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In August 2001, a Druze was promoted to the rank of major general for the first time in 50 years of Druze service in the IDF. Two Druze officers were promoted to brigadier general, in addition to a third who retired. A number were promoted to colonel and lieutenant colonel, all serving in positions of national importance. These high-ranking promotions represent an important innovation by the IDF to recognize the ability, contribution, and performance of Druze soldiers and to integrate them equally within the army system. Furthermore, most of the top Druze officers have been sent to continue their studies at institutions of higher learning in the framework of their military service.
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Actually, the term "Druze," like the word "Hindu," was coined by the Muslims. Almost 1,000 years ago El Drazi was a heretic to the emerging Druze faith, and Muslims, to deride this new sect, derisively referred to the group by the name of their dissident. Druze consider themselves as Muwahidoon, which translates as "the one, eternal religion, (Abu-Izzeddin, 1984; Betts, 1988; Firro, 1992)" much as a practitioner of Vedic religion is performing sanatana-dharma, the eternal occupation of the soul, rather than any temporally or geographically based religion (Prabhupada, 1972 - from Introduction). The current manifestation of the Muwahidoon, known as the Druze, originates from al Hakim Bi-Amr Allah, the sixth Fatimid Caliph, who ruled Egypt during the late 10th and early 11th Centuries (Abu-Izzeddin). According to the sheiks, there are other manifestations of the Muwahidoon.
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