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Alma mater	West Virginia University (BA), American University (MA)
Occupation	Journalist
Home town	Morgantown, West Virginia
Children	Shibli Daneel Nomani
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Asra Q Nomani (born 1965) is an Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist, known as an activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements. She teaches journalism at Georgetown University and is co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The project is based at the Center for Public Integrity.

She is the author of two books, ''Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam'' and ''Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love''. She is also the author of numerous articles including "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Bedroom", the "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque", and "99 Precepts for Opening Hearts, Minds and Doors in the Muslim World".

Her work is the subject of a documentary, ''The Mosque in Morgantown'', aired nationwide on PBS as part of the series, ''America at a Crossroads''.

Biography

Personal life

Nomani was born in Bombay, India and when she was 4 years old moved to the United States with her older brother to join their parents in New Jersey, where her father was earning a Ph.D. at Rutgers University. When she was 10, her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia. In her books ''Tantrika'' and ''Standing Alone in Mecca'', she states she is descended from Indian Muslim scholar Mawlana Shibli Nomani, known for writing a biography of Muhammad. Nomani received her B.A. in Liberal Studies from West Virginia University in 1986 and M.A. from American University in International Communications in 1990.

Career

Nomani is a former ''Wall Street Journal'' correspondent and has written for ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''Slate'', ''The American Prospect'', and ''Time''. She was a correspondent for Salon.com in Pakistan after 9/11, and her work appears in numerous other publications, including ''People'', ''Sports Illustrated for Women'', ''Cosmopolitan'', and ''Women's Health''. She has delivered commentary on National Public Radio.

She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.

Nomani is the founder and creator of the Muslim Women's Freedom Tour. She has also defied literalist interpretations of Islam that segregate women from men in prayers at Mosques, and was a lead organizer of the woman-led Muslim prayer in New York City on March 18, 2005, which has been described as "the first mixed-gender prayer on record led by a Muslim woman in 1,400 years." Various mixed-gender prayers have been led privately by a Muslim woman, including a 1997 funeral prayer led by a South African Muslim feminist Shamima Shaikh. Nomani has said the prayer was the first publicly led Friday prayer in modern day history.

Influence

In November 2003, Nomani became the first woman in her mosque in West Virginia to insist on the right to pray in the male-only main hall. Her effort brought front-page attention in a New York Times article entitled ''Muslim Women Seeking a Place in the Mosque''. The article chronicled Nomani's "Rosa Parks-style activism."

Inspired by Michael Muhammad Knight's punk novel The Taqwacores, she organized the first public woman-led prayer of a mixed-gender congregation in the United States, with Amina Wadud leading the prayer. On that day, March 18, 2005, she stated: :"We are standing up for our rights as women in Islam. We will no longer accept the back door or the shadows, at the end of the day, we'll be leaders in the Muslim world. We are ushering Islam into the 21st century, reclaiming the voice that the Prophet gave us 1400 years ago".

In his book Blue-Eyed Devil (p. 209), Knight recalls the event as follows: :"Inside the chapel there might have been as many reporters and camera crews as there were praying Muslims. The imam of the day, Amina Wadud, was so distracted by the long rows of popping flash-bulbs that in the middle of the prayer she forgot her ayats. At PMU's first board meeting, Ahmed Nassef would read to us an email from Dr. Wadud that completely washed her hands of the event. Though she still believed in woman-led prayer, she wanted nothing to do with PMU or Asra Nomani. ... Wadud had drawn a clear line between the Truth and the media whores, and we knew that PMU was on the wrong side. To avoid public criticism, PMU's website made no mention of Asra's role in organizing the prayer. Asra complained of PMU shutting her out."

