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Islamic Scholar Hassan Akbar in NY Mosque: By 2100 Muslims Are Going to Be the Majority on the Planet – Surpassing Christianity as the Largest Religion - This Is Inevitable [Archival]
For more about Hassan Akbar (also spelled Hasan Akbar), see MEMRITV clips Nos. 10812 and 11689.
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