When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 ( the regime finally fell in 1992 ), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.

When the battle was lost, Saladin captured the relic, which was then ransomed back to the Crusaders when the Muslims surrendered the city of Acre in 1191.

When, therefore, Muslims hear about prophets of other peoples or other countries, they do not deny them.

When the Crusader force — reckoned to be the largest the kingdom ever produced from its own resources, but still outmatched by the Muslims — advanced, the Ayyubids unexpectedly moved down the stream of Ain Jalut.

When the Muslims approached Portus, he summoned the Repubbliche Marinare ( or mariner cities of Italy ) – Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi – to form a league.

When the qibla ( direction of prayer for Muslims ) was changed from Jerusalem ( known in Arabic as al-Quds ) to Mecca, these Jews protested and finally declined the change.

When they return home they will congratulate family, friends, and other Muslims and visit relatives across the city.

When Bush subsequently brought up the issue in a debate with Al Gore, Al-Arian was reportedly " thrilled — and began registering local Muslims to vote, and promoting Bush's candidacy at local mosques.

When Saladin arrived from the taking of Tiberias, and after the Frankish army left Turan, the Muslims began their attack in earnest.

When the king of the Franks was on the hill with that band, they made a formidable charge against the Muslims facing them, so that they drove them back to my father.

When I saw that the Franks withdrew, pursued by the Muslims, I shouted for joy, " We have beaten them!

When the Young Muslims became torn between supporting the SS Handschar ( a SS Mountain Division of Nazi Germany, composed of Muslim Bosniaks ) or the Partisans ( Communist resistance group led by Josip Broz Tito ), Mr. Izetbegovic supported the Handzars.

When Christian conversion efforts on the part of Granada's first archbishop, Hernando de Talavera, brought Muslim opposition, Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros took stronger measures: with forced conversions, burning Islamic texts, and prosecuting many of Granada's Muslims.

When the tide of the battle was turning in Ali's favor, Muawiyah stalled Ali's troops by raising the Qur ' an on the tip of a bloody spear as a sort of " holy book shield " against attack by Muslims.

When Hulagu headed further west, the Armenians from Cilicia, the Seljuks from Rum and the Christian realms of Antioch and Tripoli submitted to Mongol authority, joining the Mongols in their assault against the Muslims.

When Victor Guérin visited Nahf in the 1870s, he described the village as containing 400 Muslims and some Greek Orthodox families, while in 1881 Nafh was described as being built of stone, containing 200 Muslims, with olives and arable land.

When the time for prayer arrived, however, he left the church and prayed outside the compound, in order to avoid having future generations of Muslims use his prayer there as a pretext for converting the church into a mosque.

When British Muslims were asked to decide whether they were loyal to the Allies ( Britain and France ) or the Central Powers ( Germany and Turkey ), Pickthall said he was ready to be a combatant for his country so long as he did not have to fight the Turks.

When Russia joined the Council of the Islamic Conference in 2003, it emphasized that it had a long history of successful co-existence with Muslims, and a large integrated population of Muslims ( few of which are in any sense Islamist ).

When the Russian version of Playgirl was launched in June 2004, it contained photographs of nude, circumcised American men which created an unfamiliar sight to Russian women as circumcision is less common outside the U. S., being practiced mainly by Muslims and Jews in Russia.

When Arnold Toynbee landed three days after the completion of the evacuation he saw, that the Turkish shops in the town had been looted and were in ruins, the mosques had been defiled and looted, when the fresh mass graves were opened in the cemetery they were discovered to be full of with the corpses of Muslims ( Turks ) who had been shot before the Greeks left the town.

When building castles, Muslims often chose high sites such as hills and mountains that provided natural obstacles.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When the Export-Import Bank is prepared to act favorably upon an application, it will so notify the Department of Economic Affairs and will indicate the interest rate and the repayment period which would be used under the proposed loan.

When the Export-Import Bank approves or declines the proposed loan, it will notify the Department of Economic Affairs.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

When continuity mistakes have been made, explanations are often proposed by either writers or fans to smooth over discrepancies.

When the government proposed a new federal code of civil procedure in 2006, replacing the cantonal codes of civil procedure, it rejected the introduction of class actions, arguing that:

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When Ford approached the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) about regulatory issues, the critical problem was that the ( then ) known forms of air traffic control were inadequate for the volume of traffic Ford proposed.

When looking at these areas ( amygdala ), it was proposed that a person learns to fear regardless of whether they themselves have experienced trauma, or if they have observed the fear in others.

The most important power is found in section 58: " When a proposed law passed by both Houses of Parliament is presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare ... that he assents in the Queen's name.

When in December of 1852, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his budget to Parliament on behalf of the minority government, the Peelites, the Free Traders and the Irish Brigade were all alienated by the proposed budget.

When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859, one of its major problems was the lack of an underlying mechanism for heredity.

When the Legislative Assembly met at the beginning of October 1849, Passy proposed an income tax to help balance the finances in France.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

When, in September 1862, the Abgeordnetenhaus ( House of Deputies ) overwhelmingly rejected the proposed budget, Wilhelm was persuaded to recall Bismarck to Prussia on the advice of Roon.

When Orhan succeeded his father, he proposed to his brother, Alaeddin, that they should share the emerging empire.

When such an agreement is proposed, the court can reject it if it disagrees with the proposed sentence, in which case the defendant has an opportunity to withdraw his plea.

When the changes accumulate, the forecasted result may not justify the original proposed investment in the project.

When substitution was proposed before, in 1978, the US appeared reluctant to allow such a mechanism to become operational.

When an amendment to similar effect was proposed at Westminster by John Gretton, the British government duly voted it down.