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No fundamentalist undercurrent ran through the national culture before the first war. Sufism had always been the predominant Muslim sect, and Wahhabism was a foreign, wartime import. A few times a year, Arab Wahhabis came through the village in search of recruits. They promised rations, shelter, an eternity in Paradise, and, until that day of glorious martyrdom, a monthly salary of two hundred and fifty U.S. dollars. Few young men followed the monochromatic Wahhabi faith, but many were quite wil
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― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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War had made its grip on the civilians, who were overwhelming, purely innocent and exposed to ritualised slaughters.
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