I recently bumped into a friend in the city who had just returned from visiting a medical specialist. After discussing what he had been told by the doctor, he said that he would be seeking another opinion because he suspected the specialist was a Jew. He went on to lament that so many of the...
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A few weeks ago, Baybers and I had a discussion about whether there was any organisation or mosque to which one could bring one of their non-Muslim work colleagues and know, with some certainty, that their colleague wouldnโt be accosted, bothered or experience something that would be the source of embarrassment for his host. Or...
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In the last three days, Iโve counted three young men and two women โ non-Arabs and presumably non-Muslim โ wearing Yasser Arafat-style scarves wrapped around their necks. That might not be uncommon if one was talking about a university campus but this was just walking around the CBD, riding public transport and entering offices. Unlike...
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