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COMMENTS: Islamists Suffer Setback
Enough votes are in from the provincial elections in Iraq that ABC's Jim Sciutto was able to call a "landslide victory" for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a "crushing defeat for Shiite religious parties." The decline in the clout of political Islam is not only in evidence at the ballot box, Sciutto reported, it can also be seen on Baghdad's streets: Friday prayers draw smaller crowds to the mosques; liquor stores no longer fear of vigilante vandalism and have reopened; and young women "can safely refuse to wear a veil."
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