title: Red, White, and Muslim: My Story of Belief
author:  Asma Gull Hasan 
description: Starred Review. Americans looking for a strong, moderate Muslim voice that publicly condemns terrorism and the second-class status of women should consider it done&mdash;not once and for all, but nonetheless consistently and fiercely. Hasan, an American Muslim woman whose efforts to inform others about the Islam that she practices and to correct narrow-minded extremists have earned her regular appearances on Fox News and MSNBC, has revised <I>Why I Am a Muslim</I> (2004), adding fresh material. Its arguments, based in Hasan's personal experience and religious knowledge, are as relevant now as they were five years ago. The book is directed primarily at non-Muslim Americans to show them Qur'anic texts and Islamic beliefs and practices that challenge unfavorable stereotypes. But Hasan also takes on her fellow Muslims, urging them to distinguish cultural mores from religious orthodoxy, especially concerning the treatment of women. That she continues to face such oppressive interpretations of Islam by other Muslims undermines her arguments that Islam is "not like that." But readers will wish that she and others continue with such courageous correctives. <I>(Mar. 1)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Akhund Abdul Ghaffur of Swat v. 15.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 31 July 2018 
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  Akhund Abdul Ghaffur 
  
  BLACK VERSUS WHITE MAGIC SERIES 
  A PROPHECY ABOUT THE DOWNFALL OF THE TWIN FOES OF TRUTH 
  Akhund Abdul Ghaffur of Swat v. 15.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 31 July 2018 
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  On Ghaffur, a rebirth of Pope Sixtus V, of crafty and odious 
  memory. And on prophecy about the downfall of those twin foes 
  of truth, Christianity and Islam. 
  From Blavatsky Collected Writings, (THE AKHUND OF SWAT) I pp. 369-75.
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  MADAME BLAVATSKY’S DRAMATIC WORD-PAINTING AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF 
  ABDUL GHAFFUR’S REMARKABLE AND EVENTFUL CAREER — ANTAGONISM OF THE 
  SIKHS TO THE MODERN HIEROPHANT — ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS OF THE 
  POPES OF ROME AND SAIDU. 
  Of the many remarkable characters of this century, Ghaffūr was one of the most 
  conspicuously so.
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  If there be truth in the Eastern doctrine that souls, powerful whether for good or bad, 
  who had not time in one existence to w