Allahu Akbar Meaning
The phrase "Allu Akbar" is a Muslim phrase that means "God is the Greatest." It is also spelled "Allahu Ekber" and "Allah-o-Akbar." "Allu Akbar" is usually said at the beginning of an Islamic prayer.http://salmanspiritual.com/akbar.html The Muslim call to prayer also contains "Allahu Akbar."http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Allahu:Akbar.htm
"Allahu Akbar" is also a phrase used to as an exclamation of excitement or praise, during battles or before the slaughtering of an animal in the "Halaal" tradition (under Islamic law).http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Allahu:Akbar.htmhttp://www.slate.com/id/2149455/
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- John Wilkes Booth: assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
- Mark David Chapman: assassin of John Lennon
- Leon Czolgosz: convicted assassin of President William McKinley
- Georg Elser: would be assassin of Adolf Hitler via a time bomb at Burgerbraukeller Hall
- Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme: would-be assassin of President Gerald Ford
- Charles J. Guiteau: assassin of President James Garfield
- Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva: would-be assassin of Grigori Rasputin
- Jack McCall: assassin of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
- Thomas McMahon: assassin of Louis Mountbatten
- Lee Harvey Oswald: assassin of President John F. Kennedy later assassinated by Jack Ruby
- James Earl Ray: convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr
- Sirhan Sirhan: assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
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