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The History of Every Country

Mar 2, 2015 1:04 pm By Michael Devolin

thomasfriedman“So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.”
-Lucretius, 99-55 B.C.

In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, ISIS Heads to Rome, Thomas Friedman writes, “The U.S. keeps repeating the same mistake in the Middle East: overestimating the power of religious ideology and underappreciating the impact of misgovernance.” He goes on to describe ISIS as made up of “three loose factions,” one of them, he tells us, the least worrisome, he reassures us, are made up of “…hardened jihadists, but many are just losers, misfits, adventure seekers and young men who’ve never held power, a job or a girl’s hand and joined ISIS to get all three.” He doubts that “many are serious students of Islam or that offering them a more moderate version would keep them home.”

Friedman’s view is in deep contrast to that of the German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer who, after spending time with ISIS, confirmed that “They were very tough, well informed. Some of them very successful in their own countries.” Phyllis Chesler exposes this knee-jerk compulsion of Western journalists, who seem to think it’s their conscientious duty to apologize for these evil bastards, as though the majority of ISIS members were poor impoverished serfs and not homicidal Muslim ideologues, when she writes, “Blaming Islamist horrors on poverty only obscures the true problem: Jihadists are driven by an ideology — one that yearns to “restore” a mythical caliphate, one governed by the most austere version of Sharia law.”

Exculpating the efficacy of the religion of Islam in its role of precipitating the so-called “moderate Muslim” into a religious fiend who would insouciantly execute Christian children because of the crime (according to ISIS jurisprudence) of being a Christian in a land where Islam is the preponderant religion only exacerbates the problem of Islamic terrorism—to the peril of Christians and Jews everywhere. Todenhöfer again controverts Freidman’s lethargic opinions when he recalls his experiences with ISIS: “I have read the Quran many times in German translation, and I always asked them about the value of mercy in Islam. I didn’t see any mercy in their behaviour. Something that I don’t understand at all is the enthusiasm in their plan of religious cleansing, planning to kill the non-believers…” He then puts into context the universal scope of this religious fervour by pointing out that, “Every day, hundreds of new enthusiastic fighters are arriving. There is an incredible enthusiasm that I have never seen in any other war zones that I have been to.” Sounds to me like the Muslim “volunteers” of ISIS are, in fact, “very serious students of Islam.”

In his article Agonizing over the true Islam, Anthony Furey of the Toronto Sun recently wrote, “The politically correct agonizingly twist themselves into knots trying to downplay or entirely excuse the role religion plays in the allure of the Islamic State. Or al Qaida. Or Boko Haram. Or Hezbollah. Or al Shabaab.” He correctly excoriates Friedman’s criticism of the US government and their habit of “overestimating the power of religious ideology and underappreciating the impact of misgovernance.” First of all, I have read nothing that would indicate to me that the Obama administration has ever been in the habit of “overestimating the power of religious ideology.” On the contrary, I think this present U.S. administration is actually in the habit of empowering Islam’s religious ideology, primarily with their conciliative foreign policy toward Iran and their exceptionally rude treatment of Israel’s P.M. Netanyahu. Talk about misgovernance!

And on the subject of “misgovernance” and the foolish pretense that there exists some sort of human disconnect between the religion of Islam and the long and crimsoned history of devastating political failures in the Middle East, let’s remember that, in the words of Willa Sibert Cather (1876-194), “The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.” Well, being that the subject here is Islam and Friedman’s opinion that it has no connection to bad governance, we can rule out that Muslim women, through no fault of their own, had any part in the unremitting tragedy of the Arab Muslim Middle East. Let’s remember also—and never forget—that the religion of Islam first formed in the womb the cultural beginnings of every Muslim ruler who later shouted from a podium or waved a Kalashnikov in a market square. And keep in mind most of all that Christians and Jews have had no part in inviting “colonial powers” into the Middle East (that’s not to say we haven’t offered to lend our finances, superior technology and management skills) but only those Muslim political entrepreneurs who, instead of thinking of the welfare of their less fortunate compatriots and their families, thought only of their personal financial and political gain. And when they inevitably came to ruin, by way of the imbroglio they created by trying to please their political allies while simultaneously trying to obey their religious inclinations, they blamed the Christian West, or the State of Israel, or both. But they never blamed Islam.

