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【单选题】Stern recounts her four-year odyssey into the hearts and minds of religious terrorists. She talks toChristian, Jewish and Muslim extremists, violent anti-abortion warriors and admirers of Timothy McVeigh, and discovers how much they have in common. Nothing she finds leads the reader to suppose that any of the religious faiths is inherently more prone to violence than the other: the problem is not the words on the page, but how they are rea
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A、rough social template can be extrapolated from Stern’s account: the leaders of such groups tend to have much younger, attractive and submissive wives who support their views; long hair, robes, veils and conspicuous deference are popular in all three faiths. The leaders tend to live in comfortable houses and enjoy the trappings of their power: large cars, acolytes and bodyguards. They talk in generalities about the justice of their cause and theAlmighty’s firm support. Those who serve as cannon fodder, on the other hand, are likely to be young, vulnerable, socially disadvantaged and poorly educated, and to have a sense of personal or collective humiliation. Violence for the cause gives them a feeling of purpose, dignity and the transcendent experience of serving, and perhaps dying for, ideals that they regard as pure. With faith, the weak become strong, the selfish become altruistic, and rage turns to conviction.
If some of this sounds predictable, it is not to diminish the interest of Stern’s account.A、leading expert On terrorism and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, she has tracked down and interviewed an impressive range of activists in a variety of causes from Florida to Kashmir. On a subject that tends to be richer in rhetoric than in detail, a writer able and willing to get this close is hard to fin
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These are not always profoundly penetrating encounters: there is an implicit bargain-- which Stern readily acknowledges-that if you are allowed across the threshold it is bemuse your interlocutor has an agenda that he imagines will be furthere
D、Terrorists need people to notice what they do and, for reasons of fund-raising and recruitment, want to convince a wider circle that the cause is just. Perhaps Stem’s critics would deem this a reason to stay away, but they would be wrong. She is a levelheaded investigator whose knowledge of the background of groups like these adds perspective to her interviews.
A、feeling of complete certainty, let alone absolute purity, is hard to come by in the examined life. To foster the conviction that God supports the murder of innocents requires a tightknit group and a settled hatred of the Other: in these circles, whites hate blacks and Jews; Jews andChristians hate Muslims and vice versa; anti-abortion crusaders hate gynecologists.All of them seem to have it in for homosexuals and most, even theAmericans, bate contemporaryAmericA、Tolerance and women’s rights, as Stern observes, are irritating to those left behind by modernity.
AvigdorEskin, a millenarian Jew, believes, rather against the evidence, that the United States is conspiring to destroy Israel. To meet him, Stern, who is careful to share this kind of detail, dressed in a long skirt, long sleeves and a scarf that covered her hair, neck and shoulders completely an outfit that would have been equally de rigueur for a meeting with a strict Muslim.And asEskin himself volunteers, they resemble each other in more than their dress code: "Here in Israel, we don’t like to say this very loudly, but the radical right Jewish groups have a lot in common with Hamas."Both, Stern adds, have twin political and religious objectives and both use selective readings of religious texts and of history to justify violence over territory.
If to the outsider the manners are similar, each group believes itself to be uniquely favored by theAlmighty, and each individual follows his own trajectory.A、Palestinian suicide bomber might be suffering f
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