Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massoud and Rabbani, both fundamentalist Muslims, are careful to distance Jamiat from radical visions of an Islamic state; specifically, asserts Massoud, "the position adopted by Iran is not laid down by Islam." Massoud also jabs sharply at one of Rabbani's chief rivals, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the head of Hezb-i-Islami, calling him the "extremist" among the conservative Islamic resistance leaders in Peshawar. Throughout the war, armed clashes have flared between Hekmatyar's men and other mujahedin parties -- Jamiat, in particular -- and a personal rivalry between Massoud and Hekmatyar dates back to their university days in Kabul. "Hekmatyar has always...
...preserve the symbol than suffer a relapse into violence and anarchy. As tension mounted last week, gunmen once again fired mortars and machine guns across the "green line" separating Christian and Muslim Beirut. Renewed fighting between the rival Shi'ite Muslim organizations -- Amal, supported by Syria, and the Islamic fundamentalist Hizballah, backed by Iran -- is also a prospect. Last week three Amal militia commanders were killed in an ambush south of Beirut, presumably by Hizballah gunmen...
Although Mahdi has relaxed enforcement of the laws, he has yet to void or replace them because they are supported by the fundamentalist National Islamic Front, an increasingly powerful member of his fragile ruling coalition. Early this month, the Sudanese Cabinet approved a new and stricter code of Islamic law, or Shari'a, but it has yet to be passed in parliament. In the meantime, the fighting has forced at least 500,000 southerners to flee to Khartoum. Each side in the civil war has accused the other of manipulating food shipments to famine victims as a weapon to gain...
...Catonsville Nine in 1970, hoping to nab the priest as an escaped felon. Currently the Taper is offering Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons that hauntingly echoes U.S. political dialectics of the '60s, and Davidson is developing a script about the political resurgence of Fundamentalist Christianity...
Arab countries, including such moderate states as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have rallied behind Iraq, charging the U.S. press with overdramatizing the situation. These states, preoccupied with the threat posed to them by Iran's fundamentalist regime, are wary of undermining Iraq at a critical stage in the cease-fire. Moreover, no Arab state is eager to antagonize Iraq, which has the strongest army in the region. The Arabs also sympathize with Baghdad's contention that a U.N. investigation would set a dangerous precedent...