Prayer Is Political
Zealots at the Gate
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The Relationship Between Prayer and Politics
Shadi Hamid: I've got a number of questions and things that I'm wrestling with when it comes to the connection between prayer and politics. One is, if you bring prayer into the political, what are some of the abusive or bad ways that that relationship can go? Another is how does the regular practice of prayer as a Muslim or as a Christian, how does it shape us as citizens? How does it change the way we think about the state or our leaders or how we interact with other citizens around us?Hamid: While there are many important differences between the Muslim practice of prayer and many Muslim practices of prayer and Christian practices of prayer, there are also some important similarities.
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