Valiant Pakistan Christian needs YOUR HELP

Shamim Masih and wife Namja

John R. Houk

© September 21, 2015

You may have seen Shamim Masih’s name on many a guest post on my blogs. Shamim is from Pakistan with, in my opinion, an unfortunate circumstance. He is a Christian in a Muslim majority nation that claims the odd duality of being a secular republic and an Islamic republic.

The Western Union link to send funds to Shamim is this: Send Money Online (You may need to include Shamim’s phone number for identification purposes: +92-300-642-4560).

Pakistan became an independent nation in 1947 when the former British raj divided India along the lines of religion; viz. a West and East Pakistan as Muslim and the majority of the Indian subcontinent as Hindu. In both sides of the partition there were and still are minorities smaller than the Muslim majority and Hindu majority.

The person credited for pushing the partition of India was Mohammed (alternate spelling include Muhammad) Ali Jinnah who viewed that an independent India would marginalize the significant sized Muslim minority on the subcontinent. Jinnah promised a secular republic that all people no matter their religious faith would have political equal rights, but the emphasis would be Islamic. The problem for Pakistan is that Jinnah died a little over a year after Pakistan independence in 1947.

Some people of note wonder how successful Jinnah would have been to institute the vision he proclaimed for Pakistan if he had lived longer. To make things short in regard to Pakistan’s current political status, Pakistan quickly devolved into an Islamic Supremacist nation in which political rights and privileges became dominated by the Sunni-Islam majority. Roughly this translates that all the minorities of Pakistan (including Shia-Muslims and Ahmadi-Muslims) were treated with disdain and persecution. This disdain was institutionalized by the Sunni leaders that dominated the Pakistani government.

Just as a short aside, India has developed a more democratic representative government than Pakistan. The Indian governing elites have had a better history in at least attempting political equality between Hindus vs. the minorities. BUT there has been a history of strife between the Hindu majority and India’s minorities and even within Hinduism due to that religion’s caste system.

We don’t hear much about Pakistan in the American press except once in a while in terms of cooperating and/or hindering the war being prosecuted in Afghanistan due to Islamic terrorism perpetrated on September 11, 2001. Islamic terrorists under the guise of al Qaeda attacked American soil that resulted in nearly 3,000 immediate deaths which grows even in this present day as the past rescue effort has had continuous effects. BUT the American press should pay more attention on how Pakistan’s Sunni leaders and populace has made that nation one of the most dangerous for minorities to live in for the entire world:

IN ITS latest global report, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) described Pakistan as presenting one of the "worst situation(s) in the world" in respect of liberty of thought. It cited the authorities' "grossly indequate [sic]" response to attacks on Shia processions and mosques which had cost hundreds of lives; the fact that the Ahmadis, who follow a religious teacher of the 19th century, are denied the right to call themselves Muslims, deprived of many other civil rights, and virtually disenfranchised; forced conversions and kidnappings affecting both Christians and Hindus; and above all a blasphemy law with a very low threshold of proof, which can easily be invoked in the course of petty quarrels unrelated to religion. 

 Over the past month, the news about religion in Pakistan has become worse, whether this is measured by the behaviour of officialdom or the horrors suffered by ordinary folk at the hands of terrorists or fanatics. … READ ENTIRETY (How to stop going from bad to worse; By B.C.; The Economist – Erasmus; 3/27/15 15:09)

Shamim Masih (far right) with Katchi Abadi slum Christians

Shamim Masih is a Christian Human Rights activists who is also a journalist by profession. In the last few years he has been a voice crying in the wilderness trying to expose this blatant inhumanity that effects Pakistani Christians. Here is just a small example of the risks a Christian faces in Pakistan:

It all started with the promise of what seemed to be an innocent shopping trip with a friend. But when the 12-year-old Christian girl traveled into the town of Lahore with her friend one day last January, she had no idea that everything in her world was about to go terribly wrong. 

