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...Suskewicz says that under his leadership, HSI has been judicious in its selection of campus speakers. “The implied understanding that I was operating under…was that hateful and extremist views had been excluded from this campus,” he says...
...first, Mendy dissmisses his new friends as nothing but comic relief, caricatures who mean no harm. But slowly he begins to see that they take their extremist ideologies seriously. Amidst these loony people, Mendy finally does feel closer to God—though he now wears cool T-shirts and has cut off his side curls, Mendy’s prayers have acquired real meaning, and he utters them fervently when he thinks no one is looking...
Rising levels of education among the formerly impoverished, combined with rising levels of optimism about their future, should decrease the appeal of extremist ideologies antithetical to democracy. By hastening the demise of the regimes that stand in the way of trade and growth, we would be doing ourselves a favor and, more importantly, we would be giving entire nations an opportunity to escape their misery...
...India's nationalist government finally losing patience with its Hindu extremist allies? Last Friday, Hindu hardliners staging a protest in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya found themselves under fire from an unexpected quarter: state and federal police wielding wooden lathes and batons and firing rubber bullets and tear gas. By day's end more than 1,000 Hindu activists were in custody and another 15,000 had been loaded on to buses and trains and sent away. An outraged Ashok Singhal, leader of the rally's organizer, the militant Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was moved to declare...
...most extremist Right...