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But to many commentators, Khomeini was a fanatic . Charismatic is thus used as selectively as neurotic . Neurotics are those whose behavior we find odd.
In 1979, the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) joined Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution, but he quickly snuffed any hope for Kurdish autonomy.
But charisma is all about irrationality, and we have little reason to believe that the followers of Khomeini were less rational than the followers of, say, Jesus.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.
When we do not apply the term charismatic to figures like Khomeini, we trivialize them and we trivialize their followers.