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The notion of “Greater Israel” is discussed and debated often – even among Muslims. Muslims in general believe that Israel wants to take over territory from Muslim and Arab lands and expand its current country boundaries to form a bigger country called “Greater Israel”. This article briefly reviews the notion of “Greater Israel” and examines the facts behind Israel’s goal of establishing “Greater Israel”.

The goal behind establishing “Greater Israel” has been to settle Jews in the land as defined in the Jewish Hebrew Bible. In their holy book, it says in the chapter of Genesis (15:18-21): (more…)

The city of Jerusalem and other surrounding cities are sacred to all three religions of the world: Muslims, Christians and Jews. The following are some questions and answers related to the sacred sites of the three religions that are in located in Jerusalem and the surrounding cities. For any fact based contributions and feedback, please post your comments at the end of the article below.

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The Malaysian cabinet and government declared last week that Malaysian Christians could no longer use the word “Allah”. Their rationale was based on the concern that the use of the word “Allah” by Christians in their religious messages could confuse some Muslims and hence could draw them toward Christianity.

It seems that the ban in Malaysia was placed 20 years ago but was never enforced until a few days ago. (more…)

10th of Muharram (the day of Ashura) is observed as an important day by both Sunni and Shia Muslims – however, for different reasons.

Most scholars believe that Ahsura is named as such because of “tenth” of Muharram (ten is translated as “Ashara” in the Arabic language)

Sunni Muslims look at Ashura as “good” while Shia Muslims believe that day to be a day of mourning and sorrow. Again – for different reasons.

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