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Extremism
(redirected from Political extremism)

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Extremism
See also Fanaticism.
drys
advocates of Prohibition in America. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 41]
Jacobins
rabidly radical faction; principal perpetrators of Reign of Terror. [Fr. Hist.: EB, V: 494]
John Birch Society
rabid right-wing group ideologically similar to the Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 576]
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
group espousing white supremacy takes law into its own hands. [Am. Hist.: EB, V: 935]
McCarthy, Senator Joseph
(1909–1957) anti-Communist zeal frequently resulted in injustice. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 522]
Mikado of Japan, the
demands Ko-Ko execute one person a month. [Br. Opera: The Mikado, Magill I, 591–592]


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Asif Zardari's government would be unable to bear any defeat in the face of the extremism spreading within Pakistan, whether it is the political extremism represented by his rivals in the Jamaat-e-Islami party on the inside, or the extremism of the Taliban, expressed through their open war against the state's security and political apparatus, accused of allying itself with Washington against the movement.
Representatives from schools and colleges from across the Tees Valley watched Zaf's moving presentation as well as a performance of One Extreme to the Other from the GW Theatre Company, a play that tackles religious, racial and political extremism.
Stresses and strains are appearing across Europe, resuscitating the prospects of political extremism.
 
 
 
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