islam was more accepting of science, which is why they were so far ahead...

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...centeredness that is pushing many people into more fundamental religions. Islam and Christian evangelism are on the rise in opposition to the freedom... ... more human and humane answer to life‘s challenges? ―Certainly Islamic and Christian evangelism are on the rise because the freedom that ... ...ns, subject to torture and death. The proud academic traditions of 51 Islam were plowed under by uneducated power-driven zealots who destroyed sc... ...onship with His creations. This is the position of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Bahai. While some people have merely assumed that... ...been made in the Jewish tradition, particularly by Maimonides, and in the Islamic tradition by the Kalam scholars. All of these followed Aristotle‘s... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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... this Napoleon is psychotic. He isn‘t thinking rationally. Even you Ray, what if you had gone to the university in Cairo or Tehran and studied Islam ... ...o agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christianity.‖ —―And many Christians who have converted to Islam.... ... 43 a bomb for a turban. Most people in the West, Muslims included, had abhorred what they saw as senseless killings of innocent people by Islami... ... 2004 study by the French police found that just under 10% of the mosques were under the control of extremists. Yet 23% of French converts to Islam ... ...ght a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman Jew Paul offered his converts. Mohammed said that Islam ... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev...

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...e Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, p... ... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...cahoots with the Israeli government - serve as administrative backup, same as some Islamic charities do for militant Islam. The Jews' ability and r... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...t the impoverished, the democracies against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the West against the Orient. It is the ulti... ...onsummate and powerful interpellators are not above the rules - has thus revived. Islam and Liberalism Islam is not merely a religion. It is also ...

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...e Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, p... ... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...cahoots with the Israeli government - serve as administrative backup, same as some Islamic charities do for militant Islam. The Jews' ability and r... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...t the impoverished, the democracies against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the West against the Orient. It is the ulti... ...onsummate and powerful interpellators are not above the rules - has thus revived. Islam and Liberalism Islam is not merely a religion. It is also ...

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...m as Ideas of Progress Fascism - The Tensile Permanence Narcissistic Leaders Islam and Liberalism Democracy and New Colonialism A Dialog about Anti-Se... ...ty's inevitable downfall and corruption is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval morality play. This trajectory – from rags to riches and fame a...

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...i ajunge o s ăpt ămân ă întreag ă s ă-i vizitezi toate colec ţiile! Louvre-ul medieval era deschis: antichit ăţi egiptene, macheta Castelului Regelu... ...Kiadó, Bra şov, 1996; poeme în ungure şte din perioada 1972-1996, cu o poz ă “medieval ă” a autorului. În ţeleg şi eu 2-3 cuvinte pe care le sublini... ...in s ă se poat ă c ăs ători cu o musulmanc ă, trebuie s ă se converteasc ă la islam. Cum Shahnez era din aceast ă religie, Tony, irlandez, şi-a schi...

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...here, and accomplishing something.’ This is nothing more than a modernized medieval oath of loyalty. Every peasant on Earth for thousands of yea... ...e part of our past is organically connected to our present. For example: The Medieval ritual of anointing Kings with sacred oil is over 2,500 years... ...½ of Europe to the same squalor, poverty and terrorization as the rest of his medieval empire of starving slaves. The American empire was not crea... ...dden motives, multiple motives, secret agenda’s, secret plots… The history of Medieval England has many layers. Imagine sticking a bunch of ignor... ...rches. There are many first-hand accounts of the abysmal stupidity of the medieval Romans. The city became a pigsty of idiots… and every human ... ...r1821 The Path of Splitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative Islam or Jews! Not entire regions, not entire empires! Not entire con...

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... it that the western-educated, non-conformist, Muslim youth all over, not to speak of the fresh converts from other faiths get attracted to fight for Islam and die for it? It matters little where we live in this wide world, and one being a Musalman is no guarantee either to escape being its victim. Its madness might reduce us to a statistic of the dead or injured in tomorr...

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...Pitfalls of Faith If the ecstasy of the Quran is the soul of Islam, the legend of Muhammad is the mind of the Musalman. The exalted sense of his pedigree could have made Muhammad fiercely honest, even in the state of deprivation. It is to be appreciated that neither his insignificance ...

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...f ‘the God’ 13. Playing to the Gallery 14. Perils of History 15. Pitfalls of Faith 16. Blinkers of Belief 17. Shackles of Sharia 18. Anatomy of Islam 19. Fight for the Souls 20. India in Coma 21. Double Jeopardy 22. Paradise of Parasites 23. The Number Game 24. Winds of Change 25. Ant Grows Wings 26. Constitutional Amnesia 27. The Stymied State 28. The Wage...

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.... Ayatollah Sadeq Rouhani, a conservative cleric, issued a ruling that that hymenoplasties – the surgical reconstruction of virginity – was lawful in Islam. “There is no difference between a real and fake hymen,” he reasoned, wisely putting pragmatism before principle. The point is the claims to tradition and faith on which clerical authority rest are being eroded. Plas...

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...land Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM E...

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...TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 ... ...rorists and Their Organizations 365 12.3 Prevent the Continued Growth of Islamist Terrorism 374 12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Att... ... London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a “World Islamic Front.”A fatwa is normally an inter- pretation of Islamic law by a ... ...ont.”A fatwa is normally an inter- pretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority , but neither Bin Ladin, Zawahiri, nor the three others w... ... Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law. Claiming that America had declared war against God and his mes... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199...

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...e mostly also matters of fashion. We are conscious of a difference between medieval fashions in belief and modern fashions. For instance, though we ar... ...he stamp of superstition. We will believe in nothing less than millions. A medieval doctor gained his patient’s confidence by telling him that his vit... ... on the reader’s attention by facing the question whether, if and when the medieval and Methodist will-to-believe the Salvationist and miraculous side... ...ica; Atheism works in France, Poly- theism in India, Monotheism throughout Islam, and Prag- matism, or No-ism, in England. Paul’s fantastic conception... ...criticism of religion: one does not offer the fact that a good deal of the medieval building in Peterborough Cathedral was found to be flagrant jerry-...

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...ilver, and stones of jade and agate. His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of p... ...command over Nature” which makes many of our English methods appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an a... ...gross physical torments and public executions for the passion of humanity. Islam, substituting voluptuous- ness for torment (a merely superficial diff...

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...d kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to him as umbrellas and kodaks are t... ...nds of the Cadi of Kintafi, who rightly held that there was more danger to Islam in one Cunninghame Graham than in a thousand Christians, may be learn...

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...ec- ognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bear- able after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. As I sat watching Everyman at the C... ...kless as his own? The force of men who fought, not for themselves, but for Islam. They took Spain from us, though we were fighting for our very hearth... ...JUAN. Have no fear, Commander: this idea of a Catholic Church will survive Islam, will survive the Cross, will survive even that vulgar pageant of inc...