 She was kidnapped by the friend’s uncle and driven more than 120 miles away, where she was subsequently raped and forced to sign papers consenting to marriage to the man. And when she refused to give in to his demands that she convert from Christianity to Islam, she was severely beaten. 

 The nightmare continued for the next eight months, as the girl was repeatedly raped and beaten until she finally converted. Fortunately, she eventually managed to escape from her abductor and contacted her parents to tell them of her whereabouts. 

 But the family’s troubles were far from over. When the kidnapping was investigated, it was revealed that, although the girl’s father had reported her missing eight months before, the police had never looked into her disappearance. And when Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a militant Islamic group, contacted the authorities about the young girl, they produced a marriage certificate claiming that she was married to one of their members — despite the fact that the legal age for marriage in Pakistan is 16. To make matters worse, the authorities suggested to the girl’s family that if the girl was not turned over to her “legal” husband, charges would be filed against them. 

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 The State of Christian Persecution in Pakistan 

 ·       The abduction, forced marriage, and conversion of Christian girls by Muslims has become a disturbing trend in Pakistan; in fact, it is estimated that as many as 700 girls are abused in this manner each year. In most of these cases, the authorities rarely take action and the girls are never returned to their families. If the girls are raped and become pregnant, it is nearly impossible for the courts to release them from their captors. 

 ·       If a girl does manage to leave her Muslim family and attempts to return to Christianity, she is considered an apostate and is liable to be killed, despite the fact that she was forcibly converted. 

 ·       According to Jonathan Racho with International Christian Concern, “Rape has been used as a weapon of persecution against Christian girls in Pakistan, where Christians are treated as third-class citizens. In the Muslim majority country, Christian girls are particularly vulnerable to these types of crimes because Muslim authorities are reluctant to protect them when their rights are being violated by Muslims.” 

 ·       Nazir Bhatti, president of the Pakistan Christian Congress, has stated that over 99.9 percent of rape cases involving Christian women go unreported. 

 … (Persecution In Pakistan; Christian Freedom International)

Shamim has been reporting on these kind of incidents for quite some time. In case you haven’t figured it out, this means Shamim Masih risks his life every time his name is on something in print.

Easter Packages for prisoners outside Adayla Jail April 2015 

Shamim, as far as I am aware of, is not an ordained minister, BUT he often does the work of a minister by visiting the Christian imprisoned, Christian victims of violent Muslims and I have viewed pictures of him involved in ministry to Pakistani Christian children. 

Rape Victims - Sehrish (18yrs) & Farzana (14yrs) with Shamim 12-2014

I want to emphasize the work of Shamim because is a guy VERY WORTHY of financial support. I’ll be honest to my fellow Americans. Supporting Shamim is not going to be a tax deduction unless you find a 501(c)(3) organization in the USA willing to send funds to this valiant Christian in Pakistan.

Photo Right - Shamim Masih with Christian Students

Pakistan Christmas with Shamim Masih ministering

The best way to support Shamim Masih directly is through Western Union which will exchange your American dollars into Pakistani rupees. Shamim merely has to go to the nearest Western Union agent to where he lives. The Western Union link to send funds to Shamim is this: Send Money Online (You may need to include Shamim’s phone number for identification purposes: +92-300-642-4560).

If you live outside of the USA Western Union is quite international. Find the link for your language and Western Union will exchange your currency into Pakistan Rupees as well. Go to Western Union HERE and you can choose the nation you are from and the language will change accordingly and currency you can use.

