Foam-Flecked Fanaticism!

The folks over at the Corner are having a great time trashing the thesis of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, The Enemy at Home.  Andrew Stuttaford hit a home run (at least in my ballpark) with this gem:

there is something in human nature that is drawn to violent religious

fanaticism of the worst kind (usually bundled up in a

grotesque puritanism). It’s not just the Wahhabis. No religion (or

quasi-religion such as communism) is immune from it. Think, for

example, of the Maccabees, or the completely-to-be-expected Spanish

Inquisition, or, for that matter, the zealots of the early Bolshevik

era, or even, dare I say it, the foam-flecked atheism of Richard

Dawkins. [my emphasis]