In separate developments, several major Muslim organizations in the United States, including the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America, issued their first substantive work aimed at affirming women's rights in mosques, publishing "Women-Friendly Mosques and Community Centers: Working Together to Reclaim Our Heritage." The booklet, written by long-time social activist Shahina Siddiqui and Islamic Society of North America president Ingrid Mattson, was successfully distributed to mosques nationwide. In addition to her books, she has expressed her experiences and ideas for reform in one ''New York Times'' editorial and in several other publications and broadcasts. She was a friend and colleague of ''Wall Street Journal'' reporter Daniel Pearl, who was staying with her in Karachi with his wife Mariane Pearl when he was abducted and later murdered by Islamic militants in January 2002. In the making of a movie of the book, ''A Mighty Heart'', by Pearl's wife, the British actress Archie Panjabi plays the role of Nomani.

The ''Washington Post'' published a review, by Nomani, of the film "A Mighty Heart". Nomani argued ''"...that Danny himself had been cut from his own story."''

Criticism

The Pakistani-American lawyer Asma Gull Hasan, author of ''Why I Am a Muslim: An American Odyssey,'' admires Asra Nomani:

Other critics similarly maintain that although they do not object to Nomani's views, they do have a problem with Nomani herself. One such view is held by Louay Safi, executive director of the Islamic Society of North America's Leadership Development Center in Plainfield, Ind. He points out that many women were unhappy with the Morgantown mosque, not just Nomani. Unlike other women, however, Nomani wanted things to change overnight, says Safi. He describes Nomani as a "loner" who "doesn't have the experience of engaging the community, negotiating and trying to change things gradually."

Some critics charged that the prayer events were being staged to promote her book.

Nomani broke the news regarding Random House's decision not to publish ''The Jewel of Medina'' by Sherry Jones, a historical novel about Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad. She expressed disappointment in Random House's decision.

Works

Books

''Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam''. ISBN 0-06-057144-6

''Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love''. ISBN 0-06-251714-7

Articles

Marie Claire: Project Pearl: The Bravest Class in Town

Washington Post: A Gender Jihad For Islam's Future

Washington Post:The Woman Who Went To the Front of the Mosque

Sojourner magazine: The Islamic Reformation has begun

Slate magazine: How retailers are marketing to fashion-conscious Muslim women

Daily News: My answered prayers

American Prospect Magazine: Pulpit Bullies

Sojourner magazine: Struggle for the soul of Islam

New York Times: Hate at the local mosque

Washington Post: Rebel in the mosque

Brandeis University Article on Asra Nomani Includes Photos

"Playboy's Muslim Cover Girl: Is Sıla Şahin Good for Women?", ''The Daily Beast'', May 1, 2011 8:36pm. Relating to awrah.

Anthologies

Living Islam Out Loud

Because I Said So, ISBN 0060598786

Monograph

''Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad: Toward an Islam of Grace''; referenced in author bio of May 2011, ''Daily Beast'' article.

References

External links

''America at a Crossroads: The Mosque In Morgantown'' - PBS documentary

Asra Nomani on The Young Turks Show.

Asra Q. Nomani's website

"A Pilgrim's Progress" by Leila Ahmed, ''The Washington Post,'' May 1, 2005

Muslim women take bold steps for role in Islam by Teresa Watanabe, ''The Detroit News,'' 10 July 2005. (Photo caption: "Azmeralda Alfi unsuccessfully attempts to make Asra Nomani move to the women's area of a Los Angeles mosque.")

Review of "Standing Alone in Mecca" on Sawnet

La Cueva de Zaratustra Essay by Eugenio Gallego about ''Standing Alone in Mecca.'' In Spanish.

Excommunication From the Mosque? Article by Asra Nomani's father, Zafar Nomani, on 'Beliefnet.

Siddique, Sadaf. "With Faith in Her Heart." ''Hyphen'' 11, Spring 2007.

Interview with Asra Nomani:'Gender Jihad' in the Service of Women's Rights.

