Word: fanaticism
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Here are a few basic principles, news to nobody. Sports stoke adrenaline, laying out a drama that usually ends in an unambiguous win or loss. "Fan" is short for fanatic; each close pitch or missed basket or hard body check makes manic-depressives of a team's rooters. And some...
What the secular West fails to understand is that in fighting religious fanaticism the issue--for the fanatic--is not grievance but ascendancy. What must be decided is not who is right and wrong--one can never appease the grievances of the religious fanatic--but whose God is greater. After Afghanistan there can be no doubt. In the land of jihad, the fall of the Taliban and the flight of al-Qaeda are testimony to the god that failed...
Suicide bombing is a relatively new horror undergoing constant refinement. It was pioneered in the early '80s by Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim extremist group Hizballah, which was inspired by Iran's use of human minesweepers during its war with Iraq. In one assault a fanatic drove a truckful of...
"A fanatic," said Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley, "is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts in th' case." On the other hand, there are folks like me who are fanatically uncertain about what God is thinking. I believe in...
CHARGED. CLAYTON LEE WAAGNER, 45, antiabortion fanatic and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives; with illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon; in Springdale, Ohio. A father of nine, Waagner claims to have mailed some 550 hoax anthrax letters to about 280 abortion clinics since...