The crescent moon has a famously lofty place in Arab and Islamic culture. A symbol of transformation, it signals the beginning and end of every month of the Hijri calendar. Even now, astronomers and ...

stated that martyr Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah was a symbol of the Islamic nation, adding that huge turnout of people to the funeral ceremony of showed that their souls are still with resistance fighters.

Critics see the headscarf worn by some Muslim women as a symbol of creeping Islamisation ... voted 210 to 81 to ban "the wearing of any sign or outfit ostensibly showing a political or religious ...