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theocrat

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the·o·crat  (th-krt)
n.
1. A ruler of a theocracy.
2. A believer in theocracy.

theo·cratic, theo·crati·cal adj.
theo·crati·cal·ly adv.


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Jinah, the great father of the nation, was a secular minded person or a theocrat, and whether he cherished a vision of a separate homeland for the Muslims as a separate community inhabiting the sub-continent or a country where spread of Islam would be the manifesto of the government and the masses.
When the scientific community rejects the religious right's pseudo-scientific ideas about human origins, theocrats complain of unfair treatment and hint darkly of conspiracies, again playing the victim card.
Unlike Iran's controversial Wilayat ul-Faqih (WuF) concept of one theocrat ruling the country as God's representative on Earth, Iraq's Ja'fari theologians follow the quietist school forbidding religious men from being involved in politics.
 
 
 
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