Fanatics: Will They Ever Come To Their Senses?
Fanatics: Will They Ever Come to Their Senses?
In Elie Wiesel's essay titled "How Can We Understand Their Hatred?" Wiesel asks a very important question, "After the horrors of the last century, how can fanaticism still hold strong today, and will it ever completely end?" The essay goes on to explain how our last century was ravaged with intellectual and physical hatred, for example when Stalin used terror just as Hitler used death to oppress people (Wiesel 172). Wiesel wonders why, after the tragedy on September 11, 2001, fanaticism still holds sway.
At the beginning of his essay, Wiesel states that fanaticism has been around longer than all of the other words that end in "ism" and debates whether fanaticism will ever really disappear. He goes on to describe a true fanatic's actions and thoughts. This article was written in 2002 and was published in the April 7, 2002 issue of Parade magazine. Elie Wiesel, now a passionate spokesman for compassionate understanding and......
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