April 19, 2012 
VirtualMosque 
A few days ago, there were heart-rending scenes in Kohistan district of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Gunmen stopped a convoy of buses, ordered selected passengers to get off and then killed 18 of them in a grisly attack. The victims were
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More Muslim than the Muslims
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