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This Morocco isn’t a kingdom in the Mahgreb but a small town in rural northwest Indiana — specifically, it’s in Beaver Township of Newton County. It was founded in 1851. The population was 1,129 at the 2010 census, which shows the town comprising a total area of 1.13 square miles. According to local lore, it…

There’s been much discussion about “Disgraced“, the new production at the Lyceum Theater in New York City. The play won the 2013 Pulitzer prize for drama. Roughly speaking, the play by Ayad Akhtar (pictured) deals with what’s authentically Islamic in the context of contemporary America. Akhtar was born in New York City in 1970 to…

Are we mired in the past? Do we condone “honor” killings, such as this one in broad daylight in front of a courthouse in Lahore, Pakistan? A pregnant 25-year-old killed by her father and brothers for marrying for love? The father’s justification for the stoning? “I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of…

Here we go again. Yet another idiotic decision by a court that causes Americans to consider Islam a barbaric religion. How can it be possible in the 21st Century that a personal belief merits the death penalty in a country that officially recognizes freedom of religion? Sure, as it’s reported in the Huffington Post, “Sudan’s…
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