Videos and audio

News story on Asra Nomani

Book TV interview with Asra Nomani

NPR audio commentary of Asra Nomani

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An Numaniyah (Arabic,النعمانية) is a city on the Tigris river in Iraq, located roughly southeast of Baghdad in the Wasit Province. It is the site of one of four national training centers for the Iraqi Army.

It is also the site of a base that was built by the Hussein regime and constructed by Yugoslavian contractors Mostogradnja. Following the beginning of the Iraq War, it changed its purpose September 1, 2004 to operate as a training base for new recruits and serve as the home station for three battalions of the Iraqi Intervention Force – the Iraqi army's counterinsurgency wing.

An Numaniyah Airfield

According to Globalsecurity.org, "An Numaniyah Airbase is located in Southern Iraq approximately 294 kilometers South of Baghdad. The airfield is served by a single long runway. An Numaniyah Airbase occupies a 17 square kilometer site and is protected by a 18 kilometers security perimeter."

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Edina Lekovic is the Director of Policy & Programming at the Muslim Public Affairs Council and frequently acts as a national spokesperson for the American Muslim community to media outlets, government officials, interfaith leaders, academic institutions, and community organizations.

Biography

Lekovic is a Bosnian American whose parents came from Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia. She is one of the founders of Elev8, an arts-based youth program which has a mission to identify, train and develop youth community leadership rooted in awareness, responsibility, and action. In 2005, she was pursuing her Master’s degree in Communications at Pepperdine University. The topic of her master's thesis was to understand whether Arab males' willingness to speak out on airline racial profiling is determined by their perception of dominant public opinion. Lekovic is also a 1999 graduate of UCLA where she earned a degree in American Literature & culture. During this time she was the Editor in Chief of The Daily Bruin, the third largest paper in Los Angeles. Under her leadership, the staff won a number of national awards, including the ''Society of Professional Journalists Best of the West in college publications''.

Appearance in the media

Lekovic has made many appearances in the media including FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and the History Channel. She has also written for several leading newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune , and Los Angeles Times. Lekovic has also participated in many national and international conferences and interfaith dialogues speaking on a variety of issues related to American Muslims.

In 2003, the Malaysian government invited Lekovic to be one of two U.S. representatives to the International Conference of Muslim Young Leaders, which was as a precursor to the annual conference of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

Participation in lectures and presentations

''Defining the Muslim American Identity Post 9/11'' - March 15, 2003 at Wellesley College ''Confronting Islamophobia'' - Dec 7, 2004 at the United Nations Headquarters ''The Rising voice of Moderate Muslims'' - Dec. 29, 2001, California

Controversy

On May 23, 2007 she appeared on CNBC's ''Kudlow and Company'' with Islam expert Steve Emerson, who accused her of being one of two managing editors of ''Al-Talib: The Muslim Newsmagazine at UCLA'' for its July 1999 issue, which contains the passage: “When we hear someone refer to the great Mujahid …, Osama bin Laden, as a ‘terrorist,’ we should defend our brother and refer to him as a freedom fighter.”

References

External links

Project Elev8 - Official website (on MySpace)

Edina Lekovic: Communications Director - MPAC Staff & Board

Expert says women honored in Islam - DailyTexanOnline

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residence	Memphis, TN
birth place	Houston, Texas
nationality	American
education	Associate's degree in ArabicB.A. in Islamic SciencesMaster of Arts in Islamic Theology(Islamic University of Madinah)B.Sc in Chemical Engineering(University of Houston)
alma mater	Islamic University of MadinahUniversity of Houston
occupation	Instructor
title	Dean of Academic Affairs, AlMaghrib Institute
religion	Islam
website	MuslimMatters.org
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Yasir Qadhi (ياسر قاضي) is an American Muslim writer and Islamic instructor for the Al-Maghrib Institute. He has written a number of books and spoken in lectures about Islam and contemporary issues on Muslims.

