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26
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
15%
4 of 26 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Texas Democrat James Talarico’s Senate campaign accepted $3,000 from a celebrity Muslim leader who was accused of grooming female fans for sham marriages and assured husbands that Allah would “let you get away with” wife-beating — under certain conditions.
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you → accept → conditions
Nouman Ali Khan — founder of the Bayyinah Institute, an Islamic studies outfit boasting millions of fans on YouTube — cut the Texas Democrat three $1,000 checks, FEC records show.
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records → boast → checks
The most recent donation arrived Oct. 19, the day early voting opened — and one day after Talarico worked the room courting Muslim voters at a halal barbecue spot in Irving.
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Talarico → arrive → Irving
Khan was not at the halal event, a Talarico campaign official said.
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official → say → event
The Quran teacher’s reputation took a major hit in 2017, when multiple women accused him of using his celebrity among Muslim fans to draw them into relationships — in some cases quickie religious marriages they said were a cover for sex — and then pressuring them to keep their mouths shut.
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they → take → mouths
A panel of four Muslim scholars found that when women complained about his conduct, Khan “apologizes and attempts to buy their silence or threatens them,” BuzzFeed News reported.
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News → find → them
The panel’s findings reportedly included a screenshot of a nearly $7,000 bank transfer that one woman described as hush money.
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woman → include → money
Khan, for his part, denied any wrongdoing and his lawyer called the claims “unfounded.”
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lawyer → deny → claims
Two years before the allegations surfaced, Khan posted a lecture to his YouTube channel titled “Hitting Women – That’s Messed Up.”
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That → surface → Women
It opens as a condemnation of Muslim men who use scripture to justify domestic violence.
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who → open → violence
But about 10 minutes in, Khan finds a theological loophole: a situation in which a wife “is actually caught” and her husband “sees her with another man.”
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husband → find → man
“He loses his mind, and what does he do?
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he → lose → what
He hits her,” Khan said.
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Khan → hit → her
“You snap, now he hit, or he pushed her, something he did and he feels bad.
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he → snap → her
‘How could I have done that?’
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I → do → that
Allah says I will give you license in that crazy case.
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I → say → case
I’ll let you get away with that one.”
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you → let → one
The exception applies only to “repeated” and “perpetual infidelity from a wife” that “drives the man nuts,” he said, and even then, a husband should keep it to a “tap, or whatever.
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husband → apply → tap
In the same lecture, Khan turned to what he called one of the Quran’s “most unusual” scenarios: a man raising four orphaned girls may, once “they gain a certain age,” marry “one of them or two of them or three of them.”
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they → turn → them
“Is that a usual case?” Khan asked.
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Khan → ask → ?
It isn’t, he conceded, but a man marrying the orphaned girls he raised is permitted all the same.
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he → concede → girls
The Talarico campaign insisted it didn’t ask for Khan’s money.
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it → insist → money
“Our campaign did not solicit a contribution from this individual and condemns violent rhetoric in all its forms,” spokesman JT Ennis told The Post.
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Ennis → solicit → Post
“This individual is one of more than 1.6 million contributors and does not speak for our campaign.”
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individual → speak → campaign
Khan did not respond to a request for comment.
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Khan → respond → comment
The donations come as Talarico, a former teacher and Christian seminarian, competes in a dead-heat race with Republican Ken Paxton on Tuesday.
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Talarico → come → Tuesday
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