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Alaa Zaidaan and his family fled the Iraqi capital Baghdad for Jordan in late 2013 after he was repeatedly attacked by Islamist militants. Zaidaan's family are Sabeans, a minority sect belonging to the gnostic religion Mandaeism. His family now lives in a
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