Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obvious suspicion is that the Trade Center bombing was carried out by a group of Muslim fundamentalist fanatics who regard all moderate Arab leaders as traitors to Islam, and the U.S. as their prime support. Whether these somewhat nebulous suspicions can ever be pinned down, let alone proved, is another matter. Sheik Omar has denounced the Trade Center bombing and claims not even to know Salameh...
...question of who else was involved was still murky. Salameh attended a Jersey City mosque often led in worship by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a Muslim fundamentalist who was implicated and later acquitted in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. One of Sheik Omar's followers is serving a seven-to-22-year sentence in connection with the 1990 murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City. (See cover stories beginning on page...
...there is nothing to connect Sheik Omar to the deadly blast. No motive. No material evidence. But he has a reputation as one of Egypt's most prominent and radical fundamentalist leaders -- a fiery voice of Islamic holy war who exhorts the faithful to their "religious duty," including the use of violence if necessary. That fame, coupled with suspicions -- but again, no concrete evidence -- of his complicity in a series of murders, has made the blind Muslim cleric a subject of the ongoing investigation...
Despite the movement's anti-Western rhetoric, fundamentalists are more concerned about instigating change in their own countries than in the outside world. In nations from Algeria to Pakistan, the desire for an Islamic society stems largely from the failures of corrupt and ineffectual secular governments to give burgeoning urban populations the jobs, housing and basic services they need. Most of the faithful are looking for justice at home, not war abroad. Yet many who decry the ills of the modern world would flinch at imposing religious rule by violent means. "The most important thing to remember is that...
When Muslims, millions of them living in deepening poverty, contemplate the materialist West, they experience a mixture of repugnance and envy that often resolves itself into militant fundamentalist anger. On the other hand, the West and some of what comes with it (AIDS, drugs, pornography, the destruction of family and community, for example) are in many ways as dangerous and repulsive as a fundamentalist Muslim may believe...