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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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Furthermore, ironically, religious extremism might eventually kill a religion because backlash directed at the extremists gets misdirected to the religion itself.
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Racial and religious extremism also merge in more contemporary settings.
 
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