It's "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week"!
C'mon, kiddies, let's put out the decorations and bake a cake!
Someone is actually paying Rick "Man-on-Dog" Santorum to speak to universities, and not to mock him, surprisingly enough:
"I am enormously grateful for the opportunity to speak at three of Pennsylvania's great universities. While the sounds of opposition to the war are heard frequently on our college campuses, I plan to offer a perspective our students rarely hear - my views on who our true enemies are, what they believe, and why it is so important to defeat them," said Santorum.
"Rick Santorum has been the most courageous and outspoken public figure in America alerting all of us to the true nature of the enemy we face," said David Horowitz, founder of the Freedom Center, and organizer of "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," which includes events at over 100 schools across America.
Oh....this is organized by David Horowitz. 'Nuff said.
As an actual college professor, Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, has noted, the Islamo-Fascism label makes no sense:
Fascism is not even a very good description of the ideology of most Muslim fundamentalists. Most fascism in the Middle East has been secular in character, as with Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. Fascism involves extreme nationalism and most often racism. Muslim fundamentalist movements reject the nation-state as their primary loyalty and reject race as a basis for political action or social discrimination. Fascists exalt the state above individual rights or the rule of law. Muslim fundamentalists exalt Islamic law above the utilitarian interests of the state. Fascism exalts youth and a master race above the old and the "inferior" races. Muslim fundamentalists would never speak this way.
Remind me again how many times these neo-cons have been right? Oh that's right, zero. I'm sure parents will be thrilled to know their tuition dollars are going towards instilling ignorance, hate and fear in their children. Will Bunch has the whole sordid affair.
Islamo-Fascist of the Decade award winner is George W. Bush.
The Saudis couldn't be prouder of their man.
Chicken-little?
Frist! Always wanted to say that!
I have yet to hear of any economic theory coming from these fanatics, so fascism is out of place.
They don't want a blurred corporate/government state but a theocracy anywho.
Am I supposed to take a Islamo-Fascist out to lunch???
Hey College Republicans: 2004 called. It wants its idea for a special week back.
They're bringing one of these asses here to Dartmouth. We're getting together a Middle Eastern and African Studies contingent to go and ask him the tough questions, though somehow I think that, like dealing with Creationists, we will be met with ad hominem, ad nauseam and possibly a Horowitzite favorite tactic: deliberate deflection and shoutdown attempts coordinated with audience confederates. Our "guy" is Robert Spencer, who wrote the "politically incorrect guide to Islam" and some other ridiculous xenophobic screeds.
Cheney and the neo-con fascists are using the paleo-fascist big lie technique to deflect the public from their plot to establish a neo-fascist regime in the US by labeling the Islamic Fundamentalists as Islamofascists. As the article shows there is no connection between the Islamic Fundamentalists, the neo-fascists' enemy of record, and the fascist principles that they are putting in place in the US in place of the Constitution.
Translation: I'm going to present my list of made up shit to be afraid of and see if they dance.
I'm assuming "islamo-fascist" is the new term for republican conservative.
I'm more inclined to want to promote Zionist treason awareness week as far as Mr. Horowitz is concerned.
"Islamo-fascist awareness week?"
I would say that Orwell would be proud of the term, but he wouldn't be; he would roll his eyes in exasperation and futility.
It's not so surprising that Santorum is speaking at universities.
It's not surprising because Crooks and Liars, Americablog, DailyKos and other left leaning blogs have done a terrible job at convincing people how bad Santorum really is.
A lot of times it's just complaining and bickering and other rather childish arguments against these neo-con assholes. Often times the arguments are actually contradictory.
I have only the left to blame for not making their case strong enough to make people realize the evils of the neo-cons. Their efforts have been too weak for too long.
I mean, after all the bullshit, after all the complaining by the left, my phone calls are STILL being wiretapped, my rights are STILL being violated, and the standard of living of the average American is STILL declining.
I'm afraid that the left is completely useless today, and I think we need a fresh perspective, because the status quo has OBVIOUSLY been a complete and utter DISASTER.
And next week is "Christofascist Awareness Week".
