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Extremism See also Fanaticism. drys advocates of Prohibition in America. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 41] rabidly radical faction; principal perpetrators of Reign of Terror. [Fr. Hist.: EB, V: 494] rabid right-wing group ideologically similar to the Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 576] group espousing white supremacy takes law into its own hands. [Am. Hist.: EB, V: 935] (1909–1957) anti-Communist zeal frequently resulted in injustice. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 522] demands Ko-Ko execute one person a month. [Br. Opera: The Mikado, Magill I, 591–592] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Coming on the heels of the Iraq Study Group report, which identifies the Arab-Israeli conflict as "inextricably linked" to key issues like extremism, terrorism and Iraq, these Israeli settlements damage America's credibility and security. In this conclusion, Nasr tends to speak of Sunni extremism and argues that the "Shia revival constitutes the most powerful resistance and challenge to Sunni extremism and jihadi activism within the region. Its beacon, the University of California, has held host to Timothy Leafy and the experimentation with LSD, hippie counter-culture and political extremism, as well as the invention of Plutonium, which led to the atomic bomb. |
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