Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chemical terrorism is a frightening addition to an extremist's arms collection. It makes our daily life still more dangerous...
Nonetheless, the existence of these radical Islamic cells has absolutely no implication for the overwhelming majority of American Arabs and Muslims. If anything, American Muslims are embarrassed by the sort of violent and extremist behavior that is carried out in their name...
...lovable, Care-Bearish Take the Time Out--but for the most part Wonder's after bigger game. "There's not a lot of peace in the world today," says the singer with his '90s global perspective. "There are rumblings within family and cultural structures. There's a right-wing extremist movement and a left one too, and there's no middle. There are wars in Bosnia and Rwanda. There is a need for conversation. Hopefully the result will be peace...
Small, charismatic cults are adopting more violent methods as well. These extremist sects appeal to many people in an antispiritual age because they combine their empowering theology with a warm, supportive environment, at least at first. Those who join become part of a close-knit body of believers who are convinced they understand the meaning of history and what the future holds. That was true of David Koresh's Branch Davidians, and it applies to certain extremist Christian white-supremacist groups bent on "purifying...
...Emperor. His student followers ended up by worshipping Mishima, and one joined him in his samurai-style suicide in 1970. Even today there are groups of right-wing Emperor worshippers who go around assassinating those they regard as unpatriotic. The mayor of Nagasaki was shot by a right-wing extremist in 1990 after saying the late Emperor Hirohito some responsibility...