Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past several weeks, the Ayatullah has been trying to stir up resentment against the government of Saudi Arabia by including fundamentalist Shi'ite zealots among the Muslims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Speaking for many gulf Arabs, Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa says: "The continual upheaval in Iran is a great danger. But subversion is the greatest threat of all. I have no doubt that the U.S. appreciates the scope of this threat...
...fundamentalist Christian, yet I resents the lack of tolerance these students showed this man, and the puerile means with which they displayed it. Harvard has been built on the principles of open discussion and tolerance of belief. If there bocklers are not secure enough in their own convictions to argue logically with someone who looks at things differently, they have no business "In the company of learned men." Timothy Fleck...
...ancient homeland and of what the U.N. had intended to be a Palestinian state. Resentment of the Israeli military occupation is the common denominator among a wide political spectrum of groups, ranging from supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization to monarchists loyal to Jordan's King Hussein to fundamentalist Muslims who advocate an Islamic state patterned after Iran. Since 1967, the Israelis have established some 100 settlements in the occupied territories that now house 30,000 Jewish settlers. Surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed men, the settlements have added an abrasive element to an already tense situation...
...minority groups at Harvard consider tactics they inevitably revert to this archetypal view of the Harvard man. "Male," says the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). "White," say the Black Students Association (BSA) and La Raza, the Chicago students group. "Upper class," says the William J. Seymour Society, a Black fundamentalist Christian group concerned with issues of economic equality. "Heterosexual," says the Gay Students Association (GSA). What these groups have in common, says RUS President Sharon J. Orr '83, is that "Harvard doesn't understand...
...There is a possibility of a division between the Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. I believe this would be more devastating than anything else in this area. This [Islamic fundamentalist] movement takes its direction from Tehran, and it is like a tidal wave. Eventually it will disappear. But what damage it can cause in this area! It could take many governments with it. It would really bring this area closer to what we see happening everywhere [violent upheaval], unless the majority of Arabs stand up and face...