Posted on 07/19/2006 4:45:05 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
I can make it even more brief, yet JUST as accurate...
"Kill everything not Muslim... and kill some Muslims too."
There. Accurate, short and to the point.
LOL~...Kill 'em all, let G_d sort 'em out,....hooorahh
When was the first beheading?
1979: On 1 Muharram AH 1400/21 November, the first day of the 15th Islamic century, fanatics led by students of the Theological University of Medina attempt to promote one of their group as Mahdi and thus fulfill a certain prophetic Hadith: "A man of the people of Medina will go forth, fleeing to Mecca, and certain of the people of Mecca will come to him and will lead him forth against his will and swear fealty to him between the rukn (Black Stone corner of the Kabah) and the Maqam Ibrahim." They hold the Haram of Mecca against the army for two weeks. Sixty-three of the 300 fanatics are captured alive, the mosque is recovered, and the conspirators are all put to death.
1980: Beginning of the Iran-Iraq war.
1989: Iran-Iraq comes to an end with much loss of life.
1990: Military annexation of Kuwait by Iraq, under Ba'athist leader Saddam Hussain, is reversed in 1991 by a coalition of United States-led forces.
Actually the history of arabs starts in the Bible. Ishmael is the father of arabs and Issac the father of the Jews. The name Ishmael means "wild a** among men".
I think Mahdi is the Iranian president's favorite deity or demigod. The god of the well.
Helen Thomas, a Univ. of Bagdad freshman, was deeply saddened.
Sunday, December 26, 2004 U.S. troops uncovered photos of Syrian officials Unreleased shots show officials of neighboring nation with insurgents, ambassador says.
By NICHOLAS BLANFORD
The Christian Science Monitor
DAMASCUS, SYRIA – When U.S. troops stormed the rebel-held city of Fallujah last month, they uncovered photos of senior Syrian officials that have further strained the already tense relations between Syria and Iraq, the Iraqi ambassador to Syria said.
Several captured insurgents were found with the photographs - confirmation, Iraqi officials say, that some elements in the Syrian regime are involved in Iraq's bloody insurgency.
"Prime Minister Iyad Allawi wrote a letter to the Syrians saying he had the pictures but was not going to release them despite being under pressure from the Americans to do so," said Hassan Allawi, Iraq's ambassador to Damascus.
The ambassador said the photographs were found in the possession of Moayed Ahmed Yasseen, also known as Abu Ahmed. He is the leader of the Jaish Mohammed group, which is made up of former Baathist intelligence personnel. One picture showed Yasseen beside a senior Syrian official, the ambassador said. He would not name the Syrian officials on the record.
Also, U.S. Marines in Fallujah released a report Nov. 20 saying they had found a hand-held Global Positioning System receiver with waypoints originating in western Syria, and the names of four Syrian fighters in a ledger.
The evidence has triggered renewed charges thatSyria is knowingly helping several former Iraqi Baathists who are believed to be running the insurgency from Damascus.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has warned Syria that Washington is ready to impose new sanctions if it fails to clamp down on fugitive Iraqi officials.
The Syrians, said Gen. George W. Casey, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, "are not going after the big fish (or senior Baathists) ... the people that we're interested in."
But Allawi says the "real danger" to the Syrian government is not pressure from the United States and Iraq but from the reformed Iraqi Baathists in Syria itself.
"There is an Iraqi Baathist invasion of Syria. It's overwhelming," he said. "They stole gold and robbed banks and came here. They have enough funds to keep fighting for 30 years."
Nonetheless, it remains unclear to what extent Iraqi Baathists are involved in the insurgency and what level of assistance is being provided by elements in the Syrian regime. "There is a high level of suspicion but not much evidence," a European diplomat in Damascus said.
The Syrian government rejects the accusations, saying it is working to stabilize its neighbor.
"Syria has always been open to all Arabs, and if they have the correct documents, they can enter," said Mehdi Dakhlallah, Syria's information minister. "But we can't read their minds about what they are going to do once they are here."
There are officially 250,000 to 300,000 Iraqis living in Syria, although the International Organization for Migration says the figure may be higher. They include former Baathists, businessmen, Kurds and Christians fleeing persecution.
Most Sunni Iraqi exiles openly profess their support for the resistance in Iraq.
Ahmad Dulaimi's membership in the Baath Party cost him his job teaching at Baghdad University when the U.S.-run, and now-defunct, Coalition Provisional Authority took power after the fall of Saddam Hussein
The Fallujah native moved to Damascus last year.
"Everyone supports the resistance here, Sunnis, Shiites and Christians," he said. "Resistance is the only weapon to free Iraq and free our prisoners."
Among those mentioned by the exiles as leaders of the reorganized Iraqi Baath party are Sabawi Ibrahim, a half-brother of Saddam Hussein who once headed the Iraqi intelligence service; Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed, secretary-general of the Iraqi Baath party regional command; and Fawzi al-Rawi, a businessman. The United States is offering $1 million rewards for information leading to the arrests of the first two.
Many Iraqis interviewed say they believe the Syrian government does not facilitate the activities of the Iraqi Baathists, instead blaming individual Syrian Baathists who share an ideological affinity with their Iraqi counterparts. Syria's regime is a separate branch of the Baath party that ruled Hussein's Iraq.
