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As a tribute from one dictator who supports terrorism to another whose brutal dictatorship murdered as many as 100,000 people, on Sunday Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
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[caption id=attachment_124342 align=alignright width=353] Abdul Razak Artan sits pensively on the Oval. Credit: Kevin Stankiewicz | Oller Reporter[/caption]
On Monday afternoon, the Ohio State Department of Public Safety released the name of the suspect involved in the violent incident near Watts Hall — Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a third-year in logistics management. The Lantern had interviewed Artan as part of Humans of Ohio State, a print-only feature in The Lantern’s Arts&Life section. Below, The Lantern has reproduced the same interview that appeared in the Aug. 25 issue of the paper. The text below is a direct quote from Artan.
“I just transferred from Columbus State. We had prayer rooms, like actual rooms where we could go pray because we Muslims have to pray five times a day.
“There’s Fajr, which is early in the morning, at dawn. Then Zuhr during the daytime, then Asr in the evening, like right about now. And then Maghrib, which is like right at sunset and then Isha at night. I wanted to pray Asr. I mean, I’m new here. This is my first day. This place is huge, and I don’t even know where to pray.
“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen. But, I don’t blame them. It’s the media that put that picture in their heads so they’re just going to have it and it, it’s going to make them feel uncomfortable. I was kind of scared right now. But I just did it. I relied on God. I went over to the corner and just prayed.”
For a PDF version of this story from the original publication date, Aug. 25, click here.
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John Allison, the former CEO of BB&T, believes in a hard currency and no Federal Reserve.
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Abdul Razak Ali Artan was killed by a police officer after the car-and-knife ambush.
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Why the left weeps for evil dictators, Trump tweets about voter fraud, and the Romney mess.
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You may recognize this voice. Here's a video from "The YouTuber Formerly Known As Thorium." I'm mirroring this with his permission, although he's told me tha...
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Congressman Price has already proposed a replacement for Obamacare. He has proposed . . .
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A Facebook post by Abdul Razak Ali Artan rants against America and lauds Anwar Awalki, imam to the most bloodthirsty Muslim terrorists.
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The documentary film featured the personal testimonies of ex-Muslims who have faced death threats, severe abuse and ostracization [sic] from their communities for leaving Islam….Some students found the event insensitive given the political climate, while others thought the event promoted discrimination.
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Black Lives Matter thanks Castro for harboring domestic terrorists.
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This is crazy. The Associated Press released new guidelines for using the term “alt right” in association with Trump supporters. ...
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Rational argument and good policy cannot win against the emotional appeal of railing against elites. Just ask Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard
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Following his conscience...
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With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed.
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Trump will meet with Romney on Tuesday following a first secretary of state interview on Nov. 19. MSNBC reports Trump is 'furious' with Kellyanne Conway for slamming the idea of a Romney pick.
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Trump is reportedly close to naming Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) his Health and Human Services secretary.
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No obvious candidate, however, is waiting in the wings to step up and rebuild the party.
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Progressive activists used a brutal knife attack at Ohio State University on Monday as a pretext for demanding stricter gun control laws.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/11/21/hamilton-star-lectured-pence-fire-racist-sexist-tweets/
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Democrats are unenthusiastic about the recount effort being mounted by Jill Stein of the Green Party, seeing it as a futile effort that serves only to distract opponents of President-elect Donald Trump’s policy and personnel decisions.
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Perhaps nothing tilted the 2016 election in Trump’s favor more than the media.
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Ok, either Tim Kaine has a bizarre and misplaced amount of sympathy for a guy who used his car and then a large knife to attack fellow OSU students with before police justifiably shot the attacker dead, OR he was quick to denounce an act of gun violence that didn’t exist. The only guns used …
