Yes, the fanatic.

Pilate's given orders to arrest that fanatic.

Even the ossified, petrified, horizontal, perpendicular Presbyterians are against me!

EmiI Hahn... the decayed, corrupt bigot... obsessed by the evil within himself.

In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra orthodox leader of Israel s Shas party an invitation to the White House.

Rather than undermining radical Islam, the US has legitimized it, in Iraq and beyond.

Finally, we also know that the leaders of this fanatical tide are few, but now have the sympathy of millions of ordinary Muslims.

This insular program of national revival increasingly estranged her from continental Europe s more dirigiste approach.

Devoid of its Syrian alliance and estranged from Turkey, Iran would become an isolated revolutionary power whose fanatical brand of Islam is repellent to most Arab societies.

Rwanda and the wars in the former Yugoslavia are sharp reminders of how the political use of intolerant and racist rhetoric can even lead to genocide or ethnic cleansing.

Third, even if negotiations with less militant Chechens occur and succeed, terrorism will continue under the leadership of the religious fanatic Shamil Basaev.

Soon after he founded the extreme nationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM), as well as a so called national treason list, on which almost every notable political and cultural figure had his or her place.

Xenophobia is an illiberal response to immigration from the right, but multiculturalism represents much the same thing from the left. Many multicultural theorists, although committed to openness toward immigrants, are not committed to the openness of immigrants to their new home.

But it remains to be seen if the lessons have been fully internalized, and whether we will have a kinder, gentler IMF in lieu of a rigid, doctrinaire one.

As the speech before this Assembly by the newly elected president of Iran so clearly demonstrated, Iran's fanatic regime remains determined to proceed with its nuclear weapons programme.

Finally, the argument must be made more forcefully that it will be much harder to protect our societies against the revolutionary terrorism of radical Islam without the active support of all law abiding Muslims.

There are reasons for people to feel anxious about economic globalization, pan European bureaucracy, the huge and not always effectively controlled influx of immigrants, and the aggression of radical political Islam.

Isolated, destitute, and in a state of permanent rage, the French banlieues and immigrant ghettos of British cities have turned into powder kegs where young Muslims easily fall prey to radical religious preaching and political extremism.

So the Bundesbank s self righteous zeal in asserting that its responsibilities are somehow graver and more binding than those of other central banks is dangerously wrong headed.

Frozen states appear more stable in the short term, as oil revenues still buys subservience and submission of most of the subjects, but stability coincides with the possibility of increasing violence and civil unrest, owing to widespread grievances over sectarian rule.

The rational for affirmative action in those early years was the fact that, after a long history of systemic injustice, merely outlawing discrimination based on race or gender would not ensure equal opportunity for all.

To be sure, a long history of mutual Christian Muslim hostility, and recent cases of radical Islamist violence, have made many people fearful of Islam in a way that they are not of Hinduism, say, or Buddhism.

But, on a recent trip to Israel, White House adviser Dan Shapiro is said to have been reassured that the Israelis will not embarrass their American friends. In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra orthodox leader of Israel s Shas party an invitation to the White House.

As there is nothing in Iran s history to support the idea that a unified Iran that includes all its ethnic minority nations is even possible, Iran s minority groups feel they have no option but to resort to violent resistance in order to preserve their heritage, culture, and survival under the country s profoundly racist leadership.

But, looking at the world now, one could easily conclude that the inspirational leader whose credo was Franklin Roosevelt s injunction to fear only fear itself has lost, and that the fanatic who wanted fear to dominate the world of the infidels has prevailed.