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  • We studied the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.†   (source)
  • "Iran's military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it's like a mix of the Communist Party, the KGB, and the mafia.†   (source)
  • I regularly hear from acquaintances or distant family members that Obama has ties to Islamic extremists, or is a traitor, or was born in some far-flung corner of the world.†   (source)
  • Next to it is a framed photo of the black-robed Kaaba, holiest sanctum of Islam, surrounded by a ten-thousandfold swirl of the faithful.†   (source)
  • There were no female Orthodox rabbis, Catholic priests, nor Islamic clerics.†   (source)
  • Rachel/Rachelle is now experimenting with Islam.†   (source)
  • I would love to spend my remaining breath chatting with you about the finer points of Islamic history, but our time together is short.†   (source)
  • Joe found Islam and began spending all his time studying the Koran in his cell.†   (source)
  • Maurice Orabi-Roussel, Islamic Art.†   (source)
  • I HAD NEVER KNOWN THAT MUCH ABOUT ISLAM.†   (source)
  • He also announced that interpretation of the Koran since the Shi'ites" seedship days had definitely shown that the God of Islam would neither condone nor allow the slaughter of the innocent, no matter how many jihads were proclaimed by tinhorn heretics like the New Prophet.†   (source)
  • But that would have taken us over the dubious southern uplands of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we do not do that.†   (source)
  • We in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic world have a fair chunk of mythology invested in rain and its most major by-product.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife's glossolalia cult is the most successful religion since the creation of Islam.†   (source)
  • The so-called Ancient Teachings — including those preserved by the Zensunni Wanderers from the first, second, and third Islamic movements; the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice…†   (source)
  • He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism.†   (source)
  • The city comprises prominent (Jewish) synagogues, (Christian) churches, and (Islamic) mosques.†   (source)
  • And if he decided to convert to Islam?†   (source)
  • It was a view of Islam not widely held among Americans, particularly the folks in Macon, Georgia, where Cole had grown up.†   (source)
  • Kennedy never did learn why a white Christian supremacist group would give its bible essentially the same name as the most holy book of Islam.†   (source)
  • I believed that everyone should be able to practice according to their own preferences and beliefs, but an awful lot of pilgrims in prison seem to be making it up as they go along, in silly ways—wearing a contraband napkin on their head one month when they're practicing Islam, and then appearing in the Buddhist meditation circle the next—after realizing that they could duck out of work for this new brand of religious observance.†   (source)
  • Very crazy thing, Viktor says, bringing these shirts into a place where Islam is stronger every day.†   (source)
  • The reason there are so many Muslim terrorists, they argued, has little to do with the Koran but a great deal to do with the lack of robust female participation in the economy and society of many Islamic countries.†   (source)
  • The only structures held sacred by both sides in the civil war had been the Islamic mosques.†   (source)
  • "Maybe that Islamic 'chatter' actually wasn't far from the truth, even though you planted it.†   (source)
  • And who is doing the heavy lifting now, in civilization's current struggle with fundamentalist Islamic jihad?†   (source)
  • He has drawn volunteers and admirers from every stratum of Pakistan's society and from all the warring sects of Islam.†   (source)
  • Cedric lets on that things aren't going so well, and Torrence is at the ready with sweeping explanations from Islamic dogma for Cedric's unhappiness.†   (source)
  • Carlos didn't care to understand the depths of their madness; he only knew they were the kind of people who would get what they wanted, and in the process he would get what he wanted: the restoration of Islam.†   (source)
  • When I am in America, my beloved home, I find myself defending Islam, my beautiful religion.†   (source)
  • A book in German entitled Der Staat und die Autonomen, a book in Swedish with the title Revolutionary Terrorism, and an English book Islamic Jihad.†   (source)
  • In high school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden joined an Islamic study group that memorized the entire Koran.†   (source)
  • After the Romans came the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic states, the trade empires of Italian city-states, and the Ottoman Empire, which did not disappear until the twentieth century, when the powerful nations of the European continent contrived to defeat and divide it.†   (source)
  • Climate, disease, tribal wars, and the incursion of Islam from the east had all played a part.†   (source)
  • Throughout this mad jumble, however, Max could see unmistakable elements of human architecture—Chinese pavilions, Islamic minarets, Egyptian obelisks, massive domes and cupolas whose scale dwarfed their human antecedents.†   (source)
  • Having taught themselves once to look through Islamic eyes, they could not return to the West, and were like young captives, deep in the enemy's country, who must rearrange their souls.†   (source)
  • Only Islam was forever.†   (source)
  • Especially areas that were hard-core Islamic.†   (source)
  • Is Islam an African religion?†   (source)
  • I might have chosen one called Islam, only I know too well how it mixes with Hinduism.†   (source)
