"The caliph did not want strange habits to be imported here," explained Abdoulahat Mbacke, 27, director of a Koranic school that has taken over the unused public school.
When news editors across the land facing a slow news day on Monday saw the story of a father who let his daughter drown in Dubai because he "didn't want strange men touching her", they surely couldn't believe their luck.
If you put on same clothes like they have, then its GG! Don't do this in public if you don't want strange looks.
If the alternative to happiness is not, in the binary way, unhappiness; and if happiness has become so insidious, so hypnotic a single end for a good life, why have we wanted this strange narrowing of our intent?
I wanted weird, strange, different, but it was all butterflies and swallows.
When people at dinner parties cried out, "What was Spitzer thinking?" I whispered to a friend that I knew damn well what he was thinking: He wanted some "strange," to quote the old Kris Kristofferson line.
I'm on the short list when they want really strange people.
In fact, what we want are "strange differences, special pleading, intimate half-truths, exotic accusation … fine-grained particularities of circumstance"; but we don't get them.
"I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood," she says in the video, "because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things".
