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The battle within between dispassion and empathy

June 21, 2017 Hafsa Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Immigration, International, Terrorism, Violence Leave a comment

I had been planning on writing yet another article decrying the afflictive double standard and dog whistle politics of the term “terrorism.” Saturday, thousands

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