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IKON-KHALK, RUSSIA - When Rahim Bulgarov graduated from college in southern Russia with a diploma in tourism, his teacher expected him to go on to further study, or fulfill his dream of opening a car repair shop. Instead, Bulgarov started going to the mosque with followers of a pious strain of Islam, and, according to a close relative, went to Egypt last year for several months, saying he wanted to study Arabic.

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