Word: fundamentalistism
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...these death threats were some of the ugliest things she's ever heard in her life. When people talk about coming after you with baseball bats and putting you in your grave, it's very frightening." Neighbors have also spread rumors that she and her partner are witches. A Fundamentalist Christian living nearby has accused the couple of performing animal sacrifices on his lawn. But Van Leer is adamant about being "out" in the countryside. "You just have to decide that if you don't speak out now, it'll only get worse...
...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
...first rose to global prominence last February, the state-influenced Egyptian press has been warning darkly of a "crisis" in U.S.-Egyptian relations. Rattled by reports in the U.S. media that depicted Abdel Rahman as "a new Khomeini" and Egypt as a state on the edge of a fundamentalist revolution, Egyptians sniped back that the Americans were bungling the entire affair and turning an otherwise inconsequential cleric into a hero for Egypt's disaffected youth. Mubarak was quoted in the Egyptian press as saying "the sheik has been a CIA agent since his days in Afghanistan. The visa...
Though these jihad-warriors play for the Sudan, the minor leagues of Islamic fundamentalist state-sponsored terrorism (considering the country's recent descent into barbarism, perhaps the metaphor of an expansion team rings truer), they still can cause a lot of trouble, as evidenced by the Trade Center bombing...
...Egypt, already wracked by fundamentalist terror, the threat is even more menacing. That's why the Egyptian government repeatedly maintained that it wants nothing to do with the sheik...