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    As each week brings another atrocity by ISIS / Boko Haram / Freelancers intent on honoring bloodthirsty Allah, we get even more sad comedy by otherwise “smart” prominent media writers.

    Dr. Nikolai Sennels probably can explain such behavior — or maybe I should go to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychology’s all-encompassing guide to human folly.

    Or perhaps we could just call it “privilege guilt” and go out to a tavern for a few drinks and good conversation . . .

    • Spot On says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 2:50 pm

      Some form of Dyslexia or brain disorder maybe. The only other choice is that he is ignorant.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    This guy is totally delusional. He has no idea what Islam is and how it controls all Muslim behavior. Its people like him who keep spreading the lies of Islam and making sure the truth never comes out. Should we just call these people only stupid(naive is too kind) or both stupid and traitor!

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 2:27 pm

      Indeed, these are the only two choices, when we assess any given pundit or “expert analyst” who bubbles glibly up from the vast nebula of the Western Mainstream to “explain” the problem of Islam. And, needless to say, the first order of the day, the overarching requirement for such “explanations” is that there is no problem of Islam.

      I would say that the vast majority are not traitors (for they would have to be savvy enough to be knowingly complicit). I’m not so sure, however, that “stupidity” quite explains that vast majority. It might make us feel better to call them such names, but in fact many of them are reasonably intelligent; so “stupid” is not for most of them literally accurate. (Over the years on my blog I’ve taken detailed stabs at describing and explaining this phenomenon of PC MC.)

  3. Wellington says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    For many years now I have been of the conviction that Thomas Friedman is a highly well educated ignorant man. No reason was produced here to change my mind.

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 2:37 pm

      Which only goes to show that the Problem of the Problem is a complicated problem on the order of paradigm, not a matter of mere knowledge of data. The learned ignorance of such types as Friedman abounds throughout the Western mainstream, in Academe, News Media, Politics, Business, and in Arts & Entertainment. I called it Quantum Ignorance in an old essay of mine:

      http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2011/01/quantum-ignorance.html

      As I put it there, the problem, and its solution is not a problem of mere data, whereby:

      Information about Islam –> Recipient –> Jihad Watch Epiphany

      Rather than this simplex (if not simple-minded) formula, I wrote, there has developed a paradigm throughout Western societies over the past century (with roots going back much longer but only attaining mainstream dominance in the past 50-odd years) by which the information is deformed in a variety of complex ways.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 5:43 pm

        Yikes ! ! ! Am I the only one here who did NOT know about your blog ????

        Thanks for the link — I look forward to visiting it . . . no time tonight.

        • voegelinian says

          Mar 3, 2015 at 3:00 pm

          Thanks. I’m notorious here to a few — notorious for the thought crime of demanding excellence (and for the impertinence of even thinking — how dare I?? 🙂 — that I have anything worthwhile to contribute at all in the interest of quality control of the anti-Islam movement.) (Heck, one problem right off the bat with the anti-Islam movement is that there still exists no Anti-Islam Movement…).

        • Angemon says

          Mar 3, 2015 at 8:19 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          “I’m notorious here to a few — notorious for the thought crime of demanding excellence (and for the impertinence of even thinking — how dare I?? 🙂 — that I have anything worthwhile to contribute at all in the interest of quality control of the anti-Islam movement.)”

          A more accurate description would be “infamous for acting like a fascist thug – lying about users who have the audacity of questioning what you say and demanding others to peer-pressure them into silence”.

          “(Heck, one problem right off the bat with the anti-Islam movement is that there still exists no Anti-Islam Movement…).”

