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		<title>By: Abdullah Mikail</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abdullah Mikail]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abdullah Mikail: Raymond, please post a series on the Battle of Yarmulke...would love to read your take on that one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abdullah Mikail: Raymond, please post a series on the Battle of Yarmulke&#8230;would love to read your take on that one.</p>
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		<title>By: EamonnDublin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Mr. Ibrahim, for a splendid article.  Most appreciated.  Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Mr. Ibrahim, for a splendid article.  Most appreciated.  Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.</p>
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		<title>By: ObamaYoMoma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outstanding!

&quot;The jihad, or “holy war,” which took over Arabia and Persia, followed by Syria, Egypt, and all of North Africa — all formerly Byzantine territory — was considered a religious obligation, or, as later codified in sharia law, a fard kifaya: a communal obligation on the body of believers, to be adhered to and fulfilled no less than the Five Pillars of Islam. As the famous 14th-century Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun put it: “In the Muslim community, the jihad is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. . . . Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.&quot;


Interesting...can anyone demonstrate that Islam has changed from that time?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outstanding!</p>
<p>&#8220;The jihad, or “holy war,” which took over Arabia and Persia, followed by Syria, Egypt, and all of North Africa — all formerly Byzantine territory — was considered a religious obligation, or, as later codified in sharia law, a fard kifaya: a communal obligation on the body of believers, to be adhered to and fulfilled no less than the Five Pillars of Islam. As the famous 14th-century Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun put it: “In the Muslim community, the jihad is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and the obligation to convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force. . . . Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Interesting&#8230;can anyone demonstrate that Islam has changed from that time?</p>
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		<title>By: Ellman48</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.”


One short sentence which describes the essential core of Islam. But there are hundreds of millions that simply don&#039;t get it!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.”</p>
<p>One short sentence which describes the essential core of Islam. But there are hundreds of millions that simply don&#8217;t get it!</p>
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		<title>By: JacksonPearson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JacksonPearson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re full of crapola...Besides death and destruction, name one thing that Muslims have done to better mankind, from 620AD to date?  When it comes to medicine and technology, the Jews have Muslims beat hands down.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re full of crapola&#8230;Besides death and destruction, name one thing that Muslims have done to better mankind, from 620AD to date?  When it comes to medicine and technology, the Jews have Muslims beat hands down.</p>
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		<title>By: MingFun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MingFun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMG! Fantastic information.
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://mingfun.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Battlefield 3 Glitches&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG! Fantastic information.<br />
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<a href="http://mingfun.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Battlefield 3 Glitches</a></p>
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		<title>By: CJ Lawrence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CJ Lawrence]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ratonis: Great post,  the Islamic Golden Age is a big myth driven by as you call it &quot;dhimmi knowledge&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ratonis: Great post,  the Islamic Golden Age is a big myth driven by as you call it &#8220;dhimmi knowledge&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Biff Henderson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Biff Henderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samuel, be so kind as to state your qualifications to pass such a scathing judgment.  The historical record is irrefutable. Does your infantile smear against the author serve a purpose we should be made aware of?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Samuel, be so kind as to state your qualifications to pass such a scathing judgment.  The historical record is irrefutable. Does your infantile smear against the author serve a purpose we should be made aware of?</p>
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		<title>By: tanstaafl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tanstaafl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;...by the skin of our teeth....&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;by the skin of our teeth&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Samuel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samuel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author calls himself an Islam expert, yet has no academic credentials in the subject. This whole article is just a cut and paste from various Wikipedia articles.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The author calls himself an Islam expert, yet has no academic credentials in the subject. This whole article is just a cut and paste from various Wikipedia articles.</p>
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		<title>By: ratonis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ratonis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam INHERITED a wealth of knowledge from the older civilizations it conquered. The Arabs, having no culture of their own to speak of, employed lots and lots of Christians, Jews, and Zorastrians to translate and manage it. To this day the archetypal Islamic mosque imitates the forms of the 6th century Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Also, the great &quot;Arabic&quot; numerals came to the Muslim world from INDIA, through military conquest/jihad (of course!)


The Islamic Golden Age is at best an over-rated myth. Granted its reality, it depended on dhimmi knowledge. In any event, though, it all came to an end as a result of Islam itself, and &#039;jurists&#039; who regarded the greatest thinkers of the Islamic world (e.g. Averroes, Avicenna) as heretics.


