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Christianity does not civilize.

stephan happy huller wrote:“She shall be called Woman / lsha, for from Man / Ish she was taken.”

Coincidence?

http://www.behindthename.com/name/02aisha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha

What is the evidence for common use of the word Muhammad to refer to the Praised One rather than a proper name among Arabs or Aramaic speakers?? This: http://aliqapoo.com/2008/08/13/circular-reasoning/#comment-12 http://www.christoph-heger.de/2008-03-14_Inarah-Symposion_Christoph_Heger_5.pdf http:/...

Here's an explanation of why Petra may be a holy city in the Koran instead of Mecca.

http://searchformecca.com/PetraProofs.html

What eventually made Mecca holy besides the qibla after the Muslims gave up on praying facing Jerusalem? It's in part because the site in Mecca was a church before it was a mosque. There is a diagram and explanation on the third page of this PDF excerpt: http://www.islamfacts.info/Islamfacts/Englis...

beowulf wrote:Are errors important now?

These were not errors. These were done intentionally. This is known because multiple mosques face Petra. In other cases mosques ran parallel to the Petra–Mecca line.

beowulf wrote:Is this the one Petra?

I wasn't talking about mosques in Petra. I was talking about mosques facing Petra.

What you quoted refers to Medina.

http://searchformecca.com/timeline.html

Mosque of the 2 Qiblas faces north towards both Jerusalem and Petra (5 AH)

Masjid al-Qiblatain (Mosque of the two qiblas)

Is this the evidence you are making available for Petra? There are more examples on that webpage with the qibla timeline. “When the old mosque was torn down, the foundation stones of the earlier mosque revealed that the original building faced north towards both Petra and Jerusalem which were in al...

beowulf wrote:Where is it?

A just gave you one example: a mosque in Amman faced Petra.