Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts to drift out of the rehab center where he has taken refuge. Among his would-be exploiters are a sometime revivalist (Christopher Walken), now reduced to selling used RVs and aluminum siding; a Catholic fundamentalist (Tom Arnold), prepared to enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won?t tour like the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm...
...have recently come under attack for my article, "The New Red Scare: Western Prejudices Against Islamic Fundamentalism" in the January issue of Perspective. Several letters have been sent to the Crimson and Perspective concerning my use of the phrase, "Jewish fundamentalists, usually referred to by the more polite term Orthodox." The letters have implied that I somehow believe Orthodox Jews to constitute a fundamentalist terrorist organization. I meant nothing of the sort...
Third, legitimate religious sects are referred to by the term Orthodox, whereas the word fundamentalist has negative connotations. Obviously, this is why Orthodox Jews take offense when called fundamentalist. In their literal sense, the terms "fundamentalist" and "Orthodox" refer to very similar ideas. The word fundamentalist means someone who is very devout and believes that every word of their holy text is true. The term Orthodox refers to a religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious...
...word "orthodox" translates more literally and accurately as "straight" than it does as "fundamentalist." And I'll tell you what we're straight about. We're straight about responsibility. We're straight about justice. We're straight about kindness. And we're straight about the ethical teachings of our ancestors: "Give everyone the benefit of the doubt...and greet people with a cheerful smile" ("Ethics of the Fathers," 1:6 and 1:15). -Benjamin A. Siris...
...reform. "After the Dhahran bombing, there was jubilation," says Saad Fagih, a Sunni exile leader in London. "Each of these acts is a kind of recruitment for this violent trend. It says, 'See? We are doing something.'" And in a country where even politically moderate Saudis proudly call themselves fundamentalists, the fundamentalist dissidents among the majority Sunni could be the greatest threat to the throne...