Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
Nevertheless, these facts should not abate our fears of the fundamentalist movement. These predominantly middle-class Americans do have enough money on their own to buy guns, bombs and whatever other destructive means might suit their purpose...
...terrorists' first concerns was to see that all the women, including the stewardesses, were veiled in the fundamentalist Islamic fashion: those who had no scarves were given cabin blankets. The men recited verses from the Koran and tried to reassure their Algerian compatriots, but, in the words of one passenger, "terrorized" non-Algerians. "They had a kind of art in their terror," an elderly Algerian man told the TF1 television network after the rescue. "Twenty minutes of relaxation and 20 minutes of torture. You never knew what was next...
...human intellect, thus liberated, proved prodigious; the fruits of its accomplishments are ever present in the developed world and tantalizingly seductive to those peering in from outside the gates. John Paul is not a fundamentalist who wants to repeal the Enlightenment and destroy the tools of technology; the most traveled, most broadcast Pope in history knows the advantages of jet airplanes and electronics...
While some Israeli commentators see the conflict in the Gaza Strip as the beginning of the end for Hamas and other fundamentalist radicals, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government is alarmed by the developments. "Last Friday opened Israeli minds to how fragile the whole peace process is," said Uri Dromi, director of the Government Press Office. "And Rabin is also invested in this. What can he tell the Israeli people? That he was wrong to make peace with Arafat...