Word: fundamentalistic
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...Every single fundamentalist movement is rooted in terror and fear of annihilation,” she said...
Karen Armstrong, a best-selling author and expert on religion, offered a critique of fundamentalist views of faith in a speech last night at Memorial Church...
...governments of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including in one case turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming. While its liberal coverage has raised hackles among members of the Taliban and other fundamentalist groups, Al Jazeera strives to maintain working relationships with organizations across the region's ideological spectrum. And that inevitably makes it, on occasion, a platform for some fiercely anti-American views. In a rare 1998 interview on the network, Osama bin Laden exhorted fellow Muslims to "target all Americans...
...sense, they are correct. It is impossible to deny that aspects of U.S. foreign policy—in particular our support of fundamentalist guerilla fighters in Afghanistan during their war with the Soviet Union and tolerance of the extreme interpretation of Islam being taught by Wahhabism-based schools in Saudi Arabia—contributed to the development of radical Islamist sentiments throughout the Muslim world. It is clear that in encouraging pan-Islamism to exorcize the Soviet demon, we helped create the Islamist demon of today...
...weakest link, several French antiterrorist sources concur, is the protection that British civil liberties provide extremist movements. In addition to the often chilling rhetoric voiced by U.K.-based fundamentalists, their religious operations are cited by the French as instrumental in the radicalization process of many Continental recruits - including Zacarias Moussaoui, a French national now held in the U.S. as a suspect in attacks there. Like Moussaoui, many Muslims are radicalized in the fundamentalist mosques of Baker Street and Finsbury Park. And, like Moussaoui, so many volunteers to the bin Laden cause use the British capital as a base between visits...