March 23, 2008* A quick refresher course:
The Arabic word jihad means “struggle” or “exertion” and is found 28 times in the Kor’an, the sacred text of Muslims. In Islamic teaching, there are five forms of this “holy struggle”– jihad of the heart, mouth, pen, hand, and sword.
Jihad of the heart refers to an individual’s struggle [...]
Read the full article → March 23, 2008By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY – Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
* Comment by Hugh Fitzgerald:
Tariq Ramadan, of course, will claim — as he has tried to before — that [...]
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