Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale Five, as they call themselves, do not claim to be passing a moral judgment on others; they simply want to exercise their religious freedom and abide by the rules that their interpretation of Judaism requires. How much respect should a private and secular institution have for devout, even fundamentalist students...
...note threatening violence against U.S. and Jewish targets. Khalil was carrying an address book listing the name of a known terrorist. Also found: Abu Mezer's completed application for political asylum in the U.S. on the ground that Israel had falsely accused him of belonging to the fundamentalist group Hamas...
ALGIERS: A weaker than hoped-for turnout gave Algerian President Liamine Zeroual's party 150 seats in the country's first elections since 1992. But fundamentalist parties captured 103 seats, giving the country's Islamic movement a potentially important foothold once again in Algerian politics. More than 60,000 have been killed in the struggle between the government and the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) since the Islamic party, which looked sure to gain control of the government in the 1992 elections, was outlawed after an army coup. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow...
...outlawed after an army coup. Hoping to establish legitimacy after coming to power in the 1992 military takeover, President Liamine Zeroual is looking for a large turnout among the 17 million eligible voters. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow opposition from moderate fundamentalist parties as long as they removed Islamic references from their names and platforms and renounced violence. TIME's Scot MacLeod reports that while international monitors agree that outright ballot fraud was relatively absent, to most Algerians, the outcome was rigged from the start since Zeroual party relied on government patronage...
When the moment is right, say leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (N.C.R.), the rebels' civilian arm, the N.L.A. will roll across the border in support of a general uprising against the fundamentalist Iranian government. "We intend to combine the army with the rising of social unrest to sweep away the mullahs," N.C.R. president Maryam Rajavi told Time. "The mullahs are a regime that doesn't understand any language other than force and power." N.C.R. leaders believe, perhaps too optimistically, that burgeoning discontent with Iran's faltering economy, which has led to open protests and riots...