Month: April 2011
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EAGLE: Beyond the Book #4 – Prayer in the Middle Ages, De-Mystifying the Salat
One of the most distinctive features of Islam is salat, the prayer ritual, which all Muslims are expected to perform five times each day. Movies and news broadcasts have made us familiar with muezzins chanting the call to prayer from minarets and with Muslim worshipers kneeling and prostrating themselves as they pray. But most of…
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Under Siege #26: The Sequel, Part 2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The Matrix Reloaded. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. What do these movies have in common besides silly titles? They are all sequels, and they are all frustratingly, disappointingly, infuriatingly worse than the original. And the list of failed sequels could go on and on and on. No…
