Essays on Fanaticism

Terrorism can be simply defined as the use of fear by whatever means to achieve a political objective and therefore includes not only the violence and bombings but also other areas such as cyber terrorism. Following this definition then terrorism can be traced throughout human history with numerous theories used to explore their formation and networking. Due the prevalence of Radical Islamic terrorism in the recent years, a closer examination is necessary to determine the growth and development of these networks. Therefore, in this paper, we shall explore the cold war terrorist networking theory with a comparison with the ...

There is a wide accepted concept that after centuries of development, the Muslim world began to decline in the 15th century. Did it really decline? In this work I would like to illustrate the main trends of developments of the Muslim world in early 15 – early 20 century. We know that in part of the second millennium, and for five centuries later there were many Asian invasions in other regions of the world, wide expansion (Seljuk, Arab, Turkish). But then the stagnation began. Since the "golden age" of the Abbasid Empire, it has not changed territorially. And large areas ...

In the given paper, two movies, “To Die For” and “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, will be considered in terms of evil and daemonic sides of the souls of the protagonists. The factors that moved the girls and urged them to commit violent acts will be determined as well. In the author’s opinion, evil and daemonic side exists in the soul of every person, but someone has limits, while others make evil and daemonic side prevail all the other qualities and traits. In the selected films, the latter type of people is represented by the female protagonists whose evil side ...

1. While this statement by Kydd and Walter (80) may be true to some extent, it does not hold for all democracies across the globe. For example, the United States has a long standing and unwavering policy that “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” hence whatever the costs of terrorism and the war against terror, some democracies will risk everything to win the fight. However, at the same time, this statement represents the current reality that is gaining ground or momentum in most democracies including the US, to the effect that winning the fight against terrorism requires more than ...

Hello Dave,

You know, a couple days ago I watch a TV show where the theme of intolerance was slightly noticed. The thing is in this ‘slightly’ – it seems like nowadays only a few people can clearly formulate its origins and reasons it still exists. With it, I also remembered the movie Crash, which also discussed some racial tensions (Crash). It was as if the TV show and movie were pulling me in the same direction. Maybe it is a coincidence, but on our last lecture we had some topics connected with this problem. Thus, in this letter I will try ...