Word: extremist
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Black days come all too often in Israel, and Friday was another. Members of the extremist group Hamas gave their own judgment when they shattered the Jewish holiday afternoon in downtown Tel Aviv with a powerful bomb. As costumed merrymakers paraded down the city's streets to celebrate Purim, which commemorates the deliverance of the Jews in ancient Persia from a plot to slaughter them, a man entered one of the cafes and detonated himself, killing three Israelis and injuring at least 47 more. A six-month-old girl, her tiny, blood-soaked body cradled in a policewoman's arms...
...Israeli charges that Arafat explicitly gave the go-ahead for attacks such as last week's explosion in a Tel Aviv caf? that killed three Israeli women, electronic recordings of conversations between Arafat and Hamas leaders show that by not expressly forbidding a resumption of suicide bombings, Arafat gave extremist leaders the impression that he would support such a decision, the paper said. The conversations followed on the heels of a trip to Washington in early March where the Palestinian leader was criticized for looking the other way while Hamas and the Islamic Jihaad geared up for fresh terrorist attacks...
...relish being called an "extremist" for having a definite opinion on the abortion issue and for being able to find no point where a fetus miraculously becomes a human being if it were not one all along. (It may not be a completely developed specimen of humanity, but then again, neither is a ten-year-old.) I don't run around with shotguns (neither does any pro-lifer I know), but I can't help hoping that the laws of the country will change to protect these "least among us," as many of our other articles of legislated morality already...
...double standard that black politicians and leaders face is stunning. Jesse Jackson has never completely lived down his unfortunate "Hymietown" remark during the 1984 presidential campaign. Louis Farrakhan is widely considered a dangerous extremist for various comments he has made over the years. However, as bizarre as some of the Nation of Islam's rhetoric may be, this organization has not caused any direct or appreciable harm to anyone. The same cannot be said for organizations such as the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission or the White Citizens Councils...
...this infrastructure lent itself to genocide, which was systematically planned by the extremist Hutu government and was unwaveringly implemented by obedient local authorities. Now, paradoxically, the same community controls--and the mind-sets they evoke--may offer the possibility of peaceful reintegration. Last Wednesday, Odetta Mukandari returned to her village and found her house occupied by Mbangukira Kabagare, a 70-year-old Tutsi. Mukandari didn't confront Kabagare; she didn't even knock on the door. Instead she went to live with relatives. Later, when she met him in the street, she simply smiled politely. As for Kabagare, he explained...