Western Union

You should also be aware Shamim Masih is a family probably the same as you and I. He has children. Children need to go to school to receive an education. According to Wikipedia here is the Pakistan official stance on education for children:

… Article 25-A of Constitution of Pakistan obligates the state to provide free and compulsory quality education to children of the age group 3 to 16 years. "The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such a manner as may be determined by law".^[3] 

 The education system in Pakistan is generally divided into six levels: Primary education (for the age from 2.5 to 5 years); primary (grades one through five); middle (grades six through eight); high (grades nine and ten, leading to the Secondary School Certificate or SSC); intermediate (grades eleven and twelve, leading to a Higher Secondary (School) Certificate or HSC); and university programs leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees.^[4] (Education in Pakistan; Wikipedia; Last Modified – 9/11/15 18:35)

Public Education in Pakistan is based on the Islamic Supremacist model:

Islamic extremism in Pakistan has its roots in the country’s educational system. As long as religious hatred is taught in school text books, discrimination and intolerance towards minorities will continue to thrive among young people. 

 Schools are at the heart of the problem but at the same time, they are the key to defeating terrorism and religious extremism in Pakistan. Many are adamant about this: experts, educators, bishops, civil society organisations, politicians and scholars alike. “For as long as the jihad begins in the classroom and religious hatred is fostered through state school text books, it will not be easy to imagine this country as one that exudes tolerance, a peace-building country that strives for harmony,” Professor James Paul Anjum explained to Vatican Insider. Mr. Anjum is a Christian and President of the Pakistan Minorities Teachers’ Association (PMTA). (The christians minorities in Pakistan: the problem in the education system; Written by Early Christians; EarlyChristians.org; 7/28/15 00:00)

Christian children that are brave enough to attend Pakistan’s public schools will face discrimination and derision from the Sunni Muslims. Their texts books will about how peaceful Muhammad was even though he slaughtered Jews and Christians as he pillaged his way to dominate the Arabian Peninsula. While you listen and read this as a Christian student you probably will learn that Jesus not only never died on the Cross but also was not the Son of God. So you can guess the level of education for Christian children is much diminished unless you pay for that education.

… In Pakistan it is very common for Christians to be relegated to work in the least desirable fields. Among many jobs the most common are cleaning people’s private residences and collecting and disposing of garbage. There are several reasons this is so but one of the most obvious reasons is that the Christian community in Pakistan cannot afford to educate itself. Education is expensive and the Christian community lacks the resources to pay for a proper education. The inability to access a better education causes Christians to hand down these bad jobs to their children and perpetuate a negative cycle. (Need for Education in the Christian Community of Pakistan; Christians in Pakistan)

A few days ago I received this email from my valiant Christian friend Shamim Masih:

This is the actual situation, I am suffering with: Today the school management sent back to home my children due the non-payment of school fee for the last three months.

I queried Shamim what kind of tuition he was looking at for his children in terms of U.S. dollars. Shamim emailed back $300.

Surely there ten Americans willing to donate $30 or thirty Americans willing to donate $10. Even if Shamim receives an excess of his children’s educational needs, he is truly a workman worthy of your support. You may even wish to send a monthly support for Shamim and his family’s needs especially as long as the Lord is providing protection in an Islamic Supremacist nation.

The Western Union link to send funds to Shamim is this: Send Money Online (You may need to include Shamim’s phone number for identification purposes: +92-300-642-4560).

JRH 9/21/15

Take Action TODAY to Protect the Preborn

The House passed a Bill on Friday 9/18/15 to criminalize live harvesting from a baby that was supposed to be killed by an abortion. Write your Senator that they pass their version on September 22. Here is the Focus on the Family email with a link that will send you to a page that matches with your Senator according to your Zip Code. Help criminalize actions such abortion actions as Planned Parenthood having a baby scheduled for a womb murder pulled out alive for more viable body parts to sell.

JRH 9/19/15

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Pro-Life Vote Set for U.S. Senate on Tues., Sept. 22

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Action Alert: The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on an important pro-life bill Tuesday, Sept. 22, and we need your help.

The bill, the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act" (H.R. 36), prohibits late-term abortion beginning at 20 weeks after fertilization except in limited circumstances.

The measure passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May and represents one of the best opportunities in recent years at the federal level to reduce the number of abortions, and serve as a major blow in the courts to Roe v Wade.

