Crusading Propaganda Inflames Muslim World

[north_malaysian]

There are only about 2,000 Lipkas in Lithuania today. the population was down to near 0 in 1915 when they were exiled to Siberia. There is still a large Lipkas population in Siberia and they are slowly returning to Lithuania.

Some, including my mother, came to the USA. Oddly My mother's family had strayed from Islam. Myself and my children are the first Muslims in our family in about 400 years.

The only Lithuanian Mosques I now know of are 4 in Vilnius.

I think your ancestors were not astraying from Islam... they just dont have the adequate access to Islam... thus making them no longer practicing Islam... I've heard that lots of Levantine Muslims migrated to Latin America also having the same problems.....

But God blessed you.... maybe you're chosen to revive back Islam among the Lipka Tatars..... That would be one of my specific prayers in this Ramadhan... may Islam return to the Baltic...

 

[sameer]

Sort of like Muslims taking offense everytime somone sees the word "jihad" as a word related to violence, the word "crusade" doesn't mean an armed struggle against something in every instance. In the context of Bush's use of the word, it too means "struggle".

so just co-incidence that he used this term just b4 he invaded a muslim country? I think his tounge slipped there and exposed his toughts.

 

[Keltoi]

so just co-incidence that he used this term just b4 he invaded a muslim country? I think his tounge slipped there and exposed his toughts.

and what was that "thought" exactly? That he is fighting a "holy war" to reclaim Christian lands and return the Holy Sepulchre to Christendom? The word "crusade" is used quite a bit in the English language, and it means a mission to accomplish something. I understand that to the Muslim mind the word "crusade" brings up images of 100,000 armored Christian knights slaughtering everything in their path, but in the context of the Iraq War it has no validity other than urban myth and fancy.