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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Islamic Crusades 7: India’s Modern Struggle
Occidental Soapbox has posted the latest installment in the Islamic Crusade series. “India’s Modern Struggle” focuses on the history of jihad in India and Pakistan:
For source links and a transcript, visit the post at Occidental Soapbox.
I chose to call this "Islamic Crusades" because thanks to the Western media/education establishment the Crusades have taken on a universally negative connotation, just like "colonialism" and "imperialism." Meanwhile they call jihad an "inner struggle to better oneself." I'm using the lexicon that we unfortunately find ourselves with in the post-modern West to reach out to fence-sitters who might scoff at the notion of "jihad."
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Islamic Crusades - British Rule Of India
No such thing as islamic 'crusade', there is only islamic jihad, crusade obviously refers to the Cross, this is a Christian symbol.
I chose to call this "Islamic Crusades" because thanks to the Western media/education establishment the Crusades have taken on a universally negative connotation, just like "colonialism" and "imperialism." Meanwhile they call jihad an "inner struggle to better oneself." I'm using the lexicon that we unfortunately find ourselves with in the post-modern West to reach out to fence-sitters who might scoff at the notion of "jihad."
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