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| | Cao’s Blog » Blog Archive » Mohammed’s most celebrated battles took place during Ramadan |
 | | Combining fasting, the unique act of worship, with Jihad which is the Highest Intuition (Thurwat al-Sanam) of Islam, gave believing men and women of earlier generations an unbeatable combination that characterized Ramadan by battles of glory and victories over the unbelievers. |
 | | At least eight major battles took place in Ramadan, some, such as the Battle of the Ditch, the Battle of Tabuk, and the Battle of Hittin, were more significant than others, and one, the Battle of Badr, was a turning point for Islam as a religion. |
 | | In recent years Ramadan has witnessed an increase in violent activities by Islamists, with the trend beginning well before the Iraq war: In the late 1990s, extremists in Algeria were marking the “holy month” by killing civilians by the hundreds, and in 2000 a spate of church bombings in Indonesia killed 19 people during Ramadan. |
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