Oops, they messed up. Next week is Halloween week, that's the time to tell scary stories, isn't it?
Are any of the Republican candidates joining in? Damn it, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they did.
The promising part of this is that they're giving the impression at least they believe fascist to be a bad trait.
This from the king of Reslug sicko's who brought his dead baby home so his other chilldren to talk and play with the body.
David Horowitz, Jihad video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDsEGJcfXE
The man is a complete nutcase spreading fear for his warped political purposes.
I hate to say we might be our own worst enemy. We are the fascists. This homeland has fallen so far down the **** hole.
It's the Reslugs favorite week of celebration.
"I need more welfare checks!"-David Horowitz to Sarah Scaife Foundation
Other guests
I won't link to it.
Rick Santorum ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
If he's so outspoken, why hasn't he been out speaking anywhere (except for Fox News). These are the first appearances I've heard of since he was courageously booted from the Senate.
Stop Big Media
Anything that links Ann Coulter and Rick Santorum together in thought just makes me feel sick inside. Anyone who believes a damned word either of them say needs care at a mental facility.
gee! i thought it was delusional fascist bush week.
While we focus on the threat overseas from Muslims who all want to kill us and enslave our wimmin'....
I'm not seeing any articles that discuss the California wildfires and the California National Guard in the same story.
Maybe Blackwater needs to be sent back to the states to shoot the survivors?
The majority of the repugnacans don't know what fascism means and don't care. They don't want to be educated they just want to be white, I mean, right.
Well, I certainly agree that Horowitz and Santorum are idiots. However, I don't think Juan Cole is helping much here. Has he never heard of the Caliphate? Whatever you want to call the ideology underpinning Al Qaeda, the fact is they reject the modern nation-states of the Middle East, but not the idealized Caliphate - an idealized Islamic super-state for which they are constantly (if not very successfully) striving.
And as to racism, I really think it is dehumanization that is at the core of "fascism," more than racism per se. Whether that dehumanization pivots around racial differences, as with the Nazis, or religious differences, as with Al Qaeda, seems beyond the point to me.
Anyway, I think they could all do a little more analysis and homework on the issue, of which I've attempted a start here:
www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
Here's the candidate all the "values-voters" have been dreaming of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_D7WtOHZd0
Yes, Ms. Coulter is speaking here at Tulane tonight, though torrential rains may mess with attendance some. That and a dearth of extremely stupid people (this can be a problem at universities).
I'm thinking about organizing a "Christo-fascist Awareness Week." Remember, all the leading fascists of history, from Hitler and Mussolini on down, where christians.
Coincidence? I think not.
David Horowitz is sponsoring this fucktardery. It'd be interesting to ask him if he's ready to be 'perfected' yet.
I can only pray there will be video from some pies that hit their marks from these 'Two Minutes Hate' rallies.
The right like to throw out extreme words like fascist, Nazi and commie all the time without knowing the real difference between the two ideologies. Orcinus however can always set you straight on who the real fascist are threatening America;
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/10/demonic-and-human.html
Bill @ 28:
You could have started by researching who Juan Cole is first before making such a completely stupid comment.
The United Iraqi Alliance, in a report to the Iraqi National Assembly on Sunday, said that a probe launched by the parliament into the incident had proved that the US army helped terrorists attack the Shia village of Jizani al-Imam on October 15.
At least 26 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the raid, one of the bloodiest massacres since the US invasion of Iraq.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4570
Juan Cole is the man! I was lucky enough to take his America and Middle Eastern Wars class two years ago. Horowitz represents everything that's wrong with the States' foreign policy right now. People like Cole, who have invested their whole lives in trying to understand the West's role in the Islamic world, should have the platform currently occupied by Horowitz, Bill Kristol, et al. That it's the other way around is, well, just plain wrong.
Wikipedia had this to say about Fascism:
Hmm, that does sound very familiar...but I don't think it's much like Islamic fundamentalism.
The whole point to the term Islamo-Fascist is to defuse and deflect the ability of the left to accurately pin the term 'Fascism' on the current Republican Party, its adherents, like Horowitz and Sanctimonius-er-Santorum, and the corporate billionaires that fund them.
