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Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2005
With the death of Prophet Muhammad and Abu Bakr’s hold on the caliphate, Islam simply served as a pretext for the ruler and his decisions and then as a pretext for the clerics serving the rulers. This has blinded Muslims’ understanding of the role of political opposition within their religion.
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