Travel Reference
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The other feature that has characterised recent tensions between the West and the Arab
world is the perceived Western bias towards Israel in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.
Until a solution to the relentless problem of cohabitation between Jews and Arabs in Israel
is reached, the entire region will remain in a state of flux.
The key word regarding non-Islamic religious observance in the Arabian Peninsula today is discretion:
whatever worship happens behind closed doors and which doesn't interfere with the beliefs of Muslims
is considered a matter between the individual and their own conscience.
