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> >From:	Celso Alvarez =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E1ccamo?= <lxalvarz at UDC.ES>
> >Subject:      Massacres and dates
> >Comments: To: Lista CRITICS <CRITICS-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
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> >(Cross-posted)
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> >Dear all,
> >
> >Today's Madrid massacre (11 March 2004 AD) occured on day 20 Muharram 1425=
> >=20
> >H (after Mohammed's hegira) in the Islamic religious calendar. Muharram is=
> >=20
> >the sacred month for Islam after Ramadan, and one where fasting is also=20
> >purifying, am I right?  Although the Spanish government still presents ETA=
> >=20
> >as the main suspect (why don't they call it "atheist ETA"?), a violent=20
> >"islamic" group (apparently responsible of the recent attacks in Turkey)=20
> >has reivindicated the Madrid attacks in a London Arab-language
> newspaper.=20
> >Does any one know whether the 20 Muharram date has any special
> significance=
> >=20
> >in the history of Islam, particularly against Christianity?
> >
> >This made me think about September 11, 2001 AD, which corresponded to 23=20
> >Jumaada al-Thaany 1422 H in the Islamic calendar, and about the state of=20
> >high alert that the world lived one Christian year later, Sept. 11, 2002=20
> >AD. Well, naively enough, this is the first time I thought that, if the=20
> >9/11 massacre was carried out by Islamic fundamentalist suicide killers,=20
> >they would not follow the Gregorian Christian calendar for any actions=20
> >"celebrating" the anniversary, but the Hijri calendar. The aniversary
> would=
> >=20
> >be about 11 days earlier, on Sept. 1 2002 AD, if I'm not mistaken. That
> is,=
> >=20
> >by the time people where on alert, flights were cancelled, police were=20
> >deployed everywhere, etc., the "anniversary" had already taken place.=20
> >Didn't the US' and other western secret services know this very simple
> fact=
> >=20
> >in order to deactivate the paranoid discourse around the "anniversary"? Or=
> >=20
> >am I going too far?
> >
> >The US-UK-Spain-etc. coalition invaded Iraq during a holy Muslim month.=20
> >Going back to the Madrid attacks, a Hijri year ago (20 Muharram 1424 H) it=
> >=20
> >was March 23, 2003, Sunday. US troops had already invaded Iraq, and they=20
> >were 60 miles from Bagdad. Ten milion people all around the world were=20
> >demonstrating against the war. Two years ago (20 Muharram 1423 H) the=20
> >Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)=20
> >approved the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on International Terrorism, where=20
> >they emphasized their defense of Palestine's rights. Probably these are=20
> >just coincidences, as unfortunately anything noticeable in terms of
> massive=
> >=20
> >violence happens practically every day of the year. But I keep wondering.
> >
> >Please correct me as much as you can. I know nothing about Islam, but=20
> >unfortunately a lot about the current Spanish government.
> >
> >-celso
> >Celso Alvarez C=E1ccamo
> >lxalvarz at udc.es
> >
>
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