Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even if Modi is just acting the part of a Hindu fanatic, there's no doubt he is riding?and stoking?Hindu nationalism for political gain. The danger is that once Modi and the BJP hard-liners mount the tiger of hate politics, they cannot get off or, worse, cannot...
Born into a working-class family on Turkey's Black Sea coast, Erdogan moved at age 13 to Istanbul, where he joined the youth wing of a party founded by Necmettin Erbakan, architect of Turkey's political Islamic movement. Erbakan, who later briefly became Prime Minister, saw in the tall...
When it comes to describing my own affection for Potter, I’d say I fall somewhere in between fan and fanatic. I’ve read the series twice, and seen the first movie twice. When we were in London, Julia and I took a picture at platform...
By law, Recep Tayyip Erdogan should not even be in politics. In 1998, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul was convicted under Turkey's religious-hate-speech statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months...
No one kidnapped American John Walker Lindh and forced him to join the Taliban [NATION, Oct. 7]. He alone made that choice. His parents allowed him to explore his spirituality half a world away, in a region not known for its liking of America. Lindh was just a teenager, and...