These young women had seized agency and independence in the form of violence and zealous devotion.
They were zealous Nazis, fanatical anti-Semites, violence-prone true believers; they had volunteered for the Gestapo and enjoyed wielding power over others.
Many performers face daily threats of harassment and violence from over-zealous fans and stalkers, and many are stigmatized for the work they do by families and communities.
If I study first-century Palestine expecting to uncover a politically zealous Jesus who "did not hesitate to employ violence in trying to establish God's rule on earth," should it surprise me, then, when my research leads me to a xenophobic, vengeful Jesus who hates foreigners (p. 122) almost as much as he hates the Galilean ruler he wishes to behead (p. 45).
This domestic tale of destruction has been well chronicled by journalists, social scientists and addicts-turned-memoirists. What sets Feiling's book apart is his analysis of how America's insatiable appetite for narcotics and its zealous determination to quash those cravings have spread misery and violence across the globe.
Love is about access to affordable health care, living wages, job creation, care for our planet, eradicating poverty, no more killing of unarmed people by police or anyone, eliminating domestic violence...Love is about institutions and systems being as zealous about how people are treated as they are about profits.
In recent years, Mr al-Shareef had defended the legitimacy of violence against regimes that purported to be Muslim but were not zealous enough to deserve the name.
They portray Ms. Stewart, who has pleaded not guilty, as a zealous advocate for an unpopular client, and say there is no evidence she sought to incite violence by Mr. Abdel Rahman's followers by publicizing his words.
Pakistan's dictator, Pervez Musharraf, condemns election violence, including the murder of Mr Lone, but outfits based in his jurisdiction are its most zealous practitioners.
The state's zealous, and at times unconstitutional, embrace of Islam is a worrying trend in a country struggling against extremist groups, sectarian violence and routine discrimination against religious minorities.
