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Everything Trump – and his echoers – fail to understand about Islam

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Everything Donald Trump fails to understand about Islam – Bernard Avishai – Talking Points Memo 20.06.16
When I draw an imaginary circle of a couple of miles around our Jerusalem neighbourhood, it encompasses the sites of five bus bombings. None of these atrocities cancel the thousands of heartfelt encounters I’ve had with Muslim Arab neighbours, friends, and tradesmen.

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