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Voices: Why am I being told I’m a ‘sinner’ on my way to work?

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They say the road to Hell is paved to with good intentions, but is that really true? Generally speaking, when somebody has good intentions, they tend to put in some effort to ensure that their good intentions lead to good results. Surely the road to Hell is paved with baffling, half-baked intentions that don’t really work out, that the intender then tries to defend to by claiming “But you don’t understand! My intentions! They were so good!”

The to display a “[Islamic epithet] of the is one of those intentions that sounds good on paper, but whose execution probably could have used a few extra minutes in the oven before it could truly be considered “good”.

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