We all hear about George Soros, but we never hear about their money-men, like the recently-defunct Olin Fund, the Bradley boys, Coors (all relatives) as well as Dick Mellon Scaife of the Arkansas Project and Rev Sun Myung Moon, who publishes the Washington Times and Insight magazine, as well as funding Horowitz's operation.
Don't Be Terrorized
You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder
Horowitz is a certified nut case.
He reminds me of the typical Woody Allen character roller skating through Central Park wearing oven mitts and a surgical mask screaming about "Islamofascism".
It can only end badly...
Just another example of "Godwin's Law". The use of the word "fascism" is just a very simplistic way to demonize your enemy. Especially, when you have (or desire) little knowledge the underlying details of the situation. Just bring out the white hats and black hats.
Reminder! This week is also Bigfoot Awareness Week, a very important event reminding Americans that Islamo-Fascism is not the only fictional enemy we face.
Of course, you Sasquatch-hugging bipedal cryptozoology-enablers are probably going to deny that the threat from Bigfoot is real.
ATTENTION ATTENTION: for christ's sake ...there is no such thing as "islamo fascism"...The frightened right wing goose stepping nazis made it up. Now there is neocon fascism ...that's real because you're living it today in America...WELCOME to GERMERICA.
I love their speakers: bigots seeking to sell books! Now THAT'S reliable. Seriously though, what is it about fascism that these gutter-balls don't understand. Fundamentalist Islam is about as far away from actual "fascism" as anything I can think of. On the other hand, the brand of white, male, Christian supremecy advocated by these very same mouth-breathers is pretty much in lock step with fascism as it is historically understood.
Never mind. History and reality don't really play into their agenda.
Don't forget:next week is "Man Boobs Awareness Week".
David Horowitz is speaking soon at Emory in Georgia...
Legalize @ 43:
Its simply another classic case of projection-a game the wingnutz never tire of.
The truth is,America and its allies have been purposely installing and supporting Islamic Fundamentalism for decades.The LAST thing they want is for actual Democracy to take hold in the Middle East.
islamofascism makes perfect sense to idiots. no one ever had to tell them what it meant. they just had to be terrified that it was the all encompassing evil. what maroons we are. baaa
Harry Scrote @ 45:
The Emory bored?
I thought you might find this interesting--I'm a student at Northeastern University, one of the schools at which "events are being planned" according to one of the website linked above. Just now is the first I've heard of this. There is nothing noticeable going on here on this subject, no advertising, no fliers, nothing. Not even a few students handing out pamphlets. I think most of the "event planning" at these schools is one kid in his dorm room they've been emailing. I'd love to know how things are at some of the other schools "at which events are being planned."
You'd think that the Republicans, who's rise to power was achieved through inflamatory wedge issues and a rabid sense of nationalism, dependant on symbols of 'The Homeland' like bumper stickers and flag lapel pins, and relies on whipping up hatred against certain groups like gays, athiests, or 'liberals' to stay in power would be afraid to invoke images of fascism. Especially now that they've created a network of secret prisons, suspended Habeas Corpus, and organized a paramilitary police force that wears BLACK UNIFORMS.
But then again, didn't somebody once say that when fascism comes to The United States, it will be called 'anti-fascism.'
Man all these holidays are beginning to overlap.
I was just getting ready for UFO Awareness Week.
50 Pericles
So you're saying the average republican grew up giving wimps wedgies, then moved on to raising wedge issues?
i am not sure what to said about isamofacist because it is a oxymoron, what i am concern about is the lack of these collage republican lining around the cornor to enlist in the military to fight the "isalomfacist."
Yeah, bored indeed, ysbad....
Ricky, for the last goddamn time - stay out of Pennsylvania!
I'm embarrassed to be from PSU. This is more mortifying than finding out Dr. Phil graduated from North Texas!
Santorum is a mutant from Hell. He IS Satan.
Some folks at red state dot cum believe he is the ideal presidential candidate ...talk about a terrorist threat. holy shit, that's a terrorifying thought.
