It also increases the pressure on Mr Sayeed and his Congress partners to drop the healing touch for the heavy hand.

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Sayeed, religious adviser to the Saudi-backed Muslim Students Association at Columbia University.

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"If you're male, you're going to have to go through the rectum, " said Dr. Sayeed Ikramuddin, director of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

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