“Islam is politics or it is nothing.”

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Islamic Revolution, Bernard Lewis, The New York Review of Books, April 28, 1988, 2011-12-26 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1988/jan/21/islamic-revolution/?pagination=false,
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