Word: fundamentalistism
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...word "orthodox" translates more literally and accurately as "straight" than it does as "fundamentalist." And I'll tell you what we're straight about. We're straight about responsibility. We're straight about justice. We're straight about kindness. And we're straight about the ethical teachings of our ancestors: "Give everyone the benefit of the doubt...and greet people with a cheerful smile" ("Ethics of the Fathers," 1:6 and 1:15). -Benjamin A. Siris...
...reform. "After the Dhahran bombing, there was jubilation," says Saad Fagih, a Sunni exile leader in London. "Each of these acts is a kind of recruitment for this violent trend. It says, 'See? We are doing something.'" And in a country where even politically moderate Saudis proudly call themselves fundamentalists, the fundamentalist dissidents among the majority Sunni could be the greatest threat to the throne...
...former world-record holder in the mile and a three-time Olympian, Ryun is a fundamentalist Christian conservative who stresses the importance of family, finances and the future, saying he wants to return to the principles of the Founding Fathers. He has done some grass-roots campaigning with his wife and children, but he has to keep it up to win this seat, which was Democratic for 20 out of 24 years before Sam Brownback took it in the 1994 election. For Ryun, the athlete and politician, this race could come down to a sprint in the home stretch...
Peninsula is an ideological oddity; a self-contained school of thought that believes that the ultimate truth of the universe is known only to those who think exactly as its members do. Its core beliefs seem to be comprised of a heavy dose of fundamentalist Christianity mixed with supply-side economics, and topped off by a paranoid hostility toward anything different. We gaze in collective wonderment as it recklessly attacks gays, women and anyone less conservative than itself...
Russia, however, views the prospect of a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan with undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...