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Ignoring Swami Vivekananda Leads to 9/11 and Empowers the Taliban

Ignoring Swami Vivekananda Leads to 9/11 and Empowers the Taliban

Commentary on the ongoing events in Afghanistan and the terminal decline of America, rooted in its innately Asuric impulse. The so-called Dismantling Global Hindutva "conference" must be analysed in this light.

By Sandeep Balakrishna
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The Concept of Širk: What it Meant Before the Advent of Islam

The Concept of Širk: What it Meant Before the Advent of Islam

The cardinal sin in Islam is Širk, ‘associating (a creature with the Creator)’ or ‘polytheism’. Thus, sun-worship means offering worship to a creature, putting it on the Creator’s throne. In this paper, we trace the early and later history of the concept of Širk (rhymes with French cirque,

By Koenraad Elst
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