It's easy to sneer at the massed ranks of enthused new members that flocked to Glasgow's SECC for the conference as zealots and zoomers and - lo! - some folk did.
The contributors to Charlie Hebdo, unlike a good many western journalists, dared to publish in full knowledge of the dangers from theocratic zealots with no concept of individual freedom.
Whether in office or stomping around in a powdered wig and tricorn hat, Tea Party zealots claim they're fighting to save the soul of America, a mission so crucial they wouldn't have minded crashing the global economy to do it.
I have been in trouble with zealots in the Twitter posse this week for mildly suggesting that though Alistair Carmichael's conduct in the "Frenchgate" election leak showed poor character and judgment, his removal as Scotland's last Lib Dem MP should remain a matter for his constituents in Orkney and Shetland.
Rob Boston, communications director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, first noticed the contemporary allegiance between extreme capitalists and religious zealots years ago while lurking at religious right conferences.
A small group of zealots support Isis and want to join its fight.
Since the Lockerbie tragedy, 25 years ago and since the terrorist attacks on New York in September 2001, the face of terrorism has undergone a dramatic change – a plastic surgery of sorts: hijacked aircraft went out of fashion and were replaced by kamikaze zealots wired with plastic explosives, and by shots fired from ambush.
But if he can't stand up to a bunch of third-rate zealots led by a faded showbiz luvvie, what hope does he have against the mafia bullies who run the European Union?
He spent his last weeks fending off Hindu zealots trying to bully him out of India.
Sign the law, and Mr Kwasniewski risks giving sustenance to religious zealots.
As their main historian recounts, they "had no zealots in their midst with burning faith to propagate by fire and sword.
