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Old 08-17-2022, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by mo_rizwan View Post
Just curious.....what's everyone's views on what happened to him in New York?
Utterly heartbreaking and disgusting. Christopher Hitchens said it best when the fatwa was originally declared: "It's everything I hate against everything I love."

I hate what happened. I hate what it represents. And I hate the vile ideology that motivated it.
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