Word: fundamentalistism
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...Palestinians living in the occupied territories, deportations of their brethren evoke fears that one day the Israelis will expel them all from their homes. So it was on Friday, when Israeli authorities deported to Lebanon more than 400 alleged activists from the Muslim fundamentalist movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The expulsions were in retaliation for the shooting of four Israeli soldiers and the Hamas' kidnap-murder of a border policeman. In the Gaza Strip, at weekend demonstrations to protest the expulsions, six Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops...
...from America's Protestant creationists, who still insist that life on earth was created about 10,000 years ago and that a Flood engulfed the entire planet. In recent decades, creationists promoted their own brand of science and even persuaded a few state legislatures to decree that schools give Fundamentalist theories equal time with Darwin's evolution. Those laws were eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...ordered the arrest of two senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist group that has become the second largest political organization in India, on charges of inciting violence. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for 11 years. Rao also banned three Hindu organizations and two fundamentalist Muslim ones and at the same time promised Muslims that his government would help rebuild the Ayodhya mosque -- moves that some Hindu leaders warned might spark more resentment and violence. At week's end army troops were slowly bringing the violence under control. But the long-run survival of secularism...
...everyone to a higher standard and possibly to make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years of Turkish rule. Gunshots outside. No one even blinks. Part of the mise-en-scene...
Private schools (read: white, often fundamentalist Christian schools) have increased their enrollments by nearly 12 percent just in the last year...