Sunday, October 08, 2006

France: Schoolgirl Stoned In Playground For Not Observing Ramadan

Western Resistance reported a truly horrific sign of the times comes from Lyon in the south of France, where a schoolgirl was stoned by Muslim students on Wednesday (October 4), for not following Ramadan.

Presumably the girl was Muslim, otherwise there would be even other problems with this, but do we want Muslims in our midst if they would take it upon themselves to stone anyone, for any reason. Another source for this story said the pupils of the third grade were the ones throwing stones at an adolescent eating a snack. They must not know Islam that well, because according to the Sunna the punishment for those who deliberately break the fast, is that they must feed a specified number of poor and hungry people or fast 60 days in a row, and in Kuwait a violator could be fined KD 100 or imprisoned for under a month, or given both punishments together. In any event it requires a trial, and it is not something a bunch of third graders should be doing.
France-Echos reports on the incident, which is described in today's edition of Le Progres a paper serving the Lyon, Villeurbanne and Caluire-et-Cuire region. This is a translation of the France-Echos report:.... A schoolgirl of Jean Mermoz college in Lyon's eighth arrondissement (postal district) was pelted with stones on Wednesday morning in the playground because she ate a snack. The argument that the incident stemmed from the non-observance of Ramadan is confirmed by the Lyon prosecutor's office, based on initial results from its investigation. Azzedine Gaci, president of the CRCM (Regional Council for the Muslim Religion) , states that "if the facts are proven, they are unacceptable". He deplores the ignorance of the pupils, who should be taught the Koran at school, and who are unaware that "women who are not feeling well"
Means literally "indisposed", or "out of sorts", and probably is a euphemism for her "time of the month", however she should not have been stoned even if she was not "indisposed"
are exempted from observing Ramadan.

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War widow fights to stay

Orlando Sentinel reported Dahianna and Jeffrey Heard often talked of their life after the war as a dream they would live together: buy a house, raise a family, travel abroad. But Jeffrey, a Casselberry contractor for a security company supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, was shot to death this spring during an ambush of his convoy near Fallujah. Now his wife, a Venezuela native raising their 1-year-old son, faces possible deportation. One reason: They hadn't been married long enough. She was three months short of the two years needed to satisfy immigration-law rules.

If illegal Mexicans can stay, by using "anchor babies" why not this poor woman. Especailly since she would be sent back to Venezuela, with Chavez spreading all of his anti-American rhetoric?
She is appealing for residency. But if that fails and she must leave, she said their son Bryan may have to grow up in her native country -- despite being a U.S. citizen. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials would not discuss the case. Upon Jeffrey Heard's death, immigration officials voided her petition for a "green card," a document that would let her reside legally in this country and, eventually, seek citizenship, her attorney said. Immigration officials also have rejected her request to qualify for legalization as the widow of a U.S. citizen, citing the two-year rule.
What if she promised never to buy Citgo gasoline?
"It's an injustice," said a tearful Heard, 35. "We had our home here. We had our baby here. It's an injustice that's being committed, because my husband gave all for this country. He gave all, and now his widow and her son are treated as if they don't belong."

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

New Danish insults to Islam

International Herald Tribune Egypt's largest Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood, on Saturday denounced what it called "new Danish insults" to Islam and urged the world to boycott countries that allow offenses to all religions.

Here we go again.
The Brotherhood's condemnation came a day after word spread about a Web video showing young members of a populist Danish political party mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The video showed people in their 20s and 30s participating in a drawing contest at a summer camp for the Danish People's Party Youth last August. They appeared to have been drinking alcohol.
I bet the Muslims are ticked at that too.
The footage shows a woman presenting a drawing of a camel and saying it has "the head of Muhammad" and beer bottles as humps. The group laughs as the woman, who was not identified, explained the drawing. "Muslims are shocked by this new Danish insult," the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement issued Saturday. It described the drawing as "the ugliest for God's most honorable human being, peace be upon him." Kenneth Christensen, chairman of the Danish People's Party Youth — known for its anti-immigration stance — refused to apologize Friday for the actions of its members, but acknowledged they were problematic. "It is bad style because it overshadows our political line," Christensen said. But he added that he believed it was "OK to poke fun at Muhammad, Jesus or Bill Clinton."
There is a difference between poking fun at a politician and a significant religious figure.
The Brotherhood, which enjoys wide popularity in Egypt and across the Arab World, urged Muslims on Saturday to boycott products from Denmark and any other country that would allow such an "insult."
At least they are recommending boycotts, and not killing people or burning embassies, but that may come later.