          And now you’re going against what you stated in other occasions – that the problem is not islam but muslims.

      • Wellington says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 6:35 pm

        Quantum ignorance indeed. Which in turn makes the real war, as you stated in your “old essay,” one within the West and not the one directed to the West by the outside force of Islam, which could be handled with far less difficulty (and maiming and killing et al.) if Westerners en masse had proper knowledge, though I do detect an increasing frustration with Islam by the body politic of the West but we are still in the early stages of what I know you know I have called the New Hundred Years War. Ah, with proper knowledge, it could have been a “mere” New Thirty Years War. Damn.

        I would add this: With the exception of the issue of mass deportation of Muslims from the West, I think we are in agreement on all other major matters where the great menace which is Islam is concerned.

        • voegelinian says

          Mar 3, 2015 at 3:05 pm

          I hesitate to over-emphasize “the real war”. Surely we can juggle two balls (we don’t have a choice, at any rate). And we must never deflect the moral responsibility away from the only ones who are making this a problem in the first place: Mohammedans. The assistance given them by the Western Mainstream is mostly due to “quantum ignorance”. It is mainly a matter of pragmatism to attend to that problem in earnest. To redirect our moral outrage at our Western Mainstream would be to fall into the trap of PC MC itself, whereby it always finds a way to make the problems the Noble Savage causes the “White Man’s Burden”.

      • PGuud says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 7:59 pm

        I’d like to think that he’s on hallucinogens and, therefore, is just manifesting a false perception; but I believe this to be a case of denialism–in that Friedman (an ostensibly intelligent/intellectual person) chooses to “deny reality as a way to avoid dealing with an uncomfortable truth.”

        Denialism can affect (as in “infect”) anyone.

        Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

    • Spot On says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 2:47 pm

      Some form of Dyslexia perhaps. When young we all knew someone that was book-smart but was totally ignorant of what was actually going on all around him or her. Thomas Friedman could be one of these kids all grown up only now he has learned how to appear cool.

    • Kepha says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 5:36 am

      Long ago, the late Saul Bellow wrote a novel entitled _Mr. Sammler’s Planet_, about an elderly holocaust survivor muddling through in New York back in the Sillier ‘Seventies. His American nephew, on whom he depends is dying, and in one conversation the dying nephew describes his son as “a high-IQ moron”.

      I think that describes a very large number of the so-called “pundits” who write op-eds and “explain” the world to the rest of us. It’ not just Thomas Friedman, but also Nicholas Kristof and a horde of similar people. Speaking as a professional swindler of the young–oops, high school history teacher–I think it all goes back to the miseducation that a lot of us received back in the day and still propagate (at least if we want to keep our jobs and benefits) that leads your average secular liberal to think that nobody else in the world “reasons”, or is even capable of applying Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction without the lofty, enlightened, axiom-free (oops, free from dogma), world-transcending rational guidance of the American liberal. Hence, they absolutely refuse to see how jihadi terrorism makes perfect sense in the light of Islamic axioms.

    • Eric says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 2:23 pm

      It is willful ignorance, the evidence for the evil that is Islam is plain to see, therefore he is without excuse.

  4. Ricky Black says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    Fact, Allah is a pagan moon goddess that is marred to the sun and has three daughters, Ai-Uzza, Al-Lat, and Manat. Fact: Muhammad’s father’s name was Abd-Allah, His uncle’s name was Obied-Allah. Encyclopedia Britannica I:643 Fact; Muhammad worshiped the meteorite in Mecca, the greatest god, because there is more than one.

  5. Ricky Black says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    Fact:

    If you tell a muslim boy over and over again that he is ( better than his sister), ( better then the disbelievers) ( better than everybody else)… well when he grows up a realizes that is NOT TRUE, that has a profound affect on a human being. You will get hyper sensitivity, denial of any wrong doing on his part, and most of all you will get hatred for everybody else.

    • Kepha says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 5:37 am

      In other contexts, it’s why this self-esteem hooey is a disaster for American education.

