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Salafi-Jihadism by Shiraz Maher and Crusade and Jihad by Malcolm Lambert review – what do Islamist extremists believe?

Edit The Guardian 24 Mar 2016
For many western leaders, taking a theological position on a religion they do not practise, jihadists are not true Muslims since Islam is a religion of peace ... Sunni versus Shia, Jew versus Christian versus Muslim ... During the rapid Muslim conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, the Arab armies did not generally demand submission or conversion, but an acceptance of the sovereignty of new rulers and the payment of taxes....

Inman of Danish Muslims states their presence in Europe is to conquer

Edit The Examiner 12 Mar 2016
The main objective of radical Muslims is conquering Europe ... Al-Barazi admitted in the video that the migrant influx of Muslims into counties like Denmark, Belgium and Germany is to conquer Europe ... The number of Muslims is 300,000 now ... Al-Barazi continues, “This is by no means the first time that a prominent imam has admitted that the migrant influx is part of a Muslim conquest of Europe....

The end of empires

Edit Dawn 19 Feb 2016
WHEN Muslim armies boiled out of the Arabian desert and won a string of stunning victories in the seventh century, believers were convinced that they owed this success to divine intervention ... In 541, around a century before the great Muslim conquests, a deadly plague swept across much of Rome’s eastern empire centred on Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and Iranshahr, or the Persian Empire....

How She Wants to Modify Muslims

Edit The New York Review of Books 27 Jan 2016
Yet historians now largely accept that far from being “extremely brutal,” as Hirsi Ali asserts, the extraordinarily swift and sweeping early Muslim conquests were assisted by large numbers of willing “infidel” allies, who may have viewed Muslim rule as a relief from the warring Byzantine and Persian empires....

Exclusive – Inside Islamic State’s End Times Apocalyptic Battle Plan

Edit Breitbart 14 Dec 2015
JERUSALEM - The Islamic State may want Western and moderate Arab countries to send ground troops to Syria, because it believes an apocalyptic battle is necessary to fulfill an end-of-days prophecy of total Muslim conquest ... ....

Liberals need to stop flattering Islam and ask tough questions instead

Edit New York Post 13 Dec 2015
... main European imperial powers of the day, Great Britain and France, publicly commit to respecting the right of self-determination for nations freed from the Ottoman yoke? The Americans invented the idea of “mandates” to prevent the European imperialist world-grabbers from turning their Muslim conquests in the Middle East into a new colonial galaxy....

Maybe time to bite bullet and form an alliance with Assad

Edit Belfast Telegraph 19 Nov 2015
His entire policy was based on conquest, revenge and a distorted sense of mission ... They want a worldwide caliphate to surpass the medieval Muslim conquests ... Non-Muslims would be forced to pay a penal tax of up to 50%, convert or die ... The original Muslim conquest had many faces, as all great empires have many faces....

1,700-Year-Old Mosaic Once Decorated Luxurious Villa Courtyard

Edit Yahoo Daily News 18 Nov 2015
A hungry lion taking down its prey and colorful fish leaping from the sea — these two nature-inspired scenes make up part of a large tile mosaic that was recently uncovered in Israel. The mosaic served as a courtyard floor in a wealthy household some 1,700 years ago, archaeologists say ... At that time Lod was called Diospolis and was the district capital, until it was replaced by Ramla after the Muslim conquest ... [In Photos ... Gallery....

1,700-year-old "breathtaking" mosaic uncovered in Israel

Edit Xinhua 16 Nov 2015
JERUSALEM, Nov ... Archaeologists said that the "breathtaking" mosaic served as a floor of a villa's living room some 1,700 years ago ... "At that time Lod was called Diospolis and was the district capital, until it was replaced by Ramla after the Muslim conquest ... Editor. Hou Qiang. ....

Tipu kept alive social balancing of politics followed by Deccani rulers

Edit The Times of India 15 Nov 2015
Definitely not for those who research the period between the Turkish Muslim conquest (13th century) of North India and the rise to political supremacy of the English East India Company (18th century) ... Individuals who ruled empires and kingdoms, Muslim and Hindu alike, appear hollow when separated from their context ... The votaries of Hindutva may like to erase all Muslim rulers from the nation's historical consciousness....

Cabbages & Kings: Charkha, paper and chakra

Edit Deccan Chronicle 30 Oct 2015
He infers that since the technique of spinning fabric on a charkha was known in Persia centuries before, it was brought to India by the Muslims ... The assertion that paper and the technique for fabricating it came through the Muslim conquests of the 13th or 14th century can be even more contentious ... They should rather apply themselves to refuting the claim that paper was not first brought to India through early Muslim conquests....

Isis appears to have killed three Christian hostages in Syria

Edit The Guardian 08 Oct 2015
Islamist group also threatening to kill 200 more Assyrian men taken captive in February unless $100,000 ransom is paid for each, say activists ... Isis has effectively ended centuries of coexistence between Muslims and Christians in Syria and Iraq ... In other areas Isis has demanded that Christians either convert or pay the “jizya”, a tax levied on Christians and Jews for protection during the early Muslim conquests in the 7th century ... ....

Nigeria depart for Egypt expecting nothing but victory

Edit Yahoo Daily News 22 Sep 2015
It was the night when things began to take shape. The boys worked hard for three straight hours to perfect moves for Tuesday’s crunch Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Alexandria ... From its conquering by the great Macedonian king whose name it now proudly bears through to the Roman sieges, the Muslim conquest and the French revolutionary wars, that city has withstood bombardments and stands an ornament of pride and history....
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