Nidal Malik Hasan: shouted Allahu Akbar as he started shooting. AP Photo/USUHS
Allahu Akbar is an Arabic phrase which means "God is Great."
Literally, Allahu Akbar means "Allah is great" but it is usually taken to mean, in the context of the Arab phrase the "Takbir", to mean either "God is Great " or "God is the Greatest".
There are certain problems with the spelling in English of the phrase "Allahu Akbar". The Arab script does not map precisely over the English language (or Latin) alphabet and various different attempts can be made to capture the true sounds. So Allahu Akbar might sometimes be written as Allahu Akhbar for example and there are other variants.
Within an islamic society the phrase can be used often and at many different times. It can simply be an expression of joy. It is also used extensively in prayers. And it has also often been used in battle, as a war cry, which seems to be the use which Nidal Malik Hasan made of it yesterday.
Allahu Akbar can also be used as a fast and colloquial manner of converting to Islam. The simple repetition of the phrase three times, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar" is taken by most Islamic jurists as being sufficient expression of the core Islamic beliefs that those who say it are now Muslim. Traditionally (and perhaps anecdotally) those who say this either in battle or afterwards when captured will be deemed to have converted, become part of the Ummah (the Islamic community) and thus no longer be considered as enemies.
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The phrase accepted as proclamation of faith by Islamic Jurists is not 'Allahu Akhbar'. It is 'La Allahu ilallahu, wa Mohammed rasool illah" or 'There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is His prophet'
He did not say God is great... this word can be used in numerous ways. In this situation with all the loss of life I think it was a battle cry.
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The phrase has also been used after the election to show the protest of the people against the election results. Many people shouted this phrase from 22:00-23:00 for 9 days after the 2009 Iranian election to show their protest to the result.
It is used by terrorists just before they fly planes into buildings and before they walk into a market filled with women and children and slaughter them.
STOP making excuses for this religion of PIECES!
EVERY armed conflict on the planet involves Muslims. They cannot seem to live in peace with their neighbors ANYWHERE on the planet.
And the White House said this was not terrorism?
If I, a middle aged white man did the same thing and said "Sig heil". I would be a "Domestic Racial Terrorist"
If Obama did it and said "I am a socialist trying to destroy America" he would win the Nobel Peace Prize and the Olympics....Well maybe the Peace Prize.
Allahu Akbar. Is the meaning Allah is the greatest or God is great? Big difference in the meanings, which is correct?
ALLAHU AKHBAR!!!! Now hang the bastard for shooting all those marines
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Allahu Akbar , Allah is greatest. Truth teller why would you hang him? did you know Marines also are killn inocent people overseas .what about those people. you talk but you dont see what other people see.besides maybe people were messing the him and he coulnt take it anymore.is the samething if someone mess with you ,you would definetly get tired of people messing with you. specially when you LOve Almight Allah. Peace to everybody and may Almighty have mercy on all of us Siners for acting the we act.
did you also realise that Most of them, according to history, was initiated by the non-muslims? and obviously retaliation doesn't stop there, one goes in, the other fights back, goes too far, then it repeats all over again..
Only wars in the middle east has involved muslims, and you say all armed conflicts are because of them? ok.. seems like someone doesn't attend his history lessons
First, terrorism is not enclosed Muslims but is enclosed on the Jews and radicals
Second, Allahu Akbar word means to maximize the God in the same rights and even knows how much God is a great
I think I am tired of Muslim aplogists
allah akbar can lick my nuts along with all those other savage hodges
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