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The Most Trusted Name in News

Jamison Foser whined on Media Matters Ten years ago tomorrow, Fox News slithered onto the scene, beginning its assault on logic and reason and fact and decency

In other words being Fair and Balanced, and allowing the Conservative side to have equal treatment, something liberals hate.
and, basically, all that is great about America. A maniacal scheme hatched by real-life Bond villain Rupert Murdoch and his Number Two, former Republican strategist Roger Ailes, Fox News' impact on the nation's media cannot be overstated; nor can the effect it has had on our political discourse.
When people know both sides of an issue, they often choose the Conservative side, and liberals hate that. The only way they can win, is if no one knows there are alternatives.

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Brave heroes hounded out

The Sun reported Muslim yobs who wrecked a house to stop four brave soldiers moving in after returning from Afghanistan sparked outrage last night.

The Muslims were certainly brave. Vandelizing a house rather than going over to Afganistan and facing the soldiers on the battlefield.
The house in a village near riot-torn Windsor had bricks thrown through windows and was daubed with messages of hate. Four young Household Cavalry officers who had planned to rent it were also the target of phone threats. They were yesterday forced to look elsewhere to live — after top brass warned them against inflaming racial violence near the Queen’s Windsor Castle home.
Perhaps they need more police protection, both for the Queen's Windsor Castle home and for the decent people, including soldiers, that live in the neighborhood.
... Colleagues of the officers branded the vandalism a “disgrace”. A source at the regiment said: “These guys have done nothing but bravely serve their country — yet they can’t even live where they want in their own country.” The £3,000-a-month detached home in picturesque Datchet, Berks, is less than a mile from Windsor Castle. It was attacked as extra police were drafted into Windsor — where battles have raged for days between Asian and white gangs.

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Brave heroes hounded out

The Sun reported Muslim yobs who wrecked a house to stop four brave soldiers moving in after returning from Afghanistan sparked outrage last night.

The Muslims were certainly brave. Vandelizing a house rather than going over to Afganistan and facing the soldiers on the battlefield.
The house in a village near riot-torn Windsor had bricks thrown through windows and was daubed with messages of hate. Four young Household Cavalry officers who had planned to rent it were also the target of phone threats. They were yesterday forced to look elsewhere to live — after top brass warned them against inflaming racial violence near the Queen’s Windsor Castle home.
Perhaps they need more police protection, both for the Queen's Windsor Castle home and for the decent people, including soldiers, that live in the neighborhood.
... Colleagues of the officers branded the vandalism a “disgrace”. A source at the regiment said: “These guys have done nothing but bravely serve their country — yet they can’t even live where they want in their own country.” The £3,000-a-month detached home in picturesque Datchet, Berks, is less than a mile from Windsor Castle. It was attacked as extra police were drafted into Windsor — where battles have raged for days between Asian and white gangs.

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Gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage

Reuters reported A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday,

Do they also avoid showing art that might offend Christians or Jews, or is it that they don't fear we would chop their heads off for showing it.
a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason. The director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery decided to remove works by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from an exhibition the day before it was due to open, one of the museum's curators, Agnes de la Beaumelle, told Reuters. "The motive was simply to not shock the population of the Whitechapel neighbourhood, which is partly Muslim," she said.
How many Christians are in the area, and do you also make an effort to avoid shocking them?
The Whitechapel area in east London is home to many ethnic minorities including a large Bangladeshi community.

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Friday, October 06, 2006

Shoot Me First

ABC News reported The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to "Shoot me first," in an apparent effort to buy time for her schoolmates.

Why did ABC News feel it necessary to add that. Is it so surprising to ABC News that the girls might have known where they were going, and that this was their way of saying they did not fear to go.
Rita Rhoads, a midwife who delivered two of the victims, told ABC News' Law and Justice Unit that she learned of 13-year-old Marian Fisher's plea from Fisher's family. What's more, Fisher's 11-year-old sister, Barbie, who survived the shooting, allegedly asked the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, to "Shoot me second," Rhoads said.... Rhoads said that before killing himself, Roberts uttered three words — "Pray for me."
The girls knew where they were going, and they did not fear to go. Roberts (the gunman) knew where he was going also. None the less, if you had been in their position, would your faith have been strong enough to make a similar request.
Julie D blogged What more Christian love could we ever see than those young girls offering themselves in an attempt to save their classmates?.... Those two girls were superbly equipped to live Christ's truth in every way. I pray that my own children are as well equipped for the trials they encounter in their lives. I pray that I am.

