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Donald Trump will stop at nothing to stay in power. For starters, despite the pandemic, and putting self-preservation above public health, he is trying to make it more difficult to vote by mail because, he says, “Mail ballots, they cheat.”
For the last six months Trump has repeatedly…
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“My name is Khaled. I don’t wish to alarm you, but watch your back, my friend over there wants to kill you.”
The first week of May 1986, Urumchi airport in far western China, I was waiting for a flight to Kashgar en route to the Khunjerab Pass over…
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana.
“I’ve got news for Mr. Santayana:…
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Before invading Iraq in 2003, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld didn’t know the difference between the Sunni and Shi’a branches of Islam, much less why it would matter and turn out badly once they ousted Saddam Hussein. So a brief history of Islam in order before…
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First the demographics. Of the 1.6 Billion or so Muslims in the world, roughly 85%, 1.35 Billion, are Sunni, the rest, 15%, 240 million, Shi’a.
Westerners who tend to hyperfocus on Islam in the Arab world likely do not know that only 20% of all Muslims live in the…
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