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Ruth Nasrullah

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Category: The state of things

The state of things

How a Muslim cemetery became a battleground for America’s soul

June 9, 2018

Farmersville, Texas, lies about 35 miles northeast of Dallas — a few hours from my home in Houston. So when I read that the city council had scheduled a special town hall meeting to address opposition to a Muslim cemetery, I decided to take a road trip to attend the meeting.

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“They said we put each other on a list”

June 5, 2018

Adama Bah’s story begins at Fajr time on March 24, 2005.
That morning, agents from the FBI, the New York Police Department and immigration authorities knocked on the door of her family’s apartment in Harlem. Adama was 16, the oldest of five children of Guinean immigrants.

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First-degree mischling

June 4, 2018

On a visit to the Houston Holocaust Museum I learned that had I lived in Nazi-ruled Germany I would have been classified as a “first-degree mischling.”

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The Houston Women March On monthly meeting last Tuesday was both fun and productive. Make sure January 25 is on your calendar and come march with us! Visit @officialhouwomenmarchon for more info.
Awesome evening at the Bay Area New Democrats holiday party. So grateful that BAND selected Team Brownsville as the recipient of their holiday fundraising. First photo is the Team Brownsville volunteers at the event and the second is BAND president Billie Patterson with TB founder Sergio Cordova.
The Team Brownsville crew walking back across the bridge from Matamoros to Brownsville this morning.
It happened again! This time my Maps app lured me into Oklahoma and voila! I was in the Ouachita National Forest. I stopped at this picnic ground, climbed the stone steps up the trail, admired the pipe spring, and used the restroom. I’m refraining from showing you a photo of the toilet but suffice it to say I was really glad I had my pStyle. 😉. After all that I drove past an OT trailhead so I had to turn around and take a few more steps on it. I love serendipity!
In the latest installment of my series “Randomly Coming Across Trails,” today I pulled off the road to take a phone call and lo and behold, I was in the Ozark National Forest. But the sign...are they saying that lost hikers are fair game for hunters??? 🤣🔫😲
Figurative conflict in Arkansas.
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