Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...optimistic about the future, on either side. He sees Americans clinging to their Arab stereotypes -- the fat grasping sheik, the crazy fundamentalist bomber. Meanwhile, "most Arabs today, including cultivated ones, have no hope of any kind of cultural exchange between them and the West. The mood is so desperate. The fundamentalist movement is in a sense an act of desperation: 'The West won't listen to us, so we turn away from them.' That's the most discouraging thing, to me -- the wholesale condemnation of America and the West, without trying to discover that America is a very contradictory, various...
...decline in the standard of behavior. All this may be too much to take for the snarky secularists who make up Washington's pundit class. But for Clinton it has the political virtue of stealing some of the energy that, as she says, has been "animating the responsible fundamentalist right." And it keeps Clinton ahead of her explicators in the caricature game...
...argument most often used against abstinence-only programs is that they are a thinly disguised effort to impose fundamentalist religious values on public-school students and thus violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Some of the texts started out as religious documents and were rewritten to replace references to God and Jesus with nonsectarian words like goodness and decency. Still, it makes little sense to criticize the programs simply because they originate from a religious perspective; what matters is not where the courses came from but what they...
...People's Congress Party, which governed North Yemen before its 1990 merger with the Marxist South, won a plurality of the 301 parliamentary seats. But in a bid to curb lawlessness and inflation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises a coalition government that will include the southern Yemen socialist and fundamentalist parties...
Israel today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...