Word: fundamentalistism
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...World Trade Center bombers. According to court papers, two members, ringleader Siddig Ali and Clement Rodney Hampton- El, a black American convert to Islam, told FBI informant Salem they had helped that group test-fire a bomb. Several members of both groups had also fought with the Islamic fundamentalist guerrillas harassing the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan -- a resistance movement supported, ironically, by the U.S., which is now the terrorists' target...
Lausanne--Where Abby teaches in the movie. This is a K-12 school that provides another option for parents who don't want to put their kids in the public school system (a constant problem in Memphis) but don't want single-sex or fundamentalist schools. (It's my brother's school, too.) Ah, the Bible Belt. It lives...
...optimistic about the future, on either side. He sees Americans clinging to their Arab stereotypes -- the fat grasping sheik, the crazy fundamentalist bomber. Meanwhile, "most Arabs today, including cultivated ones, have no hope of any kind of cultural exchange between them and the West. The mood is so desperate. The fundamentalist movement is in a sense an act of desperation: 'The West won't listen to us, so we turn away from them.' That's the most discouraging thing, to me -- the wholesale condemnation of America and the West, without trying to discover that America is a very contradictory, various...
...decline in the standard of behavior. All this may be too much to take for the snarky secularists who make up Washington's pundit class. But for Clinton it has the political virtue of stealing some of the energy that, as she says, has been "animating the responsible fundamentalist right." And it keeps Clinton ahead of her explicators in the caricature game...
...argument most often used against abstinence-only programs is that they are a thinly disguised effort to impose fundamentalist religious values on public-school students and thus violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Some of the texts started out as religious documents and were rewritten to replace references to God and Jesus with nonsectarian words like goodness and decency. Still, it makes little sense to criticize the programs simply because they originate from a religious perspective; what matters is not where the courses came from but what they...