Biography

Qadhi was born in Houston, TX, to parents of Pakistani origin,however; he completed his primary secondary education in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, graduating as a valedictorian of his class. Afterwards, he returned to Houston to complete a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Houston. When asked why he chose a secular degree instead of an Islamic one first, he remarked:

:"As a Muslim child growing up in America, you are expected to become an engineer or a doctor. It is just understood."

Shortly after working for Dow Chemical for a short stint, he went to the Islamic University of Madinah in Madinah, Saudi Arabia to attain both a bachelor's and master's degree in specific disciplines within Islamic studies.. Initially, he completed a second bachelor's degree in Arabic from the university's College of Hadith and Islamic Sciences, and went on to complete an master's degree in Islamic Theology from the College of Dawah.

He returned to the United States in 2005, after nearly 10 years in Saudi Arabia. At the present time, he is teaching in the Religious Studies Department of Rhodes College, in Memphis, TN. Additionally, he is completing a doctoral in theology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Qadhi describes himself as a revivalist in the Islamic sense, and likens some of the practices he endorses similar to those practiced by conservative Christian groups and Orthodox Jews in America, particularly with regard to dietary laws, family values, and modest dress for women.

Activities

Qadhi was recently featured in a front-page NY Times Magazine article by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott shedding light on Qadhi's activities and biography.

He is the Dean of Academic Affairs and instructor for the AlMaghrib Institute, a double-weekend based seminar that he and other American Muslims instructors run, where instructors travel to designated locations in the U.S., UK and Canada (and more recently, Malaysia) to teach Islamic studies in English. He gives regular sermons and lectures, and also appears on a number of Islamic satellite channels: (Islam Channel in England; Huda TV in Egypt; Al-Fajr Channel in Egypt; and Peace TV in India, the U.K., and the U.S), where he teaches theology, ''Seerah'', ''Tajweed'', and other topics. He is also one of the founding members and Islamic specialists at MuslimMatters.org, a blogzine for American Muslims.

Holocaust Remarks and Subsequent Revisionism

''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that, in 2001, Qadhi (whom the newspaper characterized as a "hard-line conservative preacher") described the Holocaust as a hoax, and claimed that "Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews", and "All this [the Holocaust] is false propaganda". The telegraph also reported that Qadhi later retracted his statements, stating that he had been misled. Qadhi, acknowledging that he made negative remarks about Jews and that he had reformed since then, said that even in the 2001 lecture he never denied "the actual occurrence of the Holocaust, or express any support or admiration for Hitler, or claim that all Jews were worthy of being despised or hated", directly disputing the Telegraph's assertion of Qadhi believing the holocaust to be a hoax. He called it a "one-time mistake", stating that "I firmly believe that the Holocaust was one of the worst crimes against humanity that the 20th century has witnessed."

In July 2010, he was selected to participate in an official delegation of US Imams and religious leaders to visit the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Dachau. The Imams subsequently released a joint statement condemning anti-Semitism and labelling Holocaust denial as against the ethics of Islam.

Views on Jihad

Yasir Qadhi has presented papers on ''jihad'' movements. In 2006, at a conference at Harvard Law School, Qadhi presented a 15-minute analysis of the theological underpinnings of one of the first militant movements of modern Saudi Arabia, headed by Juhayman al-Otaibi, which gained international attention when it held the Grand Mosque of Mecca hostage in 1979. In another paper, presented in September 2009 at an international conference at University of Edinburgh on understanding ''jihad'' in the modern world, he discussed how a specific legal ruling (''fatwā'') of the medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyya was used both by ''jihadist'' and pacifist groups to justify their positions. The paper has been critiqued however by Salafi commentators. Qadhi has been involved in de-radicalization efforts in the U.S., and was a participant in the U.S. Counter-Radicalization Strategy conference organized by the National Counterterrorism Center in the summer of 2008.

