Word: fundamentalistism
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...permanent home or regular job. His grades in school were so mediocre that he could not get into the university law or science programs; his only option was to attend the University of Jordan's college of religious law, where one professor recalls that Salameh was involved in fundamentalist student activities...
...there is nothing to connect Sheik Omar to the deadly blast. No motive. No material evidence. But he has a reputation as one of Egypt's most prominent and radical fundamentalist leaders -- a fiery voice of Islamic holy war who exhorts the faithful to their "religious duty," including the use of violence if necessary. That fame, coupled with suspicions -- but again, no concrete evidence -- of his complicity in a series of murders, has made the blind Muslim cleric a subject of the ongoing investigation...
Despite the movement's anti-Western rhetoric, fundamentalists are more concerned about instigating change in their own countries than in the outside world. In nations from Algeria to Pakistan, the desire for an Islamic society stems largely from the failures of corrupt and ineffectual secular governments to give burgeoning urban populations the jobs, housing and basic services they need. Most of the faithful are looking for justice at home, not war abroad. Yet many who decry the ills of the modern world would flinch at imposing religious rule by violent means. "The most important thing to remember is that...
When Muslims, millions of them living in deepening poverty, contemplate the materialist West, they experience a mixture of repugnance and envy that often resolves itself into militant fundamentalist anger. On the other hand, the West and some of what comes with it (AIDS, drugs, pornography, the destruction of family and community, for example) are in many ways as dangerous and repulsive as a fundamentalist Muslim may believe...
...Command," they're not looking for jobs, they're making a statement. Leaders and some rank-and-file members of Pat Robertson's CHRISTIAN COALITION are wearing the buttons as a defiant badge of honor. The Washington Post used those unflattering terms in an article criticizing the preacher's fundamentalist followers...