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And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their minds they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.

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1877: The great Lakota warrior and chief named Crazy Horse surrendered at Fort Robinson.

Then, a man named Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a book titled "Being and Nothingness."

Then we crossed the border into Syria, went to Aleppo, which, turns out, is named after Abraham.

This is a lovely book by a friend of mine named Lee Siegel, who's a professor of religion, actually, at the University of Hawaii, and he's an expert magician, and an expert on the street magic of India, which is what this book is about, "Net of Magic."

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