When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...
Katrina Lantos Swett: “When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the…”
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Links religious repression to extremism and terrorism.
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