  6. lebel says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    Todenhöfer again controverts Freidman’s lethargic opinions when he recalls his experiences with ISIS: “I have read the Quran many times in German translation, and I always asked them about the value of mercy in Islam. I didn’t see any mercy in their behaviour. Something that I don’t understand at all is the enthusiasm in their plan of religious cleansing, planning to kill the non-believers…”

    It is worth noting that Todenhofer does not believe that ISIS are following the quran to the extent they say they are;

    “I was discussing the ideology. I was discussing what was happening. I was discussing the killings,” Todenhöfer recalled. “I told them I could really not understand. I had read the Quran. I didn’t understand how they could justify these innocent killings with the Quran.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/jurgen-todenhofer-islamic-state-reporting_n_6452436.html

  7. voegelinian says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    Thomas Friedman writes, “The U.S. keeps repeating the same mistake in the Middle East: overestimating the power of religious ideology and underappreciating the impact of misgovernance.”
    The reader’s first response to this would be, “What planet is Friedman on…!?” But when the reader recalls that many another pundit and “expert analyst” of the Western Mainstream has expressed more or less the same breathtakingly assbackward assertion, he takes a pause and a breather — to get his breath back, and then to consider that something more systemic is going on. Not “systemic” in a conspiratorial way, of course; I don’t roll that way; but rather systemic in terms of some kind of paradigm or worldview by which a welter of disparate Data and Dots is rendered into some form of overall sense and cohesion.

    This paradigm, as I have said many times (and analyzed many times on my blog), has become dominant and mainstream throughout the entire West over the past half century (give or take a decade or so). It has many features and moving parts, this paradigm does. It also has a crux, around which all the complex moving parts play their mechanical role, so to speak. This crux, I maintain, is the coin of two sides Reverse Racism/White Guilt. Now, the very fact that I felt a pang of misgiving upon typing those words (especially “white guilt”), feeling a twinge of anxiety lest my reader think I’m a “racist”, only goes to show how powerful this paradigm of Politically Correct Multiculturalism (PC MC) is. If we want to work to discredit this paradigm and hasten its eventual, inexorable collapse (for an incoherent structure cannot last forever, particularly not when its internal logic is being assailed by literal barbarians in the form of beheading Muslims and their seemingly innocuous, mendacious co-religionists), we must stop walking on eggshells around it. For two reasons:

    1) It is the PC MCs themselves who are race-obsessed, who insist on framing this whole issue in terms of race (though most of the time they won’t admit it, and it only comes out sideways);

    and

    2) when we anxiously walk on eggshells around our PC MC Masters of the airwaves, we are not only letting them get away with projecting their racial obsession onto us, but we are also letting them continue to Control the Conversation.

    With all that said, the interesting phenomenon I alluded to at the beginning of my comment is one that is too commonly blurted and blurbed out by PC MCs like Friedman – namely, their bizarre accusation that their own mainstream is “talking about Islam too much” (or as Friedman puts it, “religious ideology”), when we in the Counter-Jihad know all too painfully well that the mainstream clearly doesn’t talk about Islam enough, and rather avoids talking about it when it is clearly the dominant factor of a given outburst of Islamic disorder somewhere in the world.

    Is Friedman that colossally stupid that he cannot see this? One hesitates to impute stupidity to a person who is obviously intelligent. Something therefore “does not compute”. And, as I said above, the conspiracy theory is simply impermissible. Similarly, needless to say, we cannot say Friedman is evil (which = he knowingly is lying about a matter so grave). What is left? Well, whatever is left must be the case, as Sherlock Holmes would have put it. Friedman must be thinking in terms of a complicated paradigm, and near the crux (cf. above) of this paradigm is the shibboleth, the solemn promise & obligation:

    However I explain this problem, I must protect Islam from central, substantive scrutiny.

