Word: fundamentalistic
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...Maybe Texas is not the place you need to consider calling home.' RICK PERRY, Texas governor, warning polygamist members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that child sex abuse will not be tolerated, despite a ruling that flds members must remain in Texas for investigation...
...Islamic headscarves in state universities. Here, gender equity should prevail over democracy; the prohibition had served the commendable purpose of keeping a pattern of patriarchal exclusion out of educational institutions. The battle over the ban, still ongoing, is testament to Turkey’s schizoid situation between the fundamentalist tide roaring to its south and the atheistic, successful European Union it desperately hopes to join...
...President, it does not require a foreign country to commit terrorist acts on American soil.' WILLIE JESSOP, an elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, in a letter to President Bush about the raid on the church's Texas compound last month, saying the separation of the polygamist sect's children from their parents is a "terrorist...
...country's secularist founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In his separation of mosque and state, they finally found freedom from discrimination. But that eroded under subsequent governments, often violently. As recently as 1993, a group of 33 prominent Alevi poets, writers and musicians were burned to death by a fundamentalist Sunni mob in a hotel in eastern Turkey...
...looming in the background is the civilian suffering that has made Somalia one of the world's greatest and most ignored humanitarian disasters. Instead, attention has lately focused on U.S. fears that Somalia will become the next al-Qaeda training ground or the vanguard of a new Islamic fundamentalist movement that will sweep Africa. The U.N. World Food Programme is already feeding about 1.5 million people, while the International Committee of the Red Cross and the aid group CARE are feeding many others. As if matters could not get any worse, the country is on the brink of a severe...