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‘Labels such as Shi’ite, which always carried an oppositional quality, may be formerly nonessential attributes* that have become salient in the wake of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. When disadvantaged persona who happen to be Shi’ites find an opening for criminal protest, or when those for whom Shi’ite theology means little find its vision of justice and radical revolution appropriate to their specific circumstances, an old label acquires a new violence.’

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**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 132

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