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When religious spaces become political battlegrounds

The new imam at our mosque preaches politics more than prayer and half the congregation loves it while the other half is walking away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The merger of spiritual and political authority creates divisions that fragment communities along ideological rather than devotional lines.

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