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"ref": "2015, Rev. Stephen Jumaat Abdul-Razaq, Islam: The Armageddon Bomb",
"text": "They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces",
"type": "quotation"
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"To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To support (a cause, a decision, etc.) using one's influence; to endorse."
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