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\u00a0 \u00a0 As we\u2019ve been traveling in an overwhelmingly Muslim country \u2014 our bus driver and the armed tourist policeman assigned to us are both Muslims, as well \u2014 I\u2019ve been discussing Islam on the bus. \u00a0And this is one of the points I\u2019ve been stressing: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/765619974\/Allah-is-not-pagan-term-2-it-means-God.html \u00a0 Posted from Petra, Jordan \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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