Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Afghanistan was a powerful catalyst in activating fundamentalist Muslim youth, inspiring if not actually training many militants. During the 1980s, thousands of volunteers from 50 countries rallied to the rebel mujahedin. Most of them worked for relief organizations or in hospitals and schools. A few thousand actually went into the field to fight. Some returned home to cause serious trouble for their rulers. Several of those arrested in the World Trade Center bombing were veterans of the Afghan campaign. The now imprisoned Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman made at least three trips to Afghanistan during...
...world has felt the power of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's words before. In 1980 youthful members of a militant fundamentalist group in Egypt called Jihad (Holy War) were secretly forming a new cell and sought out their spiritual leader for guidance. What, they asked the sheik, would be the fate of a ruler who ignored the law of God? Abdel Rahman's reply: "Death...
...September 1981, Abouhalima was granted a visa to visit Germany as a tourist. It was a good time to leave Egypt. Earlier that month Anwar Sadat had arrested some 2,000 Islamic intellectuals, clerics and fundamentalists who opposed him. One week after Abouhalima departed, militants killed the Egyptian President. Meanwhile, in Munich, Abouhalima sought political asylum, claiming that he faced persecution in Egypt because of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist party that was then facing a harsh crackdown...
...thirds of the Palestine National Council, a sort of P.L.O. parliament-in- exile, to repeal the provisions of the organization's charter that pledge destruction of Israel. He is likely to prevail, but only after some jockeying. Then there is a threat of violence from Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that regards Arafat as a traitor for even talking to Israel. Hamas' current line is that it will not shed Palestinian blood (though other extremists have openly raised a threat to assassinate Arafat). Hamas may well conduct terrorist attacks on Jews that could bring disruptive retaliation from the new Palestinian...
...Gulf oil states, most of which are still officially at war with Israel, will have little incentive to remain hostile, since they can no longer be accused of betraying the Palestinians. Moderate Arab states such as Egypt and Morocco may still be targets for subversion and terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists, crying louder than ever that their governments are selling out to the Zionist enemy and its prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good enough for the P.L.O. should be good enough...