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Consider the Ayatollah Khomeini.
When we do not apply the term charismatic to figures like Khomeini, we trivialize them and we trivialize their followers.
The other big story in Italy was the visit of President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to the West since 1979, which was soured by the coincidental, simultaneous presence in the country of Salman Rushdie, the British writer condemned to death 10 years ago by Ayatollah Khomeini for allegedly blaspheming against the Muslim religion in his book The Satanic Verses . While Khatami was in Rome, Rushdie was in Turin receiving an honorary degree from the university there, to the embarrassment and anger of the Italian government, which had not been informed.
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.