Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.

Slovakia has clearly opposed all forms of violence and expressions of blind fanaticism and hatred.

Some factors relate to perverse ideologies, some to religious fanaticism and racist doctrines and others simply to fear.

The rise of extremism and fanaticism that are not specific to any religion or civilization, is of great concern.

The conflicts that our Organization is facing are generally the result of extreme poverty the perfect breeding ground for fanaticism and violence.

The dangerous escalation today in terrorism and its culture, derived from hatred and fanaticism, are the most serious dangers threatening the international community everywhere.

I speak about the Supreme Creator who is love, not about those who wish to make Him an odious tool of fanaticism, prejudice and hatred.

The strategy should include the implementation of cultural, educational, and information policies that promote the convergence of culture and religions, denunciation of fanaticism in all its forms.

To be sure, there is something deranged about North Korea s political system. The Kim family s tyranny is based on a mixture of ideological fanaticism, vicious realpolitik, and paranoia.

Religious schools have also become part of the public education system in order to unify ideas among all segments of Yemeni society and to avoid fanaticism and extremism.

26. His country had always advocated racial and religious tolerance. Even when forced to fight off powerful adversaries, it had managed to avoid espousing xenophobia and religious fanaticism.

That gulf is also the cause of many civil and inter State wars, which, along with ideological and religious fanaticism, have led to the suffering of millions of people.

Herein lies the significance of the culture of peace, which rejects the culture of violence, extremism and fanaticism and adheres to the universal values of tolerance, solidarity, dignity and harmony.

It is unacceptable to further delay taking measures against those international centres of terrorism and extremism that under the guise of espousing universal human values in fact develop and disseminate ideologies of fanaticism.

Saudi Arabia exported both its Wahhabism and Al Qaeda to Yemen by funding thousands of madrassas where fanaticism is taught. Moreover, since the 1991 Gulf War, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been expelling Yemeni workers.

While authorities have a responsibility to ensure freedom, including religious freedom, leaders, including religious leaders, in turn have a responsibility not to abuse that freedom by encouraging or justifying hatred, fanaticism or religious war. We propose

Rather, we are seeking to liberate our people from crude fanaticism, from ideological prejudices, from political violence and from fatalism, because we believe we are capable of forging our own destiny in a world of greater brotherhood.

That abominable outrage will forever burden the conscience of humanity and all nations, which belatedly realized that hatred, fanaticism, racism and prejudice lead but to the negation of life and to all that debases the human person.

With each day, the international community becomes more and more certain that the continuing nineteen year long civil war is transforming Afghanistan into a dangerous hotbed of international terrorism and illegal drug trafficking, religious fanaticism and extremism.

Tunisia will continue to make an effective contribution to strengthening the culture of dialogue and the values of tolerance and cultural communication among civilizations and among all the world's countries and peoples, and to work against fanaticism and isolationism.

Abderrazak Mahfoudhi was arrested on 17 July, and was charged and then committed to the Bizerte prison on 24 July 1995 for association with criminals and membership of a clandestine organization inciting to hatred and racial and religious fanaticism.

More fundamentally, such solutions require abandoning the false dichotomy of liberty and security. If security concerns trump basic rights and freedoms, fanaticism will have scored a victory and the same thing will happen if expressions of Islamophobia and xenophobia increase.

This should not be impossible, because both Saudi Arabia and Yemen have moderate, indigenous Islamic traditions that can be mobilized against jihadism. If given the financial support that the Wahhabis received, these forces could reverse the current drift to fanaticism.

The tragic events of 11 September 2001, which had revealed the existence of a global terror network motivated by fanaticism, had put an end to hopes that a peace dividend might be realized following the end of the cold war.

In short, far from leading some sort of worldwide Islamist revolution, the violent fanaticism of Al Qaeda and other organizations now resembles a repulsive, but manageable, form of ideological toxic waste. And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.

A Jewish state has existed for only short periods in Judaism s history, and it twice committed political suicide. The reasons were always the same politico religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers hence modern Zionism s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.

Terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia have led many to question not only the ruling House of Saud's prospects for survival, but also whether the kingdom is fundamentally dysfunctional and destructive. Somehow, it seems, Saudi society has produced a stream of violent fanaticism that draws its inspiration from extreme religious orthodoxy.

PRINCETON To Western eyes, Middle East politics have again been stood on their head. Iran s theocratic mullahs allowed the election of Hassan Rowhani, a man who announced in his first speech as President elect that his victory is the victory of wisdom, moderation, and awareness over fanaticism and bad behavior.

Yet there are things the Saudis can do to vaccinate themselves, and Yemen, from fanaticism. The tentative moves toward liberalization that King Abdullah has made over the past two years need to be accelerated, made more daring, and become more effective in removing the Wahhabi ideology as an incubator for radicalism.

Internationally, we reiterate our commitment to and support for efforts by the international community to combat terrorism, since terrorist activities, whatever their purpose and motivation, are, in addition to being a violation of human rights, immoral criminal acts, extreme acts of fanaticism that attack freedom, human life and the development of peoples.

Failed economies and brutal secular dictatorships, together with deep rooted ethnic and religious rifts, have fueled a volatile combination of fear, instability, and anger. But no one should doubt that the framework of fanaticism has been abetted by the dire environmental conditions that now prevail in much of the Middle East and the Sahel.

That principle should be applied at the global level as well, through the establishment of an inclusive framework that fosters development and encourages the rejection of fanaticism in the Islamic world. The aggressive fundamentalism and infighting that held down Christian societies for centuries has been relegated to the past, and that is where it must remain.

Disintegration in the Arab Middle East reflects the region s failure to find a path between the bankrupt, secular nationalism that has dominated its state system since independence and a radical brand of Islam at war with modernity. The fundamental problem consists in an existential struggle between utterly dysfunctional states and an obscenely savage brand of theocratic fanaticism.

Even in the US, the economic insecurity of a vast white underclass that feels threatened by immigration and global trade can be seen in the rising influence of the extreme right and Tea Party factions of the Republican Party. These groups are characterized by economic nativism, anti immigration and protectionist leanings, religious fanaticism, and geopolitical isolationism.

Magris s novel is not only an important literary achievement it also has a deep connection to the dangers that we face now, particularly the wave of fanaticism, from Mumbai to Oslo, in the name of a holy war against the other. Are all the extremists searching for a new coherence, for a lost illusion of togetherness and a new hope of resurrection?

In today s free market carnival, nothing seems visible unless it is scandalous and nothing is scandalous enough to be memorable. So we pay homage to Cervantes at a time when we routinely co habit with a very different outrageousness religious fanaticism and terrorism, political manipulation, the cacophony of perverted simplification, the belligerent marriage between a new messianism and an aggrandizing quixotic blindness.

Furthermore, in the Greater Middle East, the fall of one secular dictatorship after another, coupled with the loosening of external control, has incited new and rekindled old suspicions, religious disagreements, and mistrust of outsiders in general and the West in particular. As a result, the region has entered a period of conflict, social degradation, rising nationalism, and growing religious fanaticism.

43. Civil peace and security are endangered by the combined impact of various forms of violence and conflict between ethnic, religious, linguistic and other groups, the rise of xenophobia and aggressive nationalism, of fanaticism and fundamentalism of different kinds, of terrorism and organized crime, exclusion and discrimination directed against vulnerable groups within societies, proceeding from a culture of violence and war.

There is a fundamental and immediate need for analysis and education to prepare young people to deal with questions of identity, religion and belief and to provide them with points of reference, models and reasons for living, so as to prevent them from falling victim to manipulation, extremism and fanaticism and to enable them freely to assume full responsibility for their lives.

We are all Americans, wrote Le Monde on September 12, 2001. And so it was with most people in the Muslim world, who were as appalled as anyone else at the carnage of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York. Indeed, when America responded to the attacks, almost no one mourned the fall of the Taliban, who were universally condemned for their fanaticism.

We are all Americans, wrote Le Monde on September 12, 2001. And so it was with most people in the Muslim world, who were as appalled as anyone else at the carnage of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York. Indeed, when America responded to the attacks, almost no one mourned the fall of the Taliban, who were universally condemned for their fanaticism.