David Horowitz is the worst kind of right wing nutjob - a failed left wing nutjob. Disillusioned Hippie Syndome aka Lunatic Penduluum Effect aka a Loser.
The label 'Islamo-fascism' allows them to combine the 9/11 boogeyman with the whole Axis-of-Evil/Hitler comedy routine. Additionally, they'll only use the 'Islam is a religion of peace' line if their feet are held to the fire ... because if you call out religious extremism and theocratic thuggery, it begs the comparison to the evangelical base.
I feel sorry for the vast majority of Christians who will end up paying the price for the insanity being sold in warehouse-sized quantities by the evangelical right. There will be a backlash, and it won't be attendant to a ride on the Rapture Bus.
Ken Owen @ 49:
This problem could be solved if people could be made aware of "The Campaign to Raise Awareness of Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week"
Bud @ 55:
How d'ya'll like to be from Dallas, like me?
boxerfan @ 53:
Um, Islamofasict is not an oxymoron, Rush Limbaugh is an oxymoron.
gempei @ 12:
Muslims = fascists. Orwell is right, eliminating words from language does mean less stuff to think about.
Fascism is a corporate-like government ruled by a powerful group of people. Fascism comes from the Italian word for 'bundle' or 'group.' The people who coined "islamo-fascists" wanted this term wanted to sound as scary as possible. The far right Muslims are theocrats. Government with a dominating religion is called a theocracy.
Pericles @ 50:
And the East Germans called the Berlin Wall the "Anti-Fascist Protective Wall." It's that kind of thinking--the one that turns the USSR into a voluntary union of republics and a workers' paradise, the one that calls our imperialism "anti-imperialist".
ysbaddaden @ 60:
Spent too much time in Dollars, Tejas YSB - how y'all getting along down there?
Michael Medved is claiming victory for Republicanism because Bobby Jindal got elected Louisiana governor despite the Bush Administration's disastrous handling of Katrina.
Bud @ 65:
3rd worse traffic in the nation, and SMU is still infighting over trying to get the boosh liberry.
College Republicans holding sit-ins outside women's studies departments to protest "the silence of feminists over the oppression of women in Islam"
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=11771
I'd love to see Santorum try and push that BS here in Michigan.
Is this from the Republican handbook?
Wasn't Mussolini credited as saying, "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism as it is the merger of state and corporate power." or something like that?
Weren't the citizens of East Germany told that the wall around their country was being built to keep out the fascists? Aren't we being told that the walls are being built on our borders...for our protection...to keep out the Islamofascists?
It's all about perspective...it's all about inculcating fear among countrymen.
Love is greater than fear.
"In 1944, Henry A. Wallace, one of three Vice Presidents to serve under Franklin D. Roosevelt, assessed the threat of fascism in America and predicted that the time might come when the media was in collusion with the ruling power. "American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information. . . ," he wrote."
Fascism is spelled F O X.
Campus Progress, an ally to progressive youth activists, is offering a response to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. There are some great resources to educate yourself on the intolerant propagating of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week by Horowitz and his cronies. They also offer tactics to help equip you to take action. Check them out if you are interested in fighting IFAW at your school or in your community.
Educate yourself with the crib sheet:
http://campusprogress.org/cribsheets/2065/crib-sheet-islamofascism-debunking-smear-tactic
and check out the IFAW Response Kit, which will help equip you to take responsive action against Horowitz and his offensive misinformation:
http://www.campusprogress.org/page/content/IFAW/
Of course the "Islamo-Fascist" label is ridiculous; it is simply a way for these people to validate what they are doing by invoking images of Mussolini, Hitler and the Holocaust. However, as someone who actually studies fascism, I would point out that there are certain similarities between jihadist Islam and fascism. The exaltation of violence above personal well-being is the most obvious, but also the cult of the leader (either Bin Laden or Muqtada al-Sadr for example), use of media and propaganda, paramiltarism, and the rejection of liberalism and capitalism.