Anchoress blogged The Amish Community has invited the killer’s wife to the funerals of its daughters. Talk about grace? This story is huge and holy, and it is being missed by too many.

Gina Cobb blogged A story of genuine heroism -- an Amish schoolgirl who faced an unjust death with a kind of courage rarely seen this side of heaven -- is being lost among the hyperpoliticized charges involving ex-Congressman Mark Foley.

Genevieve Kineke blogged A man who claimed to be an atheist obsessed with impure thoughts prepares to avenge himself on God and girls -- and is bowled over by purity and piety. Children unsullied by the world (though certainly sinners like all of us) are grounded in faith and the meaning of their existence. When evil crosses their doorstep out of the blue, they respond with heroic virtue. The assailant -- intending the worst -- foregoes much of his plan, and dies asking for their prayers to a God, Whom he stoutly rejected before meeting them. We ask for miracles, and this is what we're handed.

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In Border Fence's Path, Congressional Roadblocks

WaPo reported No sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised, according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts.

They better build it, if they ever hope to be reelected.
GOP leaders have singled out the fence as one of the primary accomplishments of the recently completed session. Many lawmakers plan to highlight their $1.2 billion down payment on its construction as they campaign in the weeks before the midterm elections. But shortly before recessing late Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects -- not just the physical barrier along the southern border. The funds may also be spent on roads, technology and "tactical infrastructure" to support the Department of Homeland Security's preferred option of a "virtual fence."
Build 700 milex and then virtual fence the other 1300 miles.
What's more, in a late-night concession to win over wavering Republicans, GOP congressional leaders pledged in writing that Native American tribes, members of Congress, governors and local leaders would get a say in "the exact placement" of any structure, and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff would have the flexibility to use alternatives "when fencing is ineffective or impractical."

The loopholes leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. Homeland Security officials have proposed a fence half as long, lawmakers said.

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Banned on YouTube 2

This is Michelle's second video about being Banned on You Tube. I thought they were blocking even posting her other videos, but it turns out they were just busy, and they appeared today.

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

YouTube Goes Dhimmi

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for this video. YouTube is apparently allowing videos prepared by the Islamofascists, but it is banning videos that criticize what the Jihadists are doing

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Al-Qaida's Narrative of Doubt

StrategyPage.com reported Several declassified al-Qaida documents -- one discovered after the June 2006 air strike that killed al-Qaida's Iraqi emir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- strongly suggest al-Qaida's leaders fear they are losing the War on Terror.

Of course they are losing. Good always defeats evil, in the end, but we must be eternally vigilent.

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I agree with Greta

Greta Perry expresses her feelings about the Amish killings. Hooah Wife and friends blogged As I am sure you have been disturbed by this recent news story, it truly has bothered me so much words can’t describe. As I watched my daughter go into the school yesterday, waving, I felt a sense of unease. She has a fabulous, and what I would consider, very safe school. But, so did the Amish children, they didn’t have a chance at all. It is more disturbing than any of the other school killings because the Amish are a gentle people. The killer knew they would not have weapons or fight back as they would not be sure how to deal with a situation of this caliber. He calculated the odds of fulfilling his dream. It gives you a sense of the unbalance in the world and the need to put every pedophile away for good on a deserted island.

They might get off the desert island. How about dropping them into the center of an active volcano.
feel terribly for his wife and small children as well - just awful.
I bet they are looking to change their name.
As we are tragedy junkies in this world, there is some other sicko right now plotting something similar. And persoanlly that scares the hell out of me. The world is imperfect, no question about it. All we can do is enjoy our lives and know we have a limited time on this earth. Forgive? In this case, the Amish are much more capable of handling this than the average person - and thank G-d for that!
Amen

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Now You Can Have Google Gadgets on Your Webpage

Google Press Center announced Google Gadgets for your webpage can help make a site dynamic and rich with content. Google Gadgets, which have long been available for users to add to the Google homepage and Google Desktop, are now available for webpage owners to add to their own webpages.

