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I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.

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Reza Aslan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 3
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Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?
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Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.
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