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Podcast: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Episode: South Asia replaces the Middle East as the epicentre of Muslim religious ultra-conservatism
Description: As Middle Eastern states attempt to manage their political and security differences, Muslim-majority countries are regrouping along a fault line that separates proponents of varying concepts of an authoritarian but religiously and socially more tolerant, ‘moderate Islam’ from those advocating stricter adherence to intolerant, non-pluralistic strands of the faith.Â