You have no right to stand your ground. Allow yourself to be followed and profiled silently. Do not defend yourself. A fist to the nose is aggression, not defense, even if you are followed. Everything about you is wrong. You will be legally shot for retaliation. Unlike you, the man who shoots you will have …

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Nahida does, in fact, return.

A few years ago I would daydream consistently of having a daughter. I don't know where I'd have had her from, because she was biologically mine but there was never anyone else. And I mean that in quite possibly every way: there were no friends of mine either, or family. And I must have deprived …

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I'm writing a piece on sexuality in Islam that encompasses historical "unlawful consummation" of love (or lust or what-have-you). The Qur'an does not command stoning for adultery (but 100 lashes to the fornicator or adulterer); however, there are circulated hadith that the Prophet Muhammad commanded a stoning of an adulterous man, which is often cited …

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I'm not quite back yet, but I felt like recording (and subsequently sharing) my position on the California propositions. I love confidentiality, but when it comes to what I think is right, I'm a firm believer in owning it. You read my writing all the time. And considering I write about moral and often political …

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