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Aug 13Liked by Joe Allen

Well done. Because you mentioned the migrant situation in the "cosmopolitan cities" of Europe I would like to share a conversation I had about 10 years ago with a Lebanese-American classmate of mine from Dearborn, Michigan. We graduated in the early '80s, just to give you a sense of age and time.

Setting: her 3,000sqft. home in Okemos, Mi., her two daughters colleged-aged, not living there. We just had rekindled a friendship that had faded at some point in high school - when she was sent to Madagascar to live with relatives by her parents because she had a "american" boyfriend with blond hair (she herself the only member of the 11-child family that was born on U.S. soil) - because she began to wear the hajib and withdrawn from traditional social h.s. events. Her husband was from a wealthy family from Dubai. They were "printers"and he got a very prestigious job with Kodak at a very young age. She met him at her cousins wedding in the US, he was very good looking and "cool". The couple did not embrace "Islam" in any visible form.

Okay.

Me: "So do you get back to Dearborn to see (I name a few of her neices and newphews and aunts) very often?"

Her: "No. [Husband whose name I forgot] can't stand going there. He says Dearborn is full of "village idiots".

- husband chuckles sheepishly...

Me: "What do you mean?"

He: "They bombed the shit out of rural Lebanon and Syria and loaded up the planes and flew them to Dearborn! Most of them couldn't read Arabic and the people the stupid Americans think they are taking in Beiruiti's."

(all, by necessity, paraphrased.)

Ahhhhh. That made a whole lot of sense to me because I saw firsthand the goats in the backyards and the couches on the driveways and the lawash dough being rolled out on cement basement floors.

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Wow. Very illuminating. Thank you.

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Aug 9Liked by Joe Allen

It's Kants' fault 😛

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Great podcast and much you speak about is dualism at work and on display for more to understand the root of things not discussed enough.

Dualism 'The Illuminati Religion' recent documentary on the Michelle Moore Show reminded of the heart of much you shared 💔🙏

but we rejoice in our sufferings,

knowing

➡️ suffering Produces endurance

➡️ endurance produces character

➡️ character produces hope

and hope does not disappoint,

because the love of God has been poured out within our 💕 through the Holy Spirit

who was given to us.

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