Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers are battling U.S. troops, takes his spiritual direction from an ultra-conservative, Iran-based, Iraqi-exile cleric.
With global warming, we have a religion whose leaders are prone to spasms of anger and whose followers are beginning to twitch with boredom.
All three are perspectives on Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers have been clashing with security forces in that country for three violent days.
The country's founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, belonged to a Shia sect, the Khoja, whose followers are famous in the subcontinent for their business acumen.
The program became a showcase for his particular take on Pentecostalism, a tradition whose followers believe that God speaks directly to people and influences events.
The main opposition leader, Joshua Nkomo, against whose followers the ruling party had fought a bitter war, was bought off with a vice-presidency and a fat salary.
Muqtada al-Sadr, a perennially underestimated populist Shia cleric, whose followers, many of them from the poorest parts of Baghdad, enjoy a pivotal role in parliament, will retain his capacity for disrupting the political peace.
Dodsworth, whose own Twitter followers have jumped since the start of this year, is an uber-TweetDeck user himself.
They also collide with the strand of conservatism represented in this cycle by Ron Paul, whose army of avid followers insist that the best thing government can do is to get out of people's way and certainly out of their bedrooms.
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In the weeks since, however, the man whose 11, 000-plus Twitter followers have come to expect (and likely adore) his colorful commentary has opted to pull back and reassess his media strategy.
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Manson led his "family" of followers in a deadly spree in 1969, whose victims included eight-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
But having turned previously limited players whose names would only be familiar to the most avid followers of English football - such as Keith Andrews, Glenn Whelan and Sean St Ledger - into seasoned internationals, one wonders what the Italian could achieve with some of the talent in the Nigerian squad.
Mr Wilson's mini-epic begins with the demise of the queen of the Trailhead Colony, whose death is not at first noticed by her daughter-followers.
The SNS was started in 2008 when Mr Nikolic and Aleksandar Vucic led their followers out of the extreme nationalist Radical Party, whose leader is also on trial for war crimes.
Hager is the Swiss-born octogenarian whose high-risk stock-picking style helped him and his followers amass--and then partially lose--a fortune in technology stocks.
Mr Helbawy's job in Afghanistan had been to work with Mawdudi's followers and, as an adviser, he came to meet Bin Laden whose reputation has been forged during the defeat of the Soviet Union.
They were under the command not of a government but, rather, of a shadowy organization whose name no one could pronounce, consisting of an obscure Saudi-in-exile and his several thousand followers hiding out in the Afghan desert.
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