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***Maybe the callousness ‘they’ display toward life is a reflection of the callousness we displayed when we built the “Jihad” movement to repel the Soviet invaders of that land during the 1980s. ***
***‘The map of terrorist sanctuaries and targets in the Middle East and Central Asia is also, to an extraordinary degree, a map of the world’s principal emerging energy sources in the 21st century.’ ***
*-Imam as-Suyuti’s estimate (and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf): **1,500 years, i.e. around 70 years left
-Imam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani’s estimate: 1,400 years or a little more, but from this comes 2 possibilities: Br. Muawiya’s estimate below, or that we are near the very End and this coincides with Imam as-Suyuti (and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf’s estimate) - Br. Muawiya’s estimate, from this we need to add 500 more to 1,400 (due to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam’s dua) and reach 1,900 years In conclusion, it seems definitely likely we are nearing the end. One may wonder however, how it can be so much will take place in this short period of time? But we must remember how in some 27 years the foundations of Islam were built and how in 100 years Muslims spread from China to the Southern tip of France. Allahu alaam.
[Of the] 83 terrorist attacks in the United States between 9/11 and the end of 2009, only three…were clearly connected with the jihadist cause. (The RAND database includes Abdulmutallab’s failed Christmas Day attempt to detonate a bomb on an airplane.) The other jihadist plots were interrupted by authorities.
Some time ago we published an article entitled “All terrorists are Muslims, except the 94% that aren’t“, in which official FBI records were reviewed and it was determined that–contrary to public perception–only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were committed by jihadists.
****Cultural history of the Crusades in 2010 United States ****
***Crusades — a word caught between the lexicon of pedestrian, every day use and the charged memories of civilizational struggle. The mixed history of the Crusades is itself caught within these contradictions. A colorful chapter in a history book that speaks to the fact that it is in the past tense? Or an all-significant event that pulses in our cultural life today? An intriguing question, a seductive dilemma. What is the relationship of the Crusades to the dreams and fantasies of US culture? http://crescent-online.net/special-reports/1881-july-2010/2834-cultural-history-of-the-crusades-in-2010-united-states.html
This is a long but very interesting read about NYC’s different neighbourhoods and their history. How Brooklyn never wanted to be part of NYC, how Bronx was so not what it is today and more. Check it out.
