Word: propheteer
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...minds, British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week most prominently jumped into the media fray, speaking with al-Jazeera the day after bin Laden's tape aired and sending an op-ed article to Arab newspapers that made the case against bin Laden in Islamic terms: "As the Prophet Muhammad (God's peace and blessings be upon him) said to his armies: 'Do not kill women or children or non-combatants...
...Crusaders. But going back to the beginning of Islam, one finds Muhammed himself—the model Muslim, against whose standard all the faithful must be judged. And where Christianity has a Christ who turns the other cheek and gives himself over to be crucified, Islam has a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that example, that spirit of war, that flung the early Islamic empires outward to the corners of the earth, that spirit that inspired...
...bombs, and in the meantime his regime had been pummeled. When he got back to Kandahar, Omar fired two faithless deputies and passed the word that he would deliver the noon sermon at the Halqa Cherif mosque. The mosque houses a robe said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad, so Omar must have figured the Americans would never bomb it. U.S. commanders may have known he was there. An eyewitness told TIME that American warplanes blitzed a convoy that may have been shepherding Omar as it left Kandahar, killing several Taliban bodyguards...
Armstrong, a former nun, respected theologian and author of such best-selling books as A History of God and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, defined fundamentalism as an act of panic...
...Muslim friend said to me last year as we talked about this phenomenon at Harvard, “We’re on the same team here. God will sort out whether Jesus was a prophet or God, but we’ve got people at this school who don’t know God loves them. There are people that don’t even think God exists, that God doesn’t have a plan for the world, and that don’t know they can enter into relationship with...