Why do so many muslim countries have a crescent moon and star on their flag?
• Moon worship has been practiced in Arabia since 2000 BC. The crescent moon is the most common symbol of this pagan moon worship as far back as 2000 BC. • In Mecca, there was a god named Hubal who was Lord of the Kabah. • This Hubal was a moon god. • One Muslim apologist confessed that the idol of moon god Hubal was placed upon the roof of the Kaba about 400 years before Muhammad. This may in fact be the origin of why the crescent moon is on top of every minaret at the Kaba today and the central symbol of Islam atop of every mosque throughout the world: About four hundred years before the birth of Muhammad one Amr bin Lahyo … a descendant of Qahtan and king of Hijaz, had put an idol called Hubal on the roof of the Kaba. This was one of the chief deities of the Quraish before Islam. (Muhammad The Holy Prophet, Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar (P*kistan), p 18-19, Muslim) • The moon god was also referred to as “al-ilah”. This is not a proper name of a single specific god, but a generic reference m
