Word: fundamentalist
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...after the Soviets withdrew in 1989, the U.S. lost interest in the region. Afghanistan's war of liberation turned into a civil war, and the Pakistani government--led by Bhutto and her political rival Nawaz Sharif, who alternated in power--backed the Taliban, student warriors committed to a fundamentalist Islamic state...
...more unnerving than any one of the governor’s Christian-fundamentalist policy goals is the operating mechanism she sees compelling their implementation. Rather than resign herself—as Obama has—to seeking a functional agreement in a complex world, Palin would prefer to achieve cohesion and progress through simple homogeneity...
...differences. Pentecostal theology elevates the role of the Holy Spirit and includes belief in spiritual gifts, such as healing and speaking in tongues. But the groups have often been able to set aside their doctrinal disagreements for political purposes. Pat Robertson, a Pentecostal, and the late Jerry Falwell, a Fundamentalist, famously had bitter theological disputes but still joined forces as leading figures of the Christian right. (See photos of Jerry Falwell here...
...search list for each presidential hopeful are physical stats: Obama's height and McCain's age. Also present near the top are queries for "Barack Obama Muslim," which began in earnest after Insight magazine published a story online in January 2007 claiming falsely that Obama had attended a fundamentalist Muslim madrassa as a boy in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the McCain team has seen an increase in searches about the candidate's daughter Meghan and her lunch with The Hills star Heidi Montag...
...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist...