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It\u2019s another super-quiet morning in the foreign press:<\/strong> The lone piece of note is brought to us by Reuters<\/a>, which says that Al Azhar scholars returning from Afghanistan are hoping that their tolerant teachings on Islam will survive hardline Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s another super-quiet morning in the foreign press: The lone piece of note is brought to us by Reuters, which says that Al Azhar scholars returning from Afghanistan are hoping that their tolerant teachings on Islam will survive hardline Taliban rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[434,2058,72,149,435],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-557585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-azhar","tag-enterpriseam","tag-religion","tag-taliban","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f79b01ed-d8c8-41b2-9d50-62d9a7a2f394","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[557561],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nAl Azhar scholars hope for Taliban tolerance - 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