Several times in the book he expresses his loathing of fanaticism, especially religious fanaticism, which in his account is a tautology.
He exaggerated the expression of his figures, from the fierce fanaticism or feverish ecstasy of saints and the brutality of executioners to the voluptuous smiles of satyrs and the drunken stupor of Silenus, companion to Dionysus, the god of wine.
But two weeks earlier, another cartoonist, Garry Trudeau, accepting a George Polk award for his own work as creator of the Doonesbury strip, said that Hebdo's patrol had crossed the border beyond which "free-expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious" and is "its own kind of fanaticism".
They show, in the faces of fanaticism's victims, why fanaticism is evil.
This kind of fanaticism is a species of political insanity.
But faith has always been the first seedbed of fanaticism.
He's clean-shaven, a sign of fanaticism in a country of scraggly beards.
Character, science and history co-evolve marvelously here in a tale of fanaticism gone literally overboard.
Veganism often becomes fanatical, and as with many forms of fanaticism, it sucks out the joy.
His real target, he said, is "any kind of fanaticism," religious or otherwise.
He wanted to establish a Christian presence at the fair, but avoid the appearance of fanaticism.
