Most American writers who do venture overseas, rather than opening themselves to the unknown with curiosity and respect, drag otherness home, using it to incite dramatic heat — or farce.
One did not hear it any longer; but this may be because, as a Muslim scholar I met in Benares last month pointed out, "the people who used it to incite anti-Muslim violence and gain Hindu votes are now the rulers of India.
While German justice ministers have pledged that they will be on guard to ensure not too many people gain access to it, and will take measures including the prosecution of anyone who uses it to "incite the people", they will take some comfort that, at €59 and 2,000 pages, and with an initial print run of just 4,000 copies, it is unlikely to become a bestseller.
In King Lear, his treacherous daughter, Goneril, ironically speaks a great truth, even though she is using it to incite the death of her father.
The deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan has been the inevitable result of America's continuation of the very dynamic that led to the Sept. 11 attacks — hefty, decades-long military assistance to Pakistan, which it used to incite proxy militants to crush socioeconomic reform at home and commit aggression against its neighbors.
But it has yet to explain how Mr. Bakiyev exercised that power or whether senior military officers remain loyal to him, allowing him to use troops to incite ethnic warfare.
It was used to incite pogroms during the Russian civil war; afterwards, it was taken westwards by White Russians, and bolstered the view of the revolution as a Jewish plot.
Gabourel often trains at his local airstrip – early in the morning, when no planes are due to use it – and the announcer incited further support for the underdog by declaring: "It may be hot for us today but for a lot of these guys it's pure Baltic".
ISIS quickly discovered that instead of trying to radicalize disillusioned young men to travel to Syria to join up, it could much more easily use the internet to incite them to do violence in its name in the West.
When Judge Elgan Edwards, the recorder of Chester, handed his four-year exemplary sentences to two men for using Facebook to incite riots that never happened, he said he hoped it would be a deterrent to would-be rioters.
