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June 14, 2011

LA Times: Pakistan's Sufi Muslims brave bombs to worship

by Alex Rodriguez
Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Lahore, Pakistan— Amid the throngs of Sufi Muslim followers streaming through the white marble corridors of the Data Darbar shrine, a young man in a cream-colored tunic and oversized sunglasses shuffled gingerly, guided by a brother on one side and his father on the other.

Twice a month Qasim Javed Malik comes here, a place he associates with spiritual recharging, not with the deafening clap of a suicide bomb blast, the odor of charred flesh, the blinding flash before everything went black.

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