Think-ing ING means <span>denoting a verbal action, an instance of this, or its result.</span>
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The reason is because, it was one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on the US naval<span> base at Pearl Harbor
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The part of the excerpt that suggests that "Hakim-a-barber" belonged to a different religion from the speaker and her family is the following: "he said he didn't eat collards and pork was unclean."
The key word here is "unclean". This, along with Hakim's confirmation earlier in the story, suggests that Hakim accepts some of the Mulsim doctrines as his own. Muslims do not eat pork because the Holy Quran states: "<em>He has only </em><em>forbidden </em><em>to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of </em><em>swine</em><em>, and that which has been dedicated to other than God</em>."