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    ►Taxi driver  ...when I visited St. Petersburg, there were tons of these private mini-buses scooting around the city. Plenty of public transportation available, little (private?) white vans go where buses and trams don’t go, and anyone with an automobile could be a private taxi.And people had the freedom to flag down cars and pay the drivers to take them places if they were heading in the same direction - that certainly saves on gas.

     ►Washington D.C. April 30, 2007
    Washington D.C.’s artsy too! Frankly, I'm a little tired of my friends telling me D.C. lacks soul. It does not. I swear. Take for example, these painted televisions that have been popping up in the city:
                                                                                                                        
 
 

►ET in Tehran We knew that Khomeini would arrive much later. On the ugly streets of Qom, my brother and I yelled -- not for first time -- thousand of times ”Allah-o akbar, Khomeini rahbar, marg bar Amrika.” (God is Great, Khomeini is the leader, down with America).
I will never forget that day. I did see Khomeini, and I was really happy to take this big action to witness an historical day in Iran.

►Fatwa center
► Are husband and wife allowed to dance with each other alone in their room? Dancing is prohibited, and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best. Mufti Ebrahim Desai

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