Google Gadgets are miniature-sized objects that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web. A directory of "Google Gadgets for your webpage" is now available for webpage owners everywhere to browse and select gadgets for their own pages, here


Examples:
I had Date and Time and Map on here, and initially they displayed what they were supposed to, but after a while that disappeared and they were just ads, so I am deleting them. So far these two seem to remain what they are supposed to be.

I left IP Address Lookup and NASA Image of the Day because they seemed to stay, but when I reposted this they turned into ads too, so I am scrapping them.

If you put these gadgets on your website I urge you to check up on whether they work, and for how long. I am disappointed.

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Prophet not perfect, says Islamic scholar

Australian reported A leading adviser on Islam, Ameer Ali, has attacked Muslims who "blindly" follow their faith and fail to question the veracity of the Koran, saying that even Mohammed had "flaws". The chairman of John Howard's Muslim advisory board yesterday warned that Islamists would continue to breed jihadis unless the Koran was "reinterpreted" for today's society.

We certainly don't need a Middle Ages interpretation for a 21st century world.
He also said mosques were increasingly being used by imams to deliver sermons that were not open to discussion.
Any imam that believes that he knows the whole truth, and that no one can question him, knows nothing.
Dr Ali said the majority of Muslim clerics had for centuries imposed a "literalist" teaching of Islam, telling their followers that deviating from the written message would ultimately lead to their admission into hell.
These are the clerics that authorize killing of fellow Muslims that do not believe as they do, even though Surat an-Nisa,093 (Quran 4.93) says "If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, to abide therein (For ever): And the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him." And what is a Muslim? It can't be someone who follows what Mohammad said, because they think Abraham was a Muslim, and he lived long before Jesus did, and Jesus lived long before Mohammad did. Surat al-Baqara, 136 (Qur'an 2:136) says Say ye: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them. Therefore being a Muslim must mean belief in God, and that would be the God of Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus. Therefore Quran 4.93 must be saying that anyone killing a devout Christian, Jew, or Muslim will go to Hell. I wonder if that also means the cleric that urges them to kill also has a special place in Hell reserved for him. I bet it does.
"The times are changing and with the change of times, you also have to reinterpret the Koran," he told The Australian.... "The jihadists are interpreting the Koran literally and that's the problem ... Popular Muslims, because of their lack of knowledge about religion, are vulnerable to these sort of teachings.".... Dr Ali said it was "ridiculous" that some Muslims believed God would judge them on the "length of (their) beard". He said Muslims would be judged on their "character, their knowledge, their contribution to society". He said young Muslim Australians were slowly becoming more inquisitive about their faith. "Therefore they are going to ask questions when they grow up and that's a healthy trend," he said.

Robert Spencer blogged I do think a retreat from literalism is the only hope for the creation of any genuinely and lastingly moderate Islam. Some commentators point to the fact that for centuries -- notably, although not universally, in central Asia, Eastern Europe, and West Africa, jihad supremacism largely lay dormant and even dropped out of the Muslim consciousness. But simply to point out that that happened is not enough anymore, precisely because Wahhabi and Iranian Shi'ite recruiters are going into those countries and using chapter and verse of Qur'an and Sunnah to teach their Islam to these cultural Muslims. So for those cultural Muslims, and for any true moderates, it's no longer possible simply to ignore those jihad verses. They have to be explicitly rejected, and a non-literalist Islam constructed.

But also because of the mainstream character of literalism within Islam, this will be very, very difficult. Watch and see, for example, what kind of reception Ameer Ali's words get.

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

The Brief Dutch Sharia Eruption

Politics Central reported How political expediency has replaced political correctness in the Netherlands Pieter Dorsman reports on the issue of Sharia law replacing the constitution in the Netherlands: “If a situation could arise where a majority could agree to shred a constitution in favor of religious law – and one from the Middle Ages at that - than doesn’t a democracy have an obligation to devise mechanism whereby such choices could be neutralized?”

An interesting question, and one that all European countries should consider.

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Muslim Smoking Ban

New York Sun Spanish villages are abandoning the centuries-old tradition of burning effigies of the Prophet Muhammad for fear of offending Muslims.