  • The church chose Islam for the name because it was a language they considered dirty.†   (source)
  • Knowledge of Islam was mandatory for all Muslim students; its practice was not.†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mr. Kumar taught me biology and Islam.†   (source)
  • The Azhar Book traces this in slightly different form to First Islam.†   (source)
  • Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful.†   (source)
  • Some background on Islam in Iraq: There were two main groups of Muslims in Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites.†   (source)
  • "No," he said, a bit angrily, "my Islam was a political thing."†   (source)
  • Anyone who had a problem with rainbows, he said, would surely have trouble with Islam.†   (source)
  • This was a village full of Islamic fanatics who wanted only to see dead Americans.†   (source)
  • This is still law today both for Judaism and Islam.†   (source)
  • C H A PT E R I 8 Islam followed right behind, hardly a year later.†   (source)
  • Did he not know that his God and Islam's were one and the same?†   (source)
  • When I started first grade, I began studying Islam in school one hour per week.†   (source)
  • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share the same fundamental idea that there is only one God.†   (source)
  • The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are," pronounced the pandit.†   (source)
  • All three Western religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—share a Semitic background.†   (source)
  • She told him that she had actually been considering converting to Islam.†   (source)
  • We learned not only about Islam but also about Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.†   (source)
  • I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it.†   (source)
  • Islam adopted Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Bagdad as holy cities.†   (source)
  • She'd thought He was the actual god of Islam, the one whom Muslims worshiped.†   (source)
  • We do, however, have two things in common with Saudi Arabia, he continued: "Islam and petroleum."†   (source)
  • If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith."†   (source)
  • But she knew that in Islam she had found calm.†   (source)
  • We were taught to practice Islam, but to respect all religions.†   (source)
  • Why, Islam is nothing but an easy sort of exercise, I thought.†   (source)
  • She began reading about Islam, investigating the Qur'an.†   (source)
  • After the death of Muhammad in 632, both the Middle East and North Africa were won over to Islam.†   (source)
  • Shortly thereafter, Spain also became part of the world of Islamic culture.†   (source)
  • "She was looking to Islam!" he said with a sneer.†   (source)
  • She was recovering from an unsuccessful marriage and had recently converted to Islam.†   (source)
  • She liked Islam's sense of personal responsibility, its bent toward social justice.†   (source)
  • The fact that Islam acknowledged these books was revelatory for her.†   (source)
  • And to dismiss all of Islam with a playground sound?†   (source)
  • There were times, however, when her mother's loyalty to Kathy trumped her issues with Islam.†   (source)
  • Even her view of her family softened through the lens of Islam.†   (source)
  • So by fits and starts, she followed Yuko into Islam.†   (source)
  • Fortier was going to wipe out most of Islam-it could hardly be Allah's will.†   (source)
  • A stint with Islamic Relief, working in refugee camps in Kurdistan.†   (source)
  • The Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God.†   (source)
  • Your noble work follows the highest principles of Islam, to tend to the poor and sick.†   (source)
  • Haram is an Arabic word that mean, "forbidden by Islam.†   (source)
  • And a non-Muslim is a nonbeliever standing as a bulwark against the spread of Islam.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that Islam is divided into numerous sects.†   (source)
  • They may set up their own, they may even call it Islam, but it won't be the Islam you know.†   (source)
  • In Islam the Sufis and Dervishes use drugs to accomplish this.†   (source)
  • Then there's Torrence, who has been joined in his passion for Islam by Cedric's first cousin, Aisha.†   (source)
  • " We don't blame Ellaha's difficulties on the Prophet Muhammad or on Islam as such.†   (source)
  • You re concerned with Islam, Fortier said.†   (source)
  • While preparing supper that evening she told Natalie of her conversion to Islam.†   (source)
  • It pains her, as a pious Muslim, that some fundamentalists want to kill her in the name of Islam.†   (source)
  • Among the warring sects of Islam, Mortenson knew, men had been killed for less.†   (source)
  • All dealt with issues related to Islam and jihadism.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't mind converting her to Islam, if you catch my drift."†   (source)
  • Islam has granted the freedom of killing both of them.†   (source)
  • You did this under the authority of Islam because you knew I would respect it.†   (source)
  • Changazi told Mortenson how he squared his dalliances with his devotion to Islam.†   (source)
  • Giving to the poor, one of the pillars of Islamic faith.†   (source)
  • In contrast, conservative Islam has barely budged.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that I was studying the Koran, learning about Islam at my own pace.†   (source)
  • Remember," Nabil Awad added, "Zarqawi was a drinker before he discovered the beauty of Islam."†   (source)
  • So let's face the question squarely: Is Islam misogynistic?†   (source)
  • Islam had left no visible marks on Qassam.†   (source)