This is a key opportunity to speak up for defenseless preborn babies by contacting your two U.S. Senators and asking them to support and vote for H.R. 36.

It's easy to make your voice heard in support of this bill before Tuesday:

·       If you want to contact your two U.S. Senators this weekend, we suggest using our Action Center to email messages to their offices.

·       If you can call today (Friday) or Monday, Sept. 21 (the day before the vote), please call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121, and leave a message with both of your senators' offices.

When you call your two senators:

·       Be prepared to give your name and street address to verify where you live. This is standard procedure with every Senate office.

·       Then, respectfully ask the senator to SUPPORT and VOTE FOR the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," H.R. 36.

Thank you for being a voice for the voiceless.

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To Stop Iran, Contact These Senators

ACT for America has sent an email with the contact link for those Senators that have not taken a public stand of for or against Obama’s Iran Nuke Deal. If you live in that particular State and you comprehend that Iran is trustworthy and intends a nuke missile whether delayed or acted upon clandestinely, THEN contact your Senator to express your incredulity that Obama has pushed this deal as better than no deal. The fact is it’s a pay me now or pay me later deal in which Iran gets nuclear WMD. How about taking military action against their nuke facilities for pay me NEVER.

Congratulate those two brave Democrat Senators opposing the deal.

Castigate your Democrat Senator that supports Iran’s path to nuclear WMD.

JRH 8/14/15

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To Stop Iran, Contact These Senators

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ACTION ALERT UPDATE: Please Contact These U.S. Senators

Thank you for all that you've already done in working to stop President Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran. Thousands of people just like you have called or written to tell the Senate that Iran must not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon.

Some Senators have publicly declared their position on the bill since the last time we wrote.

Please, contact the Senators who have not announced a position and tell them to oppose the deal, and tell the Senators who have said they will vote in favor of the deal that they need to change their minds! Be sure to thank the Senators who have said they oppose the deal. Doing so has not been easy for them.

We've heard that a number of Senators will not accept email from people who do not live in their state, so the best way to reach the entire list is via phone.

Thank you for all that you do! Remember, if we all do a little, together we can accomplish a lot!


No Public Position Announced:

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT
Phone: (202) 224-2823
Email: www.blumenthal.senate.gov/contact/

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR
Phone: (202) 224-5244
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Phone: (202) 224-5852
Email: www.bennet.senate.gov/contact/

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-NDPhone: (202) 224-2043
Email: www.heitkamp.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MOPhone: (202) 224-6154
Email: www.mccaskill.senate.gov/contact

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Email: www.cardin.senate.gov/contact/

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NYPhone: (202) 224-6542
Email: http://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/email-chuck

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJPhone: (202) 224-4744
Email: menendez.senate.gov/contact/


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Sen. Brian Schatz, D-HIPhone: (202) 224-3934
Email: www.schatz.senate.gov/contact

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NYPhone: (202) 224-4451
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Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FLPhone: (202) 224-5274
Email: www.billnelson.senate.gov/contact-bill

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VAPhone: (202) 224-4024
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CAIR-St Louis Postpones its Propaganda Event

John R. Houk

© July 23, 2014

On July 15 I posted “What to do at Radical Islamic Events on U.S. Soil”. The post was inspired by an alert sent by Florida Family Association concerning CAIR-St Louis sponsoring a media event with the purpose of:

“…this event is get members of the press and local Muslim leaders in the same room once a year. During the program CAIR-St. Louis representatives share unique advice on how to cover Islam, the American Muslim community, build contacts within local Muslim leaders, discuss trends on how the media portrays Islam, pitch insightful story ideas, and share Ramadan through breaking of the fast (iftar) and dinner.” (CAIR St. Louis July 23, 2014 media event at The Seven Gables Inn has been postponed/canceled; By FFA; Florida Family Association; email date- 7/22/2014 9:00 AM)

This was really a propaganda event in which Muslims and the local press would have been invited.

