EDITORIAL: DEMOCRATIC CONSCIENCE VERSUS THE MADNESS OF FANATICAL TERRORISM Cover Image

EDITORIAL: DEMOCRATIC CONSCIENCE VERSUS THE MADNESS OF FANATICAL TERRORISM
EDITORIAL: DEMOCRATIC CONSCIENCE VERSUS THE MADNESS OF FANATICAL TERRORISM

Author(s): Dominique Bouchet
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Studies in violence and power, Editorial
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: blasphemy; democracy; obscurantism; satire; stigmatization; terrorism

Summary/Abstract: Terrorist violence is not religious because it destroys all bonds. Obscurantists who have turned into robots treat others as mere things and seek to spread fear and promote discord and stigmatization in order to generate disorder. The unifying strength of democracy lies in pluralism, diversity, doubt, freedom of speech, education and the fight against all forms of stigmatization. The outrage of the millions who are spontaneously marching in the name of humanity as a whole and not their belonging to a sub-group can bring about¬ a regeneration of democratic ideals.

  • Issue Year: 3/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 11-19
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English