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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America
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Taking an Oath on the Qur’an, like Mamdani, attests its Long History in America

Juan Cole

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

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How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

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