Word: extremist
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...religious law and practice, and different notions of religious hierarchy, but both observe the same fundamental tenets of Islam. Although Shiism is the overwhelmingly dominant form of Islam among the Persians of Iran, in most of the Arab world Shiites are an impoverished and disenfranchised underclass. And the more extremist Sunni "Salafist" tradition that predominates in Saudi Arabia, as well as among the jihadists of al-Qaeda, denigrates Shiites as apostates. Within both Shiism and the Sunni tradition, however, there are a variety of different approaches to theological, legal and political questions, and they have coexisted for centuries. Members...
...Faisal asserted that Saudi Arabia, though it is a traditional and conservative country, is not extremist...
...reached in Geneva, President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Sinhalese nationalist elected last year, might be hard pressed to sell it to the south. Rajapakse was elected on a hard-line platform that promised to do away with the cease-fire agreement. By agreeing to the talks, he risks alienating extremist Sinhalese parties who want the Tamil uprising put down with force and whose backing helped him win office...
Apart from the faulty theology—the Antichrist is supposed to be a sea-beast, not a fairy—what’s more troubling is how similar W sounds to the extremist group he criticizes. Like other radicals, W first tries to legitimize his own position by exaggerating the significance of his opposition. This is done to make the threat seem greater than it really is—thereby requiring an equally extreme response...
...anyone forget Sharon's "indirect" responsibility for the killing of Palestinian civilians in Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982? Those who believe that Sharon's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a peace initiative need to think again. Yes, he was pragmatic and confronted extremist Jewish settlers; however, he did not demonstrate enough of the goodwill needed to win over the Palestinians. Saleh A. Mubarak Seffner, Florida...