... and Mary took refuge in reflects the city's importance in Islam culture as a religious sacred site, which shows that Muslim cities during the Post-Classical Age strengthened Islam by attributing its current prosperity to the blessings of Allah and the alleged arrival of saints. While Damascus wasn't strictly a Holy City of Islam, the map of "Muslim Holy Cities" (Doc #8) shows thirteen discrete ... Holy Cities, and most of them were under Muslim rule. Because Holy Cities were destinations of pilgrimages made by Muslims, they served important roles in Islam as being popular religious ...

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As of December 1st 2003, the military casualties left by the war in Iraq on the Coalition, conformed by United Kingdom, Ukraine, Spain, Poland, Denmark, and United States mainly, averaged thirteen men per week in a two hundred eighty three-day-period that started on March 20th of the same year leaving 525 deaths accounting 440 of them to the US. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), as the ... 1st, the military operations in this Middle Eastern country are still being held in order to keep peace to ensure the reconstruction of an Iraq shattered by decades of war and embargo while Saddam Hussein's Re...

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