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Quote of the Day: Abu Bakr Naji

Ron Ribiat

“The increase in savagery is not the worst thing that can happen now or in the previous decade or those before it. Rather, the most abominable of the levels of savagery is [still] less than stability under the order of unbelief.”

— Abu Bakr Naji, from his 2006 book, “The Management of Savagery,” as quoted in The Washington Post in an article on the seeds of the Islamic State’s brutality.

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