Umar Abdulmutallab, the al-Qaeda member who attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009, was a student at "Ilm Summit", a 16-day AlMaghrib Institute Islamic education conference in August 2008 at which Qadhi was an instructor. Qadhi said of Abdulmutallab, who attended some of the classes that he taught, "He was a very quiet individual, tight-lipped and shy, and he did not ask a single question during the discussions. He barely interacted with the other students at the conference." Qadhi recalled speaking to Abdulmutallab, and remembered that he was "very reserved in his responses." Abdulmutallab also attended two seminars organized by the AlMaghrib Institute in London in the months before the event in Houston, Qadhi said.

In 2006 Qadhi, noting that Muslims are routinely detained and questioned at airports and other ports of entry, said that the main problem the Muslim community has "is the presumption of guilt. It is the singling out of people just because of their looks or their identity." Qadhi said he himself was on a secret watch list, but had no idea how he got on the list. His name has since been cleared from that list.

Works

Books authored or co-authored

''Riyaa: Hidden Shirk'', 103 pages, Abu Ammaar Yasir Al-Qathi, Dar-al-Fatah, 1996, ISBN 8172317530

''An introduction to the sciences of the Qura̓an'', Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Al-Hidaayah Pub., 1999, ISBN 1-898649-32-4

''An Explanation of the Four Principles of Shirk'', 60 pages, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, Yasir Qadhi, Al-Hidaayah, 2000, ISBN 1-898649-52-9

''Du’a : The Weapon of the Believer'', Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Al Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution, 2001, ISBN 1-898649-51-0

''15 Ways to Increase Your Earnings from the Quran and Sunnah'', Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Al Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution, 2002, ISBN 1-898649-56-1

''An explanation of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's Kashf al-Shubuhat: a critical analysis of shirk'', Abū Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, Al-Hidaayah, 2003, ISBN 1-898649-62-6

See also

Islam in the United States

List of Da'ees

Dawah

References

External links

MuslimMatters bio (where Qadhi blogs)

Qadhi Audio and Books

Qadhi Video and Audio Lectures from Halal Tube

Qadhi on the Deen Show

Qadhi on the Doha Debates

Doha Debates participant

Video of Qadhi's talk "Perfect Justice: Debunking the Male Bias Myth", April 22, 2006

Video of Qadhi's talk at Global Peace and Unity Conference, 2006

Video of Qadhi's talk at Global Peace and Unity Conference, 2008

Kilday, Anne Marie, "'For the benefit of all mankind'; Local conference highlights Quran's teachings about the importance of honoring animals", ''Houston Chronicle'', December 23, 2006

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Kunta Kinte (also known as Toby Waller) is the central character of the novel ''Roots: The Saga of an American Family'' by American author Alex Haley, and of the television miniseries ''Roots'', based on the book. Haley described his book as ''faction'' - a mixture of fact and fiction. After Haley's book became nationally famous, American author Harold Courlander noted that the section describing Kinte's life was apparently taken from Courlander's book ''The African''. Haley at first dismissed the charge, but later issued a public statement affirming that Courlander's book had been the source, and Haley attributed the error to a mistake of one of his assistant researchers.

Plot summary

Africa

Haley's novel begins with Kunta's birth in the village of Juffure in The Gambia, West Africa in 1750. Kunta is the first of four sons of the Mandinka tribesman Omoro and his wife Binta Kebba. Haley describes Kunta's strict Muslim upbringing, the rigors of the manhood training he undergoes, and the proud origins of the Kinte name.

One day in 1767, when young Kunta Kinte leaves his village to search for wood to make a drum, four men surround him and take him captive. Kunta awakens to find himself blindfolded, gagged, bound and prisoner of the white men. Haley describes how they humiliate him by stripping him naked, probing him in every orifice, and branding him with a hot iron. He and others are put on a slave ship for the three-month voyage to America.

America

Kunta survives the trip to Maryland and is sold to a Virginia plantation owner, Master Reynolds, who renames him "Toby". He rejects the name imposed by his owners, and refuses to speak to others.