    And Friedman in this piece does so; and, alas, probably succeeds – at least to those of our generation who unfortunately continue to be the majority, those who while looking at the Emperor With No Clothes On and Buck Naked With His Wee Willie Hanging in Full View, really believe it when Tom Friedman tells them that he is fully clothed.

    • cronk says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 1:22 am

      Friedman has always been a mouthpiece/paid hack of the establishment/big business going back to NAFTA. To read him is to read what the establishment wants us to think.

      Before he got on this wagon he was busy whitewashing globalization and the decimation of the American workforce to support said globalists

      And now he’s white washing Islam, par for the course. It’s just a reflection of the views held by academia, big government and most political parties in the West.

  8. Angemon says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, ISIS Heads to Rome, Thomas Friedman writes, “The U.S. keeps repeating the same mistake in the Middle East: overestimating the power of religious ideology and underappreciating the impact of misgovernance.”

    Oh, for f***’s sake. Obama’s administration won’t call the jihadis jihadis, goes out of its way to avoid mentioning islam when discussing islamic terrorism, and seems eager to make false moral equivalences with “right wing terrorism”, the crusades and the inquisition. And yet, this imbecile is brazen enough to tell us that the US overestimate the power of religious ideology? He needs to be smacked in the head with a heavy, blunt object in order to kick-start his brain.

    As for the misgovernance, well, what would you expect when you try to have democracy and Western values like the equality of all before the law regardless of gender, skin colour or religion on a population being told from birth by clerics how wonderful and idyllically perfect a sharia-run caliphate would be, how muslims are superior to everyone else, and how non-muslims only want to corrupt muslims with un-islamic values like democracy or the equality of all before the law regardless of gender, skin colour or religion? Look at the reaction of the muslim world at any perceived criticism of islam or muhammad. Are they rioting and killing non-muslims because they’re ” losers, misfits, adventure seekers and young men who’ve never held power, a job or a girl’s hand”? No, it’s because their religion teaches them to act like that.

    Islam is the root of the problems in muslim countries. Anyone trying to argue otherwise is either ignorant, stupid or with an agenda of their own, and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

  9. Sam says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    Robert,

    Thanks for telling the truth about Islam. I admire your strength and honesty against these idiots day in day out, year in year out, the same bs about Islam by these idiot liberals. This is like being in a bad dream, almost surreal.

  10. vlparker says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    Friedman does what all leftists always do, whether the subject is global warming or islamic conquest. He sees the world as he wants it to be rather than as it truly is. The left is always denying the evidence right before their very eyes in order to advance their political agenda. They are morally and intellectually bankrupt.

  11. Dianara says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    It is because self hating Jewish people in the media and academia in 1930s Germany just like T. Friedman and others today,that evel prevailed then and it may prevail now……

  12. markus says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    hardened jihadists, but many are just losers, misfits, adventure seekers and young men who’ve never held power, a job or a girl’s hand and joined ISIS to get all three.
    Exactly these kind of people were instrumentalized in nazi germany. They were the blockwarts, gauleiters and big heads in the fussvolk to denounce jews, homosexuals, Zigane people, real christians, liberals and everybody freedom loving. Hitler built up his 3rd Reich with loosers-this was the guarantee for maximum damage.Intellectuals welcome-you will be the first to get shot-they did and do not discuss with people of “high” education.

    • RonaldB says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 9:37 am

      “Exactly these kind of people were instrumentalized in nazi germany. They were the blockwarts…”

      Marcus, I think you’re on to something. The street fighters were the shock troops of the Nazi party’s rise to power. However, bear in mind that the shock troops were the SA, whose leadership from Rohm on down, was flagrantly homosexual, which Hitler was well aware of.

      Why were the homosexuals gassed, when a primary component of Hitler’s rise to power was openly homosexual? Because Hitler threw off the socialism and ideology of the earlier Nazi philosophy like a worn glove, and pursued simple power. This meant alliances with the traditional German military and the industrialists. It also meant eliminating the early supporters, who were too vigorous in adhering to the old, now-inconvenient philosophy of volk-socialism.

