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Many are those who often ask the question that, why is there a sign of a crescent on the top of every mosque, does it mean Muslims worship the moon or the sun? Well, the honest answer is: The crescent is not a symbol of Islam, but of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans are those tribes that moved to Turkey from east and middle Asia. They converted to Islam and built a huge Muslim Empire that ruled the whole Muslim world for centuries. When they took Islam as a religion they started using the lunar calendar, the calendar that was used by Muslims, Jews and early Christians. Even today, the flag of Turkey has a crescent on it. There was no crescent on any mosque built before the Ottomans era.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:11:57 +0000

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