People who knew him have told the press he had anger issues and was homophobic, racist and misogynistic.

To all appearances the act of a Puritan fanatic, the authorities suspected Berchet of being a part of an organized Puritan conspiracy.

A religious zealot with nuclear weapons is a dangerous combination the world cannot afford to tolerate.

But becoming a murderous fanatic like Merah or Sidique Khan is the personal choice of a pathological mind, not the trend of a generation.

To keep it from losing its way again, the AKP must also address the root cause of Erdoğan s metamorphosis into an intolerant autocrat.

Halappanavar s death resulted from the fanatical, atavistic behavior of a Western theocracy, while Indian protesters and lawmakers have upheld the scientific, rationalist ethos of the Enlightenment.

Many have been critical of a scene where a fanatical boy brutally murders his sister with a rock. But veteran director Kianoush Ayari believes that is not the real issue behind the banning.

Interior Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, a tough reformer, has this problem in his sights, but it cannot be solved by better policing alone.

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.

The country was already shaken by riots and sectarian violence challenging Morsi s presidency, and the border incident placed the spotlight on the messy question of who actually controls the country s national security policy.

By contrast, in Poland, which had witnessed its own tentative opening in the March student movement, a nationalist authoritarian faction exploited all that was intolerant and ignorant in Polish tradition, employing xenophobia and anti intellectual rhetoric.

Sometimes this involves overt conflict between moderates and radicals within one side, such as when an Israeli religious zealot assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when peace negotiations were making progress.

Iran s insecurity goes back at least to 1953, when US and British officials plotted the military coup that removed from office Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran s first elected prime minister and an ardent nationalist, and installed General Fazlollah Zahedi.

Some westerners, while lamenting Ahmedinejad s insensitivity, have struggled to minimize the significance of his Holocaust denial as the fulminations of a misguided fanatic (as if misguided fanaticism were an incidental quality in a nation s president).

China s official target growth rate is 7.5 . Anyone forecasting 7 is considered a China bear, and predicting a downshift to 6.5 makes one a downright fanatic.

But becoming a murderous fanatic like Merah or Sidique Khan is the personal choice of a pathological mind, not the trend of a generation. Social rejection has not turned young French and British Muslims into mass murderers, and the infatuation of many with al Qaeda has not overwhelmed their desire to fit in.

To all appearances the act of a Puritan fanatic, the authorities suspected Berchet of being a part of an organized Puritan conspiracy. He was to be questioned to divulge the names of his co conspirators and then executed.

We seek to find answers to some questions How was the women's experience in the war, what was their role in the guerrilla, how did they struggle to survive and protect their families, how did it change the women's paradigm within a patriarchal structure in a traditionally male chauvinist society, what were the consequences and how do they continue their struggle today.