Massacres and dates (remove REMOVE)

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>From:	Celso Alvarez =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E1ccamo?= <lxalvarz at UDC.ES>
>Subject:      Massacres and dates
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>(Cross-posted)
>
>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
>