Archive for the ‘Islam’ Category

Dajjal

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009



Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic: المسيح الدّجّال‎, literally "The Impostor Messiah") is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear pretending to be Masih (or the Messiah) at a time in the future, before Yawm al-Qiyamah (Judgment Day). Usage Dajjal is a common Arabic word, used in the sense of "false prophet", ...

Taliban

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009



The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, meaning "students"), also Taleban, is a Sunni Islamist, predominantly Pashtun fundamentalist religious and political movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when its leaders were removed from power by Northern Alliance and NATO forces. It has regrouped and since 2004 revived as a strong ...