“Do you want to pray? Pray to me. I am your God.”

[slaveplanet]

Last night in Al-Adhamiyah I was interviewing a group of men who were detained on February 25th when their shop was raided by U.S. troops. One of them, Abdel Hamid Majed, claimed that his hands were tied tightly, a sack was placed over his head, and he was forced to lay on his stomach inside a shop for six and a half hours while the soldiers were deciding what to do with them.

He said, “We were whispering, ‘Allahu Akbar’ to sustain ourselves, and the soldiers were laughing at us.”

After laughing at the detainees for praying, Abdel (who speaks English) said, a soldier standing over them asked, “Do you want to pray? Pray to me. I am your God.”

Later several of the men were taken to Abu Ghraib. On April 20th, one of the men detained, Dr. Oubaidy Nezar, (a doctor of Physical Chemistry), died at Abu Ghraib prison.

http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000332.html

[Dark]

1. What does Allahu Akbar mean?

[bryant69]

2. I think it means

"God is Great." But I could be wrong.

Bryant
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[Darranar]

3. I think so too. n/t

[stellanoir]

4. loosely translated. . .

praise to God/Allah. n/t

[LizW]

5. God is Great

Or really, "God is Greater" perhaps used in a situation of peril to mean that God is able to protect or save the imperiled.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that.