Hints and tips:
...Omtzigt has in the past said Wilders’ pledges such as banning the Koran and closing down mosques and Islamic centres breach the constitution....
...Former Labour party education minister Ronald Plasterk has the tricky task, talking to the likely coalition partners to determine red lines....
...If Ronald thrived, my grandmother, Sylvia, Daw Aye Myint, did not....
...Scholars such as d’Herbelot represented what Bevilacqua calls the “Arabic-reading Enlightenment” — a cast of bibliophiles that also included George Sale, translator of the Koran; Simon Ockley, historian...
...Never mind that the polymathic, Koran-owning Thomas Jefferson believed that a learned citizenry was the indispensable condition of true democracy....
...“I’ve heard him talk about the Koran – that’s what the Muslim bible is called, right? The Koran?” she continued. “And then there’s his middle name.”...
...Marxists poring over Das Kapital, Maoists waving the Little Red Book, mullahs demanding fidelity to the Koran – it is never good news....
...Kennedy and then by Ronald Reagan more than three centuries later. It sees the American creed as an indissoluble blend of Protestant and republican values....
...Nowhere in his answers did Mr Obama offer the kind of “stay the course” narrative that helped Ronald Reagan avert a midterm disaster in 1982, in spite of America’s double-digit unemployment at the time....
...On our flight home, a returning hajji seated in my row, who looked oddly like Ronald Reagan, passed out from exhaustion....
...In the Koran, Adam and Eve are both responsible for the fall. And they’re forgiven. There’s no original sin....
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