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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
If you want to win you need to moderate, true for a jihadi rebel group as much as anyone else.
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Josh
@rohmerfan1127
Julani tells CNN: “if you’re not a hardline Salafi jihadist in your 20s, you have no heart — if you’re not an inclusive, pluralistic Islamist-nationalist in your 50s, you have no brain” x.com/fpleitgencnn/s…
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Unsyrious
@Unsyrious
You say this ironically, but moderating on policy matters, even in revolutions. Treatment of religious minorities has been as even-handed as promised.
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Tomer Stern
@tomer_stern
There was the opposite problem in 2012. Groups had to adopt increasingly extreme ideologies to compete for gulf funding. From “Alawites to their graves” to “I just read the narrow corridor” in a decade lol
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