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Boston imam: ‘Without Islam, America will meet its demise’
MEMRI11.11.2018
Boston Imam Abdullah Faaruuq asserts in sermons: “This is the land of the coward and the home of the slave'; 'Without Islam, America will meet its demise.”
During a sermon in Boston, MA, Imam Abdullah Faaruuq said that the people native to America will never think of America as great until "you Europeans act right or go home. The sermon was uploaded to the mosque’s YouTube channel on February 24, 2017. (MEMRI)
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Besa Center
Spyridon N. Litsas08.10.2018
Jihadism, the Eastern Mediterranean and the ‘Frontier States’
Greece and Israel have important roles to play as Western frontier states. The coming period will be characterized by challenges along the periphery lines between the Western and the Muslim worlds.
Spyridon N. Litsas (Linkedin)
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More than 2 million Muslims begin annual hajj to Mecca
19.08.2018
The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia began on Sunday, with more than 2 million Muslims from around the world expected to arrive to circle the black Kaaba rock.
The Kabaa stone. Source: Wikipedia.
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Netanyahu gets impromptu visit from head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization
15.06.2018
“Israel is the innovation nation, and I’m very happy to see that the Arab countries and many Muslim countries getting closer to Israel,” said the Israeli premier. “I hope that we have some movement with Indonesia.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Yahya Cholil Staquf, secretary general of the 60-million member Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, at his office in Jerusalem. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.
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Ben Cohen19.01.2018
Islam’s Jewish dilemma revisited
In “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition,” scholar David Nirenberg argues that on the one hand, Islam regards Jews as “enemies” of Muhammad’s prophecy, but on the other, Islam realizes only too well that without the existence of Jews and their practices, there would have been no subsequent prophetic tradition and faith to follow.
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Pew survey: Muslims to outnumber Jews in the US by 2040
08.01.2018
Muslims are expected to outnumber Jews as the second-largest religious group in the U.S. by 2040, according to Pew Research Center
Islamic Center of Washington at Washington, D.C. Credit: SimonP via Wikimedia Commons.
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