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Prayer Is Political

Zealots at the Gate

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Around People

Prayer played an important role in the Arab Spring, says Dr. Peter Bergen. He argues that prayer can have a placebo effect on people who think it is giving them strength. The mosque has been used as a place of mobilization and counter-mobilization by security forces since 9/11., he adds.

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