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"Unfortunately my libby audiobook hold lapsed, so I am stuck 😞" — Mar 31, 2026 07:06AM
"Unfortunately my libby audiobook hold lapsed, so I am stuck 😞" — Mar 31, 2026 07:06AM
“It is simplistic and naive to explain jihadism merely as an inevitable growth from Islam’s ‘violent’ scripture, or as no more than a miscarried interpretation triggered solely by some tragic misreading. It cannot be separated from economic discontent, the enveloping context of US global power, America’s influence and military actions in the Muslim world and, most of all, the gaping sore of the Israel–Palestine conflict.”
― Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy
― Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy
“No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself
of its absurdity.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
of its absurdity.”
― Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I notice that every patient on the ward has a pulse of 60 recorded in their observation chart so I surreptitiously inspect the healthcare assistant’s measurement technique. He feels the patient’s pulse, looks at his watch and meticulously counts the number of seconds per minute.”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
“You don’t cure depression, the same way you don’t cure asthma; you manage it. I’m the inhaler he’s decided to go with and I should be pleased he’s gone this long without an attack.”
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
― This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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