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From: isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin)
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Subject: Re: Kuwait
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Date: 5 Nov 90 07:03:53 GMT
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gt8145a@prism.gatech.edu (FADEL,AYMAN HOSSAM) writes:

>Assalamu alaikum,
Alaikum Assalam

>2.  It is forbidden for a non-Muslim power to enter the
>Arabian Peninsula.  This is on the basis of the report
>of Umar radiya allahu anh who said the Prophet salla allahu
>alaihi wa sallam said:  There should not be two religions
>in the peninsula of the Arabs.

Okay. This is related to my other posting. Exactly what is
the Islamic Geographic Definition of the ``Arabian Peninsula,
khallasaha allahu min junuud al-kaafiriin''?

Does every type of Islam accept the writings of Umar radiya allahu anh?
Who does not, and why?

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