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 religious texts too literally, that we have long ago lost our moral compass. 
  
 A hundred years of Western interference in the Middle East has left the 
 region so cracked with fault lines and artificial frontiers and heavy with 
 injustices that we are in no position to lecture the Islamic world on human 
 rights and values. Forget the Amalekites and the Persians and Martin Luther 
 and the Caliph Abu Bakr. Just look at ourselves in the mirror and we will 
 see the most frightening text of all. 
  
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