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		<title>A Dangerous Escalation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2015, a UK television crew asked me on camera what I thought about candidate Trump and his proposed Muslim Ban. I said he was dangerous. Not incompetent. Not unqualified. Dangerous. That interview still exists. So does everything I warned about.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Solidarity Cosplayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 05:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You took a moral stand for yourself — so you could feel clean. That’s not solidarity. That’s moral vanity with a cause attached to it.

We still showed up.

You had a cause… until it required a vote.]]></description>
		
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		<title>I’m a Muslim Veteran. Don’t Ask Me to Apologize for Someone Else’s Hate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Salaam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[2025 begins with tragedy in New Orleans and, predictably, a wave of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Millions commit crimes, yet only minorities are blamed collectively. I won’t apologize for my faith. Stay strong.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Nation Built on Lies Crowns Its King</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Time crowning Donald Trump as Person of the Year is peak America: rewarding hypocrisy while ignoring the values voters claimed to want. A country that preaches equality and virtue celebrates a leader who embodies neither. But should we be surprised? This is the same country that wrote 'all men are created equal' with one hand while holding a slave whip in the other. America can’t quit its toxic relationship with mediocre white men who fail upward, choosing white grievance over their own economic interests. Hypocrisy isn’t the exception—it’s the rule.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Buy Our Products, Ignore Our Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Walmart backed Trump, axed diversity efforts, and now wants the Black dollar with Love Jones-style ads. Cute try—but no.]]></description>
		
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