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A JIHAD GROWS IN BROOKLYN a ploy. Aside from abnegation, Islam allows you to lie if it furthers jihad. We must never feel despair or complacency or submit to the idea that “this is just how it is.” I will be OUTRAGED every time a black man or woman like Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Stanley Jones, Rekia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Jonathan Edwards, Freddie Gray are killed at the hands of law enforcement, I will be OUTRAGED every time I remember that Flint still does not have clean water, I will be OUTRAGED every day until we end mass incarceration, I will be righteously outraged every day until we are all treated with dignity and respect and we are all free in every part of this world, when one of us is not free – none of us are free. In 2004, a fatwa was issued by Afghan Muslim clerics claiming that opium production is contrary to the sharia law and that opium producers would face punishments in accordance with the sharia.


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