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\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve often expressed my belief that the future direction of Islam will be decided \u2014 certainly, I hope it will be decided \u2014 by Muslims living in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other such free nations, far from the corrupting influence (and oppressive tyranny) of the purportedly \u201cIslamic\u201d states of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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