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Suhaib Webb

Why both ISIS and some US right-wingers are threatening to kill this American imam

Culture

Jihadis accuse Suhaib Webb of being too Western. Islamophobes charge him with fomenting religious hatred. The message of the blond, blue-eyed former hip-hop DJ from Oklahoma City: We can coexist.

Activists of the radical Islamist party Hefajat-e-Islam in Bangladesh demanding capital punishment for a group of bloggers in 2013.

Who just killed the man some called ‘the Harvey Milk of Bangladesh’?

Justice
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