Word: fundamentalistism
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...obvious suspicion is that the Trade Center bombing was carried out by a group of Muslim fundamentalist fanatics who regard all moderate Arab leaders as traitors to Islam, and the U.S. as their prime support. Whether these somewhat nebulous suspicions can ever be pinned down, let alone proved, is another matter. Sheik Omar has denounced the Trade Center bombing and claims not even to know Salameh...
...question of who else was involved was still murky. Salameh attended a Jersey City mosque often led in worship by Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a Muslim fundamentalist who was implicated and later acquitted in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. One of Sheik Omar's followers is serving a seven-to-22-year sentence in connection with the 1990 murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City. (See cover stories beginning on page...
...state government is still deciding what action to take to prevent future religiously motivated violence, Heptulla said. But she said the Babri destruction will not set a precedent for attacks on other mosques or temples, since it was the result of a onetime "fundamentalist conflict...
...hang around their old high school; it just becomes a little pathetic. So that put me in a certain amount of conflict with people who were a little more righteous about the Asian-American movement. I think partly it's a result of having been brought up as a fundamentalist and rejecting that. I now have an inherent problem with fundamentalism on any level...
...Islamic causes are not secret. Many Palestinians in the territories depend on remittances from relatives in the U.S. for personal and institutional needs. Some of the donors are politically active and anti-Israel as well. But no one before had suggested that they directed the attacks claimed by fundamentalist groups that have resulted in the death of eight Israeli soldiers in the past two months...