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The Pseudo-Mahdis

Excerpts made from Imam Mahdi the Just Leader of Humanity]On the appointed evening friends came together at Dr. Fahimi’s house. After the usual formalities and enquiries the session began. Mr. Hoshyar began to speak.Mr. Hoshyar: There is another matter worth considering as further evidence and related to the topic about …

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The Privatisation of Religion

The engagement of psychology with religion is, on the whole, the history of the privatisation of religion and the reconfiguration of religion in terms of the private, psychological self. This shift in religious understanding has, unwittingly in some cases, and intentionally in others, played into the hands of a neoliberal …

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New Age Commodification and Appropriation of Spirituality

MICHAEL YORKABSTRACT The New Age Movement can be seen as one response to the decline of traditional religion in the West. It conforms to the spiritual pluralism that Bryan Wilson understands as a consequence of secularization. From a New Age perspective, the world’s various spiritual traditions are now public property …

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ISIL recruiting vulnerable Australian teenagers

ISIL recruiters have stepped up attempts to entice vulnerable youths in Australia to join the ranks of the Takfiri terror group mainly operating in Iraq and Syria, a British daily reports.The recruiters infiltrate youth welfare services in Australia under the guise of youth workers in Bankstown, a suburb of the …

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Ban Urges Immediate Ramadan Truce in Yemen

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen for the holy month of Ramadan as talks got underway in Geneva to try and resolve the bloody conflict.“I hope this week starts the beginning of the end of the fighting,” Ban said.

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The Secret Birth of Hadrat Mahdi (A.S.)

Shaykh Mufid, a distinguished Shi’ite scholar, also wrote in al Irshad: “When Imam Hasan al-‘Askari (A.S.), passed away, the caliph of that time, pursued his son because the Shi’ite Imamiyyah’s belief was famous and was spread about that the Shi’ites were awaiting His Eminence.”Mu’tadid, one of the tyrant ‘Abbasid caliphs …

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Infighting leaves 29 Takfiris dead in northern Syria

Nearly 30 Takfiri militants have been killed in internecine clashes between ISIL terrorists and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and other militants over the control of a village in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo.Nusra Front militants and allied forces on board ten tanks and armored vehicles stormed the village of al-Bal, which …

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Bush urges Obama to send combat forces to Iraq to defeat ISIL

Former US president George W. Bush has criticized President Barack Obama for his war strategy against ISIL, saying the United States should send combat troops to Iraq.In an interview with an Israeli newspaper published on Friday, the ex-president said Obama “will have to make that determination.” “My position was that …

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