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Educating Quanta Ahmed About the Importance of The Sunna and The Hadith, and Their Relevance to FGM/C

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During a recent appearance (4/18/2014) with Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio, Quanta Ahmed maintained she was unfamiliar with a canonical hadith sanctioning female genital mutilation/circumcision (FGM/C), before negating altogether the importance of the hadith as a source of Islamic … Continue reading →

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Nina Simone Sings the 1923 Jimmy Cox Blues, “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”

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Video of My Discussion of the Film “Honor Diaries” in Los Angeles 4/8/14 for The Children of Holocaust Survivors

Posted on 20th April 2014 | Comments Off on Video of My Discussion of the Film “Honor Diaries” in Los Angeles 4/8/14 for The Children of Holocaust Survivors

  See this blog for background: Cut the Clitoral Relativism: Islam, Sharia, and Female Genital Mutilation/“Circumcision”

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My April 8, 2104 Talk on “Iran’s Final Solution for Israel,” Sponsored by the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, in Los Angeles

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Nora Jones Covers Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight”

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U.S. Accommodation of Totalitarianism, From the Soviet Union to Iran

Posted on 19th April 2014 | Comments Off on U.S. Accommodation of Totalitarianism, From the Soviet Union to Iran

Diana West Queries Andrew Bostom About His New Book, Iran’s Final Solution For Israel                     (Cartoon by Michael Ramirez) Journalist Diana West authored the ground-breaking 2013 analysis of Communism, and Soviet … Continue reading →

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Diana Krall Performs the 1927 Woods/Dixon Composition, “Just Like A Butterfly (That’s Caught in the Rain)”

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Ziessen Pesach! Louis Armstrong-“Go Down Moses”

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Norah Jones, with Wynton Marsalis, Cover Ray Charles’ “You Don’t Know Me”

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Mainstream U.S. Muslim Jurists Association Sanctions Female Genital Mutilation

Posted on 10th April 2014 | Comments Off on Mainstream U.S. Muslim Jurists Association Sanctions Female Genital Mutilation

The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America’s (AMJA’s) mission statement maintains the organization was, …founded to provide guidance for Muslims living in North America…AMJA is a religious organization that does not exploit religion to achieve any political ends, but instead provides … Continue reading →

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