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Apr.17.2013
I admit, my first thought was not one of sympathy, but “Hope it is not a Muslim” on hearing about the bomb blasts.
Is she dead? Injured? Her limbs blown off? I will never know. I knew her only as a pseudonym. She often spoke about training for the marathon. She was, from all accounts,...
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Nov.27.2012
Everyone has a hobby, don't they?
Well, they should. Doctors say that a good hobby can reduce stress. Others say it gives you something to do.
Hobbies of scrapbooking and dollhouses fascinate the edges of my mind. I don't go out looking for information about these...
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Oct.22.2012
He sits hunched at the kitchen table in a dark cap and sunglasses tinted orange. A murky blue curtain on the window opposite is part way drawn to reveal only a slice of the waking morning.
He’s already thinking about how he must drive to the supermarket today. His eyes dart around him. What if they...
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Sep.18.2012
Ennui, more than rage. How many Muslims with open mouths does the world want to look at? What demons, what paranoia is it?
Why can't I get to see Terry Jones on a magic carpet burning a book and spreading its ashes on the 'secular' believers? Oh, we are not like that. That is Rick Samtorum, Pam...
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Aug.30.2012
If you walk into a New York restaurant and hear some people talking in Urdu, they could be terrorists. That is what NYPD wants you to believe.
It boggles the mind that after years of US occupation of Afghanistan, the city police have not figured out that the Taliban – assuming they are the...
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Aug.25.2012
August 25
AUTUMN
The falling leaves slap my hand as I ride the road at fifty miles per, my arm dangling
The trees are shedding their masquerade
Exposed they stand stark, stripped
Naked to the soul
The growth of this year's yearning waves on the fringe
I can...
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Mar.15.2012
Another welcome wet day in the Bay Area.
I spent my time attempting to send off an important piece of information to my correspondent in the East. Unfortunately, my computer kept failing just as I was about to send it off. [Do the demons of several days back still lurk about? Is...
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Jan.16.2012
It is not people of the faith that are fearful of their belief being damaged but the purveyors of phobia who are scared stiff that their little world is not as large as they’d like it to be.
The timing could not have been more serendipitous and ironic. Around the time when the Deoband Darul...
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Nov.17.2011
My daughter always gives me this “look” when I’m giving her instructions. It’s that kind of look that tells you, “You need to relax” or that deep penetrating look that tells you, “You are overly neurotic creating problems that don’t even exist.”
I don’t think that it’s life threatening...
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Oct.27.2011
Two of the largest democracies – America and India – top the list of countries wanting to snoop on their citizens. How is that for wonderful liberalism? Can these countries talk of censorship with a straight face?
In a bid to curb terrorism and other anti-social activities, US, India, France,...
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