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In most Muslim countries Islam is still the ultimate criterion of group identity and loyalty. It is Islam which distinguishes between self and other, between insider and outsider, between brother and stranger.

— Bernard Lewis

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Source: The Political Language of Islam, University Of Chicago Press, 2018, p. 4, ISBN 9780226220154.
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