Word: fundamentalistism
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...People's Congress Party, which governed North Yemen before its 1990 merger with the Marxist South, won a plurality of the 301 parliamentary seats. But in a bid to curb lawlessness and inflation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh promises a coalition government that will include the southern Yemen socialist and fundamentalist parties...
Israel today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...
Western experts do not dispute the President's claims entirely. But Egypt would face a fundamentalist threat even if Iran and Sudan did not exist. Homegrown poverty, overpopulation, poor housing and rampant corruption would almost certainly stir radicalism and unrest without any agitation from outside...
...reality toiled as a cabbie -- a crooked one, his former boss suggested. He journeyed to Afghanistan in the late '80s to fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver and did chores around the clergyman's house. When a rival of the sheik's in the Brooklyn, New York, fundamentalist community was stabbed and shot to death, Abohalima was considered a prime suspect. One federal official...
When Israel deported 415 alleged Islamic agitators last December, the idea was to curb attacks by fundamentalist Palestinians on Jewish soldiers and civilians. It hasn't worked, as evidenced by the casualties so far this month: 10 Israelis killed and 14 wounded. Clashes between protesters and security forces have also left nine Palestinians dead and some 400 injured. The expulsion of Hamas' political leadership has only freed its young gunmen to act more violently. "Now we need not have long discussions about the consequences of acting," says a field leader. "We just go ahead...