Commentary: Islamic fanaticism is repulsive - and so is European fanaticism

[uhnope]

http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/commentary-islamic-fanaticism-is-repulsive-and-so-is-european-fanaticism#

We are horrified by the blind violence of al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and most recently by the so-called Islamic State. We are right to be horrified, as their merciless recklessness combined with fanaticism and the conviction that they own the one and only truth is repulsive, and we are all dealing with this - discussing it, theorizing about it and writing about it.
A wave of fanaticism

The trend of intolerance, primitivity and violence traveling around Europe through the non-Islamic "owners of the one and only truth" is also mentioned by some from time to time, but overall we do not consider it very dangerous. European fanaticism, for the time being, is not as reckless, commits acts of terrorism only exceptionally, isn't murdering or torturing others because of their different world view to any large extent, isn't broadcasting its public executions of the "enemy" online... for now.

Breivik, however, did not act in isolation from what was going on around him. His terrorist assassinations were not an isolated crime, but a direct component of a wave of fanaticism that is rising around the globe.

In the Muslim world, hatred of non-believers (including other Muslims) is growing, and in Europe hatred is rising against migrants, Romani people, Jewish people, etc. Proposals for violent solutions to problems are beginning to surface here and more and more people are identifying with them.

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[CJCRANE]

1. There are two wolves inside each of us called Love and Hate. The wolf you feed grows stronger.

That applies to individuals, groups and nations.

[JayhawkSD]

2. I would point out that fanaticism of any stripe is repulsive.

Including Christianist fanaticism. My wife grew up as a child in a family dominated by this kind of fundamentalist intolerance and was badly damaged by it.

Political fanaticism, on either side, is pretty ugly as well.