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Mufid's secrets. For more than a decade, he'd been touring the country with the popular Arabic singing troupe Al-Sakhra. If he had muffled his political views about the Middle East while at City Hall, the Arabic lyrics he sang on weekend gigs all across the country left no doubt about his true
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Mufid performed for the band Al Sakhra ("The Rock"). It performed "stridently anti-Semitic" songs on coast-to-coast tours in the United States. In addition to singing, Mufid performed skits on stage. His band was afterwards called Al Nojoum.
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