Word: fundamentalistism
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Ignoring the spectacle outside the window, two Republican Congressmen and four staff members sat around a table, working the phones. "Hey, we need some help with Metcalf," DeLay shouted. Across the hall Andrea Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, an organization of 31,000 fundamentalist and evangelical churches, alerted the group's lobbyists to start calling the office of the freshman Republican from Washington State. Then she headed out the door to look for Jack Metcalf in person...
Sudan's Islamic fundamentalist government and southern rebels negotiated a truce with the help of former President Jimmy Carter. The two sides, which have been fighting a 12-year war in which more than 1 million people have died, agreed to a two-month cease-fire so that health workers could try to wipe out the parasitic Guinea worm, which causes debilitating disease...
...little more than a single act of random vengeance. Sections of Pakistan are ungovernable safe havens for the remnants of 20,000 zealous volunteers from Muslim countries all over the world who went to join the Afghan mujahedin in their holy war against the Soviets. An estimated 1,000 fundamentalist fighters still gather in the country's lawless reaches to train and egg each other on. They frequently sally forth aboard international airliners, looking for new places to fight their messianic...
...compromise: "The primary purpose of this agreement is to permit the leaders and citizens of Sudan and international agencies to carry out a major effort to eradicate guinea worm, prevent river blindness and immunize children against polio and other diseases," Carter said in a statement. The cash-strapped Muslim fundamentalist government spends more than $1 million a day on the war, which Christian and animist rebels have waged for economic reforms...
Others draw a more stinging comparison. "They are terrorists," says Gary R. Perlstein, a terrorism expert at Portland State University in Oregon. "They believe killing is for fear, to intimidate, to terrorize. There's really no difference between these Fundamentalist Christians in the militant antiabortion movement and Muslim fundamentalists in Hamas...