In my post I gave a precursor before cross posting the FFA alert email. The essence of my precursor is that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nefarious Radical Muslim organization with links to both the Islamic terrorists Hamas (Currently shooting missiles into Israeli cities) and the Muslim Brotherhood (currently outlawed in Egypt). Even more nefarious portrays itself as the primary Muslim civil rights group in America and has a peaceful Moderate Islamic stand in the USA. I’m not going to rehash that here so if you wish to read about the wickedness of CAIR as a national organization in which the St Louis chapter is sponsoring a propaganda event go HERE.

Today’s FFA email alert informs readers that the CAIR-St Louis Chapter “postponed” the media event. The FFA believes that good Americans concerned about Stealth Jihad in America inundated the Seven Gables Inn with complaints of allowing a Radical Muslim organization having a closed to kafir (except the local press) media event influenced the “postponement”. I pray the FFA is correct but no actual details of the postponement reason has been made public – as yet. If indeed this is the case it is a win for Counterjihad education on the nature of Islam.

JRH 7/23/14

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This Independence Day, the Health Ranger asks: What are YOU doing for freedom?

Mike Adams (aka Health Ranger) has written an Independence Day message with theme that Americans need to become of the Liberty and Freedom individuals have in the United States of America insured by the Constitution. Adams then provides a list of websites for Americans to join causes that Liberty and Freedom are the focal point. Honestly most of the websites are ones I concur with but there are a few in which I have some minor disagreements with. His longer list are given without links so I am going to do you a favor and find their web address.

JRH 7/3/14 (Hat Tip Vicki)

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This Independence Day, the Health Ranger asks: What are YOU doing for freedom?

By Mike Adams

July 03, 2014

Natural News

(NaturalNews) Commenting on other people's articles is easy. Sharing them on social networking is easy. Signing an online petition is easy, and so is forwarding an email. But this Independence Day, I'm asking all the millions of Natural News fans and readers to ask yourself this question: What are YOU doing for freedom this year?

And by that question, I mean what are you doing for freedom in the real world.

The online world is one thing, and it's a powerful thing, but it's not where the rubber meets the road. Right now is the time for all of us -- myself included -- to get off our butts and join real-world action in the name of freedom.

Find a cause for freedom and join it (or spark it!)

It doesn't matter where you fall on the political spectrum. I've found that We the People have a wide range of things we have in common, regardless of who we voted for in the last election. Everybody wants to have honest labels on food. Everybody wants to be safe from toxic pesticides, herbicides and agricultural poisons. Everybody wants the opportunity for economic prosperity in a fair and just system where hard work and innovation is rewarded. Everybody is tired of the lies and oppression of corrupt politicians, evil corporations and the lying news media. We are UNITED in these truths!

Right now, the world is waking up to revolution. Awareness, truth and liberty is spreading globally. People who are fed up with being oppressed by government incompetence and criminality are finally taking matters into their own hands to call for justice, human dignity and human rights.

As a wonderful example of this, hundreds of courageous U.S. men and women are planning a rescue mission on July 5th to demand the release of Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi -- a U.S. military veteran who has been imprisoned by the government of Mexico due to a border crossing technicality stemming from an honest road navigation error.

It's time for real American citizens to band together, march into Mexico with determination, and free our fellow citizen from prison there. Bring him home and celebrate our compassion for our fellow brothers and sisters who have suffered enough.

Human freedom is on the verge of being forever lost if not demanded now

In our nation right now, there are powerful institutions actively fighting to keep us all enslaved. Those include the government itself, the mainstream media and of course certain powerful corporations that profit from domination and monopolistic practices. It is this suffocating scourge of oppression and enslavement that has denied generations of Americans their rightful heritage of abundance, prosperity, health and happiness.

