TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: IS IT correct to find parallels between violent white supremacism and neo-Nazism on one hand  and the nihilist fury of ultra-militant Islam on the other? A Franco-American scholar   Scott Atran   is convinced that these deadly phenomena are two sides of the same coin. Unless people grasp that point   he  thinks  our ability to cope with either scourge may be limited.
Of course there are superficial resemblances which anyone can see. In August  when a fanatic drove his car into a group of liberal  anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville  Virginia   he  was copying a tactic that had already been used by self-styled warriors for Islam in at least four European countries.
But Mr Atran  who holds academic posts in Britain  France and America  sees deeper resemblances.  He  makes the point in an essay for Aeon   a forum for elaborate intellectual arguments  drawing on a series of  his  own academic investigations.
In  his  view  both kinds of fanaticism reflect both the failure of the liberal democratic order to inspire anyone to defend it  and the insidious attractiveness of ideologies which challenge that order. What makes these ideologies appealing is not their content but the strong collective identity they offer. They create peer groups that promise their own members such admiration that it can seem like sufficient reason to lay down oneâs life. By contrast  surveys suggest that very few people  these days  feel inclined to give up their lives for democracy.

SOLUTION: Scott Atran

PROBLEM: Henda Ayari  a 39-year-old French Muslim author   says  she  was emboldened by all the French women outing and denouncing their sexual aggressors.
"I thought  these women are no different from  me  " said  Ayari  in an interview with Le Parisian. "I also have to denounce what he did to  me ."
So this week  five years after the alleged incident   she  did just that.
 Her  alleged aggressor is Tariq Ramadan  a top scholar of Islam. The 55-year-old theologian's bona fides include being professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University.
 Ayari  says Ramadan assaulted and raped  her  when  she  turned up for a meeting with  him  in a hotel suite in Paris in 2012.  She  says  he  slapped  her  in the face when  she  resisted.
" He  told me I came for that  and I deserved what I got. That I didn't wear the veil  so I was a prostitute " she told Le Parisian.
 Ayari  says  it  never entered  her  mind that  she  was in any danger when  she  went to  his  room. "I considered  him  like a father figure "  she  said.

SOLUTION: Henda Ayari

PROBLEM: Sarah L. Myers  41   worked as a special ed teacher at North Boone High School in Poplar Grove  Illinois â just northeast of Rockford  the stateâs third-largest city. The ex-teacher was sentenced to a ten-year prison term after pleading guilty to two sex acts  Fox News reported.
The victim  who was not a special ed student  reported the sexual encounters with the teacher in April and told authorities he had been having regular sexual encounters with  Myers  since November of last year.
 Myers  was credited with 261 days of time spent  but  she  will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of  her  life  the judge ruled.  She  will not be eligible for parole until 85 percent of  her  sentence has been served.
But during the hearing  news broke that yet another student implicated the teacher in a sex act.  Myers  is now accused of a sexual encounter with a student in nearby Champaign County.  She  will also face charges in that case  officials say.

SOLUTION:
Sarah L. Myers