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Bahrain King: We Must Establish Center for Directing the Religious Discourse

During a meeting with 50 clerics, Bahraini King Hamid bin 'Isa Al-Khalifa proposed establishing a national oversight center to direct the religious discourse, to draw Sunnis and Shi'ites closer together, and to actualize national unity in Bahrain.

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, July 31, 2008

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