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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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Press release Arabic IQ 2014-06-13
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani — the al-jihad al-kifa'i (collective-duty defense) fatwa against ISIS, read by Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, Karbala, 13 June 2014 (Arabic original)
إن العراق وشعبه يواجه تحدياً كبيراً وخطراً عظيماً وإن الارهابيين لا يهدفون إلى السيطرة على بعض المحافظات كنينوى وصلاح الدين فقط بل صرحوا بأنهم يستهدفون جميع المحافظات ولا سيما بغداد وكربلاء المقدسة والنجف الأشرف ، فهم يستهدفون كل العراقيين ، ومن هنا فإن مسؤولية التصدي لهم ومقاتلتهم هي مسؤولية الجميع ولا يختص بطائفةٍ…
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Press release English IQ 2003-11-29
Ali al-Sistani — supplementary: 2003 Bremer-exchange + elected-constitutional-council doctrine
From Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (b. 1930, Iranian-born Iraqi Shia marja al-taqlid based in Najaf; one of the four Maraji al-Taqlid (Sources of Emulation) for global Shia Islam; the dominant Shia religious authority in post-2003 Iraq; gave the foundational 2003 fatwas mandating Iraqi elections and rejecting…