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Dissident Syrian soccer player reflects protesters’ greater religiosity

Dissident Syrian soccer player reflects protesters’ greater religiosity

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Jun 17, 2012
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By James M. Dorsey
A celebrated national soccer team goalkeeper, singer of revolutionary folk songs and cheerleader of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the besieged city of Homs, in a sign of the protesters becoming more religious, is increasingly couching his public remarks in Islamic terms while at the same time seeking to keep …

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