Word: fundamentalistism
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Chatting over vegetarian goodies in the Unitarian meeting room last week were a 25-year-old Mexican American with the radio handle "Bedlam," whose Los Angeles station, Radio Clandestino, broadcasts leftist Chicano fare; Rick Strawcutter, a Fundamentalist pastor from Adrian, Mich., who is battling the FCC in federal court for the right to air right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh...
...filmmakers must also tread carefully to avoid offending the too-numerous-to-count religious communities that regard the story of Moses as their own. To ensure authenticity, Katzenberg says, he has met with more than 500 religious leaders, including a pontifical council on social reform at the Vatican and Fundamentalist minister Jerry Falwell...
...Khomeini rejected a parallel between his doctrines and the fundamentalism propounded by other Muslim dissidents. He never described himself as fundamentalist. He often said that Islam is not for 14 centuries ago in Arabia but for all time...
What comes to mind when an Islamic fundamentalist turns up in the news? Egyptian soldiers assassinating Anwar Sadat? A Palestinian suicide bomber blowing up an Israeli market? In an age when Islamic fundamentalism has become a cliche associated with gruesome acts of terrorism, one image that usually does not spring up is that of a Muslim activist like Mohammed Abdul Koddus...
Abdul Koddus was pressed into Islam by the shock of Israel's devastating defeat of Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War. The loss catapulted him and many other activists of his generation into politics. He was the last person that friends and colleagues ever suspected would become a fundamentalist. He grew up in Cairo's affluent Zamalek quarter, the privileged son of Ihsan Abdul Koddus, a liberal writer with close ties to Egypt's revolutionary hero, Gamal Abdel Nasser. His grandmother was Rose al Youssef, a Lebanese-born early feminist, a flamboyant actress and magazine publisher...