Also, Europe was not a economically dead as you suggest. Read: Rodney Stark, &quot;The Victory of Reason.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Islam INHERITED a wealth of knowledge from the older civilizations it conquered. The Arabs, having no culture of their own to speak of, employed lots and lots of Christians, Jews, and Zorastrians to translate and manage it. To this day the archetypal Islamic mosque imitates the forms of the 6th century Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Also, the great &#8220;Arabic&#8221; numerals came to the Muslim world from INDIA, through military conquest/jihad (of course!)</p>
<p>The Islamic Golden Age is at best an over-rated myth. Granted its reality, it depended on dhimmi knowledge. In any event, though, it all came to an end as a result of Islam itself, and &#8216;jurists&#8217; who regarded the greatest thinkers of the Islamic world (e.g. Averroes, Avicenna) as heretics.</p>
<p>Also, Europe was not a economically dead as you suggest. Read: Rodney Stark, &#8220;The Victory of Reason.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: herb benty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BS and you know it sonny. Islam&#039;s desire consists of RAPE, PLUNDER and Domination( Dominate women, dominate skylines, and dominate the world through plagerism, ie.,the Koran touted as the truth, when it is a poorly written attempt to nullify Judeo-Christianity and exterminate anyone who identifies with the Judeo-Christian GOD. Can&#039;t you smell Satan, dullard?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BS and you know it sonny. Islam&#8217;s desire consists of RAPE, PLUNDER and Domination( Dominate women, dominate skylines, and dominate the world through plagerism, ie.,the Koran touted as the truth, when it is a poorly written attempt to nullify Judeo-Christianity and exterminate anyone who identifies with the Judeo-Christian GOD. Can&#8217;t you smell Satan, dullard?</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Shugart</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Shugart]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#039;s no coincidence that the cross remains a hated symbol here in the USA among misguided civil libertarians and other assorted leftists.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it&#8217;s no coincidence that the cross remains a hated symbol here in the USA among misguided civil libertarians and other assorted leftists.</p>
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		<title>By: Idl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Idl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had no idea how close we came to an eternal dark age.  It gives me chills to think about it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had no idea how close we came to an eternal dark age.  It gives me chills to think about it.</p>
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		<title>By: rbla</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rbla]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not well known is that at the time of Charles Martel&#039;s victory the Khazars defeated a Muslim army in the Caucasus and turned back their attempt to flank Byzantium and enter Europe from the north. Thus it was three campaigns within the space of a few years that saved Western civilization. The Khazars later converted to Judaism and some of their blood flows in the veins of Ashkenazi Jews.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not well known is that at the time of Charles Martel&#8217;s victory the Khazars defeated a Muslim army in the Caucasus and turned back their attempt to flank Byzantium and enter Europe from the north. Thus it was three campaigns within the space of a few years that saved Western civilization. The Khazars later converted to Judaism and some of their blood flows in the veins of Ashkenazi Jews.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where&#039;d all this come from? They brought it all out from their desert caves? Islamic science in 7th C AD. Hilarious.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where&#8217;d all this come from? They brought it all out from their desert caves? Islamic science in 7th C AD. Hilarious.</p>
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		<title>By: Demetrius Minneapolis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Demetrius Minneapolis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think if you want to make that argument, it&#039;s best to use a geographical reference rather than a general one. Only small portions of the muslim world enjoyed their renaissance as it were, Damascus being the highlight. The rest was as in the dark as Afghanistan is today, so the lesson learned is that as islam grew, the worse it got. For everyone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think if you want to make that argument, it&#8217;s best to use a geographical reference rather than a general one. Only small portions of the muslim world enjoyed their renaissance as it were, Damascus being the highlight. The rest was as in the dark as Afghanistan is today, so the lesson learned is that as islam grew, the worse it got. For everyone.</p>
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		<title>By: philbest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[philbest]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, and whatever way they came by the intellectual capital, they certainly squandered it over the following few centuries. Earthly learning and progress was one of the first things to be killed off as the devout sought favor from their Allah after a few military reversals. 


Relatively &quot;tolerant&quot; Islam is something seldom manifested in times other than when Islam is militarily ascendant. &quot;Militant&quot; Islam is merely &quot;Islam when it actually isn&#039;t your imperial master&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, and whatever way they came by the intellectual capital, they certainly squandered it over the following few centuries. Earthly learning and progress was one of the first things to be killed off as the devout sought favor from their Allah after a few military reversals. </p>
<p>Relatively &#8220;tolerant&#8221; Islam is something seldom manifested in times other than when Islam is militarily ascendant. &#8220;Militant&#8221; Islam is merely &#8220;Islam when it actually isn&#8217;t your imperial master&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: bmatkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is one of the weirdest and untrue historical revisions ever made.
Not quite as bad as the smears heaped on the Crusaders, but just about.
Most of the &quot;golden years&quot; of the Ummyad were the result of captive Greeks and Romans and other scholars working or slaving for the Caliphate.
The total number of actual Muslim gifts to the world wouldn&#039;t rival a high school science exhibit.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is one of the weirdest and untrue historical revisions ever made.<br />
Not quite as bad as the smears heaped on the Crusaders, but just about.<br />
Most of the &#8220;golden years&#8221; of the Ummyad were the result of captive Greeks and Romans and other scholars working or slaving for the Caliphate.<br />
The total number of actual Muslim gifts to the world wouldn&#8217;t rival a high school science exhibit.</p>
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		<title>By: jackflash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jackflash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 700 AD, Europe was in a period of intellectual darkness and economic regression after the collapse of the Roman Empire. 
 During this period the Muslim world was an intellectual center for science, philosophy, medicine and education.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Around 700 AD, Europe was in a period of intellectual darkness and economic regression after the collapse of the Roman Empire.<br />
 During this period the Muslim world was an intellectual center for science, philosophy, medicine and education.</p>
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