Has the Koran been changed recently, or is it just that some Muslim Clerics have decided that they need to stir up their people, who they are opressing, with anger against the west, to keep them from turning on their own leaders?
The annual festivals, across Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands, feature locals donning medieval costumes to re-enact battles between "Moors and Christians" during the Reconquista period. The fiestas celebrate events in 1492, when the Catholic kings of northern Spain defeated and expelled Islamic forces, ending more than 800 years of Moorish rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
More than 500 years to celebrate freedom from 800 years of oppression.
Traditionally the festivities have culminated with the burning of mannequins of the Mahoma, a figure based on the Prophet Muhammad, to represent the final defeat of Islam in the region. But, according to reports, local authorities have toned down the rituals to preserve Islamic sensibilities and avoid a repeat of the furor that followed last year's publication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Need to preserve those Islamic sensibilities

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Congratulations Captain

Captain's Quarters is celebrating his blogaversary Three years. 8,156 posts. Over 109,000 comments and 16,000 trackbacks. 23 million visits. And the best blog community in the 'sphere.

Congratulations Captain. Also congratulations to Sister Toldja for her third Blogaversary, and to The Anchoress for her 2 millionth visitor.

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Disciplinary Action for Reading Bible During Lunch Time

The Rutherford Institute reported Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was ordered by Maryland middle school officials to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action.

On September 14, 2006, seventh-grader Amber Mangum was approached by the Vice Principal at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School in Prince George’s County, Md., while reading a Bible in the school cafeteria during her lunch period.

I bet if she was reading the Koran the Vice Principal would not have said anything.
In keeping with school policy, students are allowed to read books or engage in interpersonal communications during non-instructional time at school, including lunch periods. Furthermore, published administrative procedure of the Prince George’s County Public Schools provides that “[s]tudents may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals, and pray before tests to the same extent they may engage in comparable, non-disruptive activities.”
And that is the way it should be. But then why did this stupid Vice Principal do what he did?
However, as noted in the complaint filed by Rutherford Institute attorneys, the vice principal informed Amber that reading a Bible was a violation of the school’s policy and warned her that she would be subject to more severe disciplinary action if she were found reading a Bible at school again. In defending Amber’s right to read a Bible during non-instructional time at school, Institute attorneys have pointed out that according to the U.S. Department of Education’s 2003 guidelines under the No Child Left Behind Act, students have the right to read Bibles or other religious scriptures during lunch hour, recess or other non-instructional times.

Rhymes with Right blogged In other words, not only did the administrator ignore the constitutional rights of Amber Mangum, this administrator also ignored written district policy. And when the family challenged that misconduct, the school's principal decided to send the complaint down the memory hole and ignore it.

No one is asking for special rights here. All that is being sought is equal rights. And if students may read the book of their choice during non-instructional time, the religious content of their choice cannot legitimately be used to thwart their choice of literature.

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Disciplinary Action for Reading Bible During Lunch Time

The Rutherford Institute reported Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was ordered by Maryland middle school officials to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action.

On September 14, 2006, seventh-grader Amber Mangum was approached by the Vice Principal at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School in Prince George’s County, Md., while reading a Bible in the school cafeteria during her lunch period.

I bet if she was reading the Koran the Vice Principal would not have said anything.
In keeping with school policy, students are allowed to read books or engage in interpersonal communications during non-instructional time at school, including lunch periods. Furthermore, published administrative procedure of the Prince George’s County Public Schools provides that “[s]tudents may read their Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals, and pray before tests to the same extent they may engage in comparable, non-disruptive activities.”
And that is the way it should be. But then why did this stupid Vice Principal do what he did?
However, as noted in the complaint filed by Rutherford Institute attorneys, the vice principal informed Amber that reading a Bible was a violation of the school’s policy and warned her that she would be subject to more severe disciplinary action if she were found reading a Bible at school again. In defending Amber’s right to read a Bible during non-instructional time at school, Institute attorneys have pointed out that according to the U.S. Department of Education’s 2003 guidelines under the No Child Left Behind Act, students have the right to read Bibles or other religious scriptures during lunch hour, recess or other non-instructional times.

Rhymes with Right blogged In other words, not only did the administrator ignore the constitutional rights of Amber Mangum, this administrator also ignored written district policy. And when the family challenged that misconduct, the school's principal decided to send teh complaint down the memory hole and ignore it.

No one is asking for special rights here. All that is being sought is equal rights. And if students may read the book of their choice during non-instructional time, the religious content of their choice cannot legitimately be used to thwart their choice of literature.

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