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Hiatus
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Aziz Poonawalla
City of Brass will be on a short hiatus starting today and all through next week. I am sure most of the blogsphere will not even notice, but for anyone who does actually stop by here to read what I have to say, I think you’ll find Talk Islam a far superior substitute in my…
poll: the public wants the public option
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Aziz Poonawalla
Aside from the August recess of Congress, there has been strong support for the so-called public option all along: A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public. Americans remain sharply…
Karzai vs Abdullah, round 2 – run-off in Afghanistan to proceed Nov 7th
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is fantastic news – there will be a run-off election in Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s election commission Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped incumbent Hamid Karzai’s votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to a second round vote. The announcement…
miracle Qur’an baby or child abuse?
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is deeply disturbing to me: Quotations from Quran start appearing on the body of a 9-month boy named Ali from Kizlyar, Dagestan, his parents claim. Birthmarks in form of Arabic scripts have been appearing on the baby’s body since his birth. First, there were individual letters, then texts and, according to local imams, these…
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