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A Sheikh Speaks

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, Syria

By NIR BOMS August 9, 2006 When Sheikh Abdullah Algharib Alhamad Altamimee, a Syrian Sufi scholar who has been teaching Islam for 13 years, decided to speak against the Assad regime, he broke with a thousand years of Sufi tradition. When he decided to travel to Washington last month and officially join the ranks of [...]

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