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Reducing Middle East tensions potentially lessens sectarianism and opens doors for women

Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major shifts in how rivalry for leadership of the Muslim world and competition to define Islam in the 21stcentury is playing out in a world in which Middle Eastern states can no longer depend on the United States coming to their defence.

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