Word: fundamentalistism
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Clearly the American public culture imagined by Newt Gingrich and his fellow ideologues in and out of Congress, including their insatiable Fundamentalist Christian right wing, will not seem strange everywhere in the world...
...better off. The Manichaean universe, divided between right (us) and wrong (Soviets), dissolved. The apocalyptic scenario, so frightening and yet so consoling, fizzled. But the mind-set it fostered remains, particularly since America is the only country in the Western world with a strong, and vengeful, current of Fundamentalist apocalyptic religion. With the death of communism, new Antichrists and minor devils have to be found inside America. The two p.c.s--patriotic correctness and political correctness--have mutually fostered this search, creating an atmosphere of inflamed accusation; scholarship and the arts then become scapegoats, grotesquely politicized culture-war stereotypes...
...moment when seven gunmen opened fire on his motorcade this morning as he arrived in Ethiopa for a summit of African heads of state. The 67-year-old Mubarak, who was unharmed, immediately returned to Cairo. At a news conference hours later, the President said he suspected the fundamentalist Islamic regime in neighboring Sudan, which had been accused of supporting Egyptian radicals who want to replace Mubarak's secular government with strict Islamic rule.TIME's Dean Fischernotes that Mubarak, who began a crackdown on Islamic militants in 1992, has now survived three assassination plots and can expect more: "It ought...
...armored car," the President said later. "The car windows were hit by one of the bullets, which almost went through." Several assailants were killed in a heavy exchange of gunfire with Ethiopian and Egyptian security forces; one survivor is reportedly under interrogation. A man claiming to represent the Muslim fundamentalist Vanguards of Conquest group lauded today's assassination attempt: "We welcome the attack on Mubarak," the man said in Arabic. "We will finish him the next time...
West is likewise attempting to push a distinctly socialist agenda. He sees a solution to the Black-Jewish separation in some version of a fundamentalist common religion that combines the Jewish and Christian faiths. In Jews and Blacks, he says to Lerner: "Both of our traditions place a fundamental stress on what I call non-market values...I'm calling for a dialogue about the relative failure or success of the U.S. experiment in democracy...