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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY AMAL BELALLOUFI Mourshidates, female religious guides appointed by the Algerian religious affairs ministry to spread the good word of Islam and a message of tolerance, read the Koran, Islam's holy book, at the Ennidal mosque in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on February 22, 2015. Hundreds of female religious guides have been at the forefront of Algeria's battle against Islamic radicalisation since the civil war that devastated the North African country in the 1990s. AFP PHOTO / FAROUK BATICHE (Photo credit should read FAROUK BATICHE/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY AMAL BELALLOUFI Mourshidates, female religious guides appointed by the Algerian religious affairs ministry to spread the good word of Islam and a message of tolerance, read the Koran, Islam's holy book, at the Ennidal mosque in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on February 22, 2015. Hundreds of female religious guides have been at the forefront of Algeria's battle against Islamic radicalisation since the civil war that devastated the North African country in the 1990s. AFP PHOTO / FAROUK BATICHE (Photo credit should read FAROUK BATICHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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