10/20/2005
Mohammed’s most celebrated battles took place during Ramadan
Jihad Unspun points out that some of Muhammad’s most celebrated battles took place during Ramadan, exhorting Muslims to follow his example:
Combining fasting, the unique act of worship, with Jihad which is the Highest Intuition (Thurwat al-Sanam) of Islam, gave believing men and women of earlier generations an unbeatable combination that characterized Ramadan by battles of glory and victories over the unbelievers.
At least eight major battles took place in Ramadan, some, such as the Battle of the Ditch, the Battle of Tabuk, and the Battle of Hittin, were more significant than others, and one, the Battle of Badr, was a turning point for Islam as a religion.
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Tip o’ me tam to Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch for that little pearl.
October 25th, 2005 at 5:17 am
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October 25th, 2005 at 5:31 am
It figures that this sick death cult would be celebrating bloody battles as their holy time of the year…
Ramadan is a time when Christian minorities in the Muslim world often experience an increase in harassment.
October 5–”Al-Qaeda organization in Iraq announces that Tuesday is the first day of the blessed month of Ramadan … a month of serious work, jihad and initiative,” said the statement, purportedly from Zarqawi.
It called on Muslims to muster their strength and “kill the worshippers of the cross who have … demolished mosques and houses, burnt copies of the Koran and sowed corruption in the land.”
In recent years Ramadan has witnessed an increase in violent activities by Islamists, with the trend beginning well before the Iraq war: In the late 1990s, extremists in Algeria were marking the “holy month” by killing civilians by the hundreds, and in 2000 a spate of church bombings in Indonesia killed 19 people during Ramadan.
During a drawn-out gun battle, Al Qaeda linked terrorists attacked the Indian Parliament during the last days of Ramadan 2001, killing 12 people.
Towards the end of Ramadan in 2002, terrorists bombed an Israeli-owned hotel on the Kenyan coast and tried unsuccessfully to shoot down an Israeli passenger plane, also over Kenya.
The first day of Ramadan in 2003 was marked in Baghdad by a spree of deadly suicide bombings, with the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters and several police stations targeted.
Terrorists during Ramadan of that year also attacked a housing compound in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and British interests and synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey. During that same month, plots to attack Mecca and Yemen were reportedly foiled.
Ramadan can be an especially troubling time for Christians in Muslim countries, according to Barnabas Fund, a British charity which supports embattled Christian communities living in difficult circumstances.
“Ramadan blessings” my ***.
October 25th, 2005 at 7:44 am
This is the only kind of Ramadan Blessing I expect from the “religion of peace”.