I don't have a problem with the term Islamofascism. It may not be perfectly congruent with traditional fascism, but so what? Quibbling over this word makes it look like we hate the people who attacked us on 9/11 less than the right does.
Saddam Hussein was not an Islamofascist -- he was a secular Stalinist dictator -- but the people who attacked the WTC were.
It's true that fascism is associated with the nation-state, but the terms Nazi and fascist are often used more loosely, and it's an adequate if imperfect short-hand to indicate the authoritarianism, intolerance and murderous hatred of these assholes.
Hitchens has a piece up at slate explaining "Islamo-Fascist".
http://www.slate.com/id/2176389/
I know, I know, he isn't the most popular guy these days. But worth a read, I think. But Santorum?! My word, who would name a person after that!
Definition:
Gross. That guy should really change his name.
In November 2004, the Santorums were invested as knight and dame of Magistral Grace of the Knights of Malta in a ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. 20. Santorum is the youngest member of the Republican leadership and the first Pennsylvanian to hold such a prominent position since the 1970s.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060616/16santorum .htm
MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA
Philadelphia Area American Association, USA Announces its "Tuitio Fidei" Symposium on " Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq " December 6, 2004 Six O'Clock in the Evening Union League of Philadelphia Invited Speakers Dr. John D. Caputo Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities, Syracuse University David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Villanova University His Eminence, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., S.T.D . Distinguished Visiting Professor of Theology Fordham University Dr. Joseph H. Hagan, K.M. President Emeritus of Assumption College Chairman, Board of Trustees, John Cabot University, Rome President, North American Association, Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George Col. Jack Jacobs, USA (Retired) Medal of Honor Recipient & MSNBC Military Analyst His Excellency , The Most Rev. Edwin F. O' Brien, D.D., S.T.D., K.M. Archbishop, Archdiocese for the US Military Services General, US Marine Corps The Hon. George J. Marlin, K.M. Former Executive Director, NY/NJ Port Authority Conservative Political Commentator and Writer The Hon. Dr. Thomas Melady , K.M. Former US Ambassador to the Holy See, Berundi, and Uganda President Emeritus of Sacred Heart University Senior Diplomat-in-Residence, The World Institute of Politics, Washington, DC The Hon. Rick Santorum , K.M. US Senator of Pennsylvania Moderator Dr. Craig J. N. de Paulo, K.M. Chairman of Philadelphia, Sovereign Military Order of Malta Assistant Professor, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University
http://www.maltausa.org/files/newsletter_hospitallers_02.pdf
Genital mutilation. Burkas. Beheadings for having extra marital sex. I will never understand why any woman would willingly submit to Muslim Sharia law. Islam is a horrible, degrading, dehumanizing, brutal and insane 7th Century religion.
Brainwashing, and conditioning from age zero. That and I don't think the are really given a choice.
"To wear the veil is to be pure. To be pure is to be superior. The stricter, the more perfect -- I allow less sin than you. So I am better than you. Suffering redeems me. In death, I will be rewarded. You will be punished."
Et cetera, et fucking cetera. Typical religious bullshit. They're all the same.
Widespread @ 75:
No, it makes us look like we hate muslims less than the right does. The whole point of this term is to link Islam with Fascism, something that all Americans (including stupid, manipulable ones) associate with Hitler who was clearly bad. So when we kill muslims or torture them we could sleep without a problem at night.
mrogi @ 78:
mrogi @ 78:
I don't think this is a part of Islam (unless you're thinking male circumcision). Any religion (if taken literally) is horrible, degrading, dehumanizing, brutal and insane. Have you actually read the Bible?
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I think it's worth printing their poster!
Horowitz is one of the nastiest people on the planet. He needs to be ignored, he needs to be impoverished.
Next week,it will be man on dog's awarness week.Santorum and that nazi inbred Horowitz will be licking some dog's balls.Fuck these assholes.
According to AmericanGreetings.com, 10/22 is also "Used Car Day"...seems appropriate.
The only thing Santorum is fit to represent is Douchebag Awareness Week.
Aw, shucks.
