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North Rhine-Westphalia's governor and newly elected leader of the Christian Democratic Union Armin Laschet. Picture: Odd Andersen/Pool via AP

Nationalism, or religious fundamentalism, can be the most dangerous energies especially if their celebration is a form of exclusion. 

An example of that dynamic took place in the Indian city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, last week when Hindu nationalists dedicated a library to the memory of  Nathuram Godse. Godse was hanged in 1949 for the assassination of peace-maker and secularist Mahatma Gandhi.