Yes, you're correct, but my post was about Islam
the prosphesized reedemer of Islam?
So was mine. ;)
20th Century (1900-1992) C.E.
1901: Ibn Saud (Abd al-Aziz) captures Riyad.
1901: French forces occupy Morocco.
1904: Morocco becomes a French protectorate under the Conference of Algeciras.
1904: The Presian constitution is promoted.
1905: The beginning of the Salafiyyah movement in Paris with it's main sphere of influence in Egypt.
1907: The beginning of the Young Turks movement in Turkey.
1912: The beginning of the Muhammadiyyah reform movement in Indonesia.
1914: Under Ottoman rule, secret Arab nationalist societies are formed.
1914: World War I.
1916: Arab revolt against Ottoman (Turkish) rule. Lawrence of Arabia leads attacks on the Hijaz Railway.
1918: Armistice signed with Ottomans on October 30.
1918: World War I ends on November 11.
1918: Syria and Damascus become a French protectorate.
1921: Abd Allah bin Husayn in made King of Transjordan. His father was the Sharif of Mecca.
1921: Faysal bin Husayn is made King of Iraq. His father was the Sharif of Mecca.
1921: Abd al-Karim leads a revolt against colonial rule in Moroccan Rif, and declares the "Republic of the Rif".
1922: Mustafa Kemal abolishes the Turkish Sultanate.
1924: The Turkish Caliphate is abolished.
1924: King Abd al-Aziz conquers Mecca and Medina, which leads to the unification of the Kingdoms of Najd and Hijaz.
1925: Reza Khan seizes the government in Persia and establishes the Pahlavi dynasty.
1926: Abd al-Aziz (Ibn Saud) assumes title of King of Najd and Hijaz.
1927: Death of Zaghlul, an Egyptian nationalist leader.
1928: Turkey is declared a secular state.
1928: Hasan al-Banna founds the Muslim Brotherhood.
1932: Iraq granted independence by League of Nations.
1934: War between King Abd al-Aziz and Imam Yahya of the Yemen.
1934: Peace treaty of Ta'if.
1934: Asir becomes part of Saudi Arabia.
1935: Iran becomes the official name of Persia.
1936: Increased Jewish immigration provokes widespread Arab-Jewish fighting in Palestine.
1939: World War II.
1941: British and Russian forces invade Iran and Reza Shah is forced to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Shah in Iran.
1943: Beginning of Zionist terrorist campaign in Palestine.
1945: End of World War II.
1946: Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are granted independence from Britain and France.
1947: Creation of Pakistan from Muslim Majority area in India.
1948: Creation of state of Israel. Arab armies suffer defeat in war with Israel.
1949: Hasan al-Banna, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is assassinated.
1951: Libya becomes independent.
1952: King Faruq of Egypt forced to abdicate.
1953: General Zahedi leads coup against Musaddeq, Shah returns to power.
1953: Death of King Abd al-Aziz (Ibn Saud) of Saudi Arabia.
1953: The foundation stone is laid to enlarge the Prophet's mosque in Medina.
1956: Morocco becomes independent.
1956: Tunisia becomes independent.
1957: The Bey of Tunisia is deposed, and Bourguiba becomes becomes president.
1957: Enlargement of the Haram in Mecca begins.
1962: Algeria becomes independent.
1962: Death of Zaydi Imam of Yemen (Ahmad). Crown Prince Bahr succeds him and takes the title Imam Mansur Bi-Llah Muhammad.
1965: Malcom X is assassinated.
1968: The enlargement of the Haram in Mecca is completed.
1969: King Idris of Libya is ousted by a coup led by Colonel Qadhdhafi.
1973: King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is overthrown.
1975: Death of Elijah Mohammad, leader of Nation of Islam among African Americans in North America.
1975: Wallace Warith Deen Mohammad assumes leadership of Nation of Islam and shifts movement toward Islamic Orthodoxy renaming it American Muslim Mission.
1978: Imam Musa Sadr is apparently assassinated after he disappears on a trip to Libya. He was the religious leader of the Lebanese Twelve-Imam Shi'ites. He promoted the resurgence of Shi'ites in Lebanon and set the foundation of Amal.
1979: The Shah leaves Iran on January 15, thus bringing the Pahlavi dynasty to an end.
1979: On 1 Muharram AH 1400/21 November, the first day of the 15th Islamic century, fanatics led by students of the Theological University of Medina attempt to promote one of their group as Mahdi and thus fulfill a certain prophetic Hadith: "A man of the people of Medina will go forth, fleeing to Mecca, and certain of the people of Mecca will come to him and will lead him forth against his will and swear fealty to him between the rukn (Black Stone corner of the Kabah) and the Maqam Ibrahim." They hold the Haram of Mecca against the army for two weeks. Sixty-three of the 300 fanatics are captured alive, the mosque is recovered, and the conspirators are all put to death.
1980: Beginning of the Iran-Iraq war.
1989: Iran-Iraq comes to an end with much loss of life.
1990: Military annexation of Kuwait by Iraq, under Ba'athist leader Saddam Hussain, is reversed in 1991 by a coalition of United States-led forces.
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