Word: extremist
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Whatever its outcome, the controversy highlights the classic struggle between religious doctrine and modern humanitarianism. Once again the modern nation of Israel, which is, after all, a secular state, was being pushed into chaos by what amounted to an extremist religious minority...
McKissick urged the editors to "think back over the past months. You will begin to realize that the Negro is being rewarded by the public media only if he turns on another Negro and uses his tongue as a switchblade, or only if he sounds outlandish, extremist or psychotic." He added: "How many of you report even what middle-class Negroes do? Your social column, your engagement column, your local events column. We'd like to feel that what we did on the local scene was important. You know, we like news clippings...
...have welcomed extremist groups to your coalition, some of whom espouse violence as a tactic. Will there be any violence in tomorrow's demonstration...
Through it all, the U.N. team stayed holed up in the Sea View Hotel. Both extremist groups refused to talk to the diplomats, and they made only two excursions beyond the barbed wire surrounding their hotel, one of them to the Al Mansoura detention camp in hopes of interviewing political prisoners. The prisoners jeered wildly, refused to be interviewed. Instead of fact-finding, the mission then decided to make a videotape appearance on the government television station to appeal for order and cooperation...
Rather than cooperate with the U.N.'s fact finders, both extremist groups decided to greet them by calling a general strike and setting off a fresh wave of anti-British rioting. From Cairo, F.L.O.S.Y. Boss Abdul Qawee Mac-kawee smirkingly denied that he had ordered his commandos to kill five Brit ish soldiers a day during the U.N. mission's stay: "I wouldn't want to restrict our people. Perhaps they can kill more than that." Aden's bustling shops were boarded up, its streets patrolled by British armored cars, and its harbor emptied of ships...