Steven Hassan is an American licensed mental health counselor who has written extensively on the subject of cults.
Boom. What was the original pronunciation?
Well, my understanding is back in the old days.
It was Sam the Butcher and Joe the Barber.
And my Greek grandfather was a chazan, which is a singer of holy songs,
like a cantor would be the term now.
And when my grandfather came to Ellis Island, he didn't speak English,
and they wrote it up as H-A-S-S-A-N.
And so I've lived my life being thought of as an Arab,
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