Those like me who have lived through a term of BJP government (1998-2004) know that Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate – revered and reviled in almost equal measure – is only part of the problem; the larger issue is the BJP itself and its disciplinarian, quasi-militant, extreme rightwing outfit, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
But the militants' extreme interpretation of Islam runs counter to the culture and traditions of Somalia, where clan usually trumps religion.
But I always had a certain admiration for straight edgers, whose self-disciplined conviction in their beliefs at least had the inestimable appeal of being militant and extreme and somehow, at least according to my definition of the word, glamorous.
It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy that Butler saw in militant Puritanism, extremes which he attacked wherever he saw them.
The two advantages of this belief is that it means that extreme militant Sunnis and extreme militant Shiites will be too busy fighting each other to attack the West and that this will inevitably mean that they will both be weakened.
This time around the Spring Breakers will do battle with an extreme militant Christian sect that attempts to convert them.
Attempts to reach some of the most extreme militant groups that concern the United States for comment about the American surveillance were not immediately successful.
Abortion rights advocates consider Mr. Kopp, who took the nickname Atomic Dog and is also a suspect in three nonfatal shootings of doctors in Canada, among the most militant of the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement.
Although Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy described Mr. Brunerie as "a militant of the extreme right" known "for his violence and police record," no one has yet suggested that Mr. Brunerie's action today was part of a larger conspiracy to kill Mr. Chirac.
Titled "Spring Breakers: The Second Coming," the new film will find its partygoing protagonists clashing with an extreme militant Christian sect trying to convert them, according to a report in industry trade Screen International.
