...This chapter compares a range of forms of nationalism active in the colonial period, both among Hindus and among Muslims, using Lajpat Rai’s taxonomy. The chapter addresses extremism, terrorism, moderation, and constructive nationalism, exploring the ways in which these strands of thought shaped...

... of Human Rights French Supreme Court Hitchens Christopher Islamism extremism Badinter Elisabeth Bouzar Dounia ISIS Salafism syncretism Mahmood Saba secularism Asad Talal colonialism Bayart Jean François hegemony satire scholarship Islam extremism terrorism violence secularism...

...This chapter examines the development of right-extremism in Germany. It identifies a third wave of right extremism, which reflects the latent needs of a society emerging from structural/economic and value modification. The emergence of a ‘new axis of conflict,’ representing a non-material agenda...

...Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. Amos N. Guiora, Oxford University Press (2013). © Amos N. Guiora. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199975907.003.0001 This book explores the threat of religious extremism and proposes actions that governments could and should take...

...Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. Amos N. Guiora, Oxford University Press (2013). © Amos N. Guiora. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199975907.003.0002 This chapter examines the threat of religious extremism and proposes legal measures that democratic governments...

...Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. Amos N. Guiora, Oxford University Press (2013). © Amos N. Guiora. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199975907.003.0006 This chapter examines religious extremism in the context of national security by highlighting the relationship...

...Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. Amos N. Guiora, Oxford University Press (2013). © Amos N. Guiora. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199975907.003.0008 This chapter examines cultural relativism within the context of religious liberty and religious extremism...

... against the dangers posed by religious extremism. It proposes policy recommendations, predicated on the rule of law, that would counter the threats of religious extremism, mainly by curtailing freedom of religion and freedom of speech. Owing to the absolutism of religious extremism, the chapter suggests...

.... General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's chief of army staff, ordered Pakistani troops to occupy icy Indian-built bunkers on the Line of Control in Kargil without informing Sharif. In his memoir, Musharaff asks, “How did we reach the present-day epidemic of terrorism and extremism?”. He blamed the Soviet...

...Since the 1980s Algeria has had to respond to political extremism. In the wake of the ‘Berber Spring’ in 1980, it had to react to the Bou Yali rebellion. Then, in October 1988, countrywide discontent and an organised Islamist movement challenged the single official political party’s claim to embody...

... Kingdom United States populism demagogues politics of blame extremism nationalism The distribution of economic surpluses is the daily business of normal politics in liberal democracies. The process is never free of conflict, but it is usually conducive to compromise. When growth halts, however...

..., have maintained connections with Western esotericism, especially to Rosicrucian orders. The chapter also considers the role of chiropractors in extreme political and social movements, including white nationalism, and argues their participation is an effect of the populist mindset cultivated within...

..., the failure of the thermidorean New Economic Policy, and how the Russian Revolution paved the way for Stalinism. This chapter examines revolutionary extremism in Russia and how it contributed to the unprecedented rigors of the postrevolutionary dictatorship in the country. It traces extremism to the tradition...

... to be modern British ideas about gender roles. By contrast, conservative Muslims don't shake hands, live by themselves in Leicester or Dewsbury, and might promote extremism. Ultimately, shariʻa councils and Muslim schools have become the major objects of broad British fears about domestic Islam. Both seem...

...This book's author is one of Italy's premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mindsets of Europe's political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but this book turns inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. The author joined...

.... The intention is to evoke a desperate culture of art, in place today as securely as it was in the literary and political flush times of romantic revolution. In a series of interwoven and mutually illuminating case studies, various forms of political extremism are related in order to show that to some extent...

... to the destruction of the World Trade Center as a great work of art, and they go on to show how political extremism and avant-garde artistic movements have fed upon each other for at least two centuries. The book reveals how the desire beneath many romantic literary visions is that of a terrifying awakening...

... as poetic impersonality, a concept which can easily be depicted in terms of Laingian depersonalisation. With the simplifying wrong-way telescope of hindsight, Plath could be said to have moved from a paradigm of poetic impersonality to a personalised aesthetic of confessionalism or extremism. But in fact...

.... Alvarez's criticism changed in order to account for the unmistakably thanatopic themes in Plath's extraordinary last bursts of creativity and for their possible connection to the death of the author herself. The chapter then turns to Alvarez's extremism. For him, ‘extremism in the arts ends not so much...

...This chapter considers the attacks against Alvarez's extremism. In the 1960s and 1970s, there appeared something like a sub-genre devoted to attacking the notion of extremism in verse. Charles Tomlinson's ‘Against Extremity’, from his 1969 collection The Way of the World...