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May 2024
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Crumbling Colossus: Gaza and the Unravel...

MUHAMMAD JALAL
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Imam Tom Facchine is the research director of the Department of Islam and Society at Yaqeen Institute. And a prolific speaker and commentator on Islam and philosophy. He discusses the US empire, American exceptionalism, liberalism and US Muslims abandoning Biden.


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