Nationalism and religious zeal can merge into a shared fanaticism.

Evidence

Nationalist devotion bears comparison with religious zeal. At times, the two directly merge, as in Zia’s Islamic nationalism. Although not a believer, Hiroko can appreciate the comfort that faith in a divine power may provide. However, when morality gives way to moralizing, and when that moralizing is used to excuse acts of violence, she finds faith unconscionable. Her principled antinationalism has a Joycean strain: she chooses to fly by the nets of nationality and religion (though significantly not language). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 431

Categorization

• XREF: Joyce’s ‘fly by those nets’ echoes both the migrant-narrator frameworks in Hamid and Naqvi, who similarly reject nationalist piety while keeping Urdu/Punjabi language, — connects to: The nation’s sacred aura lets patriotism capture and tame universalist religions.; Religion and nationalism are fused throughout secular Zionism, not only in religious nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 523; Fusing religion with nationalism amplifies collective violence and self-sacrifice. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 138
• QUESTION: Why does Hiroko exempt language from her rejection of national/religious nets — what role does language-as-homeland play in Pakistani Anglophone fiction?