shaitan

• “The true shaitan is not a posturing pretender to romantic rebellion, not a puffed-up fool in black and scarlet, but a harlequin in ragged motley, dark and light, grinning wickedly but with sorrow in his eyes.”

  THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE

• “It isn't until the Book of Chronicles, merely fourth century BC, that the word shaitan is used to mean a being, and not only an attribute of God. ”

  The Satanic Verses

• “In calling him shaitan, "satan," people were not always speaking metaphorically.”

  The Huffington Post: Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man

• “I didn't know I was a son of Sodom, a sexual shaitan in the making, but I was already on the side of the rebels.”

  THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE

• “They're the shaitan seen as an integral part of religion as a dialectical process, a antithesis.”

  THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE

• “No matter how much they mean well, they cannot fight the shaitan — the devil — that lives within.”

  Simon & Schuster: Beneath My Mother’s Feet

• “I stand in its ruins and I say, I'm the shaitan they hate, those fundamentalists and conservatives.”

  Wisdom, Justice And Mercy

• “This is why I accept that scapegoat role, say, sure, OK, I'll be the shaitan.”

  Wisdom, Justice And Mercy

• “I mean they don't use their blog as a front for holocaust deniers or to recruit girls to some apocalyptic nirvana a la Jim Jones or to push anorexia, push porn or promote shaitan - they're solid, not off their brain and by no means boring.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

• “Either way, when he takes up his stick and starts heading for the seat of power he becomes the shaitan, the Enemy, the eternal Enemy.”

  The Stain of Sin

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