Ramadan was a non-Muslim pagan Arab festival. the muslim ritual in Mecca and Kaaba arepre islamic as explored by Rushdies Satanic verses.

Ramadan was a non-Muslim pagan Arab festival. the muslim ritual in Mecca and Kaaba arepre islamic as explored by Rushdies Satanic verses. ( freethoughtblogs.com )

submitted 2016-09-01T11:00 by Esfinx

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Hith_Ransir 2016-09-02T02:44

Great book, by the way. Worth reading. It's quite funny,especially considering how vilified it was. That, and the name of the book, sorta gives the wrong impression if you aren't familiar with the story.

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RURAL-TROOPER 2016-09-01T16:38

Also the day Caesar was declared pontifex maximus. A title passed to every pope since him.

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jerrykantrell 2016-09-01T16:01

How is this a conspiracy? The matter is simple, while maintaining that there is one one god but allah throughout the quran, there are parts where they suddenly start talking about worshiping these goddesses: Allat and Al-Uzza, And Manat. Now, in order to explain these, they say this was revealed to muhammad by Satan and need to be disregarded.

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thrus 2016-09-01T16:00

Most religions/countries do/did this it is hard to make a population change when they do things so instead you incorporate it into your system and give it a new name ban some random symbol and make it not allowed to celebrate it using that symbol and name but ok if you use the new name and do the same things. It makes the leaders feel like they changed something but is actually enforceable, unlike a universal ban would be unless you can occupy every home and not just "control the cities".

It may be a game but think of Skyrim and the ban on Talos worship The leaders make token effort to enforce the ban to say they are doing it but only large gatherings to him got stopped.

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ninjajunkie 2016-09-01T14:40

You have to love the cognitive dissonance that allows you to say that while pictures of people are idolatry, travelling halfway across the planet to walk around some rock a specific number of times is A-OK.

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Gorillion 2016-09-01T13:36

Up and coming religions hijack pre-existing festival periods. All the pagan stuff is based around the seasons and moon phases.

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not_shadowbanned_yet 2016-09-01T14:22

especially when trying to convert whole tribes and nations, it can help to keep as much of the old stuff as possible.

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tecuani 2016-09-01T12:10

It's not surprising. Christianity's traditions as well were "stolen" from the older faiths that people later forced into christianty had had before. It may be either a way of making the new faith appear less alien to one's subjects or just a matter of being used to traditions and adapting them so it's okay to keep them.

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Esfinx 2016-09-01T11:02

they are pro islamic rituals? Inside Islams Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca, was this almost a Vedic Babylonian 'satanic' Moongod ritual as explored in Rushdie's book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwCCN6SD-Dk islam a confused schizophrenic bipolar mix? Kaaba is pre Islamic? was this almost a Vedic Babylonian/Sasanian almost 'satanic' Moon god ritual as explored in Rushdie's Satanic verses?

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