Word: terrorized
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...says the increase is due in part to parents' fears that racy television shows and Internet sites outlawed under Saddam but now freely available are influencing teens' sexual behavior. "Boys are much more oriented toward sex today," says al-Malaki, who says girls sometimes arrive at his office in terror, knowing that the results of the test could lead to their death...
...order to rescue myself from the terror of pure feeling, I decide to analyze my tears. My pragmatic, journalist side is upset and angered by the futility of some of these pilgrimages, particularly those of the parents who have brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn't stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won't do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica...
...most dire of these urban ghettos - cut off from mainstream society and beset by domestic violence and religious extremism. This potent mix of economic and social deprivation, combined with unfolding events - the Palestinian intifadeh, the Iraq war and perceived stigmatization of Muslims in the war on terror - has led some young people to channel their anger into outright anti-Semitism. "The perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks that have been caught have usually been lone petty thugs or informal groups of delinquents," says Gérard Fellous, secretary-general of the N.C.C.H.R. "So far, there's been no sign of membership...
...ordinary Iraqis who repeatedly tell pollsters that their Number 1 priority is security, the primary concern is rampaging criminality and arbitrary terror directed at civilians. They are not nearly as troubled by ambushes on U.S. patrols as they are by suicide car bombs driven into crowds of Iraqis lining up for jobs. Iraqi public opinion shows little support for going after a figure such as the Shiite firebrand Moqtada al-Sadr who launched his own insurgency against U.S. forces when they sought to arrest him, but plenty for going after those responsible for mass-casualty attacks on Shiite mosques...
...Equally important is the idea that the foreigners are becoming a problem for some of the nationalist leaders of the insurgency itself. Figures associated with the insurgency have begun telling Western reporters that they reject the beheading of hostages and indiscriminate terror attacks against other Iraqis. One group, styling itself the "Salvation Movement," has even threatened to kill Zarqawi and his supporters if they don't leave Iraq, accusing them of defiling Islam and killing innocent Iraqis. "If you don't stop," the group adds, "we will do to you what the coalition forces have failed...