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Afghanistan: a history of instability

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The Importance of Religion and Islam in Afghanistan

I want to talk a bit now about religion, because one of the aspects of this story that gets talked a lot about is religious fundamentalism. Is it reductive to see this as being a key and sor of recurring part of this history? I'm i don't think that there's any question that certainly religion and islam have played an important role in nhistory,. but it's not in any sort of singular form.

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