Mistrust is compounded by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s incendiary pronouncements, particularly about Israel.

They suffer incendiary weapons attacks that have started raging fires and cause excruciatingly painful burns.

Indeed, critics of the government believe that its incendiary rhetoric might lead to a devastating war.

Such unwritten bans typically follow the publication and circulations of materials deemed potentially incendiary by the government.

In June, Syrian regime helicopters dropped four barrel bombs loaded with incendiary substances on the mosque, burning its northern section.

A volley of incendiary remarks between Israel and both Syria and Hezbollah has fueled anxieties about the possibility of war on Israel s northern border.

A Russian math instructor is facing charges of making public calls for terrorist activity after Russian police traced incendiary online messages to his IP address.

This narrative s most extreme form is the idea of Eurabia, an incendiary term that purportedly describes a phenomenon by which Muslim hordes are now contaminating Europe s very DNA.

Against this background, jarring and potentially incendiary comparisons, such as to the Islamic State, seem to be the only hope of exposing the scale of the damage these politicians are doing.

Mysteries that confounded the ancients were replaced by an ever more concise set of principles so that the flight of projectiles, the fall of an apple, the orbit of the moon, and the trajectories of planets could be quantitatively accounted for.

The Secretary of State also admitted that he'd been guilty, along with Barack Obama, of being on automatic pilot as incendiary revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden about the NSA's spying activities emerged.

Incendiary statements about Israel exacerbate the lack of trust among Iran s would be partners, and make it hard for those in Europe and the US who are interested in building more favorable relations.

Credit for the absence of a truly serious Islamic challenge, however, should perhaps be given to Indonesia's moderate and mainstream Muslim leaders and groups, such as Nahdatul Ulama and Muhammadyah, who avoided incendiary words and deeds.

The Islamic State is now employing a similar strategy, mixing ruthless military operations with an incendiary social media campaign, punctuated by photos and videos of brutal executions, including the beheading of US and other Western citizens.

It would ignite an already incendiary part of the world, with the added risk of global economic collapse if the Strait of Hormuz, through which one fifth to one third of the world s oil passes, is blocked.

Just this month, one of Netanyahu s shamelessly incendiary statements the claim that Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gave Adolf Hitler the idea of annihilating Europe s Jews during World War II sparked a media firestorm.

The technicality the commission cited would be absurdly funny if its potential results were not so incendiary the CEC objected to the fact that the Tymoshenko bloc candidates listed only their home towns on the party list, not their precise street address.

Physics emerged in the 16th century as a quantitative, mathematically based set of laws through which humans could comprehend the inanimate world. Mysteries that confounded the ancients were replaced by an ever more concise set of principles so that the flight of projectiles, the fall of an apple, the orbit of the moon, and the trajectories of planets could be quantitatively accounted for.