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Radicals first emerged as “Khawarij,” a
fanatical
group dating to the first century of Islam, which used accusations of blasphemy – and violence – to suppress even small differences of opinion.
But it is an even greater test for the Palestinians: will they once again be led by a radical and
fanatical
leadership into another national catastrophe?
Like the hijackers of 9/11, who were also Saudi/Wahhabi ideological exports (15 of the 19 men who carried out those terror attacks were chosen by Bin Laden because they shared the same Saudi descent and education as he), Saudi Arabia’s reserve army of potential terrorists remains, because the Wahhabi factory of
fanatical
ideas remains intact.
Meanwhile, Jewish Home, a party linked to fanatical, messianic rabbis for whom Zionism should now be imbued with eschatological meaning, challenged Netanyahu to adopt a more resolute expansionist policy in Palestinian territories.
Bolsonaro has gained a surprisingly wide, and in some cases fanatical, following.
The attack on the towers of Babel was unexpected but not unpredictable in so far as it represented the hatred of Allah’s
fanatical
followers for the symbols of modernity.
Our century was one of
fanatical
dogmatism dominated by the desire to create a coercive utopia in the social dimension of human life.
As long as no distinction is made between nationalist extremists and
fanatical
terrorists like Al Qaeda, the latter will be able to masquerade as the defenders of Muslims who are seen as “driven” to resort to suicide bombing because of military weakness.
It is estimated that this unlikely “Rockstar Baba” attracted tens of millions of
fanatical
worshippers to his Dera Sacha Sauda movement.
No political, diplomatic, or territorial arrangement with such a group – whose
fanatical
ideas and vicious practices clash with all civilized societies’ fundamental norms – can be justified.
Embittered, fanatical, vengeful: those who rebel against the status quo enter the wider world seeking retaliation, not just against the regimes that deformed them, but against the West, which propped up the region’s authoritarians in the interest of “stability.”
There will come a moment when Israel’s actions will incite people – not only the most
fanatical
of the country’s foes, but also the most generously inclined of its supporters – to question Israel’s essence.
Each year, thousands of Nigerian girls are trapped by
fanatical
and mercenary thugs and forced into prostitution, often in the same wealthy countries that are now magnanimously offering help to Nigeria’s government.
In the US, Trump routinely demonizes opponents and dehumanizes marginalized groups; during his first year in office, politically motivated murders, perpetrated primarily by
fanatical
white supremacists, doubled.
Instead, the roots of Taseer’s assassination lay in the dark delusions of
fanatical
belief, his killing supposedly undertaken to protect the faith.
No less than Europe, the US is a prime target for
fanatical
Islam and its assassins.
First, the Conservative Party will have growing difficulty accommodating its
fanatical
English nationalist wing.
But such
fanatical
forces have damaged Islam’s own religious heritage as well.
Many well-meaning people saw Rajapaksa’s promise as warmongering, and, even as Sri Lanka’s army has been pressing toward victory, urged him to negotiate with perhaps the world’s most
fanatical
terror organization (the Tamil Tigers, it should be recalled, virtually invented the cult of the modern suicide bomber.)
A rebel army has dwindled to a
fanatical
few.
After all, even rival powers like China and the US or India and Pakistan share an interest in preventing the world’s most dangerous weapons from falling under the control of its most
fanatical
minds.
Such people can also mobilize the worst instincts and passions, make masses fanatical, and lead societies into hell.
A mad performance by a
fanatical
politician can plunge millions into endless calamity.
Likewise, all yellows find Thaksin’s misrule intolerable, but not all are
fanatical
royalists.
The European Commission, once the EU’s source of visionary creativity, has become a
fanatical
defender of existing rules and regulations, however irrational and destructive, on the grounds that any concessions will beget more demands.
This argument, long discredited, resonates in the actions of the Iraqi insurgents and their
fanatical
allies.
After all, despite its cruel and
fanatical
regime, Iran is not North Korea.
Muslims lived peacefully in Burma until Buddhists, egged on recently by
fanatical
monks, started burning down their houses and beating them to death.
The prototype of modern European populism was the flamboyant Dutch political showman Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated in 2002 by a
fanatical
vegan.
Standing up to Israel, and its new
fanatical
friends, is not anti-Jewish.
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