After being apprehended during the last of his four escape attempts, the slave catchers give him a choice: he can be castrated or have his right foot cut off. He chooses to have his foot cut off, and the slave catchers cut off the front half of his right foot. As the years pass, Kunta resigns himself to his fate, and also becomes more open and sociable with his fellow slaves, while never forgetting who he was or where he came from.

Family

He eventually marries another slave named Belle Waller and has a daughter named Kizzy (Keisa, in Mandinka/Mandingo), which in Kunta's native tongue means "to stay put". When Kizzy is in her late teens, she is sold away to North Carolina when her master discovers that she had written a fake traveling pass for a young slave boy with whom she was in love (she had been taught to read and write secretly by Missy Anne, niece to the plantation owner). Her new owner immediately rapes her and fathers her only child, George (who spends his life with the tag "Chicken George", because of his assigned duties of tending to his master's cockfighting brood).

In the novel, Kizzy never learns her parents' fate. She spends the remainder of her life as a field hand on the Lea plantation in North Carolina. In the miniseries, she is taken back to visit the Waller plantation later in life. She discovers that her mother was sold off to another plantation and that her father died of a broken heart four years later, in 1810. She finds his grave, where she crosses out his slave name from the tombstone and writes his real name above it.

The rest of the book tells the story of the generations between Kizzy and Alex Haley, describing their suffering, losses and eventual triumphs in America. Alex Haley was the seventh generation of Kunta Kinte and wrote the things he knew in a book called Roots.

Influence

There is an annual ''Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival'' held in Maryland. Kunta Kinte also inspired a reggae rhythm of the same name, performed by artists including The Revolutionaries, and Mad Professor, and an album, ''Kunta Kinte Roots'' by Ranking Dread. There is also a band of the same name. He is mentioned in the Kanye West song "Never Let Me Down" from the ''College Dropout'' album. He is also mentioned in the songs "Whip It" by Lil Wayne, "Work It" by Missy Elliott, A Tribe Called Quest's "8 Million Stories", the Bloodhound Gang's song "A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper Is Crying", Roots Manuva's "Snake Bite", Ghostface Killah's "Black Jesus", Akir's "Kunta Kinte", Busta Rhymes's "Rhymes Galore", Ice Cube's "No Vaseline", Keymark's Pookey Marsum, The Coup's "My Favourite Mutiny" and Roll Deep's "Roll Deep Rally" which is featured on the soundtrack for the 2010 film ''Shank''. Flow Dan can be heard saying "I'm on the run like Kunta..." on RZA's "Must Be Bobby". He also influences the Bay Area rapper Keak da Sneak where Keak was nicknamed Kunta Kinte.

An early scene in the film ''Boyz n the Hood'' includes one of the characters asking Jason "Furious" Styles' son Tré, "Who's he think you is, Kunta Kinte?" after seeing the chores which the son must complete. On an episode of the HBO drama ''The Wire'', Baltimore police detective Bunk Moreland derogatorily refers to an African seaman as "Kunta Kinte" during an interrogation where the seaman refuses to speak English. In the film ''Coming to America'', Akeem (an African prince posing as a poor exchange student) is teased by the employees and patrons of a barbershop, who good-naturedly refer to him as "Kunta Kinte".

Will Smith's character make a reference to the character on the ''Fresh Prince of Bel Air'' when in regards to being punished he stated, "Why don't you just do me like Kunta Kinte and cut off my foot".

On the January 19, 2002 broadcast of ''Saturday Night Live's'' ''Weekend Update'' sketch, host Jimmy Fallon, while reporting on ABC's refusal of show the ''Roots'' 25th anniversary special, gave a quick recap on the ''Roots'' story stating "For those of you who don’t remember, ‘Roots’, it follows a saga of Kunta Kinte from young African tribesman, to slavery, to becoming literate, and eventually being the top of his class at Star Fleet Academy".

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