Today, many of our cities stand on the verge of collapse. In Detroit, nearly half the citizens cannot afford running water. (1) In New York, 1 in 6 families faces starvation. (2) The collapse of America into third-world conditions is happening so rapidly and unexpectedly that the United Nations may soon be called in to "rescue" city-dwellers. (3) Since 2001, America has suffered a loss of 56,000 manufacturing facilities (4), and southern towns are now being literally overrun by such a huge wave of undocumented immigrants that the Department of Homeland Security has declared a Level Four Alert. (5)

Similarly, California is experiencing a mass exodus as the burden of failed government policies and outrageous taxation drives families and businesses into bankruptcy. Illinois and Michigan have become bureaucratic nightmares of corruption and executive brutality against the citizens, and the mass militarization of local police is turning America's streets into literal war zones, where no citizen is safe.

National apathy has allowed EVIL to attain positions of power

Is this the America that once declared its independence from tyranny rule? Far from it. While too many citizens slumbered in comfort and apathy, devious, dark forces slithered into positions of corporate, government and media power. They now own the nation and run the theater... and upon the world stage they have created, they play out fables called "The News" or a "White House press conference."

But the fictions they have desperately woven are rapidly unraveling. The comatose masses are beginning to awaken in unprecedented numbers. Awareness, consciousness and courage are taking form, rising from the hearts and souls of our fellow brothers and sisters, all of whom desire the same things we do: happiness, prosperity, health, longevity and abundance. And along with those core desires, we now understand that they can only be protected when we also demand government accountability, human rights, personal liberty and privacy, personal responsibility and respect for a system of laws under which ALL men and women must operate.

This is why I wrote the song, "Revolution of the Heart." We need a global revolution, but it must be a revolution grounded in a conscious awakening, a love of life, and the steadfast courage to demand truth, justice and liberty even in the face of tremendous evil.

VIDEO: Revolution of the Heart music video - Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, Natural News

The call for global freedom is becoming urgent

This Independence Day, I urge you to find your passion for freedom and pursue it with a sense of urgency. The window of opportunity during which we can make a difference in the direction of our nation is fast closing. History is being written (and sometimes fabricated) with each ticking second of the national debt clock. Each of us is growing older at the same rate, at the same time, and this physical life is finite for us all.

What will YOU do with the minutes you have remaining? How will you express that deep spiritual truth that calls out inside you and which has the name FREEDOM?

If you're hungry for freedom, I encourage you to challenge yourself to remain open to new ideas. Explore a new buffet of ideas for your brain, and enjoy the stimulation that naturally comes from tasting new ideas and philosophical concepts.

Here are some extremely valuable online resources where you can really flex your brain and expand your knowledge of FREEDOM as it's happening right now, across our world, as history unfolds before our eyes:

* Adam Kokesh's new downloadable book (and audio book) called "FREEDOM!"http://www.adamvstheman.com/freedom

* Steve Quayle's alternative news aggregation site, which compiles some of the most startling and mind-bending headlines you've ever read:http://www.SteveQuayle.com

* The Tenth Amendment Center, which stands for human liberty and justice for allhttp://tenthamendmentcenter.com

* The amazing new alternative news aggregation website "The Liberty Mill"http://www.TheLibertyMill.com
On the Liberty Mill website, you'll find the latest headlines from all the following sources, many of which tend to run strongly toward the conservative side, but all of which have something extremely valuable to offer to the public dialog. Some of my favorite sites in this list include SHTFPlan, Lew Rockwell and SGT Report:
SGT Report

Drudge Report

Lew Rockwell

Zero Hedge

King World News

Max Keiser

SHTFPlan

Who What Why

Natural News

CNS News

Infowars

Victory Report

Breitbart

Financial Survival Network

USA Watchdog

Don't Tread On Me

Liberty Blitzkrieg

Financial Sense

What Really Happened

TF Metals Report

Activist Post

Silver Doctors

Gold Silver

Anti War

Intellihub

Freedom Outpost

Gold Silver Worlds

Prepper Recon

Economic Policy Journal

Wall Street on Parade

Western Journalism
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