  • Most of them were about Islam, but I did not care.†   (source)
  • In valleys like the Upper Braldu, Islam has never completely vanquished older, animist beliefs.†   (source)
  • Moody no longer practiced the extreme form of Islam under which he had been raised.†   (source)
  • An infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam.†   (source)
  • His mother was a devout Muslim who believed that only Islam could save her troubled son.†   (source)
  • In the end, despite these deep cultural ties, the Islamic world has entirely renounced slavery.†   (source)
  • It is not found in most Arab or Islamic cultures outside Africa.†   (source)
  • I pulled the holy book of Islam from its place in our bookcase and handed it to my husband.†   (source)
  • Then she converted to Islam, took the veil, and began to pray five times a day.†   (source)
  • When he sees that you respect Islam and our ways he can be of much help, Inshallah.†   (source)
  • These are the houri, and some Islamic theologians have been quite specific in describing them.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I had both come to enjoy food not only from Iran, but from numerous Islamic countries.†   (source)
  • ""There are certain Europeans who come to Pakistan determined to tear Islam down," Syed Abbas says.†   (source)
  • Finally, a scholar of Islam from Cambridge explained the seeming paradox.†   (source)
  • She was a dutiful Islamic wife but she was also a curious American woman.†   (source)
  • ""I respect Islam," Mortenson said, as Abdul looked on, approvingly.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Muhammad himself had many slaves, and Islamic law unmistakably accepts slavery.†   (source)
  • As her interest in politics grew, so did her devotion to Islam.†   (source)
  • Natalie imagined the woman Safia might have become were it not for radical Islam and ISIS.†   (source)
  • I was so worried about what might happen to me in this, quote, scary Islamic country.†   (source)
  • I was more sincere in my Islamic prayers than Moody could possibly believe.†   (source)
  • They retained their Islamic faith and their Persian customs.†   (source)
  • Why are the bearded ones the new rock stars of Islam?†   (source)
  • The words "police" and "Islamic law" spun dizzily through my head.†   (source)
  • She was Safia as she might have been if radical Islam hadn't sunk its hooks into her.†   (source)
  • Political Islam was their salvation, and ISIS was their paradise.†   (source)
  • She tossed off the statement in a matter-of-fact manner, indoctrinated by her Islamic teachers.†   (source)
  • In Farsi, the official language of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the word means "moonlight."†   (source)
  • And whenever her instructors were talking about Palestine or Islam, she wore her hijab.†   (source)
  • After a light lunch she embarked on Palestinian studies, followed by Islamic and jihadist studies.†   (source)
  • I hung up the phone, feeling an Islamic noose around my neck.†   (source)
  • For all its Islamic fervor, Osama bin Laden's creation was a highly bureaucratic enterprise.†   (source)
  • The major attraction seemed to be a booth selling Islamic literature.†   (source)
  • "The truth is," he said, "ISIS is indeed Islamic.†   (source)
  • If Islamic law held such a spell over Khanum Shaheen, what sympathy could I expect from the police?†   (source)
  • I knew enough of Islamic law to raise a valid objection.†   (source)
  • All other radio was forbidden, lest she be exposed to un-Islamic ideas or, heaven forbid, music.†   (source)
  • Here, too, ISIS had imposed an Islamic death sentence on the non-Islamic past.†   (source)
  • Why would they risk the harsh penalties imposed by the ayatollah for any violation of Islamic law?†   (source)
  • Moody began to say his Islamic prayers with a piety I had not witnessed in him before.†   (source)
  • In word and deed, she became more pious, more outwardly Islamic.†   (source)
  • To cross any of them is to leave the West and enter the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • I had just taken one more small step toward escaping the Islamic Republic of iran.†   (source)
  • Her Islamic studies grew more rigid, too.†   (source)
  • Nasserine, the dutiful Islamic spy, drew Amir off to a corner.†   (source)
  • Do you wish to fight for the Islamic State?†   (source)
  • A present day example of international events turned into folly is the Islamic Republic of Iran.†   (source)
  • Take away the land," Gabriel added, "and there can be no Islamic State.†   (source)
  • I said my Islamic prayers faithfully and, following my example, so did Mahtob.†   (source)
  • He had an extensive library, divided between medical tomes and Islamic propaganda.†   (source)
  • You are not comfortable in chad or Chador is not Islamic.†   (source)
  • The Hakims would be thrilled If I became a dutiful Islamic wife, but only of my own free will.†   (source)
  • Indar said, "Well, I suppose you can say that Islam has become an African religion.†   (source)
  • Karzai's cabinet will allow cable television networks to broadcast programs, challenging the Islamic hard-liners who had opposed it.†   (source)
  • Echoes of the ancient Art still resonated in every corner of the globe, from the mystical Kabbalists of Judaism to the esoteric Sufis of Islam.†   (source)
  • If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that?†   (source)
  • Ginsberg, who never met a religion he didn't like (he sometimes described himself as a "Buddhist Jew"), employs material from Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and virtually every world faith.†   (source)
