Word: fundamentalistism
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THANKS TO A HUGE INFUSION OF MONEY AND ARMAMENTS FROM friendly Islamic nations like Iran and Libya, the fundamentalist government of SUDAN seems to be on the verge of winning its 10-year civil war against the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. But there may be more than simple Muslim solidarity behind the aid to the continent's largest country. According to African-based diplomats, the Arab states think the southern region of Sudan, now held by the rebels, could serve as a possible homeland for the Palestinian diaspora. Observers note that Yasser Arafat was returning to Libya from...
...Central Asian Muslims, including the ethnically Persian peoples of Tajikistan, follow the Sunni Islam observed in Saudi Arabia and most of the Muslim world. A true religious revival in Central Asia would probably produce an Islamic state more like Pakistan than Iran, which holds to the more extreme fundamentalist Shi'ite dogma...
...February hackings near Galed underscored a potentially more disruptive development: the rise among Israeli Arabs of Islamic fervor, complete with a fanatic streak. The four Arabs charged with the killings were all followers of the Islamic Movement, a fundamentalist organization that is legal in Israel. Police say they were also members of Islamic Jihad, the outlawed militant group that is Mideast-wide...
...with money from Iran, which is said to be backing undercover extremists from Algeria to Thailand -- while simultaneously bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on the chaos engendered by the collapse of the U.S.S.R. by inspiring Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the mostly Muslim Central Asian republics once ruled from Moscow. Worldwide, "Iran's attempts to export the Islamic revolution have largely replaced the former Soviet Union's communist revolutionary zeal" as a source of aid and comfort for terrorists, says Anat Kurz, an expert on terrorism...
Egyptian, Israeli and Western intelligence sources report that Iran has already helped establish a new terrorist refuge and base of operations in the African nation of Sudan, which has been taken over by another fundamentalist Islamic regime. Tehran is known to have dispatched thousands of its Revolutionary Guards there, and they are said to be conducting instruction in the arts of bombing and bloodshed for members of several extremist organizations at new training camps around Khartoum...