FPI’s Zealous Minority

November 20, 2000

REZA Pahlevi is not your run-of-the-mill young man. Although just 26, he has already become the Chief of Staff of the paramilitary Islamic Defense Front (FPI), a position resembling a military rank. The FPI is an organization that operates in the field of Islamic preaching. Their principle, like some other Islamic organizations, is to invite mankind to do noble deeds (ma’ruf in Arabic) and to prevent them from doing ignoble actions (call

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