      The systematic genocides of the Germans, including Jews, homosexuals and large numbers of conquered peoples, appear to be a reaction to what was perceived as an indigestible part of the population that got in the way of the German expansion of Lebensraum. By the end of the war, the systematic extermination of peoples seemed to be more a bureaucratic task than an ideological passion.

      We can actually look for the same pattern in ISIS. The early revolutionaries, those unwilling to adapt their Islam to the requirements of actual power, will be eliminated. Islam has a much lower tolerance for differences than almost any other creed on earth, probably because the intellectual foundations for Islam are so weak. Therefore, almost any non-Islamic presence will not be tolerated in ISIS borders.

      If ISIS expands to take in significantly large non-Muslim populations, and develops a functioning governing bureaucracy, we can look for either 1) massive emigration or 2) systematic, bureaucratic exterminations on the scale of the Nazi death camps.

      I actually think the focus should be on maintaining present borders, rather than rolling back ISIS. It’s far easier to defend stable borders, and I have no objection to allowing idealistic Muslims to go to ISIS territory once the non-Muslims are out. Quite the contrary. As long as they are not allowed back, of course.

      The only virtue of the Obama administration is, it’s too cowardly and inefficient to carry out it’s obviously-insane plans for demolishing the remnants of the Syrian government, consequently allowing ISIS a major expansion of the territory under its control. Bobby Jindal, a leading Republican candidate for the Republican nomination, is similarly insane.

    • MTB says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 3:21 pm

      ISIS killed many doctors and lawyers in its path in Syria and Iraq. In Cambodia the communists killed many teachers and educated people.If the intellectuals think that ISIS will be any different with them because they are kissing up to them, they’ll have a big surprise, if , God forbids , ISIS attacks the US.

  13. Dan says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    Then explain to me.

    Why are Coptic Christians being tortured, murdered, crucified, and sold into slavery.

    Why Jews are being shot and murdered in Europe.

    Why are “Infidels being attacked in every Western country on the plant?

    People can’t seem to get it through their thick skulls that it takes far, far, far fewer nut jobs to create total and complete chaos, than it takes sane, law abiding citizens, to keep society stable.

  14. voegelinian says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    He [Tom Friedman] goes on to describe ISIS as made up of “three loose factions,” one of them, he tells us, the least worrisome, he reassures us, are made up of “…hardened jihadists, but many are just losers, misfits, adventure seekers and young men who’ve never held power, a job or a girl’s hand and joined ISIS to get all three.”

    And most importantly, what we can say about most ISIS Muslims is that, as Professor Ben Affleck reminded us recently, they all Just Wanna Have a Sandwich.

    • MTB says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 3:32 pm

      Hee! Hee! And don’t forget the red face.
      All the degenerates in Hollyweird would be the first to go,

  15. Ayatrollah says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Circumlocution Makes these articles hard to read.

    • RonaldB says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 9:39 am

      haha

    • Eric says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 2:29 pm

      How about willful ignorance. That should about cover it.

  16. MKG says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Once again socialists are blaming poverty for islamic extremism and eggheads are placing it all on islamic doctrine. Get over yourselves people. There is no root cause for ISIS and the establishment of the caliphate. They are no different from anyone else in that wealthy intelligent people are influencing poor ignorant people with money and doctrine to do their bidding. That is the way it always has been. That is the way it always will be. If you want to stop people from becoming an islamic extremist, you have to address both issues and then some. The situation is not as simple as one factor or the other.

  17. MTB says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Hee! Hee! And don’t forget the red face.
    All the degenerates in Hollyweird would be the first to go,

  18. RJ says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    The hearts of man (and woman) are deceitfully wicked.

  19. John says

    Mar 3, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    The only explanation that can can address this apparent willful ignorance regarding the evils of Islam by so many scholars and politians can be found in the book of revelations. Where it is written that God will put a strong delusion in the world that causes those not written in the book life to believe in the false prophets credo. Declaring peace while there is none.

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