Alan Godlas

Professor of Religion, Islamic Studies, and Sufism, advocate of emotional intelligence, environmentalist.

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What if America's borders had been closed to your ancestors? #banned

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Will #DonaldTrump next order the destruction of the Statue of Liberty? #ProtectStatueofLiberty https://t.co/01OmWDIqoV

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Trump must call Putin to end crimes against civilians in Aleppo. https://t.co/MbRcHPeMsj #Aleppo #Trumptransition

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Rumi was a Muslim refugee. Trump shuts doors to Muslim refugees. A vote not for Hillary shuts out today's Rumis from the US.#Rumi #refugees

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Trump to Republicans: The elections are rigged. So no point in voting! #RiggedElection

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Thinking of following your gut and not voting out of principle? Look at your name on Trump's Muslim registration lists! Any gut feelings?

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Devolutionists unite! Follow Donald Trump back into the gutter of civilization! #Trumplies

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Clowns are wearing Donald Trump masks, scaring people, saying the media is telling lies, pots are calling kettles black! #Trumplies

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@hahellyer In April, Shaykhs Bin Bayyah, Ahmed al-Tayyeb, and Hamza Yusuf seemed to be moving toward reformation: https://t.co/kj2V7P1gUY

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"U.S....military action [against them is] the single greatest mobilizer of new recruits for... militant Islamic terror groups" @RamiKhouri

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"(cont.) Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love." (John Steinbeck, journal entry *The Long Valley Ledger*.)

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"Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other..." (John Steinbeck, 1938 journal, Long Valley Ledger)

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#Rumi: You [think you] are my lover?! I will bewilder you! Construct little, since I will ruin you! https://t.co/MBppq8pY1x

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I just found https://t.co/RUP68H2hTP

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It seems to be a coup and a blow against democracy, a victory of mob rule (and whoever may be pulling the strings behind the scenes).

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There may be a coup brewing in Egypt. I'm reminded of the 1953 coup in Iran against Mosaddegh, although I am not comparing him to Morsi.