The rise of Islam in the Levant coincided with the end of the Persian sphere of influence over the Levant-Mesopotamia region and a long period of devastating Persian-Roman wars (from around 525 through to 629). The plague pandemic further weakened the two great empires in the early Medieval Age.
— Dr Wafik Moustafa – Glass House
Recent excavations, satellite images and carbon dating of ancient documents, have uncovered a great deal of evidence linking Mesopotamia and Petra as the early sites of Islam.
— Dr Wafik Moustafa – Glass House
Gibson, a Canadian historian and archaeologist, used Google Earth, ancient coins and archaeological discoveries to identify the original direction of prayers, the Qibla, in the first century of Islam concludes that it was originally pointed towards Petra, not Mecca as has been accepted in the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN).”
— Dr Wafik Moustafa – Glass House
The Quran’s extraordinary description of a night flight of Mohammad, from Jerusalem to heaven for a meeting with Allah, riding an elaborate winged animal, is a cut and past story from Zoroastrian legend. This elaborate version of the religious texts only appeared some 200 years after the death of Mohammad.
For many centuries, Orientalist historians, studied Islam through Abbasid Caliphate narrations. This became the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN) for more than twelve centuries.
– Glass House
The technique of conditioning, the famous experiment of dog saliva the bell and food, the Germans were masters especially Gobbles team in cairo 1952. Mixing slogans of national sentiment and religious fervour into one: the bell still echoes today, while the country living an economic meltdown and collapse of Egyptian pound; certain sections calls for military to remain in power!
– Glass House
Napoleon, a political reformer, frequently met with the Cairo religious notables, though he was unwavering in his conviction that religions were no more than the work of men, albeit often the ‘powerful engine of government in the East.
– Glass House
The collapse of the communist block and end of the Cold War in 1990, exposed the Arab world’s deep cracks and vulnerability, in a new world order. Saddam Hussein of Iraq miscalculated the political situation and his rushed invasion and annexation of Kuwait brought US-led military might into the region and, with the second Gulf War of 2003, ultimately led to the defeat of the military and the breakdown of the Iraqi state.
– Glass House