Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cash to back up his threat. Yousef apparently had a benefactor, a wealthy Saudi expatriate named Osama bin Laden, who in the 1980s had bankrolled mujahedin guerrillas fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and who had fled his Saudi homeland after he had been charged with inciting fundamentalist opposition to the country's royal family...
...many of us brought up in the secular tradition of the United States, any public figure who links policy with faith is at best a fundamentalist, at worst a zealot. But politicians are well aware of the fact that privately Americans believe in God and have more "faith" than their counterparts throughout most of the West. Such conflict between public and private puts politicians between a rock and a hard place...
...religious experts and clergy for repeated discussions about the film. And Katzenberg did his homework, reading up so extensively on the Bible that he began to sound more like a yeshiva student than the college dropout he is. But as Katzenberg discovered, everyone's a movie critic. An elderly Fundamentalist minister didn't like the drawings; a rabbinical scholar complained that in the Bible "God has a great line" that wasn't in the film, and also objected to the fact that Moses, who should be around 80 when he returns to confront Rameses, looks too young in the film...
...abandonment of restraint in launching nuclear tests was a reckless act that has its roots in the rise of the fundamentalist government in India," said Kamal...
Such groups as the Taliban and the overzealous mullahs in Pakistan are correctly labeled as "extremist" but should not be referred to as "fundamentalist" or supporters of "undiluted Islamic law." True Islamic law, taken as a complete system--not the biased and distorted fragments handpicked by the media--outlines a profoundly moderate, logical and equitable life-style applicable to all. NAVID RASHID Washington...