You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: fanaticism madness self-deception delusion zealots neurosis mental-health extremism fanatics psychosis cults religious-extremism guerrilla-decontextualism political-extremism
Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: social-change extremism
All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.
Victor HugoTags: religion extremism teeth convent
One day all the racists and religious extremists in this world will wake up and realize that they are living in a 60's movie.
Thisuri WanniarachchiTags: humor inspirational religion extremism policts
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
Eqbal AhmadTags: politics medieval fundamentalism modern extremism
Hvis du tar til orde for at Europa en gang skal bli fritt for muslimer, tar du samtidig til orde, i beste fall, for en tvangsdeportering av mer enn femti millioner mennesker vekk fra det europeiske kontinentet. I verste fall tar du til orde for voldshandlinger mot en religiøs gruppering som allerede er sterkt utsatt for fordommer og hets. Hvis målet ditt er at islam skal utryddes fra Europa, kan du ikke samtidig påstå at du er fredelig sjel som aldri har hatt som formål å skade noen. Du må skjønne at politikken du forfekter faktisk handler om mennesker. Og du må tåle å bli møtt med motargumenter. At noen motsier argumentene dine betyr ikke at du knebles. Det betyr at du deltar i debatten.
Trine Skei GrandeTags: free-speech freedom-of-speech genocide islam xenophobia extremism radicalism deportation islamophobia
You know,” said Jehangir, breaking the silence, “it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.
Michael Muhammad KnightTags: religion islam fundamentalism extremism bidah
They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.
John PowersTags: hate ignorance extremism islamic-extremism la-weekly
But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.
Bill MaherTags: politics hate ignorance pride extremism insulting
They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, for example, demonizing tobacco as poison here while promoting cigarettes in Asia; inflating produce prices by paying farmers not to grow food as millions go hungry worldwide; skimping on quality and then imposing tariffs on foreign products made better or cheaper than our own; padding corporate profits through Third World sweatshops; letting drug companies stand by as millions die of AIDS in Africa to keep prices up on lifesaving drugs; and on and on.
We do, upon reaching a very high comfort level, mostly choose to go from ten to eleven instead of helping another guy far away go from zero to one.
We even do it in our own country. Barbara Ehrenreich's brilliant book Nickel and Dimed describes the impossibility of living with dignity or comfort as one of the millions of minimum-wage workers in fast food, aisle-stocking and table-waiting jobs. Their labor for next to nothing ensures that well-off people can be a little more pampered.
So if we do it to our own, what chance do foreigners have?
Tags: hate suffering ignorance violence poverty charity irresponsible extremism third-world passive-aggressive poverty-and-politics
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