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Media and Girls

They have ads of how you should dress and what you should look like and this and that, and then they say, ‘but respect people for what they choose to be like.’ Okay, so which do we do first?” Kelsey, 16, quoted in Girl TalkYou’ve Come A Long Way, Baby?The …

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Elements of Unity

Sound HeartGod, the Immaculate, thus describes to the Noble Prophet how one should comport oneself in a scholarly or religious circle:When those who have faith in Our signs come to you, say, “Peace to You”.1The intermediate among those thus saluted by the Prophet simply hear his salutation, whereas the elite …

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Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel

Saudi Arabia is under a new cloud after a jailed al-Qaeda operative implicated senior Saudi officials as collaborators with the terror group – and the shadow could even darken the political future of Israeli Prime Netanyahu because of his odd-couple alliance with Riyadh.The disclosure that convicted al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui …

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Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of natural resources and wealth or the use of indiscriminate violence. …

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Can We Trust the CIA?

If the CIA routinely lies to the American people, maybe that’s because its got so much to lie about, like killing millions of innocent human beings around the world. As far back as December, 1968, the CIA’s own Covert Operations Study Group gave a secret report to president-elect Richard Nixon …

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Understanding the Universal Abrahamic Religion

Understanding the Universal Abrahamic Religion: Bringing Together Ahl al- Kitab and attracting their Attention to the Need for UnityText of the speech of Professor Muhammad Taqi Ja‘fari at the conference on Islam and Christianity held in Switzerland on the November 27th, 1995. A major portion of this speech was first …

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