Mishra cautions us not to underestimate "the rage and despair of people who, arriving late in the modern world, have known its primary ideology, democracy, only as another delusion".
By Ligaya Mishan December 1, 2008 In the wake of the Mumbai attacks, I consulted Pankaj Mishra, whose book "Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond" examines "the rage and despair of people who, arriving late in the modern world, have known its primary ideology, democracy, only as another delusion".
In the wake of the Mumbai attacks, I consulted Pankaj Mishra, whose book "Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond" examines "the rage and despair of people who, arriving late in the modern world, have known its primary ideology, democracy, only as another delusion".
Academic research shows that a primary focus on ideology is unhelpful and is an uncertain indicator of how people may be drawn into terrorism.
Still, in New Jersey, where the chairmen of the county parties wield enormous kingmaking power in primaries, ideology has rarely been a match for organizational support.
His ideology became a primary resource for the writing of Iran's Islamic constitution and continues to influence politics in contemporary Iran.
This is why targeting the roots of radical ideologies remains a primary national security concern.
But in communist parties, ideology occupied a much more fundamental place, a primary concern of the party being to indoctrinate its members with Marxism.
In a primary race, that is especially true: donors are often choosing between small variations in ideology.
Even in a primary campaign, the powerful incentive of having to win over centrists in the general election should keep a candidate's ideology in check.
Al-Azhar University in Cairo is a primary example of an Islamist institution which is one of the world's primary sources of supremacist Islamist and salafist ideology.
