Word: fanaticisme
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As Weekly Standard columnist Charles Krauthammer says, “This kind of fury and fanaticism is unappeasable. It knows no social, economic or political solution.” He stresses, “In its nihilism, its will to power, its celebration of blood and death, its craving for...
For more than 100 years, the Muslim world has had to grapple with the problem of modernity. Of greatest urgency is the effort to inculcate an intellectual and political orientation that promotes democracy and openness. Intellectuals and politicians must have the courage to condemn fanaticism in all its forms. But...
When General Pervez Musharraf announced that Pakistan would cooperate with the U.S., he knew that radicals and sympathizers of accused mastermind Osama bin Laden and his Taliban host would take to the streets in protest. But it was, Pakistan's President calculated, what had to be done: one-part realpolitik...
The West had developed a fairly well-defined profile of the typical suicidal terrorist. That man would be young, 18 to 24, born in poverty, a victim of some personal tragedy, a despairing zealot with nothing to lose. He would be fanatic in behavior and belief: stern, moralistic, teetotaling. The...
This view is shared by extremists throughout the Islamic world, from Mindanao to Morocco. While it is more comfortable to believe that such fanaticism is rooted only in ignorance, in Pakistan, a member of an Islamic militant organization is as likely to be educated and urbane - an engineer, a computer...