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interesting point about muslim women. how do men check them out in the tents they are required to wear? as far as Persian women i have known,they were mostly DRs so smarter than average. looks waaay above average,bodies and faces. several said that they left intending to not go back ever as they didn't want to wear tents again. their Islam was very minimal if it existed at all.
I met some beautiful and intelligent Persian women when I was in graduate school. Their families all left Iran when the Shah was overthrown. Their stories about getting out were amazing. Most left everything to come here. Nothing like what you see today.
 
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interesting point about muslim women. how do men check them out in the tents they are required to wear? as far as Persian women i have known,they were mostly DRs so smarter than average. looks waaay above average,bodies and faces. several said that they left intending to not go back ever as they didn't want to wear tents again. their Islam was very minimal if it existed at all.


According to the most fundamental followers of the religion, the only "acceptable" way for a man to court a woman is by seeking out her father or another male household authority figure and talking to him about it. To them, any man that the woman is communicating with or dating would be "non-mahram", even if they both love each other. Ironically, it seems to only be the creepy and violently misogynistic Muslim incels who insist that not only their own female relatives but other women as well have to abide by such an artifact.

Culturally, Persians are among the most secular of Muslims even if they actually adhere to some parts of the religion. Most 'cultural Muslims', ie., the ones who were brought up in the cultural fabric of MENA, practice the faith much as modern Christians do. They adhere to the parts which establish their cultural identity and reject other hadiths that depict or encourage violent or immoral acts. Amazighs (Berbers of North Africa) are mostly the same way too. When Hazizah and I were together, the only member of her family who did not agree to us being together was her grandmother. In the beginning, she always referred to me as 'the non-mahram guy' and expressed fears of "how Hazizah would fare if she is with a non-Mahram. Would he respect her religion?" Her grandmother was the only person in the family who was actually religious and wore a hijab at all times, and it was this very religiousness which led to her accepting us within a year. She eventually said that "if it is Allah's will that the two of us should find each other and be together, then that is how it is to be". Everybody was stunned at just how protective I am of her and how I made things to ensure that she could observe her own faith while she was with me. Her brother, like most other Algerians who care far more about soccer than politics or religion, always jokes with me to this day that I had "learned so much about Islam just by being with Hazizah that I had probably taken the shahada 100 times without knowing". LOL. Her grandmother in 2010 pulled me aside and asked me "even if in the future if you two are not together or anything else happens, would you still be a brother to Hazizah always? You know everything scares her and we all know that she feels the safest when she is with you?" And my reply was that this was already a promise that was made just as we met. And where I come from, promises and steel are hardened in the same foundries...

"I'm sorry' are two words you never have to say to me..."
-Rip Wheeler. Yellowstone S2EP04
 
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Glamorous Florida judge in big trouble over rogue courtroom behavior​

At the center of the controversy is a moment that was captured on courtroom audio in February 2024, when Moon confronted attorney Michael Jones after a hearing, questioning why he hadn't returned a call about joining her reelection campaign committee.

The call had been placed from her personal cellphone outside of work hours a month earlier. Under Florida's judicial rules, such outreach is allowed as long as it is limited, indirect, and kept strictly outside the courtroom.
 
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“The problem we have had is limiting the potential of drugs to sick people. We could be more like Wrigley’s Gum…it has long been my dream to make drugs for healthy people. To sell to everyone.”
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Taiwan may get ride of tariffs, but they still have additional taxes on imports. Such as the 5 % VAT tax on anything over $2000 NT, which is around $67 US, and the business tax of 5% on imports. Tariffs can be 0. However, there still would be in effect is a 5% to 10% tariffs on goods from the USA into Taiwan; just under a different name.

New cars can have up to 67% tariffs on them. That's one reason Ford has a joint venture with Ford Lio Ho Motor Co. in Taiwan to build Ford small vehicles. The US car manufactures all have joint ventures with Taiwanese car manufactures to get around these tariffs. Honda and Toyota have manufacturing in Taiwan and also license manufacturing to Taiwanese car companies.