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  • The critical moral imperative in Islamic history — "al-amr bil-maruf wa al-nahy an al-munkar" ( "commanding right and forbidding wrong") — appears in one shape or another eight times in the Koran; for modern Islamic militants it has become a war cry.

    Ayatollah Democracy 2004

  • The critical moral imperative in Islamic history — "al-amr bil-maruf wa al-nahy an al-munkar" ( "commanding right and forbidding wrong") — appears in one shape or another eight times in the Koran; for modern Islamic militants it has become a war cry.

    Ayatollah Democracy 2004

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