Word: fundamentalist
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Worse, by breaking up Iraq, the U.S. had unwittingly handed a belated victory in the earlier Iran-Iraq war to the fundamentalist regime in Tehran. No state stood to gain more from democracy in Iraq, since the country's Shi'ite majority felt close ties of kinship to Iran. And no state in the region was more explicitly committed to the destruction of America's ally Israel...
During his 14 months in hiding from the FBI, Warren Jeffs managed to continue controlling and directing his followers - members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who number an estimated 10,000, most based in the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. Although wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution charges of forcing underage marriages, he conducted even more underage unions, exiled men from their homes and families who were considered "unworthy," and ordered followers not to pay their taxes. Some fear that his arrest could now create a power vacuum within...
...trial could also provide positive change for many of his followers. "The authorities have been extremely secretive about what they have on [Jeffs]," says Jessop, "and when it goes to court, a lot of crimes and illegal activity are going to go public and make people realize that these fundamentalist communities need to be handled." (Jeffs' lawyer could not be reached for comment...
...Money, sex, and power is what fundamentalist polygamy is about and that is what Warren Jeffs represents," says John Llewelln, who points out that Jeffs is the leader of the largest and most secretive of the fundamentalist polygamy groups. Llewelln has authored four books on polygamy and is a former polygamist himself; he also worked as Salt Lake County's deputy sheriff, specializing in sex crimes investigations. "From the fundamentalist Mormon polygamist point of view, Jeffs is the quintessential Mormon polygamist because he does not hold himself accountable to any government or societal rules - only his religion. His followers view...
...Stone's artfulness that it perfectly symbolizes the life-or-death dilemma the pair is confronting. And oddly, the man who first discovered McLoughlin and Jimeno alive was David Karnes (Michael Shannon), a former Marine, who as written by screenwriter Andrea Berloff comes across as a slightly weird religious Fundamentalist. He simply put on his old fatigues and intruded, without credentials other than his take-charge bearing, on the ruins to become a freelance lifesaver...