Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordered the arrest of two senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist group that has become the second largest political organization in India, on charges of inciting violence. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for 11 years. Rao also banned three Hindu organizations and two fundamentalist Muslim ones and at the same time promised Muslims that his government would help rebuild the Ayodhya mosque -- moves that some Hindu leaders warned might spark more resentment and violence. At week's end army troops were slowly bringing the violence under control. But the long-run survival of secularism...
...everyone to a higher standard and possibly to make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years of Turkish rule. Gunshots outside. No one even blinks. Part of the mise-en-scene...
Private schools (read: white, often fundamentalist Christian schools) have increased their enrollments by nearly 12 percent just in the last year...
Foreign visitors are no longer immune to the dangers of the simmering terrorist campaign being waged by Egypt's Muslim fundamentalists. A safari van filled with tourists came under a fusillade of small-weapons fire near Dairut, 168 miles south of Cairo. Sharon Pauline Hill, 28, from England, was struck by several bullets and died within 20 minutes. Two other British passengers received light flesh wounds. The Gama'a el-Islamiya, one of the most radical fundamentalist groups in Egypt, claimed responsibility in a brief statement given to reporters...
...alliance dedicated to foiling the talks. Predictably, hard-line outfits signed on. But so did four factions of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, which as a group endorses the talks and guides the actions of the Palestinian negotiators. More surprising still was the presence of two Muslim fundamentalist organizations, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Up to now, these groups and the secular P.L.O. factions have held one another at a stiff arm's length...