The perception of Zelaya representing some populist movement comparable to the FMLN or the Sandinistas is a fantasy.

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What we have seen for literally about the past two decades now, the black community being used as a pawn, being used as a wedge by the conservative right to try to carve gay and lesbian people out of the broader civil rights movement with the perception that the black community are the gatekeepers.

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Because of such tensions, the strongest glue holding the Islamist movement together aside from the declaration of faith remains the perception that Islam faces enemies.

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What unites its practitioners, by and large, is subscription to the all-too-common perception of Zionism as an offshoot of European imperialism, or at the very least as an aggressive and expansionist movement.

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