| According to all medical encyclopaedias
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| | Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula
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| and psychiatric reference books,
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| | before the coming of Jesus and Mohammed,
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| schizophrenia is any of a group of
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| | and during the time they realized their
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| psychotic disorders usually characterized
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| | miracles, people continued to die by the
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| by withdrawal from reality, illogical
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| | droves at the same early age. Nothing
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| patterns of thinking, delusions, and
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| | improved while they spread their gospel.
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| hallucinations, being accompanied in
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| | Not the food supply of the country, not
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| varying degrees by other emotional,
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| | the level of health, not the quality or
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| behavioral, or intellectual disturbances.
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| | the quantity of housing, and not even the
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| Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine
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| | level of crime or household violence.
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| imbalances in the brain and defects of
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| | Once they died and rose to Heaven, where
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| the frontal lobe and is caused by
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| | they supposedly took better care of their
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| genetic, other biological, and
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| | people for they could lobby more directly
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| psychosocial factors.
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| | God, the miserable living conditions of
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| Just about everything of what is said in
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| | those two territories remained as bad as
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| the Bible and the Koran about the
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| | before. Hundreds of years went by and the
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| founders of those two creeds, points in
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| | people of the region prayed
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| the direction of a biochemical imbalance
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| | uninterruptedly to the God that Jesus and
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| in their brain. These men showed systemic
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| | Mohammed had peddled, but there was still
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| signs of delusion in their behavior.
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| | no improvement.
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| They claimed to have heard heavenly
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| | When life finally started to improve, in
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| voices, which is a typical symptom of
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| | the nineteenth and twentieth century, it
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| this disease. People with schizophrenia
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| | was not because their prayers were
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| tend to hear, see, feel or smell things
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| | finally answered but because there was an
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| that are not there. Just as in a dream,
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| | inordinate amount of scientific and
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| where fantastic events can not be
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| | technological discoveries.
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| distinguished from real ones. Thus, the
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| | The religions that Jesus and Mohammed
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| hallucination of a voice is perceived in
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| | founded have never delivered concrete
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| the brain just like a real person
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| | benefits to the Middle East or to any
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| talking.
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| | other region of the world. There have
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| In present times psychiatrists and
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| | been numerous unsubstantiated claims, but
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| psychologists have reported millions of
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| | non that could be quantified in a serious
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| cases of people who claim identical
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| | way or that could be classified as
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| things, consisting of two or more voices
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| | progress.
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| conversing with each other. However,
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| | They on the contrary mislead the world
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| nobody else has ever been able to hear
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| | in the wrong direction and in doing that,
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| the voices. Not the doctors, not the
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| | hindered progress. Over the past two
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| nurses, and not even the family members
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| | thousand years, the religions they
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| of the patient. That was exactly the
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| | created have systemically restrained the
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| situation for Jesus and Mohammed. Only
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| | advance of science, which is the only
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| they heard the voices and it was not
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| | thing that brings wealth to humanity.
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| because they were the chosen ones. It was
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| | Despite the harm that they have caused,
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| simply because the others did not suffer
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| | they cannot be blamed for misleading
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| from that neurological disequilibrium.
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| | humanity. The reason they cannot be
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| Since in modern times religion does not
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| | blamed is because they were sick. They
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| play a powerful role in the lives of
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| | were mentally ill and cerebral illnesses
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| people, many of the persons assuring to
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| | are beyond the control of the person that
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| have heard voices did not claim it came
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| | suffers from them. Schizophrenia is due
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| from God. In ancient times when the
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| | to genetic, biological or adverse
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| belief in the divine was omnipresent,
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| | psychosocial factors.
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| everybody assured it came from above.
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| | It is not clear whether the cause
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| Whether in the past or in present times,
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| | driving Jesus and Mohammed to behave like
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| in all cases the person always clings to
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| | they did was genetic, biological,
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| these beliefs even after the beliefs are
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| | psychosocial, or if it was a mixture of
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| shown to be false. That is a typical
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| | two or more of those factors. Whatever
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| symptom and that is what Jesus and
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| | the cause, the fact is that they were
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| Mohammed did. In their times many
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| | both victims of circumstance.
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| contested their claims with strong
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| | However, it is almost a certainty that
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| rational arguments but both clung on to
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| | the third factor played an important
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| their unsubstantiated ideas.
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| | role. The extreme violence of their times
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| It is human nature to explain things
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| | and the deplorable misery of the epoch
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| simplistically and religions excel in
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| | played a major part, for such atrocious
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| simplifying things when trying to
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| | conditions tend to push people into
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| explicate any phenomenon. Due to the
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| | efforts of mental escapism. Just as a
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| total absence of scientific information
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| | child who is regularly beaten and
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| in the ancient times in which those two
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| | sexually abused tends to seek refuge in a
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| characters lived, it was inevitable that
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| | fantastic world of myths and legends, so
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| they and their contemporaries would
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| | do adults who are confronted with
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| interpret that situation as a divine
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| | terrible conditions that seem
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| calling.
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| | insurmountable take refuge in a world of
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| Illogical patterns of thinking, is
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| | fancies.
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| another common expression of this mental
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| | The poverty and the violence of the
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| illness and both men experienced it. The
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| | times were indeed insurmountable and it
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| structure of their thoughts was
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| | was only until the nineteenth and
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| completely detached from reality and
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| | twentieth century that the Middle East
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| there was never an effort to search for
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| | and the rest of the world started to
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| correlations or establish causality
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| | experience some significant improvement
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| linkages. These men never substantiated
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| | in living conditions. In that two-hundred
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| their arguments with statistical evidence
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| | year period, life expectancy in the
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| or with historical facts, basing
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| | Middle East went from twenty in 1800 to
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| everything on anecdotes and so called
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| | sixty eight in the year 2000.
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| commands from God.
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| | To understand the dangers that
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| Withdrawal from reality and the
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| | schizophrenia can cause when people who
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| experiencing of hallucinations are also
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| | suffer from it attain positions of
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| typical symptoms, and both men were
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| | influence in a nation or in the world, it
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| completely delusional. They thought they
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| | is worth pointing at what the latest
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| could walk over water, move mountains,
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| | research has revealed about the worst war
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| feed the masses, and cure diseases. The
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| | of all times.
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| truth of the matter is that the
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| | The Second World War was the sole
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| historians of the time did not report any
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| | responsibility of Adolph Hitler and new
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| of these events. Given the large scale
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| | studies show that the Austrian suffered
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| following that these men had in Palestine
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| | from schizophrenia. In Hitler's family
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| and in the Arabian Peninsula
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| | there was a long history of this disease
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| respectively, it was inevitable that
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| | and in his case the main variable causing
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| something as huge as the supply of food
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| | it was clearly genetic. However, the
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| and medicine to a hungry and ill
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| | psychosocial factors seem to have also
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| population would have been recorded in
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| | played a part for he was brutally beaten
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| some way. However, nothing was reported.
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| | by his father, he became orphaned at an
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| What was reported was the violent way in
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| | early age, lived in dire poverty once his
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| which Mohammed instituted his belief in
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| | parents died, and experienced the horrid
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| the peninsula, for he waged war to impose
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| | savagery of trench war during the First
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| his will.
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| | World War.
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| What was also reported was the continued
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| | The biochemical imbalance in the brain
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| misery and sickness of the population of
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| | of Hitler caused the death of fifty
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| both lands. There were no such miracles
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| | million people and left traumatized
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| as the transformation of uneatable goods
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| | several generations of Europeans, Jews
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| into food and wine. Life expectancy was
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| | and others who suffered.
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| of just eighteen years of age in
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