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Islamophobia

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Visvamuslim (The Sonnet)
I'm a scientist at brain,
poet and monk at heart,
philosopher at conscience.
If this tickles you the wrong way,
it's a sign of your medievalness.
Now I'm gonna tell you something,
which will make even less sense,
unless you're a human of the future,
beyond the gutter of nation-n-sects.
I'm a muslim poet,
a humanitarian scientist,
and an advaitin philosopher.
Figure this out, and you'll
crack the Naskar enigma.
In an animal world of inherited division,
I'm the human c
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― YĂŒz Ćiirlerin YĂŒzĂŒÄĂŒ (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
― YĂŒz Ćiirlerin YĂŒzĂŒÄĂŒ (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

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Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence. The âdealâ� also failed to uproot the racism and xenophobia that still lies at the heart of Europe, and which produced Nazism on the continent and a brutal colonialism outside of it. That racism and xenophobia is now turned against Muslims and Islam; since it is intimately connected to the IsraelâPalestinian question, it could be reduced once a genuine answer to that question is found.
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