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Katrina Lantos Swett: “When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2014
When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...
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Katrina Lantos Swett

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Links religious repression to extremism and terrorism.

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