Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within Islam, doctrinal interpretations abound and vary, spanning the full spectrum from liberal to fundamentalist, Asani said...
...much as Mike, Nisha and Becky would like us to believe otherwise, not every person opposed to abortion is a violent, trigger-happy, Christian fundamentalist fanatic...
...course we might decide to outlaw sexist or racist speech. But then, to be fair, we would also have to outlaw saying the Lord's name in vain. If a fundamentalist Christian can maintain civility in the presence of infidels in her classroom, why can't we show the same forebearance toward those we consider racist and sexist? There is no good reason why the state--and by extension the university--should treat bigots, evangelical fundamentalists, and politically-correct proselytizers any differently...
...years since the powerful military canceled the first free parliamentary elections to forestall a Muslim fundamentalist victory, Algeria has plunged into its bloodiest crisis since the 1954-62 war of independence from France. The Islamic Salvation Front, seeking to turn the country into a religious state, has attracted the allegiance of millions in a population ripe with discontent after 30 years of misrule by the one-party socialist government. Declining oil revenues, crushing unemployment, rampant inflation and widespread government corruption have fueled a revolt against the old leadership and a crisis in national identity...
Under a harsh military crackdown on the Islamic Front, outlawed in 1992, the battle for Algeria has only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...