Most modern Middle Eastern political murders are religiously motivated.

Evidence

In the modern Middle East there have been many murders—kings, prime ministers, other ministers, intellectuals, writers, most of them by religiously motivated murderers. Apart from Sadat, the two most celebrated victims were the Persian Prime Minister ’Alı¯ Razma¯ra¯, killed by the Fida¯’iya¯n-i Islam in 1951, and the Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Noqrashı¯ killed by the Muslim Brethren in 1948. The list is long and may still grow longer. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 579

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Category: Factual Claims

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