Pick up today s paper and look at the headlines, you will find incidents of growing intolerance from all over the world. Fundamentalism is slowly and insidiously creeping into our lives. Such instances do not really register in minds for long. We retain the belief that all this is remote and cannot touch our daily lives. It is ignoring such trends and not uniting to speak out and take timely action that led to the persecution of the Jews by Hitler.
Bigotry begins at home.
We are constantly trying to mold them to our image of what is right. It all begins when we are unshakable on the path of self-righteousness, and cease to listen to others. After all true democracy cannot exist without dialogue Fundamentalism, fascism and other forms of extremism are now worldwide phenomena. There is a hardly a region that is not touched by it to some degree. In Europe, we have Le Pen in France, Haider in Austria, neo-Nazis in Germany, and the right wing in Belgium.