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Opinion: The Second Fitna

Opinion: The Second Fitna

by | May 7, 2014 | Opinion

Are we in the Arab world currently living through the era of the Second Fitna (tribulation), or a new phase of post-Arab Spring democracy? The First Fitna, of course, was the period of major unrest in the early days of Islam over the assassination of the third Caliph,...