He landed an engineering scholarship at West Virginia Institute of Technology and has a master's degree from Princeton.

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Antonio has a particular soft spot for COCA. The center gave him a scholarship when he was 16, a move that launched his dance career.

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Through decades of scholarship, writing (including numerous books and almost innumerable articles) and public commentary, he has helped to define the difference between peaceable, law-abiding, tolerant and pro-Western Muslims and "Islamists" who are none of the above.

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