Sentence examples for an ummah from inspiring English sources

"The Kuffar invaders are about to learn that we are an Ummah that has never been defeated, and the coming days will bear testimony to that," the Shabab said.

It's no fun waking up in the morning with a wretched burden of representation on my shoulders for whatever it is my community is supposed to have done (or not done), especially when much of the attention reminds me - lest I forget - that I'm allegedly a member of an ummah known for terrorism, rioting and woman-bashing.

No Sir, I say: not a village, Tom, it will take an Ummah.

And this, well this my friends, will take nothing less than an Ummah.

But in real life, it's a day off for the Marathon, a day we gather as a community, an ummah of our own.

We taste the unity, the sense of community and the beauty that can ensue when an ummah comes together in submission to the Almighty.

So that the newest forms of communication become an instrument for furthering the notion of a virtual ummah, an Islamic community, where people can feel a common history, a common identity, and a common sense of victimization, whether there's truth in this or not.

"Yes, the Internet has created a virtual ummah," Olivier Roy, an expert on political Islam at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, wrote to me recently.

A schism has emerged between mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world including Hamas of Palestine and Hezbollah of Lebanon and the uprooted militants who strive to establish an imaginary ummah, or Muslim community, not embedded in any particular society or territory.

Two years after the attacks, she released an album, "Ummah, Wake Up!" The word ummah means "community" in Arabic.

They are psychologically losers, uprooted individuals who can become imaginary heroes of a virtual ummah through their own deaths.