To all my dear Muslim friends, please hear the voice from Arab and think wisely. In a fellow Muslim country with substantial Christian and Hindu populations, this feels like the wrong decision. The UAE is rightly proud of its society that allows people from all over the world to practise their faiths openly and without discrimination. Indeed, that inclusiveness is inherent in Islam. One of the reasons Islam was able to spread so far, so rapidly, was the inclusive nature of the faith: for at least two centuries after the coming of Islam, the Arabs ruled vast regions where the majority were not Muslims. The word “Allah” is never exclusive to Islam – indeed, both Christians and Jews used the word “Allah” to refer to God even before the coming of Islam. Read more: thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/editorial/word-allah-is-not-exclusive-to-islam#ixzz2hoUWvgLp Follow us: @TheNationalUAE on Twitter | thenational.ae on Facebook
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:41:01 +0000
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