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Don’t get too caught up in your division! 

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What would Columbus have done if he came ashore the real India?

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America has become the world's most religiously diverse nation!! 

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كن كشجرة الصندل، تعطّر الفأس التي تقطعها.

سعدي الشيرازي

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Nature, is that you? 

Could nature force the definite closure of Guantanamo? hmm! 

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"This result astonished me and is a real reminder that plastic pollution has truly reached the furthest ends of the Earth."

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Scary!

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http://art.fenon.com/orientalism02/#

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http://art.fenon.com/orientalism02/#

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Don’t let the people of hatred make you lose your balance. 

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“The essence of the true faith of Islam is resignation to the will of God [Allah] and its corner stone is prayer. It teaches universal fraternity, universal love, and universal benevolence, and requires purity of mind, purity of action, purity of speech and perfect physical cleanliness. It, beyond doubt, is the simplest and most elevating form of religion known to man.

Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb’s (earliest American convert to Islam, 1888) account of his journey to Islam at the 1st World's Parliament of Religions of 1893 in Chicago. 

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For the cause! 

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian thinker, statesman, and nationalist leader:  "....I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These, and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every trouble." [Young India (periodical), 1928, Volume X]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the German writer said: “Us, Europeans, with all our concepts could not reach what Muhammad has reached, and no one will be able to precede him. I have looked in the history of humanity for an example and found that it was Muhammad, as the truth must be revealed. Indeed, Muhammad succeeded to subdue the entire world to monotheism”.

(http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?15765-What-Great-People-said-about-the-Prophet-Muhammad-PBUH fa�~w(�f�

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OCTOBER 14, 2015, I turn on the radio only to find ample entertainment from presidential candidate Donald Trump while rallying in Richmond, Virginia

Not surprised Trump gave a shout out to UVA, while in Richmond, a couple of days ago: “…the University of Virginia, and great college -- that is great and right next to our property. We love them,” completely heedless of a close-by, VCU, one of the nation’s leading medical (#1 hospital in the region) and art school (#4 nationwide), including a nationwide #1 graduate advertising program. Not like we needed that shout out, anyways.

Nevertheless, he did pretty well flattering VA by briefing us on VA’s history and citing VA-born presidents, which sounded like he memorized a U.S. and VA History SOL study guide; including, “you have the hall of fame”, adding to an imaginary list of “why VA is the best state”. What “good” (as that seemed to be as descriptive as it will ever get to Trump explaining his presidential plans, along with “great” and “terrific”), is that statement to average VA residents?