  • Nor was it coincidence that Joseph was said to have been thirty-three when he married the Virgin Mary, or that Jesus accomplished thirty-three miracles, or that God's name was mentioned thirty-three times in Genesis, or that, in Islam, all the dwellers of heaven were permanently thirty-three years old.†   (source)
  • Naturally, anyone who believes that will not dare to alter the text in any wayl Ideas such as these were so effective in preventing the spread of Asherah that, eventually, every square inch of the territory where the viral cult had once thrived-from India to Spain-was under the sway of Islam, Christianity, or Judaism "But because of its latency-coiled about the brainstem of those it infects, passed from one generation to the next-it always finds ways to resurface.†   (source)
  • Beyond that, though, there existed literally dozens of symbolic occurrences of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water throughout history-the Pythagorean cycles of life, the Chinese Hong-Fan, the Jungian male and female rudiments, the quadrants of the Zodiac, even the Muslims revered the four ancient elements …. although in Islam they were known as "squares, clouds, lightning, and waves."†   (source)
  • Even when he promised to convert to Islam, to take Farsi classes, I found other faults, other excuses.†   (source)
  • I scribbled Okay on my own notebook and then turned to a blank page as Dr. Hyde started talking about Sufism, the mystical sect of Islam.†   (source)
  • They were dedicated to killing Americans and Muslims who didn't believe in the brand of Islam that they believed in.†   (source)
  • They are a proud people who adhere to Islam and live by a strict code of honor and culture, observing rules and laws known as Pash-tunwalai, which has kept them straight for two thousand years.†   (source)
  • Similarly, if you undertake to read literature from an Islamic or a Buddhist or a Hindu culture, you're going to need knowledge of other religious traditions.†   (source)
  • It's Islamic.†   (source)
  • He could imagine what would happen if the prominent leaders of Russia or the Islamic world were seen in a video, pressing knives to bare chests, swearing violent oaths, performing mock murders, lying in symbolic coffins, and drinking wine from a human skull.†   (source)
  • He told me too how, in Indonesia, he had been converted to Islam by his friend Bami the cook: giving up pork, fasting during Ramadan, praying to Mecca five times a day.†   (source)
  • After 9/11, SEALs began training to deal with the places Islamic terrorists were most likely to be located—Afghanistan number one, and then the Middle East and Africa.†   (source)
  • The Taliban made two major promises which they would carry out once in power: to restore peace and security, and to enforce sharia, or Islamic law.†   (source)
  • Disrespectful to Islam.†   (source)
  • Choose your question wisely, and then examine how Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity attempt to answer it.†   (source)
  • Egyptian, Pythagorean, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Judeo-Christian, and on and on …. all flowing upward, merging together, funneling themselves up through the transformative gateway of the pyramid …. where they finally fuse into a single, unified human philosophy.†   (source)
  • Well yeah — I guess you could," she said, as if I'd inquired about vacation prospects in some unstable Islamic nation.†   (source)
  • Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism each have founder figures—Muhammad, Jesus, and the Buddha, respectively.†   (source)
  • He tried to assure himself that if this video were to leak out, the public would be open-minded and tolerant, realizing that all spiritual rituals included aspects that would seem frightening if taken out of context—crucifixion reenactments, Jewish circumcision rites, Mormon baptisms of the dead, Catholic exorcisms, Islamic niqab, shamanic trance healing, the Jewish Kaparot ceremony, even the eating of the figurative body and blood of Christ.†   (source)
  • Besides, they were planning to destroy all the statues in Afghanistan, on the grounds they were un-Islamic.†   (source)
  • Clearly not an easy A. "This year, we'll be studying three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism.†   (source)
  • In August 1998 Islamic fanatics bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 225 people.†   (source)
  • Ancient Islamic punishments, like public executions for convicted murderers and amputations at the wrist for those charged with theft, were immediately introduced.†   (source)
  • It is the colour of Islam.†   (source)
  • Islam had a reputation worse than Christianity's—fewer gods, greater violence, and I had never heard anyone say good things about Muslim schools—so I wasn't about to step in, empty though the place was.†   (source)
  • Here we were at last, in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a country the size of Texas, landlocked on all sides, protected by the granite walls of mountains, war torn for years and years and still at it.†   (source)
  • And as we crossed that coastline heading out toward the open ocean, it really was good-bye, from me at least, to the Arabian Peninsula and the seething Islamic states at the north end of the gulf, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, and Iran, that had dominated my life and thoughts for the past couple of years.†   (source)
  • Within Islam there is moreover a general aversion to both photography and art, because people should not compete with God in "creating" anything.†   (source)
  • In Western mysticism—that is, within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the mystic emphasizes that his meeting is with a personal God.†   (source)
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