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Hardline Shia Cleric Issues Fatwa

by Rory McCarthy October 10, 2008October 5, 2021

Baghdad’s most powerful Shia cleric warned yesterday that he would use a “hand of iron” to impose an extreme vision of Islam that could seriously challenge America’s secular ambit

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