I just put up all those banners and ribbons celebrating "Religiious Fundamentalist Fanatic Awareness Week," but now I'm told it's the "Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week" instead.
Oh, wait, I guess that my "Religious Fundamentalist Fanatic Awareness Week" banners and ribbons will work just as well.
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Yes, we rarely hear this notion, except when it's screamed shrilly from every radio and television outlet in the land, on queue, daily, as directed by the Republican News Authority. So of course, these kids couldn't possibly have run across it before.
I've been commenting around for years that Islamo-fascism is a nonsense phrase.
There is some mushiness in what defines fascism. Hitler's Mein Bitch isn't exactly a scholarly tract in the same vein as Marx's Das Kapital so one generally falls back on Mussolini's writings on state corporatism. But scholars have made lists of the qualities of fascist societies. Not just any monarchy, dictatorship or tribal society should be called fascist and the Islamic states are a poor match. So clearly, some little Neocon who didn't do well in freshman political science was in a trance of Freudian projection and the cool phrase popped into his head.
I don't know what Adam said, but considering how loosely people on this board use terms like fascist and Nazi, it seems hypocritical to jump all over this term.
In this age of right- and left-wing blogs, I sense both sides are becoming more intellectually dishonest. If you've ever used these terms to refer to Bush, Cheney et al, you shouldn't bitch too much if it's used to refer to a group of people who want to create a Global Caliphate run by imams in accordance with Sharia law.
A fifteen hundred years old religion of the east, apparently looks for and finds expression in a political doctrine of only sixty years old from the west, that in turn needs to be publicised by a bunch of supremacists whom have little fear of being denounced for their hateful actions by none of the usual gatekeepers in ADL.
Why Horowitz can freely engage in hate crimes without any let or hindrance?
I know nothing about so-called "islamo-fascism." As a PA resident though, I do know that Rick Santorum is an indiot (albeit a rich one) and an aspiring "Amero-Fascist" along with all of his neo-con buddies.
Amitola @ 94:
Is an indiot an idiot as the result of inbreeding?
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Genital mutilation is pretty big among jewish and last I heard, also americans.
In 1938, the Nazis had the most advanced and powerful military on Earth while the military in the US was still had Calvary on horseback. After Pearl harbor, however, we quickly upgraded or military to an even footing with them.
The enemies we face now are generally low tech with no standing army. They're dangerous, certainly, but lack the military might of the Nazis, the Imperial Japanese or the Soviet Union. In fact, the overall casualties inflicted by Islamic Terrorists is a small fraction of the other enemies America has faced in the past.
The US has many times the destructive capacity the terrorists could ever dream of. At worst, the Terrorists could vaporize a few cities or unleash a virus which might kill tens of millions more. The US, with its thousands of Nuclear weapons, could wipe the Middle East off the face of Earth. (If Bin Louden and his ilk had that kind of power, there still wouldn’t still be an United States)
Unlike WWII or the Cold War, there is no equal parity between the two sides in terms of military capacity.
I just came home from Santorum's speech at Temple. The crowd was about 50% liberal, Ricky dodged virtually every question and - unsurprisingly - took questions from 8-10 men BEFORE addressing a woman (one of my friends, who asked "why haven't you called on any women? My female friend would love to ask you something"). Oh, and I should mention that he spoke in a room with no more than 125 people in it. (I counted...there were 96 chairs and about 20/25 people [give or take] standing along the back walls.) Ricky basically fumbled through every question, answered questions with questions, acted condescending (which was HILARIOUS!) and generally provided tons of inner laughter for every liberal in the group.
Before the event, we had a group of about 40/50 people or so protesting outside the building he spoke at. We received very little resistance from the student body (the counter-protest was two guys alternating "pro" and "life") and quite a few people approached us afterwards to thank us for speaking out against Santorum's views.
mrogi @ 78:
Genital Mutiliation and Burkhas came around way before Islam. 100% of all weird things you hear in so callde "Islamic countries' such as honor-killings, beheadings, and all that are part of the culture of that area and is PRE-islamic. The Quran never calls for female genital mutilation, stoning people to death, or various other issues.
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