He says various factions are trying to unite these resistance forces to support candidates and influence the political process.

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His role immediately after the invasion was to unite the various competing Shiite political forces into a single bloc.

NPR: Sectarian Violence Erodes Sistani's Influence in Iraq

And the political left in the United States, for various reasons, has allied with the forces of the proponents of Islamic law in order to impose those blasphemy codes upon us under the guise of hate speech, so called.

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