Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SURPRISE notwithstanding, this particular issue of Peninsula would be easier to take if it were a screaming fundamentalist screed against filthy perversions, and a ringing endorsement of Thomism redux. Then we could dismiss the whole exercise as the produce of over-educated and socially nervous young Miniver Cheeveys, forced to live in a world and age neither of their making nor liking, and who unfortunately have their own private magazine in which to publish their tantrums...
Eugene B. Borowitz told the crowd of approximately 60 people that there has been a "resurgence of religion, especially fundamentalist and evangelical movements," in the past 20 years...
That resulted in a shift away from the modern view, back to fundamentalist religion...
...another potential delegate, "he will say this is nonsense; Israelis don't want peace, and the Americans are not serious about pressing them." Those who are not merely dismissive of the conference tend to be vehemently opposed to participation in it, and they include the followers of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas as well as the so-called rejectionist factions of the P.L.O...
While the contours of the deal seemed clear, the mechanics posed nettlesome questions. Among the most vexing was a condition contained in the letter former British hostage John McCarthy brought to Perez de Cuellar from Islamic Jihad, a fundamentalist Shi'ite faction, operating under the banner of the pro-Iranian Hizballah, that holds several Westerners. It called for "the release of our freedom fighters from prisons in occupied Palestine and Europe." To whom that referred was anybody's guess -- and for whom Islamic Jihad presumed to speak was no more apparent. Was this a bargaining point or an implacable demand...